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Pilates &
YOGA
These classes provide an evolving series of interconnected exercises drawn from classical Pilates and a range of yoga styles.
Responding to the needs of those attending. Individualised instruction supports you to fully explore each exercise and the experience of your own body.
- Deepen understanding of & connection with your body
- Prevent or recover from injury
- Enhance body control and performance, restore natural movement patterns
Ballet
Classes
Learn the fundamentals of technique while appreciating and experiencing the beauty of this classical art from.
Students are welcomed into a body-positive environment made accessible to all levels, from first time beginners to those training for professional dance careers.
- Develop your technical ballet skills
- Improve your posture and grace
- Training for greater agility
Contemporary
DANCE
This class uses imagery to focus on spatial awareness and creative self-expression while learning modern dance techniques.
Gain a greater sense of the potential for how the body can move. Students practice floor work, weight shifting and traveling, and dynamic expressive interpretations of movement, often to music of various genres.
- Creative self expression
- Improved coordination
- Increased sense of what is possible in the body
Pre & Post
Natal Classes
Designed specifically to compliment the changing needs of your body during and after pregnancy, Prenatal Pilates/yoga will help you stay fit, increase your circulation, and prepare your back, belly, and pelvis for childbirth.
Postnatal Pilates/yoga will help you improve your fitness, strengthen your core abdominal and pelvic floor muscles, as well as give you much needed relaxation and therapeutic body work before and after childbirth.
- Prepare for/recover from childbirth
- Learn about the changing needs of your body during and after childbirth
- Dedicated time for yourself and your baby
CREATIVE
MOVEMENT
& Improvisation
These classes use movement to awaken openness, receptivity, softness, and fluidity in the body. Enhance the states of released and effortless motion, and explore how to move into and out of the floor, through space, and with each other.
Through tactful guided facilitation you will experience how to listen to your body, improve non-verbal communication with others, and work toward overall harmony.
- Greater confidence in dance and your body
- Play
- Experiment
Meditation
Meditation is a practice of mindfulness to train one’s attention and awareness and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
Meditation sessions may include rest and relaxation techniques as well as tools to help focus and train the mind’s attention.
- Relaxation
- Improved breathing
- Focus/concentration
Choreography &
Repertoire
Learn a dance or collaboratively create choreography to suit your needs.
Sessions may include research, creative development, and performance skills related to dance, music, and technical development.
- Performance preparation
- Creative
- Collaborative
CONTACT
Improvisation
& Dance
Contact improvisation is a form of improvised partner dancing that has been developing internationally since 1972. It involves the exploration of one’s body in relationship to others by using the fundamentals of sharing weight, touch, and movement awareness.
- Small group class in Lismore
- 4 x Once a week class
- Starts 14th May 2024
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My 5-year-old daughter loves learning dance with Colleen.
She danced twice a week in Little Dancer class from the time she was two years old and it was her happiest time of the whole week. Now she is in Pre-Ballet and I have been really impressed with her ability to learn the various forms, as well as a number of different steps.
Sophia Cason – Australia/Camboida
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Colleen is a gem.
She was one of the first people in Timor-Leste to really take yoga (and Pilates, and dance, etc.) seriously, creating a little oasis for those of us living there to centre and come back to ourselves, away from the madness of everyday life. I have been going there for years for yoga and meditation and highly recommend it.
Deborah Cummins – Australia
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Best Pilates Class Ever!
I participated in Colleen’s Pilates classes for about 2 years when I was working at the UN mission in Timor-Leste. I have never found such a passionate, knowledgeable, and caring teacher again! I have a bad back and she would advise suitable or alternative positions during her class. I learned how to breathe properly, regained mobility and felt much better, also more relaxed and happy. So grateful!
Carla Compagno – Portugal
