Be a Movement Rebel Fundamentals: Summer Session 2 (ONLINE)

WHERE: ONLINE, via Skype

TIME: Mondays, 5:30 to 6:40 PM (Eastern Time)

DATES: July 20, 27 and August 3, 10, 17, 24

HOW: For this session, you need to also be familiar with/able to use Spotify. It’s free. But I’ll be providing a music list BEFORE each class. While I’m teaching, ALL MICS MUST BE OFF, except for mine. You’ll be listening to the music at your end (providing more volumn and clarity) AND you’ll still be able to hear me (I’ll be using an earbud for my own music.)

COST: $80

REGISTER HERE

I’ve gone through a gazillion transformations with this work that started 11 years ago, and for the first time ever, I feel like I have finally found some ways to talk about it that really give you a feeling for what we are doing.

I am a Kinetic Liberator.

What the heck does that mean?!?

Well, it means about a thousand things, but to start, it means that I am here to guide you into your own body’s ways of moving in this world that will bring you to a place in which you are able to truly enjoy living in your body.

I’m here to guide you into a fuller relationship with your body via her unique vocabulary — not the vocabulary of someone else’s body or anyone else’s ideas of forms and postures and steps.

Also I’m here to make space for bodies that were often told they didn’t belong in certain places — like dance classes or yoga studios (I’m not saying ALL have been exclusionary BUT I am saying that far too many of my students have this shared experience).

I’m here to make space for different bodies to move in ways that have been culturally deemed “only for (insert body type).”

I’m here, too, to cut the cord connecting permission and a male or other gaze. Meaning, your body moving is for YOU… not for anyone else to “enjoy” or partake of in any way.

Besides how I’m here to guide you via your body, I’m here to help in another way:

I’m here to show you that you can literally MOVE YOUR CRAP, cut through all the old stories, build a new way of being, and that you don’t need to talk it all to death.

So that’s me… what’s the work for you?

I want you to embrace yourself as a Movement Rebel.

As a movement rebel, you come to each and every class with no preconceived notions.

You come with no mat, no shoes, no special equipment.

The only equipment you need is CURIOSITY and FASCINATION.

As a movement rebel, you know all you need is you.

What do we actually do?

From week to week, this evolves. Constantly. But there are some things that create a sense of familiarity so that we can be brave in the face of all that change:

We always start class on the floor, seated (though this can be done in a chair), and we always start with the breath and with a series of circular movements throughout the body.

This gets us grounded and settled and warmed up.

Then we explore individual body parts for a segment of the class. We might spend a whole song moving with just the hands, for example.

And finally, we get into more poetic work toward the end, using prompts designed to disconnect thinking mind so you can really get to know your rebel self.

LIBERATION IS THE WHOLE POINT

Are you ready?

ABC Morning Quickie Yoga Online (Live or Recorded): Awaken & Balance the Chakra Energy Centers

I’m super excited about this SEVEN WEEK/JULY AUGUST yoga session.

ABC YOGA: Awaken and Balance the Chakra Energy Centers will take you on a journey through the different layers of YOU!

Each chakra is a metaphorical and physical space ruled by psychological and physiological realities and we’ll be diving into ALL of that.

Each chakra corresponds to an emotional need AND to an actual glandular activity.

We’ll use breath, movement, and meditation to work on each chakra, one at a time, each week.

By Tuesday morning, I’ll also be posting some questions/ideas around that chakra in our private group. You could use these for journaling for the week or you could just hold the questions/ideas in your mind as we explore that week’s yoga.

WHAT YOU GET:
Access to TWO 20 minute practices a week, which you can watch live or you can watch the recording when you have time. It’s all up to you.

You can also REPEAT the material as much as you want. Each class will stay up in the group for the entire month and a bit beyond.

You also have access to ME. You can ask for help ANY TIME in the group.

HOW:
You have to be on Facebook.

MUSIC will be provided in the group prior to the class via Spotify and YouTube lists.

You’ll be added to a “Morning Quickie Yoga” PRIVATE group.

TIME ZONE: I’m in the Eastern U.S. Time Zone. For those of you for whom that might not mean much, I’m in the same time zone as New York City.

ALSO NOTE: Classes, though online, START ON TIME. You can jump in late, but I won't be waiting.

COST: $77 for the Seven Weeks
Tuesdays: July 14, 21, 28 and August 4, 11, 18, 25
Thursdays: July 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 13, 20, 27

TIME for LIVE CLASS is 10:30AM

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

TESTIMONIALS:

For me it is an excellent introduction while still presenting a challenge in the work presented. I have done yoga but not Kundalini before. The class also models how to work towards a daily practice within a doable daily time window. And the themes are a combination of physical and emotional/spiritual which works well in the integrated approach I am trying to take with my daily practices. (JW)

Kundalini yoga isn't, I believe, what most people think of as yoga. There's more effort in many of the moves, which I like a lot; I feel like I've actually MOVED. I learned several practices that I will be incorporating into my life because they address specific physical issues that I've been wrangling for a while. (GJ)

Online Embodiment Practices (BodyPoetics) for Summer Session One

TESTIMONIAL FROM A NEW STUDENT who does not “dance” and has never done work like this before:

Dance is not my thing. It’d be a stretch to say physicality is my thing (I once did so badly in step class that I laughed myself OUT of said class!) But what Christine does is not that and also - magically - so much more! Her class is movement and muscles. But it’s also energetic work and a safe space to bring my more difficult emotions for processing. Yes, we move but it’s almost secondary to the insights and the a-ha’s. I say “almost secondary” while also realizing it is the KEY component to getting to those realizations. Her class leaves me feeling more grounded and integrated. Every. Time. (Even and especially with the prompts I hate!) Like I said, I’m no dancer, but in Christine’s classes, under her wise and witnessing eye, I’m beginning to accept that maybe that old story about myself isn’t so true. Maybe dance is my thing, after all. (Deborah)

Summer Session One class registration is now OPEN!

LOCATION:  ONLINE so OPEN GLOBALLY (if you miss a class, you can ask me for a list of prompts and music)

TIME ZONE: I’m in the Eastern U.S. Time Zone. For those of you for whom that might not mean much, I’m in the same time zone as New York City.

PLEASE: Pay attention to the HOW of this written below. I am not your tech person; I am your embodiment guide.

ALSO NOTE: Classes, though online, START ON TIME. You can jump in late, but I won't be waiting.

GO HERE TO REGISTER

EMBODIMENT Exploration
MONDAYS, 5:30 to 6:40 PM
June 8, 15, 22, 29 and July 6, 13

COST: $80 for six weeks
Drop in: $20

EMBODIMENT Exploration classes take place on SKYPE. It's free and it's easy so get on there and find me at Christineserfozo@gmail.com THEN I will place you in a "group call." I use Skype so that we can see each other for these classes.

This work is a slow and meditative dive into your body to access its strength, resilience, and wisdom. I combine all of my studies of many forms of dance, Japanese Butoh, somatics therapy, trauma and the body, and so much more to guide you into another layer of self-knowing and self-expression.

No dance background necessary. No anything background necessary. Do you have a body? Then you're ready for this work. No certain TYPE of body necessary. No level of ability necessary.

If you can breathe, you can do this work and you can benefit from it.

Morning Quickie: Online 20 Minute Christine-a-Lini Yoga for Peace & Energy, 2X a Week for June, Live or Recorded

One of my students dubbed the Kundalini Yoga I teach Christine-a-lini because it’s not my nature to stay in any one box. I like to mix things up. So this practice is based in Kundalini but I bring in all kinds of other movement and philosophies. You never know what you’ll get but you know it will be grounding AND energizing.

NOTE: this yoga can be done by ANY BODY. PERIOD. Because you can do it in a chair if that’s what works for you.

You’ll leave the class feeling like you can conquer anything but you’ll also feel a profound sense of settledness.

Who doesn’t need more of both of those things right now?!

WHAT YOU GET:
Access to TWO 20 minute practices a week, which you can watch live or you can watch the recording when you have time. It’s all up to you.

You can also REPEAT the material as much as you want. Each class will stay up in the group for the entire month and a bit beyond.

You also have access to ME. You can ask for help ANY TIME in the group.

HOW:
You have to be on Facebook.

You’ll be added to a “Morning Quickie Yoga” PRIVATE group.

TIME ZONE: I’m in the Eastern U.S. Time Zone. For those of you for whom that might not mean much, I’m in the same time zone as New York City.

ALSO NOTE: Classes, though online, START ON TIME. You can jump in late, but I won't be waiting.

COST: $55 for the entire month of June Tuesday and Thursdays:
Tuesdays: June 2, 9, 16, 23
Thursdays: June 4, 11, 18, 25

TIME for LIVE CLASS is 10:30AM

GO HERE TO REGISTER!