Description
A movement-based practice that uses gentle, rhythmic, and multidirectional exercises to hydrate and mobilize the body’s fascial tissues. The class supports joint freedom, circulation, body awareness, and a greater sense of ease and connectivity.
Fascia Flossing (TM Bonnie Crotzer) is a somatic movement practice that increases mobility, health of our tissues and ease in the body. Fascia Flossing is informed by both Western medicine and physical therapy practices as well as East Asian knowledge of yoga and Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM). The pathways of fascia align with the channels for chi in TEAM. The most benefit will come from coming to the whole series, but you are welcome to drop in to any session. While not exactly stretching, fascia flossing can help tight people and places develop more flexibility. On the other hand, hypermobile bodies and tissues can build more capacity to contract their muscles and stabilize their joints.
Loren Groenendaal is one of Cardell Dance Studio’s frequent and beloved teachers of youth and adult dance classes. Loren holds a BA in Dance from Oberlin College and an MFA in Choreography from UNC Greensboro and has decades of experience teaching creative, modern, improvisational dance and somatic practices. Loren found fascia flossing a few years ago and was a fast fan due to how much pain reduction and joy it provided her body. Recently, Loren earned her Level 2 certification in Fascia Flossing from Bonnie Crotzer, Fascia Flossing initiator, permitting her to teach the work publicly. Loren has also trained in a variety of somatic modalities which inform her movement teaching including earning the title of Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies. Loren recently received her Level 3 Fascia Flossing certificate to have even more knowledge to support this practice.
