Group Classes
At the Balance Arts Center we love to move. We recognize that we all are continuously in motion and want to encourage everyone to discover the fundamentals of how they move so they can move better. Better balance, coordination, and ease of movement are our goals.
Curious about our past programming? Click here to view our prior classes, series, and workshops.
Balance & Stability
Through the lens of the Alexander Technique, these classes students to awareness and mind/body integration, resulting in better posture, alignment, and increased range of motion.
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Fundamentals in Flow, Balance, & Stability is a 90 minute class that guides you through fundamental movement patterns that help improve balance, coordination, and establish a sense of flow and connection in your mind and body. This class begins on the floor with time to let go into the ground and prepare yourself to move in new ways. You will also spend time on your stomach and then come to standing to apply your refreshed posture to balance and stability movements. -
Tuesdays 1-2:30pm
In this class you will explore how working with lighter weights can be a valuable way to strengthen and build tone. Students will work slowly and carefully while monitoring their form and alignment to promote stress free movement. What you learn and practice in this class can be applied to activities in your everyday life such as exercising, lifting and carrying things, and more!
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Wednesdays 1-2:30pm
This class will help you learn and embody strategies for maintaining your balance and preventing falls. You will be guided through movements that increase coordination and help you refine your balance. Participants will practice supportive strategies for getting up and down from the floor and moving between sitting and standing safely. Class will end with fun balance exercises and games to increase your confidence and adaptability in your standing and walking.
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Our classes are low impact. Bring or wear comfortable clothing that you can move in. Private bathrooms are available should you need to change before or after class.
We ask that students take their shoes off or bring a separate pair of indoor shoes to class. If you are not able to do so you will be provided with shoe covers.
No supplemental equipment necessary.
Classes are designed to accommodate the abilities of every class member with adaptations and modifications presented along the way. These classes are great for people of all ages, especially seniors. Students are encouraged to increase their balance, strength, and stability while working within their own capacities.
Alexander Technique Group Class
Curious about the Alexander Technique and want to learn more? Join us for our Alexander Technique Weekly Group Class
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Two Weekly Offerings!
Mondays, April 6 - 27
8:30 - 9:30am
Wednesdays, April 8 - 29
6:00 - 7:00pm
Online via ZoomA Series on the Alexander Technique. Four weeks at a time. One class at a time.
The Alexander Technique is a practice of awareness and choice. It helps you notice your habits and gives you tools to change them.
This ongoing series explores a different aspect of the Technique each month, through themes that are practical, embodied, and immediately useful. Whether you're a performer, someone dealing with pain, completely new to AT, or a longtime student, each series offers fresh perspectives and something useful to take home.
Drop in for one class. Stay for the whole series. Start anywhere.
Series 1: Know Your Body — How You Move
We all live in our bodies every day, and yet most of us have never really met them. This series is an honest, curious, and tour of how you actually move — not how you think you move.
Week 1, April 6 & 8: The Big Picture — A guided scan of your whole self in motion. Where are you holding? Where are you free? This is about curiosity, not correction.
Week 2, April 13 & 15: Head & Neck — Explore the relationship between your head, your spine, and your sense of ease That comes from “taking the lid off.”
Week 3, April 20 & 22: Hips — The great unknown! We look at how the hips help organize movement — and what happens when they don't.
Week 4, April 27 & 29: Hips, Knees & Ankles — How the lower body works as a team. Find out how all the joints work, support each other, and are your gateway to being grounded. -
Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm
In-Person at the BACClasses will explore basic principles of the Alexander Technique that guide you toward finding a better balance and dynamic body posture that you will learn to apply to all of your activities. These classes will help you discover how to interact with yourself and your environment in an easier and more efficient manner.
Private Lessons
Lessons provide an opportunity for students to experience an optimal level of organization, ease, and flow so that this state becomes a reference point for easy movement during all activities.
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Teachers will use verbal and hands on guidance to help you explore your specific patterns.
You will work sitting, standing, walking and incorporate specific activities you are interested in improving.
You will be guided towards better overall organization and balance, while paying particular attention to areas that could be easier or more connected.
There is time for recuperating horizontally on a table, allowing for an even greater sense of ease and integrating your new coordination.
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In Person Lessons are 50 minutes and take place at the Balance Arts Center located at 151 W. 30th Street on the 3rd floor with elevator access.
Virtual Lessons are 25 minutes and take place on Zoom.
Arrive 5 minutes before your appointment to check in.
Bring or wear comfortable clothing. Suggested attire is pants and shirts with sleeves.
We remove shoes before entering our studios, come prepared to work in socks or with bare feet.
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Please click here to schedule a private lesson with a BAC teacher.
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