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Collette Stewart

 

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Madison, WI United States
T: 608.437.0997

 

 

 

Movement Insights - Pilates, Yoga, Movement Insights and Rensonance Healing

Description        

Movement Insights offers group classes, workshops, and private sessions in Pilates, Yoga, Movement Insights and Rensonance Healing work in Blue Mounds, WI.

Through these different forms of movement, we gain insight into our body and mind. Pilates, as a smart and anatomically-informed exercise program, provides a means of learning more about our physical patterns, strengthening and stretching the body in a well-aligned and efficient way. Resonance Healing offers a more abstract form of movement insights–moving energy, tension patterns, and emotional holdings through healing bodywork.

And, Movement Insights explores the spirit. We often hear of the relationship between body, mind, and spirit, but "spirit" is usually the least discussed limb in exercise and bodywork fields. For many of us, physical exercise and bodywork are natural ways to connect with our spirit, but we don't quite have the framework to truly understand and explore that connection. If we can develop a framework, the body becomes a roadmap to the spirit and the spirit begins fully healing the body.


Profile and Credentials        

My first movement practice was dance. I started when I was two years old at my sister's dance recital, romping through the aisles in the audience and mimicking the performers onstage. My parents, slightly embarrassed and probably hoping to avoid this scenario every year, enrolled me in dance lessons as soon as they could. I continued studying dance throughout my youth and eventually earned a BFA in Modern Dance from Texas Christian University. As an adult, I have continued performing and choreographing dance around the country. To say that I have always enjoyed and appreciated the pleasures of moving is a bit of an understatement; for me, dance is a spiritual experience.

However my spirit my have soared as a dancer, it turned out that my actual body was suffering from great misalignment. I was diagnosed with scoliosis at the age of ten and told I would need a surgery that requires placing steel rods in the spine. Avoiding surgery was my initial inspiration for looking into the more detailed aspects of anatomy and movement. This led me to study Pilates and other forms of bodywork. I began practicing yoga and Pilates in 1994 and started teaching a year later. In 2000, I received my Pilates certification from The Pilates Center in Boulder, CO and went on to teach in New York City for three years, before moving to the Madison area in 2002.

During my time in New York, my spiritual practice began to merge with my physical practice as I discovered meditation. (Actually, I had invented meditation five years earlier, when I was particularly nervous during a dance performance. How the ancient mystics jumped forward 5000 years to steal my idea, I'll never know. I suppose thatfs why they call them mystics.) Growing up, my spiritual training was Christian. As a young adult, I studied Taoism, Buddhism, and (though it's not a formalized spirit path) artists' spirituality – creation and expression as a means of discovering essential truth. Once I began a meditation practice, I found more intuitive depths of spirit. I also studied yoga and the chakra system, and I added the modality of energy shifting to my healing practice. A few years later, I developed Resonance Healing as a way of expressing what I had learned in healing my own body.

My approach to teaching and healing puts great emphasis on the individual. We are all at different places in life and have different needs. In my life, I have sought awareness and alignment - awareness so that I might be able to know myself more clearly and from there, true alignment with my personal path. My goal as a teacher is to help others uncover those same things.


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Work Hours and Fee Schedule        

Private Sessions (Pilates or Resonance Healing)

Single Session $65 * 5 session package $275 * 10 session package $500

All private sessions occur at 10997 Division St., Blue Mounds.

Please call 608.437.0997 or email to schedule an appointment.

Group Class Schedule

  • Pilates Mat Mondays 5:30-6:30 pm
  • Gentle Yoga Mondays 7:00-8:00 pm
  • Pilates Mat Saturdays 9:00-10:00 am

    Group classes are taught at Blue Mounds Dharma Center, 2979 Main St., Blue Mounds.
    Group Class Fees

    Single class $12 * 5 class package $55 * 10 class package $100

    Classes in Madison, WI

    Although Movement Insights is located in Blue Mounds, I also teach private sessions and group classes at Capital Fitness in downtown Madison, for those who find that location more convenient. Capital Fitness is a membership health club, but non-members can take classes for a separate fee.

    Group Classes at Capital Fitness - Group classes cost $15 per class for non-members.

    For a schedule of classes, click here.

    Private Sessions at Capital Fitness

    I offer Pilates, Yoga and Resonance Healing Sessions Tues-Thurs at Capital Fitness. Sessions are 50-60 minutes, by appointment.
  • Single Session: $80
  • 5 session package: $325
  • 10 session package: $600

    To schedule an appointment at Capital Fitness in Madison, email or phone 608.451.1245


  • Pilates        

    The Pilates Method is a conditioning program founded by Joseph Pilates that works to educate and balance the muscles of the body. The exercises strongly focus on the core muscles of the body (abdominal muscles, muscles of the spine, pelvic floor), with the idea that from a strong center, your limbs can move freely and with support. Pilates works your muscles in a lengthened capacity which increases the bodyfs flexibility, decompresses the joints, and creates elongated and toned muscles. Practicing Pilates improves breath, alignment and overall posture.

    The Pilates equipment (including the Reformer and Cadillac) is unique as an exercise tool. It uses springs as resistance as opposed to a heavy weight. Such light tension gives support and a deeper stretch in many of the exercises, while still emphasizing control from the core muscles. The equipment also gives the practitioner valuable feedback on alignment and uniform work in the musculature.

    While Pilates is loved by athletes, dancers, and many healthy individuals, it is also excellent for rehabilitation of injury. It has proven itself particularly useful for healing pain associated with misalignment such as scoliosis, herniated disc, trauma/pain related to car accidents, deterioration in the hip joint, and long-term chronic pain, especially in the lower back.

    * Private sessions incorporate the Pilates Reformer, Cadillac and Mat work.

    * Group classes teach the Pilates Mat work.


    Resonance Healing        

    Resonance Healing is a hands-on healing process that works through informed touch, intuition and imagery. Healing happens through the layers of bone/muscle, emotion/organ, nervous system/energy and spirit. The blocks that occur in our bodies filter through different levels of our being. There is an order to the way that we naturally release the tension patterns that cause chronic pain and habitual misalignment. With Resonance Healing, the healer tunes into which layer the body is prepared to work on, and allows/guides the body to open, shift and release.

    Resonance Healing evolved out of my intuitive healing of my own misalignment. After diligently employing movement knowledge to gfixh my back for a few years, I began to plateau and backslide. During that time, I discovered a need to be still and allow the bodyfs natural wisdom to step forward. One side of healing requires disciplined choice and effort, the other side requires getting out of the way. On a deep level, we already know the answer to healing our pain, but we must be willing to listen. Healing others involves the same process – listening (or feeling) for the part of the body that needs movement, and allowing it. And, in that moment, the body begins to resonate.

    Resonance Healing is perfect for individuals dealing with chronic pain or injury, instability in certain joints, and old tension patterns. It also proves useful for those feeling emotionally or energetically stuck, or for anyone looking for a general shift in life.

    *Healing sessions are one hour, by appointment.


           


           


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