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Lunch Box is Back! Wednesdays and Fridays in Feb. 12:15 - 12:45 

MADLEAPS: Busting Out Party: Sunday March 7, 2010.

Infant Developmental Movement Education Classes - from birth to walking: Thursdays 10:30 - 11:45am, Jan. 28 - March 25th (no class Feb. 18)

Toddlers (12 - 30 months) Play Group: Fridays 2-3:00pm Feb. 12 - March 26 (no class Feb. 19)

 

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Monday

 
  • Children's WK WK Karate
3:45 PM–4:45 PM 8-11 years old, Beginner to Intermediate
 




Tuesday

 
  • Teen WK Karate
4:15 - 5:15PM
     



Wednesday

 
  • Children's WK Karate
3:45-4:30 PM
5-7 years old, Beginner
  • Children's WK Karate
4:15–5:15PM 8-12 years old, Beginner to Intermediate
     
     

Thursday

 

 
  • Children's WK Karate
4:15 PM–5:15 PM Advanced - Brown & Black Belts

   



FRIDAY

 
  • Children's WK Karate
3:45 - 4:45 PM
8-12 years old, All Levels
     



Saturday



  • Children's WK Karate
10:00 AM–11:00 AM All levels
 Family WK Karate  11:15am - 12:15pm
 All levels
 
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Instructor Highlight

Jodan Yoko Geri   
Sensei Michelle, SFMAI's Executive Director, is a martial artist, Laban Certified Movement Analyst, Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist and has  a background in professional dance and theatre. Along with her regular SFMAI schedule of classes and special workshops, she  teaches Anatomy and Kinesiology at the Manhattan Center for Alexander Technique, is on the guest faculty for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, Dalton High School, and Broadway Dance Center.  Her first book "Brain Breaks For The Classroom" ,published by Scholastic, is due for release this fall.

 

Articles

Sometimes when I get to roll with Professor, the experience is nothing short of a mind fuck.  He does what he does, slowly, methodically, relaxed, laughing.  But the positions are exotic to my white belt student mind.  Position is a terribly inadequate word, implying that what he does is understandable in a quantifiable, component set of static placements.  No, the movements are in a realm of movement I don't think in yet.  When he rolls like this I am a grain of sand with an ocean floating around me.  When he moves on to another student I sit there on the mat, perfectly uninjured, but my mind has been blown.  I am waking up from a dream world: I was there, participating, but deep down completely helpless.  What the heck just happened to me?

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