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SMAI's Martial Arts and Fitness Series Presents: Lunch Box -  Go Ahead, Get Feisty!

Wednesdays, Sept. 3rd - Oct. 8th, 2008
Fridays, Sept 5th - Oct. 10th, 2008
Expert instruction by a woman for women! You will feel the difference immediately. Increase your cardio-capacity, strength, balance, coordination, mental focus, look better, feel better and have fun!
6 classes $149
12 classes $225

To ensure that you receive the attention that you deserve, class size is limited to 8 people.
 

Instructor Highlight

Sensei Maria   
Sensei Maria has been involved in the martial arts as student, competitor, judge, coach and teacher for nearly twenty five years. After a number of years as a dance student, she was seeking another field of movement training. She began practicing Eizan Ryu Jujitsu in 1981, drawn by techniques which allowed a smaller person to control a larger attacker.
 
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"Still Moving" workshops were developed to explore the idea of "cross practice" similar to principles of athletic "cross training". The current series uses the inner focus, consciousness and sustained quality of yoga practice as a preparation for the quick, goal oriented, and externally focused practice of karate. Each workshop begins with a focus on a specific yoga pose (asana) or aspect of yoga practice and explores the forms and patterns in the body that support that pose. That experience is then applied to the fundamental movements of a complementary karate technique. The current series focuses on kicking, and is called "Karate Kicks Asana". Both the karate and the yoga student are offered a new perspective from which to view their own practice, a glimpse into a practice that might be new to them, and an experience of how different movement practices can support and enrich each other, without compromising or diminishing the power of either one.
 
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The Movement Fundamentals class is suitable for anyone seeking more ease and effectiveness in movement. It explores kinesthetic awareness and the basic principles of movement that underly all activities.
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Please join us for dinner In celebration of SMAI's 2nd Birthday and in Honor of the Holiday Season.

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