Movement coach and consultant Valerie Baadh Garrett offers presentations and movement programs for individuals, schools and businesses as well as private appointments and classes for adults and children. In collaboration with San Francisco Center for Therapeutic Arts and Education and the Fourfold Healing Clinic, Valerie's San Francisco program takes place at the lovely new Grand View Studio at Acme Alley, overlooking the San Francisco skyline and the bay.
Movement For Health and Healing For Adults
Valerie offers enlivening movement experiences that enhance health, personal and professional presence, team building and social relationships, recovery from surgery or other trauma, learning, vitality, flow, balance, alignment, flexibility and strength through play, exercises, meditative movement study and practice.
Valerie is a certified practitioner of the Spacial Dynamics® approach to movement health which is featured in the groundbreaking book, The Fourfold Path To Healing by Dr. Thomas Cowan with Jaimen McMillan. Releasing and retraining unconscious movement patterns and qualities can relieve pain, improve sleep and digestion, elevate depression and support natural life transitions. Our Agile Aging programs help prevent falls and improve fitness for older adults. Holistic Menopause, a new program of the Fourfold Clinic, offers movement as part of a comprehensive and collaborative approach to healthy transitions for women. Valerie is also certified as an Lebed Method® instructor, and offers private sessions in the home or studio as well as small group classes for those with lymphedema, recovering from cancer surgeries or chronic illnesses.
Movement for Fun and Healthy Development for Children
Children's dance and tumbling classes are designed to meet the developmental needs of each age, from 2 - 10 years. Very young children and mommies or daddies or nannies sing and play together in our Mommy and Me classes. Live harp music, stories and spoken verse support imaginative movement, dancing and tumbling for young students in our Uffe the Gnome Movement Adventures classes and camps. Classes for older girls develop dynamic movement skills with rhythm, form and technique in Natural Ballet, again blessed with live harp music. Boys and girls thrive with the challenging Hop, Skip and Tumble Circus, offered each winter and fall.
Movement Workshops, Conferences and Retreats for Organizations
"Team Bulding Through Movement Dynamics and Play", "Movement and Leadership: Dynamics for Power and Presence," "Movement and Learning," and "Movement Dynamics for Those Working With Young Children" have all been themes of Valerie's presentations and workshops for Stanford University, Rudolf Steiner College, San Francisco Center For Arts and Education, San Francisco Waldorf School and other organizations.
