Embodying Self

Takoma Park, United States

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Description

Specialties

Rehabilitation, Performance and Wellbeing.

Unlearn, relearn and train your mind and body. Through kinesthetic learning, develop the means and self-​directed mastery over your movements, attention and self-​awareness. We work with individuals with a wide array of conditions, ages and abilities.

Peak Performance in:

* Yoga

* Gymnastics

* Running

* Dance

* Playing an instrument

* Voice

Neurological Conditions such as:

* Stroke

* Brian Injury

* Cerebral Palsy

* RSI

* MS

* Paralysis

* Parkinsonian

Elderly Care:

* Walking

* Memory

* Concentration

* Learning

* Relaxation

* Brain Fitness

* Anti-​Aging

* Creativity

* Energy

Meet the Business Owner

Arona P.

Business Owner

Arona is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and has been practicing for almost 10 years. She has a total of 1700 hours of training, including 500 hours of Advanced Training. She offers Feldenkrais classes and intensive workshops.

She is influenced by Bonnie Cohen Bainbridge at Body-​Mind-​Centering® and Yoga school for Embodied Anatomy and Embodied Developmental Movement, Stephanie Snyder (San Francisco), Pedro Franco (San Francisco), and Louis With-​Seidlein (San Francisco). A deep immersion into the inner-​vinyasa with a focus on how each of the body systems (e.g. skeletal, fluid, organ, vestibular, fascia) and movement dynamics (e.g. contraction/​expansion, yield/​push, reach/​pull, static/​dynamic stability, momentum) supports and mobilizes the poses and transitions between poses.

Also a dancer, performer and teacher of Contact Improvisation and Argentine Tango with performances at various venues in the Bay Area and locally at Dance Place in DC.