The “Bewegte Start in den Tag” (Start the day Moving) is our morning format that offers a free training session twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 10 am, for professionals and beginners of all disciplines. The idea is to create a long-term offering that allows everyone to get an active start to the day together and get to work full of energy in the co-working space, or simply make some new contacts over a coffee. Our goal is to create a changing, interdisciplinary offering that reflects the diversity of the FREIRAUM community and encourages even more exchange. The schedule for each month can be found here, as well as through our social media channels, and in our mailing list.

 

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 10 a.m. in the FREIRAUM’s große ATELIER.

28 mar Phaedra Pisimisi – Movement Improvisation

2 apr Elisa Marschall – Yoga
4 apr Leonie Türke – Ballet
9 & 11 apr Hanna Maxi Schumacher – Kundalini Yoga
16 & 18 apr Irina Hortin – Axis Syllabus
23 & 25 apr Kati Menze – Gyrokinesis
30 apr Dawna Dryhorub – Flexibility

Here are the latest instructors:

Alfonso Bordi

“Floor bar” is an isometric bodywork developed for dancers with the aim of isolating and strengthening the (mostly internal) muscles needed for stabilization in dance and everyday life. It contains elements from yoga and Pilates.

Amy Frega

Let’s be children for 1 hour and discover our voices with childlike curiosity! The aim of this session is to better understand the functions in our body that make and shape the sounds that we produce, to find more possibilities of sounding and to get creative with it!  we are going to do exercises to warm up our voices and discover our instruments. We will play games, sing and create the space for improvising and expressing ourselves with sound.

Anca Huma

In this class we have a gentle Approach to our body language: Sensitivity and curiosity guides us in our own movement research to find tools for improvisation, perception and consciousness by using somatic work and gentleness. Awareness and intuition is our source from where we will begin. How long can an energy lead us through space before the next movement comes organically?

Ben J. Riepe

Join me for my morning routine…
Since my own yoga training in 2012 in an ashram in India and extensive research trips, including with the yogi Navtej Johar from 2009 – 13, I regularly lead yoga sessions as part of my training routine with performers and also frequently integrate elements from yoga into my choreographic practice.
I teach yoga according to Sivananda, which is an integral yoga, i.e. with sun salutations, asanas, relaxation and pranayama (breathing exercises). This alternation of tensing and relaxing, stretching and bending, stretching and strengthening, deep relaxation, meditation and breathing strengthens you and your body and brings you peace, focus and energy for the whole day.

Carolina Rüegg

In the “Soul Voice” method, you don’t need to have any musical or singing skills to enter into the healing pleasure of sound.
We let our own sound guide us and do not interfere by judging our voice. “Soul Voice” or the voice of the soul is a profound process of bodywork in combination with your own voice.

Daniel Smith

WarmUp! – Daniel Smith is a freelance choreographer and performer based in Düsseldorf. This class is a combination of simple dance exercises (both on  the floor and standing up), strength training and guided improvisations. A chance for us to start the day by connecting to our physicality and creativity to prepare for the long day ahead.

Darwin Diaz

This class puts the emphasis in the breath as a tool to achieve deeper awarness of the body. Through continious breathing and moving we prepare the body to be able to move in an organic way. This training combines two techniques: Hatha Yoga and Release Technique. By combinig the knowledge of Hatha Yoga and Release Technique we explore and experience the unity of body and mind. We develope consciousness for standing on the feet, in how to go into and out of the floor using as less muscular energy as possible. We encourage the instincts and body intelligence to open new dimentions and possiblities of moving.

Deepanwita Roy

As a contemporary movement artist and trained biotechnology engineer, Deepanwita aims to create impact on an environmental, social and personal level. She focuses on the exploration of inner movement. A risk-taker who loves nature, she often steps out of her comfort zone and experiments with her ideas, connecting her practice to social and environmental issues. She strives to evolve Indian movement practice and create a sustainable structure that connects art and nature.

Elisa Marschall

The breath is the bridge between body and mind. When we are able to breathe calmly and consciously, our entire nervous system is equally relaxed and serene. Through conscious breathing we are able to observe our own emotions without letting them overtake us. This simple knowledge exists in our society in its theory but is rarely integrated in everyday practice. Therefore, in this yoga class we will consciously focus on our breathing in combination with the movement sequences, with the goal of exploring and, in the best case, feeling the unity of body, mind and spirit.

Hanna Maxi Schumacher

“Kundalini Yoga” is a simple and dynamic form of yoga that leads you to yourself and your power in a fast way. With the help of breath, movement and mantras you activate your strength and can then start the day strengthened and focused.

Ida Aga Zinnen

With somatic improvisation we will wake up the body and make it more accessible. Different senses and imaginations are activated and tension centres in the body are tried to become more permeable.

Ida will guide the class openly and adapts to the participants.

Irina Hortin

Sensing into our bodies we will playfully start the day with some elements from floor work, (contact)improvisation and Axis Syllabus. We will explore and activate the flow and connections within our own body as well as to the floor and to others. Depending on the group composition, we will also integrate simple movement motifs into the hour. With our respective “body of the day” and the state we are in right now, we thus begin the day in resonance with ourselves and each other. Irina Hortin studied contemporary dance, linguistics and literature and works as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher. Born in Rumania, she grew up in Germany, lived and learned in France, Argentina, Senegal and Switzerland.

Katarzyna Kozielska

“Morning energizer “
A 60 minute workout training with Katarzyna Kozielska.
Activities to increase your energy and focus. Good Energizers are great for boosting your energy levels throughout the whole day. When you exercise, your body releases chemicals called endorphins. These endorphins interact with the receptors in your brain that reduce your perception of pain.

Kati Masami Menze

A 60-minute session to activate your body, based on the practice of “Gyrokinesis”®. As a perfect start to the day, we will mobilize the spine and the whole body through breathing and gentle but organically complex twists.

Leonie Türke

This is an invitation to everyone who would like to get to know the classical dance of ballet from the very beginning. Ballet offers training in balance, strength, musical feeling and joy! Come and join us!

Marcela Ruiz

I invite you to remind us that we all have a body and we can all move, this basic idea, could make us aware that we are all in a constant state of movement and this state is inherent in each of us, this elemental idea, is the root of what I consider dance and the essence of my class.

Michel Schwarzkopf

Michel – as a Yoga teacher and Yogatherapist – is a long-term student of the traditional family lineage of the legendary Yogi T. Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. In our shared practice you will (re-)discover and experience yourself while focusing on familiar and unknown Yoga postures and ancient techniques of Yoga wisdom. It’s all about you: your body, your breath, and beyond. Even though the body postures may appear to be quite simple or too complex, don’t worry: your practice with Michel is open and beneficial for everybody. Just come by, be yourself and make it your yoga!

Find out more about Michel through his Instagram (michelschwarzkopf.yoga) or on www.inhaleexhale.yoga.

Phaedra Pisimisi

Movement improvisation – everyone is welcome! Dancer Phaedra Pisimisi uses contemporary dance elements combined with dynamic improvisation exercises to awaken a passion for and pleasure in movement.

Robert Schulz

Robert Schulz works freelance as a performer, dance educator, dramaturge and project manager. In the context of “Start the day moving” he gives insights into his physical practice, which helps him daily to prepare physically and mentally for the challenge of a complex artistic everyday life.

Unity cannot be imagined or felt, but experienced through practice (1.1 Yogasutra).

Feel your body, perceive your thoughts, get to know yourself. In a dynamic vinyassa sequence we connect body, mind and soul, accompanied by meditation, mindfulness practices and pranayama (breathing exercises). Each class has its own individual theme, which will help you grow further in your personal development.