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Mishka Morris, our new Massage Therapist will be offering Bodycenter's
clients $10 off their first massage...
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featured instructor: ...
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Chérie Boschma
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Dear Kristi,
this month...
· we are welcoming two new massage therapists: Mishka Morris and Laurel Goettling,
· the exercise of the month, presented by our instructor Chérie Boschma,
· our ultimate cardio/strength workout with the jumpboard,
· the convenience of signing up online for our mat series, reformer series but also for your private and semi-private sessions with any of our instructors,
· learn more about the Duggan/French Approach with Shane Belau,
· and remember to visit us online.
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jumpboard sessions...
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This ultimate cardio/strength interval class will offer a great core challenge, enhanced body strength, and get your heart pumping- all while focusing on proper jumping technique.
Try out this outstanding new class.
*Due
to the intense nature of the jumpboard class, this series may not
appropriate for those with injuries. Please consult a Studio Director.
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Shane has just finished an
intensive course
of study in the Duggan/French Approach
(Somatic
Pattern Recognition) in Barcelona, Spain. Her studies sent her abroad
for a total of four months over a period of a year and a half.
Learn more about the Duggan/French Approach in the article below.
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What is the Duggan/French Approach?
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The
Duggan/French Approach examines the relationships between an
individual's physical patterns and their underlying emotions and belief
systems. Often, these beliefs are not within the realm of
conscious thought. DFA can help an individual gain more awareness
physically and emotionally so he/she can see how these unconscious
beliefs and the shape they take in the body are affecting their ability
to be fully expressive in their lives. This process happens
through the client and practitioner working together to explore what
the body is languaging at subconscious levels.
In a typical
session, the client lies down (fully clothed) on a massage table. The
practitioner introduces a gentle, elliptical motion that moves through
the muscles, tendons and connective tissue. This movement works deeply
and subtly to gently release the patterns of stress and tension that
impede physical and emotional well-being. While working, the
practitioner will ask questions and make observations that help the
client develop an awareness of their habitual patterns of holding. As
the work deepens the client and practitioner will explore belief
systems and emotions that are held in the body. Each session ends with
movement education that helps the client to integrate and become aware
of the structural changes that have occurred as a result of the work on
the table. Although there is a typical framework from which the
practitioner works, there is no agenda, no pre-determined amount to get
done, only the commitment to the process of discovery with the client.
I
encourage you to contact me by phone so that I can answer any questions
you have about the work, and so we can talk further about whether this
work is appropriate for you.
Shane Belau
206-778-5796
more about Duggan/French approach
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sign up online
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· click here for all mat series (including Bosu™, Stability Ball, Happy Hour, etc...)
· click here for all reformer series (including Athletic Conditioning, Jumpboard Interval, etc...)
· click here for private & semi-private sessions with our instructors.
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exercise of the month: obliques roll back |
 
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pilates and... Yamuna Body Rolling
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Pilates
will help you get stronger, leaner and more stable. It also can
help with flexibility but what if you just need a little more in that
department? What if you want to wear, may the pilates gods
forgive you, high heels? Well, Yamuna Body Rolling could help you
do all that. It's a system developed by Yamuna Zake of NY and is
part massage and part workout using special balls of different sizes
for certain parts of the body. Utilizing the balls to first
stimulate the insertion points of muscles where the tendon attaches to
the bone, then massage the entire muscle length, Yamuna can really
enhance your pilates exercises if you have flexibility issues.
Let's say you have stiff hamstrings. This can limit many of the
pilates exercises from feet in the straps on the reformer to many of
the mat exercises. Stretching can help but stimulating the tendon
that attaches to the bone affects the nervous system directly and can
relax the whole muscle belly too. So about those high heels, in
pilates we work the feet in footwork, which can strengthen and move the
foot and ankle in a range of motion, which is imperative to healthy
feet. Adding in the Yamuna Foot Savers, a dome of knobby bumps to
stimulate the bottoms of the feet that take all the abuse, can get you
that much further. Combined with your pilates strengthening, Foot
Savers are the maintenance after wearing heels. Yamuna says the
strategy of wearing high heels successfully is to distribute the weight
onto as much of the foot as possible, especially the outsides of the
foot, to relieve the pressure going onto the balls of the feet. If you
have flexibility issues or you just want to wear high heels, we have a
Yamuna Body Rolling class right here at Bodycenter taught by Tiffany
Lodes. It's a 6 week introductory class which could help you get
even more out of your pilates.
From Bloomington, IN
Melissa Noble
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We at Bodycenter strive to provide you with an encouraging environment to foster change in your body.
Sincerely,
Kristi Quinn, Melissa Noble, Shane Belau
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