I have had great benefits from the foot exercises I learned from​ ​you, Sarah. My left big toe no longer pushes against my other toes so I am no longer considering surgery.

I did not practice yoga until coming to Sarah’s class. I was reluctant but after the third class I was hooked. I knew this environment was a good fit for me and that I would be able to learn. Sarah’s class is non-judgmental, challenging in a natural way and does not rely on any preconceived notion of what a body should be able to do.

Because of Sarah’s class, because of her gentle, thoughtful, intelligent and deeply informed inquiry, I feel like I have a different relationship to my own body, and to my sense of self.

An important life-changing principle I’ve learned from Amy was regarding the BMC principle of survival/safety—> comfort—> bonding—> curiosity. A developmental principle that has become integral in my adult life. I’ve just begun to recognize ways to feel comfortable, and with that knowledge start to recognize ways that I confuse being unsafe when really I’m just uncomfortable.

Studying developmental movement with Amy and Sarah has been fascinating. Their command of anatomy, embryology and developmental movement is enthralling. Their care and respect for the always-changing body of knowledge is reassuring and inspiring. This study gives a richness and pleasure to the experience of being in a body, having a body, being a body. It’s transformative.

I recently spent a weekend studying developmental movement with Amy. This particular workshop focused on vertebrate patterns, and in various exercises we explored how babies find the pathways of weight through their spines. A few days after that, I went to a yoga class, and it felt unusually good—I felt balanced, strong, and confident in my body.

I have taken some Developmental Movement classes for adults with Amy and Sarah, and it’s been an enlightening process of integrating information, but even more so of feeling deeply that anything that I might have missed in infancy I can still experience and learn from, as an adult. My movement practice has acquired a new level of curiosity, depth and playfulness, and my analytical brain is pleased with detailed scientific​ ideas. Can’t recommend enough!

I have taken several classes and workshops in anatomy and developmental movement with Sarah and Amy over the years. What they have to offer is extremely unique and deeply powerful. Each class triggers a new personal insight and possibilities for integration of the body and mind.