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2025 Teacher Training and Class Schedule

ClydeRae Jolie-Ashe is a Specialized Master Trainer who has been teaching for over 25 years. Her courses are held globally and interested persons should carefully check the location of each training. To register for trainings please go to the listing, look for the location and phone or email the contact person.
Contact ClydeRae for more information at (303) 888-2525, [email protected].

PRIVATE SESSIONS:

Clyde Rae is offering private movement sessions GYROKINESIS®, GYROTONIC®, and The Threshold: Somatic Journey at Lila Studios in Earlville, N.Y., by appointment only. She is also available for private Zoom lessons.

Private sessions are on a sliding scale, from $65-$130 for a single session, Packages of 4 are $250-$500 and Packages or 10 are $600-$1200.

2025 CLASSES

Note: These are drop in classes. You can take one class or the series.

IN-PERSON CLASSES

Mondays, weekly from 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM ET
Lila Studios in Earlville, NY
Contact ClydeRae for more information at (303) 888-2525, [email protected].
Students can request the links and pay as they are able, by Zelle, Venmo, Paypal or check.

ONLINE CLASSES

CARDIOVASCULAR BREATHING + CLASS

Sundays, weekly at 5:00 – 6:15 PM ET.

Zoom online classes. The CardioVascular Breathing 1 & 2 Plus – The class is Juliu’s response to Covid. When two of his Master Trainers became gravely ill with the virus in the Spring of 2020 he got to work using various rhythmic breaths coordinated with movements and tapping to help the body’s healthy response to the illness. The Program (consisting of three Progressions) was so successful he shared it with the larger Gyrotonic community during a 21-day Journey. CVB-1 lays the foundation for the other two Progressions. It is complete in itself, but can be a stepping stone to the more complex and energetic Progressions 2 & 3. Of course, one does not need to have had Covid to benefit from these extraordinary Progressions!

Fee for classes BY DONATION. Students can request the link and can pay as they are able, by Zelle, Venmo, Paypal or check.

Before starting one of her Zoom classes, ClydeRae asks new students to meet with her for a complimentary 30 minute private session on Zoom.

Contact ClydeRae for more information at (303) 888-2525, [email protected].

GYROKINESIS® APPLICATIONS FOR OSTEOPOROSIS

with Specialized Master Trainer, ClydeRae Jolie-Ashe
ClydeRae plans to offer a series of short videos that will be available for any Osteo students who don’t choose to do the CVB+ class on Sunday.

Why might aging bodies benefit from the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Methods?

The Gyrotonic System of movement moves everything, the spine, every joint, every tissue, with varying breathing patterns and many rhythms.  It’s not about range of motion, but about discovering one’s own range of motion, strength, balance, pleasure in movement, and then enhancing all capacities.  It is never boring.  It is engaging, playful, effective and with extensive evidence and documentation of its effectiveness.

ClydeRae has enjoyed guiding movement with seniors for over 25 years, is herself closer to 80 than 70, learns something with every class she teaches, is inspired by her students and is still acquiring new skills and capacities.

ClydeRae plans to offer a series of short videos that will be available for any Osteo folks who don’t choose to do the CVB+ class on Sunday.

2025 TRAININGS

Sacred Geometry and the GYROKINESIS® Method, Arvada, Colorado, May 10 – 12, 2025

Location: BodySpan Studio.

Tuition $525.  Studio fee: TBD

Deposit Due: $200, by February 28, 2025.

Contact: Deb McBride 720-352-7044

In essence this course is an exploration of GYROKINESIS® Movement through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis. This includes an introduction to Laban’s language of movement, Bartenieff Fundamentals®, the five Sacred Solids (sometimes called the Platonic Solids) and Laban’s movement scales with those 3-dimensional figures. We will handle models of the solids, draw them, build them, and move within them experiencing the dynamic affinities that give life to our Gyrokinesis practice.

We will move on the floor, through all levels, and traveling across and around the available space. We may take field trips to sites outside the studio depending on availability and weather. As with all my courses, content and approach will be influenced and informed by what knowledge, experience and questions students bring with them. A friend, student and colleague calls this “The Wisdom Pool.”

Sacred Geometry and Gyrokinesis Movement is the result of a long lifetime (70+ years) exploring the expression of life into form. This Course is an Update for Trainers Certified in Gyrokinesis and for Trainers Certified in both Gyrokinesis AND Gyrotonic. It is NOT an Update for Trainers Certified only in Gyrotonic.

Join us for two Special Classes at BodySpan Studio in Arvada, Colorado

  Yoga Narada 

Date: May 7, 2025 from 10-11:30 am. 
Previously known as Yoga for Dancers, which was the Precursor to Gyrokinesis.  With a thorough warm-up, some careful breathing work and an in depth standing sequence and floor work, Yoga Narada reveals the feminine side of our work. Contact: [email protected].

The Sacred Geometry of Our Bodies and Our Movement 

Date: May 7, 2025 from 5:30-6:45 pm. 
“Our bodies are always talking to us.  Are we listening?”  This class is an energetic movement meditation leading to that inner conversation. Contact: [email protected].

The Threshold – Bali, Indonesia, September 20-22, 2025

Tuition: $525. Studio fee: TBD

Location: Gyrotonic Bali.  Contact Victoria Lim:  [email protected].

Deposit due by September 4: $200

The Threshold: A Somatic Journey to the Self This course delves into the exploration of the inner self and its interaction with the outer world. Participants will engage in self-touch, breath, movement, art, and sound to foster a deeper connection with their inner selves. The course will guide participants in developing a balance between protection and vulnerability.

Gyrokinesis Foundation at Lila Studios in Lebanon, NY,  June 20-22, June 27-29 and July 11-13

The Gyrokinesis Foundation Course is a course that provides a deep understanding of the Gyrokinesis Level 1 exercises and the techniques for teaching them. It’s designed to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to become Gyrokinesis Level 1 trainers. The course focuses on the principles, teaching techniques, and exercise sequences of Gyrokinesis Level 1, including both Format 1 and Format 2 classes.

The Foundation Course may be used as an Apprentice Review, an Update, or an initial or continuing Pre-Trainer Update all with reduced tuition.

To register, send deposit of $525 to ClydeRae by May 20.  Venmo, PayPal, Zelle (CBNA, not Chase) or mail check to ClydeRae, 941 Campbell Road, Earlville, NY 13332-2733.

No meetings over 4th of July weekend.  Space limited.

Hours: 10am-1pm and 4-6pm except the last day, which will be a half-day, 10am-2pm. 

Tuition: $1575. Studio Fee: $45.  To register, send deposit of $525 to ClydeRae by May 20. 

Payment Methods: Venmo, PayPal, Zelle (CBNA, not Chase) or mail check to ClydeRae, 941 Campbell Road, Earlville, NY 13332-2733.

Contact:  ClydeRae (303) 888-2525, [email protected].  

Sacred Geometry and the GYROKINESIS® Method, Bali, Indonesia, September 24-26, 2025

Location: Gyrotonic Bali.  Contact Victoria Lim:  [email protected]

Tuition: $525. Studio fee: TBD

Deposit due by September 7: $200

In essence this course is an exploration of GYROKINESIS® Movement through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis. This includes an introduction to Laban’s language of movement, Bartenieff Fundamentals®, the five Sacred Solids (sometimes called the Platonic Solids) and Laban’s movement scales with those 3-dimensional figures. We will handle models of the solids, draw them, build them, and move within them experiencing the dynamic affinities that give life to our Gyrokinesis practice.

We will move on the floor, through all levels, and traveling across and around the available space. We may take field trips to sites outside the studio depending on availability and weather. As with all my courses, content and approach will be influenced and informed by what knowledge, experience and questions students bring with them. A friend, student and colleague calls this “The Wisdom Pool.”

Sacred Geometry and Gyrokinesis Movement is the result of a long lifetime (70+ years) exploring the expression of life into form. This Course is an Update for Trainers Certified in Gyrokinesis and for Trainers Certified in both Gyrokinesis AND Gyrotonic. It is NOT an Update for Trainers Certified only in Gyrotonic.

Sacred Geometry and the Gyrokinesis Method Course – Gyrotonic Bratislava Central, TBD

Tuition: $525. Studio fee $75.

Contact: ClydeRae, (303) 888-2525, [email protected]m


HOST A TRAINING IN YOUR AREA

Inquire with us if you would like to host a training in your area. Also, we invite you to visit Earlville, NY to study with ClydeRae.

Contact ClydeRae for more information at (303) 888-2525, [email protected].

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It Is I Who Must Begin
by Václav Havel

It is I who must begin.
Once I begin, once I try–
here and now,
right where I am,
not excusing myself
by saying things
would be easier elsewhere,
without grand speeches and
ostentatious gestures,
but all the more persistently
–to live in harmony
with the “voice of Being,” as I
understand it within myself
–as soon as I begin that,
I suddenly discover,
to my surprise, that
I am neither the only one,
nor the first,
nor the most important one
to have set out
upon that road.
Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost.

Capillary Prairie
by Carrie Routman, GYROTONIC® Trainer and bodyworker

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open meadows
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surround
contours
corners
crevices
cradling
shapes
within

all aspects of
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beheld by
flow of
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Arrivals
by David Whyte

Imagine the confines of a long grey corridor

just before immigration at Washington Dulles

airport. Imagine two Ethiopian women amid

a sea of familiar international plastic blandness,

entering America for the first time. Think of

their undulating multi-colored turbans raised

atop graceful heads, transforming us,

a grey line of travelers behind them, into followers

and mendicants, mere drab, impatient, moneyed

and perplexed attendants to their bright,

excited, chattered arrival.

Imagine a sharp plexi-glass turn left and suddenly

before them, in biblical astonishment, like a vertical

red sea churning, like the waters barring Moses from

The Promised Land, like Jacob standing before the ladder,

a moving escalator, a mode of rising, a form of ascension,

a way to go up they’d never seen before, its steel grey

interlocking invitation on and up to who knows what,

bringing them and everyone behind them, to a bemused,

complete, and utter standstill.

So that you saw it for the first time as they saw it

and for what it was, a grated river of lifting steel,

an involuntary, moving ascension into who knows what.

An incredible surprise. And you knew, even through

your tiredness, why it made them raise their hands

to their mouths, why it made them give low breathy

screams of surprise and delighted terror. You saw it

as they saw it, a staircase of invisible interlocking

beckoning hands asking them to rise up

independent of their history, their legs or their wills.

And we stopped as we knew we had to now

and watched the first delighted be-turbaned

woman put a sandaled foot on the flat grey

plain at the foot of the moving stair and sure

enough quickly withdraw it with a strangled scream,

leaving her sandal to ascend strangely without her

into heaven, into America, into her new life.

Then, holding her friend away, who tried to grab

her, to save her, to hold her back, who pointed

and shouted, telling her not to risk herself,

not to be foolish, she silently watched her shoe,

that willful child, running ahead, its sole intent

to enter the country oblivious to visas and immigration,

above the need for a job, uncaring of healthcare,

pointing toward some horizon she had never dreamt,

intent on leaving only its winged footprint

for her to follow, like a comet’s tail, like an omen

of necessity, like a signaled courage, like an uncaring

invitation, to make her entrance with soul and style.

Because she looked up at this orphaned, onward

messenger with her eyes ablaze, threw off the panicked

clamboring arms of her friend, raised her chin

in noble profile, and with all that other hurrying

clamor of the world behind her, with a busy,

unknowing, corporate crowd at her back and questions

beginning to be asked out loud, she lifted her arms,

clapped her hands, threw back her head and with

a queenly unbidden grace, strode on to the ascending

heaven bound steel like a newly struck film star,

singing the old, high pitched song her children

would hear when she told the story again.

And as her friend below sang,

applauded, danced on the spot

and ululated her companion’s arrival,

we stood there behind her,

transfixed, travel weary,

and crammed into the corridor

like extras from some

miraculous scene in the Bible.

While

she ascended,

her arms straight out,

wide eyed and singing.

Into America.

GYROTONIC® Trainer and bodyworker

award

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ClydeRae Jolie-Ashe
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
941 Campbell Road
Earlville NY 13332
(303) 888-2525
clyderae888(at)gmail.com

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