Below you will find a listing of our regular weekly classes. To see other single events and workshops, please visit the Events Page. To stay up-to-date on all the latest classes, workshops, and events at m’illumino, subscribe to our monthly newsletter, and to our Google calendar.
~ Class changes & cancellations are noted on the studio calendar.
~ Most classes offer drop-in and session rates. See individual class info to learn more.
~ No street shoes are allowed in the studio. Dance shoes or barefoot only, please.
Weekly Class Offerings
Full Class Descriptions belowMonday
QiGong with Zach Snyder New Class!: 12.45-2.15pm
Tuesday
Tribal Bellydance Foundations with Shay Moore: 7:00pm-8:00pm Wednesday
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction with Erica Rayner-Horn: 7:00-9:00pm *Returns Fall 2011Thursday
Awareness Through Movement® with LeeAnn Starovasnik: 5:30-6:30pmWater Sense in the Pool at m'illumino with Bridget Thompson: small groups, different times
Friday
InterPlay: 10:30am-12:00pmSaturday
See the Events page for workshopsSunday
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Class Descriptions
Read instructor bios belowAwareness Through Movement® with LeeAnn Starovasnik
Engage your brain and your body in new ways in each class--you will learn to move more easily, more comfortably and maybe even more playfully. Lessons are customized to your needs and curiosity and seek to improve comfort in any daily activity or hobby. Discover a fun and easy movement method, while improving physical movements, sense of balance and overall well being.
InterPlay
InterPlay is an improvisational practice that playfully explores the things a body can do - move, make sounds, tell stories, sing, and experience stillness. It is based on life-affirming, body wisdom principles and the transformative power of play. InterPlay is now taught in 40 U.S. cities and in a growing number of foreign countries. InterPlay is a creative, life-affirming practice. Its forms and body wisdom principles help people connect more fully with their inner authority and their joy! http://www.interplayseattle.org/
90 minutes (see schedule for details)
Cost: contact studio for more information
Mindful Based Stress Reduction with Erica Rayner-Horn *Returns Fall 2011
An 8-week course of guided instruction in the mindfulness practices of meditation, body
awareness and mindful yoga, based on the renowned program by Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD at the Stress Reduction Clinic of UMass Medical School.
You will learn to:
- Recognize your stress patterns and “triggers” and how stress affects your life.
- Overcome old habits of reactivity and learn to respond mindfully.
- Learn mindfulness approaches to manage physical, emotional, or psychological stress and
difficulty in an effective way.
- Connect with your own wisdom and learn to relax tension.
- Develop tools to work with and transform stressful situations.
- Communicate more effectively and improve your relationships.
- Re-establish balance in your life.
- Improve your health, and restore a sense of well-being and ease to your life.
120 minute
Cost: contact studio for more information
Tribal Bellydance - Level 1 Foundations with Shay Moore
You'll be dancing from the very first class! These classes will get us moving to the global groove as students develop core tribal bellydance movements with strength, grace, and flexibility. Join us to learn to move in new ways and feel confident being present in your own body. Women of all ages, shapes, sizes, and experience are welcome! Students will need to purchase high quality student zils (finger cymbals), which can be found at Saroyan Mastercrafts--either Afghanis or Grecians are recommended.
60 minutes
Cost : Your first class is always free.
Sessions are $75 for six weeks, $15 drop-in
(drop-ins returning students only).
Visit the instructor's webpage to read more and to Register Now
Water Sense in the Pool at m'illumino with Bridget Thompson
Touch the elemental waters! Supported in the water by the practitioner you are guided through fluent movement combinations to restore your joints for balance, alignment and coordination--for grace and presence. Space is limited, registration required. Please call to register.
60 minutes
Cost: 6 weeks for $120, small groups at different times until 30th October 2011
Cost: 6 weeks for $120, small groups at different times until 30th October 2011
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Our Instructors
Bridget Thompson, GCFP
To read more about private sessions with Bridget, click here.
Erica Rayner-Horn
Psychotherapist, professionally trained MBSR instructor, meditation teacher and author of CD Finding Tranquility-Mindfulness Meditations for Stressful TimesLeeAnn Starovasnik
Since 1999 she has been expanding from coaching quality process improvements in technology and financial services businesses to facilitating others to embody continuous personal improvements using the Feldenkrais Method®. She has designed series of lessons in Everyday Ease™ and Balance in Action™ for computer users, seniors, caregivers, artists, dog walkers and curious souls from all walks of life. She loves applying her well-honed observation, intuition and problem-solving skills to creatively help clients discover or recover how to move efficiently and comfortably through life with the “no pain, more gain” philosophy.
Shay Moore
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