The people and practices that have shaped me are at the center of Force and Flow. Read more about them here, and leave comments on the pages so we can start to connect within and across communities. Tell us your story, share your practice, or leave a question…
Move into Awareness
Medical Qi Gong
My favorite definition of Qi Gong is “Life Energy Cultivation”. There are variations in translation and even more so in forms and practices…
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Pilates
Your body is your best equipment, especially when your mind is in its movement. That’s what Pilates taught me and that’s what I use…
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Yoga
I’ve done a lot of different kinds of yoga, and depending on what you consider yoga to be, it’s what I do every single day…
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Feldenkrais
Improves our capabilities and functioning in daily life…
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Alexander
Cultivating awareness is the key to transforming patterns…
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Laban
One of the most widely used systems of human movement analysis…
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Body Mind Centering
An integrated and embodied approach to movement…
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Release Techniques
Topf, Klein and other release techniques, coming soon…
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Meditation
Meditation is the art of listening… page coming soon
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Release, Recover, Replenish
Thai Yoga Bodywork
An ancient healing art with origins in Ayurvedic Yoga, Chinese medicine and Buddhist meditation, Thai Yoga Bodywork is…
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Chi Ne Tsang
An abdominal organ massage, to address the root of many of the ailments as a result of an obstruction in our internal organs…
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Reiki
A beautifully gentle modality which helps to create a space of quiet and stillness for regeneration to happen…
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Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapies are about the healing that happens when we listen to the waves and pulses of the body…
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Prenatal
Prenatal Movement and Bodywork offer expecting mothers a gentle and integrated approach to self-care…
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Sound Baths
Sound immersion events that offer a relaxed and meditative setting for mindfulness in the act of listening…
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Presence through Action
Material for the Spine
Material for the Spine is a potent technique developed by Steve Paxton for bringing movement to our consciousness…
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Tuning Scores
Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores are both a training practice and a compositional language for creating performance in the moment…
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Grotowsky
I’ve learned more about presence from working in this lineage than any other approach, and I’ve gained more insight into…
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Odin
Roberta Carreri of the Odin Teatret has a magical ability to distill and convey the essential art of embodiment…
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Action Theater
Action Theater was developed by Ruth Zapora and is one of the most versatile approaches I’ve experienced to improvisation…
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Viewpoints
Viewpoints was originally developed in the 1970’s by the choreographer Marie Overlie, and it’s been popularized by Anne Bogart…
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Impulse and Improvisation
Dance Improvisation
I grew up bilingual, but dance has always been my true mother-tongue. There are as many ways of dancing…
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Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation (CI) is as much a freestyle dance form as it is a kind of contemporary Western yoga…
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Modern Dance
The Modern dance world has given birth to many incredible studios and teachers of movement…
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African Dance
Pat Hall’s Afro Caribbean dance class didn’t save my life so much as give it back to me…
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Capoeira
Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music…
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Open Movement
Open Movement NYC is a weekly jam where people come to dance, stretch and occasionally play music…
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