Upcoming Classes & WorkshopsThese courses are on leave of absence while Karen develops her Awareness Through Movement® Classes
Body Mechanics for the Manual Therapist Balancing & Stabilizing the Shoulder Girdle with Somatic Techniques Undulation: A Tool for Bodywork for the Spine Freeing the Breath with Somatic Techniques |
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
Thank you for the incredible work. We had such a beautiful partnership in our work together. I am happy to say I am doing FANTASTIC! Honestly, my neck pain is gone, my low back pain is gone. My walking is freer, I can feel myself swing, my low back is loose and moving. What’s been very helpful is I can tell when I’m bracing, tense, out of alignment, and then fix it! Your work has been very helpful in my meditation seat. I’d often get uncomfortable sitting longer than 20 minutes in my upper and low back, but you taught me how to stack myself properly and now I can sit with no problem for a hour - probably longer. Always looking for that subtle lift up.
All that to say, it’s such a joy not to have to think about what hurts in my body anymore. I side sleep with a baby pillow under my ribs, like you taught me, and I’ve never slept so well.
-VH, Librarian
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
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