Helen Walkley is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst , a registered Somatic Movement Educator (www.ismeta.org) and a contemporary dance artist who has taught, created and performed for the past 30 years in United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada.

She is known for her forthright clarity, her refinement and depth in detail, and her humour.

In 1996 Helen completed a MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at SFU and has since been based in Vancouver.

“From conception through infancy and on to walking, we progress through organized movements, or patterns of skill and organization, in overlapping waves…From flexing to extending, pushing to reaching, the pieces of development gradually integrate to become purposeful, pleasurable and communicative movement through space.” BMC Association Inc.

 

What Helen's students say:

My studies with Helen have provided me with a deepening and distilling of my movement awareness, sensitivity and potential. Her re-patterning sessions have been an opportunity to explore and open up to connectivity that supports and provides a platform from which to skillfully move. Each time I return to being her student, Helen demonstrates her own commitment and passion to this work, either by having studied more herself or in going further with something that is so familiar and underlying that we forget to pay attention to it. That she takes such pleasure in movement and has the curiosity to continually discover is an inspiration for me!

Anita Seiz, Pliates Instructor, Certified Movement Analyst

 

"Our bodies tell Story. To create, unconscious of this massive resource is to disregard and undermine one’s greatest ally. Learn to use your Body and Soul deeply, with skill, and you will touch others in the place where they hold their secrets.

Helen’s teaching will help you to learn how."

Lesley Ewen – Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer, Leaky Heaven Circus, Stratford Shakespeare Festival

 

 

Movement Patterning with Helen Walkley, at Yoga on 7th


movement rides on the flow of breath

The Bartenieff Movement Fundamentals and the Developmental Movement Patterns provide the framework for this investigation, through which we will evoke strength and grace, a true connection to core.

Via the five fundamental actions of yield, push, reach, grasp and pull you will arrive at a dynamic alignment supported by breath, initiation and the sequencing of movement. A lively interplay exists between the conscious and unconscious as patterns emerge and are recognized. The mind and the body integrate.

Whether you engage in martial arts, athletics, yoga, Pilates, the performing arts, therapeutic/bodywork practices, are recovering from injury, or simply wish to deepen your presence within your body, this class will speak to you. The approach is accessible, the process is transformative.

The tools will include:

hands-on re patterning
guided exploration of principles of moving in your body/voice
the practice of specific forms

Winter Movement Patterning Session:

5 Fridays, Feb 10 – March 9

2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

or:


5 Sundays Feb 12 – March 11

2 – 5 pm

Class size limit: 8

Cost: $375 for first time students, $275 for returning students

To hold your space, a $175 non-refundable deposit is due by January 20. The balance is due at the first class.


* This course meets the pre-requisite requirements for entrance to the Laban training.

Helen is also available for private sessions. Her one-on-one sessions are personally designed to address clients’ particular needs. This may include a creative process with a performing artist, the rehabilitation of an injury, or a refinement in integration and connectivity of body/mind within a myriad of somatic practices.

For information and registration call Helen at 604-877-7712, or email her at info@helenwalkley.com