Shintaido Boston Area

Shintaido: An expressive martial art designed to expand the imagination and promote health.

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Shintaido is a unique combination of martial arts and expressive body movement which cultivates the spirit along with the mind and body. It has been called a dynamic moving meditation. In Japanese, Shintaido means "new body way." Shintaido's forms exemplify openness and freedom, focus and play. The movements of Shintaido provide a new way of experiencing our relationship with ourselves, others, nature, and the spiritual world. Shintaido can be called a healing art, and a form of artistic expression. Shintaido attracts people who are interested in change, self development, and re-connecting with their bodies, their community, their spiritual nature. For more information go to www.shintaido.org and www.sne.shintiado.org Jennifer Hicks has been teaching movement for over 30 years, practicing Shintaido since 1986 and is a certified Shintaido Instructor. She is also a certified Trance Dance International Facilitator and a Yoga Instructor registered with the National Yoga Alliance. Jennifer has studied Butoh dance since the early 1990's with master teachers such as Katsura Kan, Maureen Fleming, the Tamanos etc. She is also a former member of Boston's performance collective called Mobius and is presently the director of CHIMERAlab Dance Theatre. Ms Hicks has a unique approach to her work, combining elements of martial arts, Butoh and other movement modalities such as Body Mind Centering ® principles, Viewpoints and mediation. She studied shiatsu massage and acupuncture at Boston School of Shiatsu and New England School of Acupuncture as well as with H.F Ito and David Palmer. She is also a certified Personal Trainer with the American Academy of Personal Training. She received her MFA from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance where she studied Viewpoints with Wendell Beavers and members of SITI Company and later with Mary Overlie. She studied Body-Mind Centering® principles with Erika Berland and workshops with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Continuum workshops with Emilie Conrad. Her BFA from Tufts University and Degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. Jennifer won the prestigious The Traveling Scholars Award from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is an alumnus of Franklin Furnace in NYC.

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Shintaido Boston Area is Boston based place and this enity listed in Health/Beauty category.