The (Not So Obvious) Benefits of Recording Movement Classes

I'm now recording Skype classes so, for example, a couple of people couldn't make the Monday night time slot, BUT they can just watch it at their convenience (it's saved in skype for only 30 days AND it's in our private chat on there so no one else has access).

BUT there's another benefit... people can watch AGAIN and this is good for TWO reasons:

First, people often think they are doing something they're not or that they are looking one way or another and they're not or that they are doing something "wrong" (a word not used in my classes but still...people think it). But now they can watch and see!!

Second, because the work is rather introverted in nature (a lot of people work with eyes closed), now they can go back and watch what other people were up to. This is important -- our bodies take this stuff in and the next time they move, they'll have integrated something new.

Mini Quickie Kundalini Yoga Session: Getting Back to Basics

This is my take on Kundalini yoga. It’s grounded in tantra philosophy with none of the added “stuff” you can sometimes see out there (i.e., white turbans).

There’s a joy and ease in this practice that I’ve never found anywhere else. When I’m done, I feel centered and calm AND ENERGIZED. And this is a yoga that is TRULY for ALL bodies because it’s not “hold that posture” based.

Pre-Covid OBVS

If you’ve been wondering what it’s like, this is a great chance to check it out without too much time or money commitment.

PLEASE READ ALL THE HOWS AND WHATS BELOW CAREFULLY!

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: $35 for 3 weeks of 2 quickie classes
TIME: 10:30 AM
Tuesdays: December 1, 8, 15
Thursdays: December 3, 10, 17

Mini Movement Arts Session: FUNdamentals Deep Dive

During this 3 week mini session we’ll be diving into the fundamentals of my approach to movement art, so it’s a perfect opportunity to try this out if you’re new to this work.

We’ll be focusing on:

• the use of breath,

• deep listening to the body (or what I like to call fascination),

• circular movement in the body and in space,

• and the importance of slow.

A current partial class, with me and my serious “I’m observing” face

MINI SESSION BEGINS MONDAY, November 30th and runs for 3 weeks.

WHERE: ONLINE, via Skype

TIME: Mondays, 5:30 to 6:45 PM (Eastern Time)

DATES: November 30th, December 7th, 14th

HOW: For this session, you need to also be familiar with/able to use Spotify or YouTube ALONG WITH Skype. It’s free. 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 volume and clarity) AND you’ll still be able to hear me (I’ll be using an earbud for my own music.)

COST: $45

One Minute Self Care: 50+ Micro Rituals for Peace & Health

You might remember me saying many times in the past, “Tell Asshole Brain, JUST FIVE MINUTES.” Well, lately — I’m sure many of you are feeling this — five minutes seems like a really big chunk of time and effort.

FIVE minutes!? What do I look like? A freaking ultra marathoner?

So here we are, one minute.

JUST. ONE. MINUTE.

Can you ask yourself many times throughout the day: What can I do for ONE MINUTE for MYSELF?

I asked members of our Facebook private group JoyBody Sanctuary what kinds of things they could imagine doing and we came up with quite the list. So here you are, in no particular order:

1. Breathe deeply with your eyes closed

2. Meditate/pray/chant

3. SCREAM — right where you are or in a closed room or in the shower or into a pillow

4. Jump up and down — HARD

5. Rub your own head and neck and feet

6. Place your hands on your heart center

7. Walk outside and stand on ground (bare feet, please)

8. Wash your face

9. Lay on the floor and cry

10. Lay on the floor and THROW A TANTRUM

11. Warm up your cold coffee/tea

12. Eat some dark chocolate

13. Pet a cat or dog

14. Punch a pillow as hard as you can for the full minute

15. Release a lot of loud sighs. Be super dramatic about it

16. Smack yourself — firmly all over your legs, around your hips, into your low back

17. Brush your hair

18. Go outside and just gaze at the sky — night or day

19. Wash a few dishes; make your bed; do something to your house that makes you feel good

20. Email or text a friend a positive message

21. Go online and look at art (have some tabs already saved for this)

22. Read a poem. Out loud

23. SING

24. Sniff your favorite essential oil. Dab some on your wrists

25. Hug yourself in a cuddly blanket or hug someone who is with you

26. Lie on the floor or your bed and stretch like a cat

27. Tap all over your scalp

28. Make a quick piece of art — take a photo, create a TikTok video, color, doodle

29. Pull a tarot/oracle card and sit with it

30. Bounce on a mini trampoline or ride your stationary bike

31. Drink a big glass of water

32. Take your vitamins

33. Stand up if you’re seated and walk around; put your leg up on a chair or table

34. Sit on the floor/squat

35. If you have wooden floors, put on socks and skate around

36. Go check the mail

37. Go to youtube and watch a video of the ocean or your favorite city (have some ready in a folder so you don’t fall down a rabbit hole)

38. Rearrange/clean an altar space in your house (or make a new one)

39. Go to your books, randomly pick one, randomly open it, read. Let it speak to you

40. Light some incense and walk around your space

41. Light candles

42. Write a haiku, a list of favorite things, a note to yourself to read later, a note to someone you love

43. Leave a random note of kindness on someone’s Facebook page

44. Dance. For one minute. To the sound of your own breath

45. Put on some mascara, eyeliner, lipstick, whatever you like to embellish yourself

46. Remember one of your favorite moments in your life. Recall as much sensory detail as you can

47. Twirl. Use a big scarf

48. Do you have a baton in your house? (Making this list and suddenly I want a baton again…)

49. Juggle

50. Play a round of Jax

Your turn… what could you add to this list?

Grief Workshop Date Changes

Election week was even harder than I anticipated, and as I write this, we’re still waiting to see if anyone from the GOP starts to do the right thing and acknowledge the Biden/Harris win.

And because election week had me totally unable to focus on anything but the state of the free world, I’ve changed the start date of the Grief workshop.

We will now start a week later, Sunday, November 22nd.

Go here to register.

Transform the Grief of 2020 into Fuel for Action via the JoyBody: A Workshop to Start the Process

In this workshop, we’ll use a wide variety of tools to first face the many types and levels of grief we’ve been living with and then (begin to) transmute that energy into a fuel that can be used to power action. This work can happen because we are joybody… because our essential nature is meant for something other than all the anger and anxiety we’ve been living with this year.

And though that joybody nature can feel very exhausted, very covered up, almost to the point of being gone, it’s still there. It just needs to be tended to — in a variety of ways.

We’ll be using: therapeutic joybody movement art (very guided and not at all what you think of as dance), visual arts (whichever is your favorite — drawing, painting, taking photos), writing, and ritual.

We’ll be doing all of this, of course, in community, a vital ingredient to the work.

WHEN (for full map of our time together, keep reading):

Starting Sunday, November 22nd.

And ending the week of Sunday, December 13th, which concludes with the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, or the great compassionate mother.

I’m offering this workshop with two tiers of pricing. You get full access to everything no matter which price you pay. First is $108 and second is $77. I’m hoping this helps.

Full Price of $108

Alternative Price of $77

Some Important Bits on Your End to PREPARE:

• You will need either a large scarf or about 2 yards of dark fabric.

• You’ll also want to gather writing and art materials (again, whichever medium you like so it might just be the camera on your phone!), candles, and anything that might be included on an altar (stones, pictures, flowers, symbols, whatever calls to you).

• You must be connected to me on Facebook as we’ll use a closed and private group on there for a primary “classroom.”

• You must be able to use Skype and you need to connect to me on there (you can find me and wave to me via my email — christineserfozo@gmail.com).

• You need access to shared music lists. I’ll do these via both Spotify AND YouTube.

• PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR TECHNOLOGY before the first Sunday evening get together: BE ABLE TO RUN BOTH SKYPE AND YOUR MUSIC AT THE SAME TIME. This is vital.

WHAT I HOPE FOR YOU:

This workshop is meant as a STARTING POINT for work that we all need to be doing into the new year. So you’ll have breakthroughs, surely, during our time together, but you’re meant to take the bits and pieces and techniques that really speak to you and continue using them for perhaps even the whole of 2021 if not a good month after we finish.

I want you to feel more hopeful than you’ve felt in a long time by the end of our time.

I want you to feel like you have energy for action.

I want you to have more clarity for next steps.

And again, I want you to have an arsenal of tools that you can continue to explore.

HOW OUR TIME WILL BE STRUCTURED:

Each Sunday evening (or on your own time) we’ll meet on Skype for 60 to 75 minutes starting at 5:30 PM (EASTERN TIME).

THESE SKYPE SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED BUT…. BUT!!!!! THE RECORDING ONLY STAYS AVAILABLE FOR THAT WEEK. So you can be with us live or you can catch up and watch when you can but WITHIN THE FOLLOWING WEEK.

Then throughout the week, I’ll be posting content regarding visual arts, writing prompts, and ritual building exercises. (This content will remain up for one month following the conclusion of the workshop.)

Again, I’m offering this workshop with two tiers of pricing. You get full access to everything no matter which price you pay. First is $108 and second is $77. I’m hoping this helps.

Full Price of $108

Alternative Price of $77

JOYBODY is Not Just Movement Practices

Nope. JOYBODY is a way of living.

Remember what I said: it’s not a product or a goal.

JOYBODY is a process. We live FROM joybody by listening deeply TO joybody.

And that means joybody is everything about being in these bodies and in these lives.

What we eat. What we wear. How we treat others. How we engage in our communities. The work we do. Our relationships in every part of our lives.

JOYBODY Movement Arts Six Week Online Session: You Are Fascinating

If you’ve been around me for more than a couple of years, you know that I can never quite NAME the work I do. Until recently…when I woke up one morning a couple of weeks ago with this in my head…

JOYBODY.

And as someone smart in my orbit remarked, that name has been there all along.

Yes. It has. I can remember the very first training I took at Kripalu and this idea of accessing our original joy nature? It popped out of my mouth by the end of that week.

When I watch you, even though you might not be capable of feeling it yet, that’s what I see… your essential nature as a joybody.

A being of love and compassion and a strength you likely have forgotten.

But through our movement experiments and our shared rituals, we can remember.

We can re-member:

We are not a product or a result or someone's "after" photo. There is nothing wrong with us. We are not "over" or "under" weight. We are not "inflexible." We are not someone "with two left feet."

We are not a THING in any way, and we are not, therefore, to be somehow qualified, quantified, or categorized.

We are a PROCESS... and we are ever-evolving.

NEXT SESSION BEGINS MONDAY, October 12th and runs for 6 weeks.

WHERE: ONLINE, via Skype

TIME: Mondays, 5:30 to 6:45 PM (Eastern Time)

DATES: October 12, 19, 26 and November 2, 9, 16

HOW: For this session, you need to also be familiar with/able to use Spotify or YouTube ALONG WITH Skype. It’s free. 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 volume and clarity) AND you’ll still be able to hear me (I’ll be using an earbud for my own music.)

MISSED CLASS: If you miss a class, I will gladly provide the prompts for that music list in writing up to two times per session.

COST: $85