Events Calendar
Master Classes
TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
Tuesday & Saturday
1:30PM – 4:00PM
$35 FOR 2.5 HR MASTERCLASS
SHEN TAO STUDIO NYC
This is an on going weekly class.
Various Masterclasses
Your hands can communicate ideas to your students/clients about where they might want to put their bones and which muscles to use.
Use your hands to change the shape of your student’s/client’s bodies, to reduce their pain; to change their lives!
Come gain greater confidence and competence in your ability to change people with your touch. Learn powerful techniques for communicating directly to your student’s/client’s bodies.
We will show you specific techniques to help you change the shape of their myofascia, releasetheir tendons, communicate with their muscles, and traction their bones.
This 2.5 hours, experiential training will give you both specific hands-on techniques, as well as larger guiding principles to work with your hands, elbows, etc. while teaching.
Learn how to touch safely and with authority. Learn how to communicate principles of alignment, timing, and dynamics with your hands.
We will draw on exercises from the disciplines of Pilates, Dance, Yoga, Shen Tao, (and a number of other parallel disciplines) in order to further help you develop your skills.
Develop a Classic Upper Body
This Master Class provides information on two levels:
The first, a purely technical understanding of the relationships of the bones of the upper body for optimal bio-mechanical efficiency.
The second, a powerful and effective set of skills for communicating these ideas to the deeper (“unconscious”) levels of the neuro-muscular intelligence.
You will receive individualized instruction, video feedback, and hands-on coaching to support your understanding of how to apply these ideas to your own, or someone else’s body.
Classes
TUESDAYS
10:30AM – 12:30PM
2 HR CLASS
SHEN TAO STUDIO NYC
$20 for 2hr class
This is an ongoing weekly class.
Shen Tao for Dancers
A variation of the Shen Tao Approach class, Shen Tao for Dancers consists of a more demanding vocabulary and technique. Although each class is customized for the students and their current needs, such as recovery from an injury, the ultimate goal is to fine-tune or micro-adjust the dancers’ technique through a hands on approach combined with the Shen Tao principles of communicating to one’s inner-self.
Class will follow the open, coordinate, strengthen, and stretch / traction format.
TUESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
10:30AM – 12:30PM
THURSDAYS
6:00PM – 8:00PM
Movement Lab
Through a series of choreographed exercises on our equipment, you will learn how to experiment with the material slowly. As we move through the four stages of open, coordinate, strengthen, and stretch / traction, you will receive suggestions and guidance from the instructor to help you develop and deepen the communication process between your cognitive mind and your inner-body intelligence, the neuro-muscular system. The goal of this approach is to ultimately accelerate the learning process.
Workshops
MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS
6:00PM – 8:00PM
Traction Bodywork
In this 2 hours workshop, we will explore and experiment elements of Traction Bodywork.
We will experiment through various exercises to communicate principles of traction bodywork, such as: alignment, body weight, timing, rhythm, momentum, pressure of touch, and dynamics with your hands..
You will learn experientially how to both give and receive Traction Bodywork leading to Master Classes.
No previous experience is required.
Trampoline Yoga
Emphasizing playfulness, fun and a spirit of improvisation.
A one hour class blending the breathing principles of Kundalini Yoga, with the Asana’s of a more contemporary yogic practice, the rebounding quality of the trampoline, and the pulsing rhythms of the drums.