“Celebrate the varied splendor in this world, and remind yourself that it can also be found in you.” -
Dr Salma Farook, What Your Soul Already Knows"
Aloha <<First Name>>,
We can't remember a season when we have celebrated so abundantly as this Autumn! Authentic celebration of the good in life - especially when we might tend to despair - can uplift our outlook and benefit our health.
Look in this letter for some old favorites and some brand new opportunities to relish life here at Still & Moving. Our topics include:
Celebrations
Hula & Lomilomi Events
For the Women
Getting Zen
Feldenkrais/Wave Continuum
Parkinsons and
Reminders.
See full list of our events here.
Resting in stillness and moving in Joy to celebrate with you,
Your friends at Still & Moving Center
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At Frank Fasi Grounds. Join us at Still & Moving’s “Movement Morsels Tent” at VegFest O‘ahu! VegFest celebrates island-style plant-based, sustainable living. The free festival brings together more than 50 booths offering education, food, and entertainment. Activities include our mini-classes in hula, yoga, Nia, dance & qigong-Feldenkrais. Also plant-based cooking demos; speakers on health and environment; mouthwatering vegan foods - local favorites to comfort foods; free product sampling. Continuous live music features Tiamane, Paul Izak and Tavana. Come meet friendly people and discover the… View Full Details »
At Waikiki Bandstand. 150th Mahatma Gandhi Birthday Celebration: Children as Agents for Peace. Please help us honor the birthday of one of the most important political and spiritual leaders for peace in our time. Gandhi pioneered vast, nonviolent civil disobedience and liberated India from Britain’s colonial oppression without a war. This interfaith event for world peace features Still & Moving Center’s hula group, multicultural performances, activities for children, music by the Royal Hawaiian Band, booths representing peace-related organizations. Free food samples by… View Full Details »
Our most beloved event of each year! We feature Al Harrington as part of this year’s cast! Come enchant your family with this colorful celebration from ancient India, including an Indian meal. Behind Diwali is the adventurous Ramayana epic – complete with brave, noble warriors, a princess, a demon king and the valiant monkey hero: Hanuman. This universal tale of Prince Rama will unfold through our storytelling enactment, interspersed with international dance, yoga, martial arts and aerial teacher/student performances. Be dazzled by Bollywood, Hula and Belly dancers. Cheer on our heroes in battle scenes, enjoy heroic monkeys, and a fire-lit homecoming for the prince and his princess! Food 5:30 - 6 pm. Performance 6 - 7:30 pm. Remember to… View Full Details »
At Mouna Farm & Cultural Village, Waianae. Pounding whales….What?!? Well, they’re copper whales being sculpted by artist Sooriya Kumar with the help of thousands of people from around the world. The idea is to bring awareness to protecting these gentle giants who live in the oceans that connect all the continents of the globe, the sea and land together holding all of the world’s inhabitants… ideally in peace. So please come to Mouna Farm in Waianae help us to pound the copper for the 40 foot long mother whale and her 25 foot long baby whale. Listen to blessings and oli (chanting), watch hula dancing by Nā Hula Ola Aloha. Share delicious vegetarian food, participate in joyous community yoga, dancing and… View Full Details »
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Thursday to Saturday, Oct 3-4-5, 2019. This particular lomilomi training, entitled “A Basis of Touch”, focuses on developing the essential skills of palpation. We explore the skin and muscular systems of the body. We also delve into the therapeutic use of hot towels. This training provides a foundation in lomilomi that is appropriate for use in a spa setting or within the family. Malia will give this current training compressed into a single 16 hour weekend intensive. The training will be led in both English and Japanese. View Full Details »
Thur to Sat, Nov 14-15-16, 2019. In English and Japanese 日本語通訳付き.
Whether you are a novice or an established dancer, Kumu Malia’s guidance will encourage full immersion in the cultural background, techniques, inspiration and foundations of the much-admired Hawaiian hula. Create a true connection with the heart of aloha and the land of Hawaii through its unique traditional dance. No prior hula experience necessary. View Full Details »
At Honolulu Museum of Art. Still & Moving Center will celebrate the Hawaiian season of peace, Makahiki, at the Hawaiian new year at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Kumu Malia will lead her hula halau in a public hula performance followed by a Keiki Hula and storytelling activity. Each month the museum hosts Family Sunday with a different theme relating to a cultural event, art concept, or exhibition. For November, the theme is Makahiki, honoring the god Lono. View Full Details »
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All class fees ($16) go as donations to the national Take Back the Night Foundation. Come out and breathe, stretch, dance and strengthen your body, mind and soul in support of survivors of all forms of sexual violence! Organized by the Take Back The Night Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, this nation-wide Shine Your Light event features yoga/movement studios from all 50 states. Still & Moving Center’s Nia teacher Valerie Sanchez is offering her class as a Shine Your Light Class on this day. The donations support survivors and raise awareness. Like all participating classes throughout the country, Valerie will offer an opening meditation and contact-free movement practice to best support survivors in their healing, and provide… View Full Details »
Let’s welcome Nathalie Champion in a lively and thoughtful conversation as she facilitates Sparked! Space is limited to 12 attendees, please register in advance. The game fosters meaningful connection, and allows women to hold space for each other-- through laughter, tears, and awkwardness. The game reminds women of who they are, that they are important and have important knowledge to share with each other, and helps to give them space to process things that are important in their lives and to connect with what brings them joy. Free event, pre-registration required. FREE. View Full Details »
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Saturdays - October 12 & November 9 at Lyon Arboretum & Monday, December 30, 201910 am - 12 noon + gallery tour at Kahaluʻu Gallery & Gardens. Forest bathing is an evidence-based wellness practice that began in Japan in the early 1980's, now a growing trend worldwide. "Forest bathing" is a translation of the Japanese term shinrin-yoku; you may also hear it referred to as "forest therapy".
Enjoy a gentle walk, during which your guide will offer a series of invitations to reconnect you with your senses and the natural world. Your walk at Lyon Arboretum is 3 hours long. At Kahaluʻu, you spend 2 hours ambling through the gardens, with a tour of the art gallery afterward.
Unlike a hike, there is no destination and, unlike a naturalist walk, you'll gain knowledge through... View Full Details »
Sunday, October 13, 4:30-6 pm.
Friday, November 8, 7-8:30 pm.
Sunday, December 8, 4:30-6 pm. Nurture your Spirit and gift yourself - and a friend or a family member - with this special offering by yogini and musician Zeny Ogrisseg. With a musical background spanning 30+ years, Zeny has crafted a beautiful workshop that weaves ancient mantras, Tibetan singing bowls and the Indian harmonium into a sacred self-care ceremony. Zeny has traveled extensively all over India studying Vedic and Tantric mantras, meditation and sacred rituals (puja). Yoga nidra takes you to a tranquil, still place of awareness. View Full Details »
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Feldenkrais / Wave Continuum
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Sat & Sun, Oct 19 & 20, 2019. What are you actually doing for your eyes? Eyes are so vital to our everyday functioning, let’s help them out.
The benefits of this workshop include better eyesight, memory enhancement, good posture and increased mobility in your neck and entire spine. There is an intimate relationship between eyes, neck and spine: The eyes organize the spine. They can help it to turn better and become more elongated. Eyes do not have to deteriorate when we age as much as we might think. If your eyes are not as good as they should be, you can change that with these wonderful Feldenkrais eye lessons. View Full Details »
Evoke the healing power of water through sound, breath and spiral movement, delving into the wisdom of “your inner biology”. Here we invite our inner waters to penetrate and saturate all the different layers of ourselves: muscles, connective tissue, organs and cells.
Life flows in the healing energy of spiral movement, breath and sound! Moving with love and awareness we create balance in the body between the Water and Earth elements. View Full Details »
Sat & Sun, Oct 19 & 20, 2019. In this workshop, we continue improving our vision. You also learn movement lessons to free your neck, get rid of pain and benefit your shoulders, arms and entire posture.
The neck is like a bottleneck between our brain and our torso. Here, where we carry around lots of tension and injuries, we can constrict this narrow place even more, resulting in many unpleasant, painful and even dangerous conditions. If we can soften and heal in our neck connected to our shoulders, arms and the rest of our spine, we generate a whole different outlook on our life. View Full Details »
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Thursday & Friday, December 5 & 6, 2019. Help people with Parkinson disease (PD) get better and stay better with exercise! Learn to implement PD-specific, research-based exercise programs now!
Recent research suggests that exercise and learning approaches that promote aerobics and skill acquisition may protect vulnerable neurons, repair damaged circuits, and optimize function and may delay motor deterioration in people with Parkinson disease (PD). View Full Details »
Tuesday & Wednesday, Dec 10 & 11, 2019. Learn to teach others a stand-alone exercise program specific to Parkinson disease (PD). This approach to skill acquisition, called PWR!Moves, is composed of building blocks for everyday movement for those with PD. It’s performed with large amplitude, high effort, and attention to action in multiple positions (prone, supine, all 4’s, sitting, standing). As an Instructor in training, you will learn how to teach other teachers and therapists these foundational exercises to target symptoms that interfere with everyday movement... View Full Details »
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Sep 19 5:45-6:45pm, Sep 20 11 am - 12 pm, Sep 21 12:15-1:15pm, Sep 22 10:30-11:30, 2019 - Classes daily, Sunday-Monday, times varying. Price: Your class payment option + $4.
Experience the Joy of Movement! Come and move with the infectiously vibrant International Nia Trainer, Winalee Zeeb! One of the amazing talents of a fabulous teacher like Winalee is her ability to make the Nia class easy for first-time beginners and exciting for people with ... View Full Details »
Saturdays, Sep 21 to Oct 19, 2019. In this 5-week series, students will learn a full choreography in the American Cabaret style of belly dance - any level is welcome! The piece will be upbeat and joyful - representative of celebration! Students will have the opportunity to perform the piece as a part of the annual Diwali celebration at Still and Moving Center. View Full Details »
Sunday Series 9 am, Tuesday Series 4:15 pm. Sept 24 - Dec 15. In these 12 week series, keiki aerialists will learn choreography and routine progression. Possible apparatus include aerial silks, hammock and lyra. We will introduce skills using various aerial apparatus. Sequencing and move progression in preparation for the December Merry & Bright Celebration on Sunday, Dec 15, 2019. Give your child a delightful chance to fly, dance, have fun and connect with... View Full Details »
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