Classes in Feldenkrais and Yoga | Workshops & Special Events

The Asheville Movement Center is 900 sq ft of learning space. Classes include Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement®, Yoga and more. Lavinia Plonka, GCFP, is the director and also offers private Feldenkrais lessons, called Functional Integration® lessons by appointment (more info). The Feldenkrais Method has proven helpful for many kinds of movement and performance challenges (more info). The Asheville Movement Center is also available for rental for events, workshops or classes. If you are interested in renting Asheville Movement Center contact Lavinia Plonka.

For more information about Lavinia visit laviniaplonka.com.

ON-GOING CLASSES

The Feldenkrais Method® Awareness Through Movement®
Taught by Lavinia Plonka
$60/ 6 class card, $12 Drop in
Wednesdays at 6 PM
Fridays at 9:30 AM
Mondays at 1 PM.

To Register: 828-258-7220 or register online below.

Private Lessons
Private Feldenkrais Method® lesson or Somatic Coaching session
With Lavinia Plonka, GCFP
$80
Email Lavinia or call 828-258-7220 for appointment

Awareness Through Movement classes can help anyone improve range of motion, reduce pain and experience more vitality. You can join these ongoing classes at any time. They are enjoyable and interesting, regardless of whether you want to improve peak performance, or just feel more comfortable in daily life. No movement experience is necessary.

Feldenkrais classes are gentle, safe, pleasurable movement explorations that help you reduce pain, move more gracefully and effortlessly, without strain or working out. They are suitable for everyone - no experience is necessary. Read more info on The Feldenkrais Method and some great testimonials.

New Class beginning February 11!

Restorative Yoga Therapy classes are designed for those who want to experience the relaxation and healing aspects of yoga as the main focus. Persons healing from physical or emotional trauma are warmly encouraged to be a part or our healing group. Mat and chair yoga options are available and our ground-floor yoga space is wheelchair-friendly.

About the instructor: Leslie Ferree, RYT is a registered yoga therapist who is certified to teach yoga to persons with cancer and whose experience includes yoga for heart patients, emotional trauma, aging issues, and physical disabilities. As a founding member of Yoga Alliance and graduate of Duke Integrative Health Coach training, she is passionately aligned with the integrative health movement. Leslie is the Yoga Therapist for Mission Hospital’s yoga for cancer research studies and yoga for Mission’s staff retreats and cancer survivors’ Camp Bluebird. Leslie also teaches Chair Yoga, Breathwork, and Senior Life Enhancement classes for Buncombe County’s Council on Aging.

Private yoga therapy sessions may be scheduled at Asheville Movement Center,
by calling Leslie: (828) 333-1537

Yoga

Photo by Michael Traister

Nicole Kintz & Letitia Walker will team teach Tuesday Night Yoga Sangha. This class features a blending of Purna and Iyengar based yoga placing the focus on alignment as enlightenment in the classical asanas in a community-oriented atmosphere where students can pursue not only the form of the pose but the direction of their hearts.

The Embodied Performer: A Creative Body Laboratory
First and Third Mondays of each Month, 5:30 – 7
Taught by Lavinia Plonka (See Lavinia’s performance CV)
Pay by donation

This weekly lab explores mime, physical theater techniques including improvisation, Grotowski technique, body language and eccentric dance. It will be blended with body/mind work including Feldenkrais, Delsatrte and visualization.

Open to all:

• Dancers
• Actors
• Health professionals
• People looking to develop a more powerful presence and poise
• Those looking for a new fitness regimen

While the physical work can be demanding, anyone is welcome to attend and participate at whatever level is comfortable. This is process, not product oriented and will be conducted in a safe and respectful environment. The emphasis is on learning and pleasure!

Skull-duggery: Reducing TMJ pain, Headaches and Other Cranial Adventures
With Lavinia Plonka, GCFP
Saturday, March 13, 9:30 AM – 1 PM
$45

Sometimes it seems like there’s a conspiracy behind the aches and pains that plague the head and neck. But with a little sleuthing, you can learn how to uncover the habits that underlie many ailments. This Creative Body Synthesis of Feldenkrais, discussion and the arts will help you put your head in its place with pleasure.

Unfolding Possibilty: Stepping Into Yourself
A Creative Body Workshop with Lavinia Plonka
Puerto Morelos, Mexico, February 16 – 23
Details here!

Connecting the Dots: Two Creative Body Workshops
Workshop in Akke’s Yoga Place, Blacksburg VA.
April 17
9 AM - 12 PM – Putting Your Head In Its Place
2 PM – 5 PM – Power of the Pelvis
$45/one session, $75/both

Yes, I want to attend BOTH Workshops:

Putting Your Head In Its Place
Do you know where your head is? Literally, the placement of your head affects everything: your posture, your sense of safety, your ease with others. It even affects how others perceive you. Headaches, TMJ, neck pain and even lower back problems are sometimes the result of the head’s relationship to the rest of the body.

Power of the Pelvis
Activate and enliven your vital center. The pelvis can be a source of spontaneity and joy, or the seat of challenge for anyone who has had an injury, illness or trauma that has compromised pelvic mobility. Athletes, martial artists and performing artists rely on its power for peak performance.
Both workshops blend Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons with discussion and exercises for a complete mind/body/emotions experience.

Mark Your Calendars!

March 13 – Skullduggery: Reducing TMJ pain, headaches and other cranial adventures
April 25 – Lurching Towards Nirvana, a concert at the UU in Asheville
May 1 – The Bearable Lightness of Being: Exploring effortless posture
July 17 – 23 - Beautiful Living with Alba Emoting & Feldenkrais taught by Lavinia Plonka and Laura Facciponti, on UNCA campus Details

Asheville Movement Center
4 Richmond Ave., Asheville, NC 828-258-7220

Directions:
From East -240 W, exit 2 (Haywood Road) end of ramp, make a left.
Cross over 240, pass Image 420 on the right. Richmond Ave. is your first right.

From West, 240E, Exit 2, end of ramp make left. At the light turn right, follow above directions.

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