In this training you will learn how to combine a Deep Tissue approach to muscular rehabilitation, with a tractioning technique (using our equipment) to create more space in your partners joints. You will also receive a one hour Traction Bodywork session, as your partner works on you. No previous experience is required.

Do you want more beautiful, more powerful feet? This experiential workshop will give you individualized coaching in nine strengthening exercises, and five stretching sequences to build the feet you need for both dance, and life. I personally guarantee that you will see, and feel an improvement in the shape, and function of your feet by the end of this two hour training.

If you need more control, strength, and balance in your legs, this training is for you. We will train intensively for two hours to give you a strong felt sense of the connections necessary for turns, jumps, and balancing. These clearer understanding can then be translated by you to the contexts of class, rehearsal, and the stage.

Join Teresa every Thursday night beginning June 7 from 6-7:15 at Shen Tao studio for a unique dance experience embracing Argentine Tango, Tango Nuevo, and Classical Ballet. Refine grace, strength, and flexibility with a twist on ballet barre technique, followed by structured centered floor work to perfect balance and musical expression to become a beautiful tanguera. Teresa, a former dancer with Joffrey Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet, and a current performer in the US and Europe guides tango and ballet dancers, salseras, ballroom dancers, and anyone who seeks to enhance their passion for dance! All levels welcome

In this two hour, introductory workshop, you will receive explicit, detailed coaching in some of the most effective ways to use your mind, while in motion. You will learn effective techniques for getting out of your own way. You will learn how to keep track of more details, with less tension. You will learn how to train more musically, and with greater grace. Come learn about the Shen Tao Approach!

This workshop will give you a number of self application techniques for the care of pulled muscles, inflamed tendons, and rehabilitated ligaments, and joints. You will learn techniques of myofacial self massage, range of motion exercises to open scar tissue, incremental strengthening sequences, and more. For those who are interested, we will also cover the self application of acupuncture.

Are you stressed, in pain, or injured? This experiential workshop will give you tools, skills, and an effective approach to relieve your own muscular discomfort, and pain. Learn how to apply deep pressure with your own hands, elbows, and a host of tools, including wooden balls, "Theracane's" and a Physical Therapy tool, the Morfam electric massager.

Do you want more power to influence your mind, your Self, and the relationship between the two? This 2500 year old technique will deepen your ability to "center" effectively, to calm your mental and emotional agitation, and to access resources and abilities necessary to accomplish what you want in this life.

This workshop, for dancers and athletes of all levels, will give your body an experience of the optimal timing for powerful, dynamic, jumps. We will teach you how to condition your feet, ankles, knees, and hips to withstand the explosive power required for jumping. You will receive hands on corrections, training exercises and strengthening drills to take home with you, video feedback, as well as stretch, and strength training on the Shen Tao equipment. Timing drills on mini trampolines will help you develop a "felt sense" for the rhythms and timing of a variety of classical ballet jumps.

Do you want higher legs? This workshop will give you strengthening exercises, tendon stretches, and a new understanding of how your standing leg, rib cage, and arabesque line must work together in order to have higher extension. Come learn the training secrets guaranteed to elevate your legs to the back.

Learn how the Shen Tao Approach can deepen your practice of classical and contemporary dance. Each two or three hour class is organized around a specific technical or movement principle. An emphasis is placed on opening blocked musculature, coordinating joint function, strengthening muscle tissue, and tractioning joints. By deepening your experiential understanding of these principles, you will learn the art of applying them to the process of rehearsal and stage performance.

This workshop will give you a concrete, and practical method for both generating choreography, and performing dance improvisation. Come learn a technique which creates spatially clear, and aesthetically beautiful movement. This approach is applicable to both solo, duet, as well as group improvisation. Video feedback will be an important part of this workshop.

This workshop will give you a clear, and solid understanding of how to organize the alignment, and movement of your upper torso. You will receive detailed, hands-on, individualized instruction on how to organize the bones of the spine, shoulder blades, ribs, arms, and skull, for both a "classical" look, and maximum power, and efficiency.

This is an intermediate ballet class rooted in traditional classical repertoire, with contemporary elements weaved in. this is a class beneficial to dancers who are familiar with the ballet language and who desire to polish movement skills by internalizing the ballet language with visual imagery. the body is taken through a 90 minute class with familiar barre exercises where movement is dissected into music and imagery.

This workshop will increase both your strength, and flexibility for performing on either silk, and/or trapeze. Receive individualized hands-on instruction, and conditioning secrets for how to strengthen, while simultaneously opening the rib cage, how to arch for maximum spinal extension, how to organize the shoulder blades for maximum strength, and much more.

Our Movement Lab classes begin with the question, "How can we help?" Each student's input helps formulate the topics and structure of each class (i.e. movement principles, muscle groups, etc.). The class progresses gradually in its tempo, from a centering practice at the beginning, to sections for opening tight and restricted muscles, coordination challenges, and strength building. Each class finishes with hanging stretches on our unique Shen Tao Ladders.

Mini Movement Lab: Wednesdays 9:00-10:30am and 10:30am-12:00pm. Intro to Movement Lab: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 7:15-8:15pm. Our Movement Lab classes begin with the question, "How can we help?" Each student's input helps formulate the topics and structure of each class (i.e. movement principles, muscle groups, etc.). The class progresses gradually in its tempo, from a centering practice at the beginning, to sections for opening tight and restricted muscles, coordination challenges, and strength building. Each class finishes with hanging stretches on our unique Shen Tao Ladders.

Explore yourself deeper in this extended 90-minute class. Our Movement Lab classes begin with the question, "How can we help?" Each student's input helps formulate the topics and structure of each class (i.e. movement principles, muscle groups, etc. The class progresses gradually in its tempo, from a centering practice at the beginning, to sections for opening tight and restricted muscles, coordination challenges, and strength building. Each class finishes with hanging stretches on our unique Shen Tao Ladders.

Have you ever gotten frustrated with your body for not understanding an exercise, a dance phrase, or a movement pattern? It's not your body's fault! It's the mind's responsibility to communicate in a compelling and effective way - such that the body wants to learn. Plateaus happen when the mind thinks the same way it's always thought. This workshop will introduce the behind the scenes techniques and tools necessary for realizing one's full potential. Topics of focus will include: • Neuro-linguistics (the role of language in our minds). • Self-hypnosis (shifting from cognitive intelligence to somatic intelligence) • Attention vs. intention • Entrainment (establishing rhythm within the body to shift states of attention) • Visualization (associated vs. dissociated imagery)

Similar in style to our Trampoline Yoga classes, using more of our equipment, and less trampoline work. This class offer a taste of our 3-hour morning movement labs.

This Hands-On Workshop was created for Movement Educators, teachers/trainers, as well as performers and athletes who wish to take responsibility for their own injury rehabilitation. Topics include: - Organizing principles for the rehabilitation process - Injury analysis - Movement re-patterning - Systemic coordination Specific programs related to common sports/performance injuries will also be discussed. Open to educators and performers of all levels.

This method systematically and gently works the joints and muscles through rhythmic and undulating exercises. The body's internal organs are stimulated by the movement and different corresponding breathing patterns are integrated. Fluidity is the key.

Valentine's Day Special Workshop

Shen Tao's Yoga Ballet for Dancers is our most advanced technique class. This two hour class presents old-school training, and conditioning secrets learned by Bill Hedberg during his 13 year apprenticeship with Gyrotonics (R) founder Juliu Horvath. After an initial warm-up using the Shen Tao equipment,you will move through a series of extended adagio phrases pushing the envelope of your potential range of motion. This material opens and strengthens tendons and muscles in preparation for the more advanced levels of dance and technical performance.

Emphasizing playfulness, fun and a spirit of improvisation. A one hour class blending the breathing principles of Kundalini Yoga, with the Asana's of a more contemporary yogic practice, the rebounding quality of the trampoline, and the pulsing rhythms of the drums. This class is open to all levels.

This five hour workshop will introduce you to powerful tools to help change people's bodies with, or without SHEN TAO's, patent pending equipment. We will teach you how to give clients the experience of more space in their joints, how to apply deep pressure to their musculature while their body is in motion, as well as how to use rhythm, and motion to relax their nervous system. Video feedback will be an essential part of this training. Classes limited to a total of 10 participants.

This four hour, experiential workshop will provide you with an extraordinarily deep, and rich experience of being "PRESENT". You will learn, and practice exercises to both discipline, and strengthen your ability to organise your attention. Learn specific tools for getting out of your own way! Learn techniques to more effectively feel what is appropriate for you in your life. Gain skills for more deeply connecting to others.

This 5 hour workshop will teach you powerful tools to help people by relieving their pain and discomfort. We will focus on DEEP TISSUE techniques for the hips, and pelvis. You will receive individualized coaching on your approach, and technique. We will deepen your ability to read your clients nonverbal responses. Whether you are a trainer, a massage therapist, or simply someone who wants to know how to work both deeply, and safely, let us deepen your skills.

Come gain greater confidence, and competence in your ability to change people with your touch. Learn powerful techniques for communicating directly to your students bodies. Learn how to touch safely, and with authority. Learn how to communicate principles of alignment, timing, and dynamics with your hands. We will draw on exercises from the disciplines of Pilates, Yoga, Shen Tao, (and a number of other parallel disciplines) to practice.

Do you wish that your partner understood more intuitively how to touch you? Do you want to gain more confidence in how to massage your partner's body? Would you like to learn how to touch more deeply, safely and efectively? The art of DEEP TISSUE BODYWORK is a skill that everyone can learn. We will help you develop your own unique approach to the art of touch. Come deepen your intuition of how to fulfill your partner's needs. Come touch and be touched!

For 1000s of years practioners of Martial Arts, Athletics, Yoga, Dance, etc. have extened the duration of their training practice in order to alter their conciousness, experience themselves, solve internal conflicts, and generally "Go Deeper" If you would like to have a profound experience of who you are, and to clarify what you want... If you would like to experience how to use physical conditioning, rhythmic movement, breathing techniques,and your senses, to create a deep, self hypnotic trance… If you would like to learn how to use physical conditioning as a ritual for changing your Self, come take our 5 HOUR SELF EXPERIENCE WORKSHOP!