Testimonials
Pilates & Integrated Movement Classes
"Susannah is like no other Pilates & movement expert out there! She is a healer in the true sense of the word. Every time I work with her, she personalizes my program to meets the demands of my week. She listens and translates it into action for my body. I always feel 110% better after a session with Susannah - in body, mind and soul. Her work nourishes my soul!”
Bev Maya - Owner; Maya Natural Health
"I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your work this year. I have been to the studio for about 10 months now and the change in my body is amazing. I can feel it and people around me notice it as well. But it is not just the physical appearance, I am loving the flexibility and ease of movement that this "new" body is bringing me. I love it! Thank you."
L.T. - Current Client
"You...helped me to remember that I can always work with what I have been given and nothing is impossible if I work for it."
T.J. - 17 yrs. old
Holistic Movement Workshops"Susannah's movement classes are about guiding her students to connect to their body experience. Aikido master and author Wendy Palmer says: "If we can connect to ourselves, then we can make genuine connections to others." Susannah's teaching invites connection to self and to others. She creates a class atmosphere that supports her students' process of discovery of the richness of their own embodied experience and delight in movement."
Amy Kiara Ruth, BSc (Kin, Ed) - Registered Kinesiologist
"Her background as a highly trained bodyworker, dancer, dance teacher and mother weaves seamlessly into her skill as a workshop leader, with grace insight and a natural ability to guide people in a positive, heart based and effective manner. She uses a light touch to inspire profound depth of change, whether working on a client's pain problem, teaching professionals about movement or setting a dance floor on fire."
Philip Clement - Dance & Gestalt Therapist, Holistic Bodywork since 1980
"Liberating. Spirit-moving. Joyful. A new way to look at movement. An opportunity to get grounded ... and to find a way to stay there. I would recommend this workshop to anyone who is curious about the body and its movement, regardless of profession. I would also recommend it to yoga teachers, particularly yoga teachers in training, as your knowledge of the anatomy of breath is so much more useful than the rudimentary concepts we learned in training. It has changed my yoga practice --- as well as the simple task of walking to the bus --- exponentially."
Linda Rumleski - Yoga Teacher/Policy Analyst
"A much-overdue moving experience for my body. A great workshop that uses Pilates as a spring-board for movement to connect the mind-body-spirit connection. It could have been longer - I felt that we just touched the tip of your knowledge!"
Heather Pugh - Pilates Teacher
Creative Movement & Dance
"What I enjoyed most about the workshop was Susannah's warm and deeply confident leadership. she clearly loves her subject and brings that love and experience into the work. I will take away, and repeat with others - students or colleagues - some of the warm up exercises - the progressions from connection to self, to connection with others - the playful balanced with the disciplined."
Kim Seary - Actor
"I appreciate the intelligence of the workshop's structure and design. You are responsive to participants and allow things to unfold with a sensitivity to what the group creates - this is your strength!"
Leslie Bishko - Laban Movement Analyst & Animator, Educator; Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design.
"You have given me the chance to dance in the sun with the freedom to be myself and enjoy the warm. Thank you for your inspiration and belief in me."
Amy Burns - Dance teacher & cast member; Urban Tap Squad.
Blog Comments www.movingspirit.blogspot.com
TV said...
My original training in anesthesiology made me think that I knew a lot about breathing. My discovery of yoga made me realize otherwise. Your article on the breath and the spine is a wonderful deeper insight. Thanks and congrats.
(Re: “The Influence of Breath on the Thoracolumbar Spine,” October 2005)
Re: (“Come Home to Your Body” & video, December 2006)
As a University professor who is passionate about the importance of teaching movement literacy and the concept of embodied knowing, I thought your video is fantastic! I would like to use it on the first day of class to motivate my students. Wonderful!
Nancy Francis, Ed.D.
Brock University
St. Catherines, Ontario
Amy Kiara Ruth, BSc (Kin, Ed) - Registered Kinesiologist
Philip Clement - Dance & Gestalt Therapist, Holistic Bodywork since 1980
Linda Rumleski - Yoga Teacher/Policy Analyst
Heather Pugh - Pilates Teacher
Kim Seary - Actor
Leslie Bishko - Laban Movement Analyst & Animator, Educator; Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design.
Amy Burns - Dance teacher & cast member; Urban Tap Squad.
My original training in anesthesiology made me think that I knew a lot about breathing. My discovery of yoga made me realize otherwise. Your article on the breath and the spine is a wonderful deeper insight. Thanks and congrats.
(Re: “The Influence of Breath on the Thoracolumbar Spine,” October 2005)
Re: (“Come Home to Your Body” & video, December 2006)
As a University professor who is passionate about the importance of teaching movement literacy and the concept of embodied knowing, I thought your video is fantastic! I would like to use it on the first day of class to motivate my students. Wonderful!
Nancy Francis, Ed.D.
Brock University
St. Catherines, Ontario