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About this event
Classes will include movement games that challenge coordination, mobility and strength, alongside skill based work. Over the summer months we will be focussing on locomotion patterns: low gait/ground-based primal movements that teach the body to move in a powerful and graceful way. There will also be options to delve into basic acrobatics and gymnastics for more advanced students.
Each class will also include a period of reflection and conversation: an opportunity to discuss and delve into how we can improve and deepen our practice. For the next 12 weeks we are working on the theme of CONFIDENCE: how can we use our physical movement practice to develop confidence, improve our sense of self worth and feel more resilient.
This is a space for us to share our practice and come together to learn together. More than just a class, this is community: this is People Moving Together.
Organiser Sam Tyson
Organiser of Move and Play
Sam Tyson grew up in Belgium where he studied martial arts, competed in national fencing and long distance running before moving to the the UK to train in contemporary dance at the Conservatoire.
Sam has been teaching and working in the movement and wellbeing industry since 2012. Alongside running private movement coaching and sports massage, he is currently Head Movement Coach at Local Motion gym in Wandsworth and teaches with London Movement Group and People Moving Together.
He is a certified sports massage therapist, fitness coach, Animal Flow instructor, Reformer Pilates teacher and AcroYogaDance teacher. Sam studied at Edinburgh University, St Mary's universities and London Contemporary Dance School where he was awarded a first class degree for his thesis on strength training for performance. Sam has also written extensively on the impact of movement and exercise on memory function, the health-span and longevity. In the last 2 years, Sam has been studying directly under multiple movement specialists to refine his teaching and physical practice, including Farid Herera (capoeira and gymnastics), Yuval Ayalon (handbalancing), and Brian Johnston (Ido Portal Mentorship).
