Origins of Movement
Anna F. Witt
annafwitt@aol.com
518-256-9628
Anna's teaching schedule - download PDF
Private sessions, Yoga classes and Somatic Movement Meditation with Anna are an invitation to explore, cultivate and know the true spiritual self. Develop the awareness to create this space grounded in the changing sensations of the body.
Private Sessions in Bodywork (applied to Yoga, dance, athletics, occupational, physical, movement therapy, meditation and other body-mind disciplines)
- Refine alignment and improve coordination
- Release habitual/inhibiting patterns of the bodymind
- Return to the healing intelligence of the body
- Expressive integration (authentic movement/ drawing/ writing)
- MOVE towards greater physical vitality and wellbeing.
- Somatization- develop and deepen sensation, feeling, kinesthetic (motion) and proprioceptive (position) awareness of the living body in its wholeness
- Embodiment a direct experience without translation into words. It is a being process not a doing or thinking process.
Schedule an appointment at 518-256-9628 or online at www.saratogaspringsyoga.com
Ongoing Classes in Saratoga Springs and Albany, New York:
Register through: www.saratogaspringsyoga.com or www.nia-yoga.com for:
- Vinyasa Flow Yoga
- Yoga with LIVE DRUMMING
- Movement Meditation
- Introductions into Body-Mind Centering®
- West African Dance & Drumming at camps, workshops, retreats
Call Anna & Adam Witt directly 518-256-9628.
Avatar® and the Avatar® Course
What is Avatar®? The Avatar® Course teaches the use of "proven navigational tools that can be used in harmony with one's own integrity to pass safely across the uncharted turbulence of the mind into the region of the soul." www.AvatarEPC.com. Anna delivers the Avatar® Course in Florida three times a year. To learn more about Avatar® schedule a free Introduction 518-256-9628.
About Anna
As a dancer, Vinyasa Yoga Teacher and Somatic Movement Practitioner/Educator Anna has been teaching and practicing Yoga, dance and movement awareness in the fields of re-education and self development since 1996. She taught in Germany, Spain, San Francisco Bay Area & Saratoga Springs, New York.
Anna was born in Germany where she graduated from "The School of New Dance & Performing Arts". For many years she worked as a free lance dancer, choreographer and with people privately. Her passion for dance as a spontaneous expression of the self led her to study West African Dance with master teachers from Benin & Senegal.
With her partner Adam she teaches dance and drumming in schools, camps and privately throughout the Capital District. Adam has 15 years of experience as a drummer studying with master teachers from West Africa and the Caribbean. He plays for dance classes, performs and teaches djembe privately. Check out: www.lovetodrum.com.
Anna is certified as a Somatic Movement Therapist from The School for Body-Mind Centering®. BMC is an innovative approach to movement analysis and re-education. The four years of study is a creative process in which one learns to meet and recognize oneself and others through the exploration of embodiment where one finds an experiential clarity; the cells directly inform the brain as well as the brain informing the cells. Body and mind are not separate but are experienced as a whole. The training includes using movement, touch, voice and mindfulness. www.BodyMindCentering.com.
Anna is a certified and registered Yoga teacher (RYT 200) with Bhakti Yoga Fusion. In resonance with the depth of her previous movement experience she applies the principles of BMC which are rooted in embodied anatomy and developmental movement through the direct experience of the body systems, tissues, and cells. Asanas are applied beyond a formulaic, external approach to form instead they are shaped by our cellular involvement. Static positions transform into dynamic patterns of movement. In creative application, and to integrate, enliven and awaken the fluid power of movement, Anna works in direct cooperation with live musicians in some of her Yoga classes.
Presently workshops are held at Saratoga Springs Yoga, 8 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY and at the Nia Studio in Albany. All Anna's classes are listed on their websites: www.saratogaspringsyoga.com, and www.nia-yoga.com.
Anna's vision is to cultivate the intelligence of the moving body, diving into the liberating power of movement with others and resurfacing with the limitless potential that awaits. To view her current teaching schedule click here - or - if you would like to download a .docx, click here.
She lives with her family in Schuylerville, NY and can be reached at annafwitt@aol.com or 518-256-9628.
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