Harkness Mindful Movement Meetups: Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®

NYU Langone Health’s Harkness Center for Dance Injuries is proud to announce its newest program, Mindful Movement Meetups. These affordable workshops will feature rehabilitative and somatic modalities to complement dance training, injury rehabilitation, biopsychosocial health, and more.

Mindful Movement Meetups aim to provide accessible exposure to a variety of modalities and instructors as well as an opportunity to meet like-minded dancers in a welcoming environment.

MINDFUL MOVEMENT MEETUP: Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®

Topic: FINDING FREEDOM WITHIN LIMITATION

When: Thursday, July 2, 2026 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Format: IN PERSON at NYU Langone Health

Description: Limitations are part of every artistic and human journey. Whether experienced through injury, habit, expectation or burnout, they shape how we perceive ourselves and how we create, express and engage with the world around us. Through the Feldenkrais Method® we will explore how awareness can transform limitation from an obstacle into a source of possibility.

Through a guided awareness practice, we will experience how we can reshape not only our patterns of movement, but also our patterns of thinking and perception, opening pathways toward greater ease, adaptability, creativity and resilience. This practice becomes a gateway to self-discovery, cultivating the agency, resilience and embodied awareness needed to move beyond perceived limitations and toward our fullest potential.

With its capacity to improve mental and emotional health and to significantly navigate injury, the Feldenkrais Method® is a work that is truly relevant for our times and is essential to any artistic practice.

Instructor: AMI SHULMAN

As a movement artist and certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Ami Shulman’s work bridges performance, choreography, rehearsal direction, education, intimacy coordination, and writing. Her collaborations include co-creating work with Cirque du Soleil, assisting creations with the National Ballet of Canada and Ballet B.C., and serving as Rehearsal Director at Göteborgs Operans Danskompani in Sweden. Ami has taught extensively throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States. Deeply invested in the healing arts, she maintains a private practice as a certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, is trained in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and is currently studying trauma therapy through Somatic Experiencing®. Her work has been presented internationally at conferences including Brain, Body and Cognition at Oxford and ISGS at the Nouvelle Sorbonne; and her writing has been published in the Feldenkrais Journal and Dance Magazine.

Mindful Movement Meetup fee: $10*

*Ticket sales close at 10:00 AM EDT on July 2, 2026 or when capacity is reached.

Location: NYU Langone Health, 550 1st Ave, NY, NY 10016**

**Specific location details will be provided upon registration

-Workshops take place in a carpeted multipurpose room. We encourage participants to bring exercise/yoga mats or towels. Please dress comfortably for movement.

-Participants will be asked to complete a liability waiver form before the workshop (ages 15-17 require parent/guardian to complete the waiver).

• Mindful Movement Meetups are geared towards all dancers from ages 15+ at any stage of career, training, and life.
• Refund policy: we cannot provide refunds after the event has taken place.
• Questions: Contact Kristen Stevens, program manager, Kristen.Stevens@nyulangone.org

Upcoming MINDFUL MOVEMENTS MEETUPS - all IN PERSON

Registration for each event, once open, can be found at https://linktr.ee/harknesscenterfordanceinjuries.

June 26 at 4:00 PM EDT: GYROKINESIS® with Don Friedewald

July 24 at 4:00 PM EDT: Zena Rommett Floor-Barre Technique™ with LuAnn Leonard-Johns

About the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (www.DanceInjury.org) is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of dance professionals through clinical services, education programming, and research. Founded in 1989 through a partnership between the Harkness Foundation for Dance and the Hospital for Joint Diseases (now NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital), the Harkness Center provides care for dancers of all ages, genres, and levels as well as for musicians, actors, figure skaters, aerialists, and more.

In addition to caring for injuries, an integral part of the Harkness Center’s mission is providing education. For the dance community, Harkness offers injury prevention workshops, online courses, and screenings, including its long-running, free Injury Prevention Assessment (IPA) program. For dance medicine professionals, Harkness offers live and online continuing education courses. DanceMedU, the Harkness Center's digital learning platform (www.DanceMedU.org), offers over 20 lectures on dance medicine and dancer health for the dance and healthcare communitities.

Our educational theme for 2026 is BODIES—A deep dive into our anatomy.

Throughout the year, our community programming will focus on functional anatomy through a biopsychosocial lens specific to anyone who identifies as a dancer.