Weekly Schedule
DROP-INS WELCOME AT ALL STUDIOS
Mobility & Recovery for Dancers- 2100 Chestnut St.
Mondays 6:00pm at Urban Movement Arts
Acrobatics & Floorwork- 812 Chestnut St & 6452 Greene St.
Mondays Beginners 8:00pm Urban Movement Arts
Tuesdays Beginners 7:30pm Cocoon Philly
Thursdays All-Levels 7:30pm Urban Movement Arts
Saturdays All-Levels 2:00pm Urban Movement Arts
M4A Dynamics: Movement & Mobility- 5904 Greene St.
Tuesdays 6:00pm at North Star MMA
Acrobatics & Floorwork
This all-level class is a compelling concoction of scaleable acrobatics, silky floorwork, and sketching improvisation that gets you comfortable with leaving your feet, finding confidence in your hands, and creating seamless transitions in and out of the floor. Namely, front and back rolls, intermediate cartwheel variations and walkovers, transitions in and out of the floor, and floorwork grooves. Alex supports a welcoming and playful environment to provide you with building a broad base of sustainable pathways of moving through space with power, flow, and creative patterns to supplement your movement practices. Some experience in dance or basic acrobatic senses helps but is not required. All that is required is that you give yourself permission to use your imagination, your creative
impulse, and your openness to the chaotic, awkward, and vulnerable space that we all know as “learning”.
*Saturday Class is 90 minutes
M4A Dynamics
M4A (Mixed, Martial, Movement, Mobility Arts) Dynamics are classes and workshops that will address improving power and flow for those pursuing an MMA career or just people looking to move. M4A is specifically designed to enhance your practice by focusing on creative movement, end-range strength development, balance, agility, gymnastics, flexibility, core strength, and more!
We are currently running a M4A Dynamics class at North Star MMA in Germantown at 6pm on Wednesdays.
WORKSHOPS
FLOWwork: Floorwork & Movement Acrobatics
COST: Pay-what-you-want (cash only)
FLOWwork is a movement workshop that explores the intersectionality between yoga, mobility, floorwork, and acrobatics.
This 3-hour workshop will focus on fundamental acrobatic and floorwork moves that get you comfortable with leaving your feet, finding confidence in your hands, and creating seamless transitions in and out of the floor. The goal is to provide you with building a broad base of sustainable pathways of moving through space with power, flow, and creativity while challenging balance, flexibility, strength, and coordination
The workshop begins with diving into the microcosm of the body by practicing breathwork and bodywork to grasp a greater awareness of the body landscape and prepare the joints for movement. From there, we begin to expand out into the macrocosm of the body by exploring the evolutions of mobility into movement sequencing and improvisation.
This workshop is open to all levels and particularly to those in movement arts such as dance, yoga, circus, and jiu-jitsu. All that is required is that you give yourself permission to use your imagination, your creative impulse, and your openness to the chaotic, awkward, and vulnerable space that we all know as “learning”.
Functional Approaches to Flexibility: Upper & Lower Body Series
TBA!!! This workshop has been successful in the past at yoga studios, dance studios, and CrossFit gyms. Interested in hosting? Contact Alex about having his workshop at your studio!
This two-part workshop offers yogis, movers, and fitness athletes a novel approach to increasing flexibility and mobility in the upper and lower body. Instructor, Alex Brazinski, will lead participants through a mindful process of exploring ways to acquire more range of motion and control through foam rolling/self-release techniques, joint preparation, and isometric stretching. These fundamental techniques will set the foundation for exploring more advanced postures such as splits and backbends. Alex will stimulate each student’s progression towards realizing new forms of strength and flexibility in the hips, undoubtedly serving each participant's more general movement practice and overall vitality. The material converges research from functional range conditioning, yoga, fascial research, eastern medicine, and martial arts.