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Instructors at Pink House Studio
Claire Moore
BFA, CMT,PTA and Certified Pilates Instructor: My movement training started as a ballet dancer
as a child and young adult. My first massage course was at the age of 16
from which I was inspired enough to move to New Mexico after high
school for Massage school. I fuse my over 25 years of massage, 7 years
in injury rehabilitation and movement education with my art and dance
to create "Kinesthetic Coaching" I love helping people
be in their bodies, easily and playfully so the energy of life can flow.
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Michelle Hatfield
Stagnation breeds disease, movement frees. I don’t teach dance steps, I facilitate movement. Movement of the body
, mind, and soul. In 2000, I created “movemefree” to begin this work. In these classes I create an environment that ultimately leads to the discovery of one’s own creative expression and ecstatic dance. There are no pre-requisites but a body to move in. I have worked with 1 year old children to 94 year old women. I have worked in schools, workplaces, with theater groups, with individuals, and offered workshops to the public. My classes aim to break down barriers, lose inhibitions, relieve stress, build self-confidence, provide cardiovascular activity, inspire enjoyable and empowering movement, and encourage communication within the community and with Self. I utilize a wide range of dance styles, activities, journaling exercises, and global music to create ecstatic dancelebrations through the journey of self outward to community…
I have had the fortune to study with: Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble, (1998); Haremandir Khalsa, (1999); Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater, (1999); Ola Petune Orisa Tolu Thunder Mother, (1997-2002); Starhawk, (1997-2000); Jalaja Bonheim, (2002), Gabrielle Roth and her son Jonathan Horan.
Teilhard de Chardin Said “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” With this belief, I claim ownership of and gratitude for my physical body, and as long as I’m living in it, commit to using it as a conduit for divine alignment, (in other words- to feel good!). Dance is my spiritual practice, my prayer…
Move your body, free your mind, dance your spirit…
Andrea Frazer
Andrea has traveled to India two times and studied yoga for years. Influenced by wide range of yoga styles including Ashtanga, Iyengar, Andrea knowledge of the body and how to awaken it is profound. Come see why we are so excited to have her as a teacher.
Sarah Moore
I am proud and excited to be opening this studio space with my
sister. My own personal movement experience has been centered around
dance, in which I received a BFA in from U.W. Milwaukee in 1994. After
graduation I danced with Wild Space Dance Co. and received praise and
was awarded grants for my own choreography. In 1997 I moved to
San Francisco to try being a littler fish in a bigger pond. There I was
exposed to so many wonderful ways of working, playing and dancing,
including percussion theater, action theater and putting your rock band
in the middle of your dance performance. I was blown away by "Core"
(Keith Hennesy. Jules Beckman, Stanya Kahn, Stephanie Maher and Jess
Curtis) I spoiled myself with yoga classes, which could be found
throughout the day all over the city. The classes I now try to create
are the ones I wish I could take. Classes that mix all that I love and
think we should all experience every day or at least every week!
Eileen Nyholt
I started my relationship with Yoga at the age of 16. I was bright eyed and seeking the answers to BIG questions. I practiced sporadically, on my own for many years. After graduating from college I started a yoga class and met a teacher who greatly inspired me. Her name is Linda Pon Owen, previously Linda Ryan. She taught through her actions, lifestyle and quietude. I studied with Linda for 10 years and when she moved away she asked me to take some of her classes.
I have been teaching yoga for eleven years. I have taught beginning and advanced classes through UWM and ongoing classes through the Yoga Center, Yoga Space and on my own at HotCakes Gallery. Unfortunately HotCakes is closing and I had to find a new home and was very fortunate to find The Pink House!
The yoga that I practice is simple gentle Hatha style yoga. The class that I offer is a culmination of what I have studied and found to be helpful in my own practice.
Class starts with a mantra, OM, which is the seed sound of all other sounds and translated means “universe” or one song, it is to bring focus into the group. Each class may include Mudras (hand gestures) and Pranayama (breath work). All classes include asanas (postures), sun salutations (a common grouping of asanas) and ends with savasana (relaxation in corpse pose). Because I have an eclectic personality, I also on occasion share simple abdominal work, Qi gong and psycho-calisthenics just for fun.
I believe that Yoga is not a competition; it is a journey that can make life long changes that will enhance One’s life. You do not have to be flexible, strong, fit or young to do yoga. Yoga is for any shape or size, what is needed is an open mind. Hatha translated means to yoke, a yoke is a long pole that has a pail at each end and if weighted evenly allows the person carrying the load to comfortably carry more weight. Yoga is a discipline that brings the mind and body into balance.
KIS Keep It Simple Emphasis is on alignment, positioning and breath. Steady consistent practice of yoga enhances flexibility, strength and flowing physical movement, calms the mind, restores vitality and improves the immune system to name just a few.
Interconnection I practice as a nurse midwife am a certified massage therapist, a mother, friend, lover and student of life. I have found that the common threads that run trough my life have been service and breath. I was once told that as long as I serve “the People” that I would be taken care of, and have found this to be true. Breathing is obviously essential to life but is totally taken for granted. Breath becomes the focus of childbirth, parenting, relaxation, stress, and life. The breath work that I have incorporated in my life has saved my life as well as enhancing it. I hope to be able to share that with my students as well as some laughs and flexibility.
Stephanie Sandy
A certified YogaKids teacher and trainer. Stephanie has practiced YogaKids with children from 3 through 17 at the Urban Ecology Center, Golda Meir Elementary School, Tippecanoe School for the Arts and Humanities and Humboldt Park School among other public and private schools throughout the greater Milwaukee area.