If you’ve been working to change habits, manage stress, or understand the connection between body and mind—but not seeing lasting results—this integrative approach offers a practical way towards clarity, potency and wellbeing.

Kinēsa® in Prague

Refining Movement, Emotion, and the Capacity for Action

Enrollment is limited to only 15 participants.

Whether you are a professional somatic educator or just beginning your movement journey, this 5-day immersion offers a state of the art way to reduce pain, increase emotional resilience, and deepen your understanding of your own humanity.

Kinēsa is a somatic education program I’ve developed over decades of research and practice, integrating the Feldenkrais Method®, the Emotional Body®, neuroscience and body language research with the intelligence of traditional practices including yoga, martial arts, and contemplative disciplines. (Learn more about Kinēsa)

Every part of you participates in your story. 

How are your hands reflected in your seven bodies?

During these five days, you will:

• Reduce unnecessary effort and discover more efficient, pain-free movement 

• Sense the relationship between posture, emotion, and your capacity to respond

• Recognize how patterns of tension shape perception and choice

• Connect contemporary research with direct embodied experience

• Expand your personal and professional movement vocabulary

The deep dive into Kinēsa is my signature blend of disciplines, principles and learning strategies. You will experience Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons, group processes, body language study, and guided inquiry into how movement shapes perception, feeling, and action.

These powerful and practical tools will change your life.

Location

DanceLab, U Zvonařky 9, Praha 2-Vinohrady

Centrally located, there are many lodging options available within walking distance.

Come experience one of my favorite cities in the world, a combination of poetry, beauty and strangeness, with something for everyone. There will be time before and after class to explore, taste and experience. Or stay longer and dive into more magic! 

Workshop Details & Schedule

(Subject to adjustment)

Each day will include movement lessons, multi-disciplinary activities, mindfulness practices and presentations of science based evidence.

Daily Overview

Morning session 10:30 – 1:00

Lunch 1:00 – 2:00

Afternoon session 2:00 – 4:30

 Pricing

$600 USD

Early Bird Deal: $600 $550 USD before August 1

Workshop Details & Schedule

(Subject to adjustment)

Each day will include movement lessons, multi-disciplinary activities, mindfulness practices and presentations of science based evidence.

Daily Overview

Morning Session 10:30 – 1:00

Lunch 1:00 – 2:00

Afternoon Session 2:00 – 4:30

Day 1

Morning Session:

Introduction to Kinēsa and the Physical Body

Afternoon Session:

Your Emotional Body

Day 2

Morning Session:

Your Emotional Body cont’d

Your Mental Body

Afternoon Session:

Your Mental Body cont’d

Connecting the Triad

Day 3

Morning Session:

Your Creative Body

Afternoon Session:

Your Archetypal Body

Day 4

Morning Session:

Your Energy Body

Afternoon Session:

Your Alchemical Body

Day 5

Morning Session:

Integration, connections and and clarifications

Afternoon Session:

Group projects, wrap up

Meet Your Instructors

Lavinia is internationally known as a master Feldenkrais® teacher and lead instructor of the Emotional Body®. She has dedicated her life to studying physical and metaphysical transformation – decades of practice in yoga, aikido, dance and a life long practice of inner work and contemplation. Her books and audio programs explore the applications of movement to wellbeing and personal growth. Lavinia created Kinēsa® to explore the intersection between movement, science and ancient traditions. Learn more about Lavinia.

What people are saying about Lavinia & Kinēsa 

I enrolled in the Kinēsa program with the intention of enhancing my teaching and bringing new material to use in sessions with my clients. As they say “your intention changes the probable future,” and that is exactly what happened. I found that Kinēsa had so many layers that weave in and through all aspects of movement, thought and energy, and I soon realized that this was going to be a much deeper learning experience than I had imagined. Not only did I learn and integrate the Kinēsa Principles into my teaching, but also into MY OWN LIFE. Seeing myself through the Kinēsa lens gave me new insight into seeing others. Through this program, I have been given the tools to create richer experiences for my clients by deepening their understanding of their bodies, emotions and potential.

— Julie Peterson

Let me just say that each time I go through the training (materials) I quite literally hear with new ears, see with new eyes, and feel with new precision all the material that was being offered to us.

The course was so comprehensive in scope, so relevant to how I relate to other humans, and so instrumental in my decision to become a voice teacher, that the recordings have become like my own personal toolbox for living. 

— M’lissa Hayes

Learning with Lavinia has brought me so much joy and real change. Feldenkrais and Kinēsa classes are genuinely fun, and my balance has improved, I experience less pain, I’m more comfortable in my body in general, and I feel more at ease with myself. Lavinia has helped me experience—very directly—how intelligent movement can enhance my coordination and ability to heal and give me a deeper sense of fulfillment in my everyday life.

— Myra Tucker

 The main appeal of becoming a Kinēsa practitioner was the hope of relieving my chronic pain, but I was unprepared for just how deeply the experience would transform my life. As a retired professional dancer and aerialist, I transitioned into a career teaching Pilates. Yet after nearly 20 years of teaching, I found myself physically exhausted, emotionally depleted, and struggling with increasing pain.

My tank was empty. Kinēsa went far beyond pain relief. It reconnected me to myself physically, mentally, creatively, emotionally, and spiritually, while helping me discover a deeper archetypal balance within. Kinēsa restored a sense of vitality, purpose, power, balance, and wholeness that I had been missing for years. Today, I feel more grounded, inspired, and aligned in both my personal and professional life. Becoming a Kinēsa practitioner has been one of the most profound and transformative journeys I have ever experienced. 

— Christina Heldreth-Johnson

Kinēsa® in Prague

September 30 – October 4