Availability April 18th-May 1st + Service updates!

First of all, you’ve made this transition super easy for me, and for that I thank you so much. Here are some more spring updates:

The rest of April is completely booked. Please consider putting your name on the waitlist, or taking one of the group classes I’m guest teaching at Flesh & Bone. It’s all listed below. I’m also happy to book standing appointments in advance. We’re looking into May for those.

A reminder about booking: please continue booking your private sessions and private group sessions through me, just as you have always done. If you would like to take a Flesh & Bone group Pilates class with me or any other teacher, please contact the studio.

GEEKING OUT!

One of the activities that’s taking up a lot of next week is my DermoNeuroModulation workshop. I know, I know, DermoNeuro What?!  I’ve already talked to a lot of you about this, and I have been incorporating many of these principles in our movement work over the past couple of years…especially in my clinical work. Succinctly, DNM is a nervous system based approach to manual therapy. I really believe that it is the new frontier in pain management and creating neuro/psychobiological change. What does this mean for you? When I reach out and touch you, it’s going to be a lot more specific and effective. You can read more about it here.

Talk soon,

C 

Availability 4/18-5/1

Monday, April 18^th

6PM Tribeca Class

Friday, April 22^nd

6PM Lower East Side PARTY!

Sunday, April 24^th

Noon Mat Pilates Class @ Flesh & Bone

Monday, April 26^th

6PM Tribeca Class

Wednesday, April 27^th

10:45AM Greenpoint Tattoo Co. Class

7PM Group Reformer Class @ Flesh & Bone

Sunday, May 1^st

Noon Mat Pilates @ Flesh & Bone

Happy Spring! A quick guide to all things NEW!

First of all, I want to thank you for your patience and flexibility while I was making some transitions. I had a major growth spurt in 2015, and needed the time away from teaching and counseling to reorganize and streamline my services. So, here’s all the new stuff:

New Locations!

Fort Greene/Downtown Brooklyn

Those of you who see me for somatic therapy and astrology counseling can visit me at my new place. It should be easier for some of you. I get SO MANY subway lines! And, I still have an L train option--

Williamsburg

I am now taking my Pilates/PT/NMR clients at Flesh & Bone Pilates Studio. The team there is awesome, and they have always been incredibly supportive of my approaches to body-mind work. Some of them even continue to be willing guinea pigs for my mad science experiments. I will also occasionally kick down some old-school classical work for their group mat, reformer, and tower classes. I will announce these as they come up in my newsletter, which brings me to—

New Scheduling!

My volume has been pretty high, and I’ve been having far less availability for “open scheduling.”  I was starting to feel pretty silly sending a schedule every week that had no availability. So, I’m only going to send a sign up schedule twice a month. You are always welcome to inquire about a date or time, or add your name to the waiting list for a time that has been booked.

A New Way to Pay!

I don’t know why it’s taken me 10 years to do this, but I now accept electronic payment and credit cards via Square Cash.

What’s Not New:

I still have morning community class in Greenpoint once a week, and evening community class in Tribeca twice a week. We have space for new students in both locations.

That’s the short list of what’s new. I learned so much while I was away, and got the chance to clarify and redefine what I offer as your teacher/therapist. I’m so over California. It was just a fling. She means nothing to me! I really can’t wait to come home.

Love,

Cory

Winter News and Availability + Coming to Cali + Help me find an apartment in April

Hi All,

So this history-making snow-bomb that's coming for the east coast has grounded the flight that I was supposed to be on tomorrow, and put me on a Monday flight. Therefore, obviously, Monday sessions are canceled. I will be seeing clients again on Tuesday.

I will be leaving for my west coast "tour" on February 11th. Actually, my tour starts with a private gig in Tulum. But, if you're going to be in the LA/OC area between February 18th and March 22nd, please gimme a shout. During that time I will be teaching locally and doing readings via Skype. End of February into early March, I'll actually be in San Diego (neurobiology conference) and Joshua Tree (art project) and will be offline Feb. 26th-March 7th.

So, you'll get me fresh in the spring. I'm expecting to resume sessions in early April. Of course I will be reaching out before I return to set up new schedules and programming (oh yeah, a bunch of new stuff comin' at ya in April). A lot depends on when I find a new apartment. So, if any of you are aware of a sublet situation coming up in spring, let me know. I think it would actually be cool to try a couple neighborhoods out before I settle. Spread the word please!

Please contact me if you need help arranging for subs.

Massive warm hugs to all!

C

Here is what's left of the winter/Bushwick situation:

Wednesday, January 27th

Greenpoint Tattoo Co. Class 10:45AM

Tribeca Class 6:00PM

Thursday, January 28th

Open sign-up Noon

Friday, January 29th

Open sign up 5PM-7PM

Monday, February, 1st

Tribeca Class 6:00PM

Tuesday, February 2nd

Open sign up Noon-2PM

Wednesday, February 3rd

Greenpoint Tattoo Co. Class 10:45AM

Open Sign up 1PM-4PM

Tribeca Class 6:00PM

Thursday, February 4th

Open Sign up 6PM-8PM

Monday, February 8th

Tribeca Class 6:00PM

Wednesday, February 10th

Greenpoint Tattoo Class 10:45AM

Tribeca Class 6:00PM

Availability for the week of 7/20/15

Gosh! What beautiful days...

I'm in Rhinebeck this weekend, and learning so much from teaching so exhaustively. Seriously. I feel like I'm emptying the contents of my brain in every workshop and discovering ideas from 1998 that got stuck in the dark recesses of my own body. Excited to share.

Also have some musings to share about the last teaching practicum on the blog...a messy and wonderful improv jazz sesh! (see previous post).

Enjoy this idyllic day!

Monday, July 20th
6PM @ Tribeca

Tuesday, July 21st
Noon-3PM Open Sign up
5PM Core Integration w/ Dana

Wednesday, July 22nd
10:45AM @ Greenpoint Tattoo
6PM @ Tribeca

--
Cory Nakasue
www.corynakasue.com
646.262.2480
Instagram: @bodyintel

Practicum Notes 6/25: Improv jazz and the body as unconscious mind

There was something very groovy about last practicum that reminded me of improvisational jazz. I was really impressed by the level of attunment in everyone who participated...as that is what we're trying to develop here--attunment, body to body, nervous system to nervous system, in the moment, in real time.

The teachers and I took more time to discuss what we wanted to explore before the "bodies" came in. We took time to do some movement and get into our "moving voice" as well.

Once the bodies came in, the rest was jazz. Riffing on themes of shoulder stability and how that relates to pelvic floor access and how that relates to Skinner technique, and how that relates to Feldenkrais...swapping bodies, props, and machines, then seamlessly trading roles. However, this was no free-for-all. It was more like searching every nook and cranny for a full understanding and expression of an idea--getting inside a particular movement in a particular body and listening for that body's own unique declaration of why it does what it does; again body to body, nervous system to nervous system.

Working moment to moment, in real time, not only keeps you  in a creative place, it gives you as a practitioner access to your client's "unrehearsed" movement patterns. Just getting your clients to move, and following the rhythms, themes, and progressions of what you see gives you a front row seat at their sub/unconscious thought patterns--usually (at least) 50% of the story behind a movement pattern. And, once you're "jamming" with the  body as unconscious mind, you have true mind/body work going on, and THAT is powerful stuff--that's when/where transformation happens.

These musings inspired in part by Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche

Open Hike in Rhinebeck + Saturn Return Readings!

Hi All,
Hope you're all finding ways to keep from melting.

OPEN HIKE in Rhinebeck
It's not too much cooler or drier upstate, but if you happen to be in the Hudson area next weekend, we'd like to open up afternoon hikes for anyone who wants to join. We want to put some of what we've been learning in our hiking ergonomics sessions into action. Shoot me an email, and we'll arrange a time.

SATURN RETURNS!
A couple of you have asked for your Saturn return readings, so I'm brushing up this month on Saturn specifically. A lot of astrologers will tell you that if you get your Saturn Return "wrong" that you're screwed. This is utter bullshit. The planets do not make things happen to you. HOWEVER, if you take the opportunity to check in with yourself at this time, it could be incredibly helpful and provide some stunning moments of clarity. So, if you're one of my many friends on this list who is in their late 20s, schedule a return reading with me in August! xxC


Monday, July 13th
4PM Open sign up
6PM @ Tribeca

Tuesday, July 14th
3PM Open sign up
5PM Core Integration w/ Dana

Wednesday, July 15th
11:30AM Pilates Mat w/ props + myofascial release
2PM-4PM Open sign up
6PM @ Tribeca

July 16th-19th Rhinebeck Retreat

July News

Lots of stuff!

First, THE DATES:

#1 I will be on summer break July 2nd-July 5th
# 2 I will be teaching a private intensive in Rhinebeck, NY July 6th-July 8th
#3 I will be teaching at a private retreat in Rhinebeck, NY July 17th- July 19th and July 24th- 26th
#4 Ms. Dana Florin-Weiss will be teaching a core series at my place July 7th- 28th (more info: http://bodyint.blogspot.com/2015/06/summer-series-with-dana-florin-weiss.html)
#5 My room is available for sublet when I'm out of town + 1 day on either side.

Phew! A little more about the stuff.

I'll be staying at a lovely house in Rhinebeck debuting a service that custom delivers a total movement overhaul. I'll be covering neuromuscular re-education, mind/body practice, and "everyday ergonomics."  There may be a couple sessions open to the public. It's a pilot program, so I'm sure there will be adjustments. I will let you know if those become available. Otherwise, if you're out in the Hudson Valley, come visit anyway. I have the evenings off!  House is close to many Rhinebeck attractions.

My weekly schedule between Monday evenings and Thursday mornings will remain largely unchanged.

Dana will be teaching a regular Core Integration class on Tuesdays at 5PM. Please do not be shy about asking for private sessions, duets, or trios.

Thanks so much. Happy summer!

Thursday, June 25th
Teaching Practicum 6:00PM-7:30PM (Teachers @ 5PM)

Friday, June 26th
noon-4PM

Monday, June 29th
Noon
6PM @ Tribeca

Wednesday, July 1st
10:45AM @ Greenpoint Tattoo

July 2nd-8th
Out of town