Upcoming Classes & WorkshopsBalancing & Stabilizing the Shoulder Girdle with Somatic Techniques
Saturday March 21, 2020, 9am – 6pm, Portland Saturday April 25, 2020, 9am – 6pm, Seattle to read more click here Balancing the Pelvic Girdle with Somatic Techniques Saturday June 27, 2020, 9am - 6pm, Portland Sunday October 3, 2020, 9am - 6pm, Seattle to read more click here Undulation: A Tool for Bodywork for the Spine Saturday August 1, 2020, 9am - 6pm, Seattle to read more click here Freeing the Breath with Somatic Techniques September 12, 2020, 9am - 6pm, Portland November 21, 2020, 9am - 6pm, Seattle to read more click here |
Class OverviewKaren offers a number of classes and workshops for professionals and those wishing to expand personal horizons.
Somatic Unwinding® & Essential Breathwork satisfy LMP continuing education requirements for WA state and AMTA. Karen Clay is approved by the NCBTMB as a continuing education approved provider. (#451271-10) Click here to sign up for quarterly updates about Karen's classes Read what students say about Karen's classes below! |
Student Testimonials
I want to thank you for the wonderful class last weekend. I learned a lot and enjoyed it a great deal. I always hold you people who understand movement in high esteem. I am a left-brain PT type and have felt inept around many of my fellow SI people because I have had to learn about listening to my intuitive side. Movement work has been my biggest challenge and I think you teach it very well. I love your enthusiasm for the anatomy and the left-brain stuff and then you have the additional gift of your dance background and movement abilities. So thank you again and I hope to come to more of your classes. When I left the class, another participant said she enjoyed your teaching as much as she did when she took a class from you 15 years earlier and she was glad you were still teaching.
-WW, Rolfer(R)
This class was LOVELY. Material was clear and easy to follow. I loved how genuinely welcoming Karen was
of questions or thoughtful explorations. I felt genuinely safe (physically, spiritually, emotionally)
and I’m grateful to have such an awesome packet of information to refer to.
-SR, Massage Therapist
"Karen creates a remarkably gentle and harmonious atmosphere. She teaches finely crafted sequences that express the body's intelligence in relation to gravity and movement, leading to a sense of graceful spaciousness."
- CG Body-centered Counselor
"I recently attended The Essential Breathwork weekend. Karen is a fabulous teacher! She has a wealth of knowledge and experience and presents the material with passion, grace and humor. She is supportive and respectful. Karen has created a welcoming and nurturing environment where each student can allow her own process to unfold and truly experience the work, uninhibited. I have reached a new level within myself and I am thrilled! I highly recommend her class. I look forward to taking more classes from Karen in the future!" — DH, Massage Practitioner
"I want to let you know how much I enjoyed your class last weekend. Something about undulation just rings with me. I find that I am moving more as I work and I am tuning in more to client’s breathing and movements. And I am having more fun! I am aware that I am moving more gracefully in general. Thank you." — KE, Massage Practitioner
"The Shoulder Girdle class was really excellent, and I'm so glad I came. You taught several exercises that I’d learned before, but you taught them in a way so that I can actually do them! The shoulder exercises - the way I'd been taught previously - were awfully strenuous and left my shoulders very sore. You gave us permission to find ways to move the shoulders without strain or pain. Now I actually want to do the exercises at home, and can benefit from them. YAY!
It was just really good to re-learn these things in another way and hear a Structural Integrator actually THINKING about movement, and expressing different views. Structural Integration has come a long way since Dr. Rolf, and the movement needs to catch up. You're helping do that. Thanks!"
— JF, Massage Practitioner
The power of Somatic Unwinding became apparent to me during recovery from a car accident. I have an awareness of the flow of movement on my body like never before. I credit Karen and the class with helping my healing process to be swift and comfortable." - KM, student
"Undulating table side is helping me with body mechanics & I think is increasing my sensitivity to people's own bodies' rhythms and to the tissue. I've had some clients really get into undulating & gotten great results with that. The most fundamental thing I got out of the class is seeing the body as movement--that concept changes how I see the work I'm doing. Thanks again for a great class!"
— SH, Massage Practitioner
Click here to sign up for quarterly updates about Karen's classes
-WW, Rolfer(R)
This class was LOVELY. Material was clear and easy to follow. I loved how genuinely welcoming Karen was
of questions or thoughtful explorations. I felt genuinely safe (physically, spiritually, emotionally)
and I’m grateful to have such an awesome packet of information to refer to.
-SR, Massage Therapist
"Karen creates a remarkably gentle and harmonious atmosphere. She teaches finely crafted sequences that express the body's intelligence in relation to gravity and movement, leading to a sense of graceful spaciousness."
- CG Body-centered Counselor
"I recently attended The Essential Breathwork weekend. Karen is a fabulous teacher! She has a wealth of knowledge and experience and presents the material with passion, grace and humor. She is supportive and respectful. Karen has created a welcoming and nurturing environment where each student can allow her own process to unfold and truly experience the work, uninhibited. I have reached a new level within myself and I am thrilled! I highly recommend her class. I look forward to taking more classes from Karen in the future!" — DH, Massage Practitioner
"I want to let you know how much I enjoyed your class last weekend. Something about undulation just rings with me. I find that I am moving more as I work and I am tuning in more to client’s breathing and movements. And I am having more fun! I am aware that I am moving more gracefully in general. Thank you." — KE, Massage Practitioner
"The Shoulder Girdle class was really excellent, and I'm so glad I came. You taught several exercises that I’d learned before, but you taught them in a way so that I can actually do them! The shoulder exercises - the way I'd been taught previously - were awfully strenuous and left my shoulders very sore. You gave us permission to find ways to move the shoulders without strain or pain. Now I actually want to do the exercises at home, and can benefit from them. YAY!
It was just really good to re-learn these things in another way and hear a Structural Integrator actually THINKING about movement, and expressing different views. Structural Integration has come a long way since Dr. Rolf, and the movement needs to catch up. You're helping do that. Thanks!"
— JF, Massage Practitioner
The power of Somatic Unwinding became apparent to me during recovery from a car accident. I have an awareness of the flow of movement on my body like never before. I credit Karen and the class with helping my healing process to be swift and comfortable." - KM, student
"Undulating table side is helping me with body mechanics & I think is increasing my sensitivity to people's own bodies' rhythms and to the tissue. I've had some clients really get into undulating & gotten great results with that. The most fundamental thing I got out of the class is seeing the body as movement--that concept changes how I see the work I'm doing. Thanks again for a great class!"
— SH, Massage Practitioner
Click here to sign up for quarterly updates about Karen's classes
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