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✨✨✨Laura Wagner-Balch teaches a beginner level Pilates Mat class Saturday mornings @ 8:30✨✨✨ Laura Wagner Balch was certified with Integrated Teacher Training Pilates in January 2017 after practicing mat and apparatus Pilates with the Center of Movement for fifteen years. An educational researcher and writer by profession (Stanford PhD., 1983) Laura has realized the benefits of Pilates in addressing common ailments of a former sedentary life style and the opportunities afforded by engaging the body’s mind and core to move differently in the world. Her Mat 1-2 class introduces clients to the basic building blocks of Pilates, with both Essential and Mat exercises tailored to address clients’ needs and growth.

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🌟Mat Pilates with Nina Dudley Monday's 9:30-10:30 am🌸 Sign up online at www.centerofmovementstudio.com #pilates #centerofmovement #functionalfitness #downtowngrassvalleyy

Breathing for Healing

✨✨✨Check out this upcoming event here at Center of Movement✨✨✨ #centerofmovementstudio #downtowngrassvalley www.centerofmovementstudio.com https://www.facebook.com/events/1903722926538417/?ti=icl

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✨✨✨Deirdre Von Derierre will be teaching Burlesque today at 1:30✨✨✨ Deirdre Von Derriere broke onto the Denver burlesque scene following her graduation from Vivienne VaVoom’s School of Burlesque back in 2012. Following graduation, she performed all over Denver and much like an itchy rash, she began to spread all over! She was a featured performer in the first Annual Las Vegas Burlesque Festival and she has been featured in expos and shows in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Iowa and Wyoming. In 2014, she competed in the CO Regional Burlypics and was awarded the title for Master of Assels and Master of Improv! She went on to produce her very own successful burlesque show in Denver called Burlesque Nouveau. She is a seasoned performer, emcee and producer and she is really excited to have the opportunity to add the title of teacher to that list. Burlesque is a beautiful and transformative art style that can open a person’s world to new levels of self confidence and joy and I am really appreciative to be able to share that love with my students. With a face made of putty and buns of steel, she’s happy to be sharing her brand of funny-sexy with all of her students here in Nevada County! #burlesque #centerofmovementstudio #downtowngrassvalley

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✨✨✨Get Down Afro Funk Starting July 6 every Thursday at 5:00✨✨✨Chanthou Lam is a human being who is realizing more and more how interactions with the people around her, as well as the connections with the world that surround her is vital to her happiness. She is a mother of three beautiful, bright daughters who consistently keep her on her toes, giving purpose and meaning on a daily. Before relocating in Summer 2016 to Grass Valley, she was a dance professor for American River College teaching jazz, hip hop, contemporary dance and a HIIT fitness class. She holds a well deserved MS in Kinesiology with a focus on Movement Studies and a BA in Dance and Theatre from California, State University of Sacramento. Chanthou has taught dance at Sacramento Charter High School and the Visual and Performing Arts Charter School concurrently serving as the artistic director for the dance company on campus. During her last year at SCHS, Chanthou assumed artistic direction for the campus’s all girl step team, MISSES, managing performances for both the dance company and step team on and off campus which included festivals, fundraisers, stage productions, downtown business events, and even a mayoral inauguration. Chanthou continues to train and dance as much as possible with all of the beautiful people in the dance community, including her longtime mentor and professor, Dr. Linda Goodrich in an Afro Caribbean dance company, Sacramento/Black Art of Dance (S/BAD), with Beatriz Godiñez-Muniz in an Afro Cuban Folklorico drum and dance company, Ebo Okokán, and with Professor Lorelei Bayne in a modern/contemporary movement exploration group, Dancers Investigative Group (DIG) and more recently, Samba Lua with Deanna Figeueira. She hopes to offer her own dance classes in the very near future to serve the Nevada County area. Dance is Chanthou’s way of life. It feeds her soul and would like to thank every single person that has encouraged her to thrive through her craft, especially her husband, Andy Shepard, who has been by her side for nearly 18 years. www.centerofmovementstudio.com #centerofmovementstudio #dance #afrofunkgetdown #hiphop #downtowngrassvalley

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✨✨✨Art of Allure Thursdays @ 7:30 pm ✨✨✨ Maggie Thornton has melded a unique and eclectic style of multidisciplinary movement with strong technical roots in ballet and modern dance. While training as a dance major at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, she fell in love with electronic music and started professionally Go-Go dancing soon after. She has been dancing professionally at events such as: Electric Daisy Carnival, Beyond Wonderland, Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival, and Paradiso Festival and has shared the stage with world reknowned DJ’s. She works as a dancer for Insomniac Events based out of Hollywood, CA and has performed at their shows in Brasil, Mexico, Las Vegas, New York City and Los Angeles. www.centerofmovementstudio.com #centerofmovementstudio #dance #downtowngrassvalley

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Start getting “THAT Look”!! Sign up for Vertical Fit (Beginning Pole) this Friday at 5:30PM at Center of Movement in downtown Grass Valley! You just need a pair of yoga shorts, $15 for a drop in, and an open mind. We’ll be working on some pole basics and floor work. Register at http://centerofmovementstudio.com/calendar. Class size is limited so sign up early to be sure to get a spot. #centerofmovementstudio #verticalfit

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✨✨✨Inner Radiance Qigong Friday's @8:15am and Mat Pilates Friday's @ 9:30am ✨✨✨Nicky Maloney has a passion for transformation, healing and personal growth in body, mind and spirit. Nicky is an instructor of ITT Pilates and Inner Radiance Qigong. She graduated from Interchange Counseling Institute in San Francisco in 2014 as a certified Life Coach and Counselor. Working with individuals to help improve their lives, achieve their goals, experience more joy, love, fulfillment, healing and personal freedom and care well for themselves is most rewarding to her. Her offerings incorporate aspects of Spirituality and the Consciousness of Loving which may include prayer, affirmations, meditation and mindfulness practices, guided visualizations and inner journeys and exploration. Nicky is committed to helping others and being of service to the world to create more peace, love and happiness in our community and on the planet. www.centerofmovementstudio.com #centerofmovementstudio #qigong #pilates #downtowngrassvalley

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Proud of our Cadillac students. Colby Kauk photo-credit Sarah Hooley Nicky Maloney Jean Sullivan Laura Wagner Balch Chelsea Kauk Sundari Westcot www.centerofmovementstudio.com #centerofmovementstudio #ITTPilates

Check out Mat Pilates with Laura Wagner Balch on Saturdays at 8:30am. Pilates mat classes guide you through exercises that encourage proper breathing, enhance stretching and mobility, and promote body awareness through efficient movements. Based upon methodology created by Joseph Pilates, each class offers exercises to strengthen your core by using resistance training in conjunction with the stretching and lengthening of each limb. Pilates mat classes use a variety of props/tools to add to the internal work created through full body participation. Clients will reinforce a foundation of Pilates basics, experience challenging movement patterns, and build both balance and coordination. All instructors are educated and certified through ITT Pilates. www.centerofmovementstudio.com #pilates #centerofmovementstudio #functionalfitness #downtowngrassvalley

Beyond Mind Body

Workshop coming up! June 3rd!! Cassidy Beyond

Center of Movement – Pilates & Functional Fitness

Guess what?!? We will be closed Memorial Day, Monday May 29th! Enjoy your day off in the sun! www.centerofmovementstudio.com #pilates #memorialday #funinthesun #functional fitness