Welcome from Liz
A Lifetime spent engaging people with creativity, movement, and music
Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner
Certified Bones for Life® Instructor
Inspiring People with Disabilities through Dance
Continues to teach Qigong and forms of Modern Dance
You can’t love movement if it is difficult or painful. I hope that I can help you rediscover the possibilities of movement through individual sessions or classes.
“To make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant. Life without movement is unthinkable.” - Moshe Feldenkrais
Upon leaving my long-time job as Artistic Director at the Fort Wayne Dance Collective, I turned my attention to offering programs that help people reconnect to their bodies and to find joy and comfort in movement. For some it means re-education on how to stand up, improve posture, recover from an injury, or how to be a better swimmer. For others they look to movement to reduce stress.
We can start on a path of easier movement together.
Join a Class with Liz in person or on Zoom
Bones for Life® processes help us to understand more about ourselves. When we begin to pay attention to our movement and feel more aware, the brain and nervous system make positive changes that create more efficiency. Movement becomes easier and more enjoyable. I believe you will feel a difference.
A Bones for Life® four-class series with Liz Monnier October 7, 14, 21, 28 **On Zoom,Tuesdays 12 noon – 1 p.m. (EST) Can’t make this time? No worries, classes will be recorded and available for 2 weeks. (Although recordings are not interactive, it does allow for flexibility for participation on your own time. I encourage you to do this if you are unable to make the Thursday noon (EST) class. )
Classes are $40 for the four-class series. Bones for Life® is designed to help anyone, and everyone, use natural movements to promote bone health and strength while possibly preventing osteoporosis. For more information check out this link: http://movementintelligence.org/bones-for-life
To register email monnierliz@gmail.com
Improve bone health and strength with the gentle, natural movements guided by Liz Monnier. Liz is a certified Bones for Life® instructor. This practice has been shown to improve posture, decrease pain, and aid in the fight against osteoporosis. While this class is most effective with movements involving standing, walking, sitting, and lying on the floor, movement may be modified to accommodate restrictions.
Benefits from Bones for Life®:
Coordinates a springy and vibrant walk.
Frees the joints from compromising habits allowing for pain free movement.
Stimulates bone strength.
Develops skills for restoring equilibrium.
Teaches you how to move your unique body in a range that is right for you.
Helps you to rediscover the pleasure of moving!
If this is your first Bones for Life® class, you will need to submit the Foundation for Movement Intelligence Memorandum of Understanding prior to taking a class. You only need to do this once. https://forms.gle/K6mNWwSemJ5dkFEq9
Other In Person Classes Available with Liz Monnier:
** Introduction to Qigong: Tuesdays 6:30-7:30 p.m.(September 23, October 7, 21, November 4, 18) at DNA Awakening School, 1615 S. Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN inside the Art and Awakening Center. Fee: $15
Parking on the street and across the street in the fenced area.
Registration encouraged at https://www.dnaempowerment.com
Drop-ins also welcome. Qigong combines movement, breath, self-massage and meditation. Participants should wear easy to move in clothing and can be barefoot or wear socks or soft shoes. The class can also be done seated.
Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement Classes
Holistic Integration of Body and Mind
with Liz Monnier, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®
Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. October 14, 28, November 11, 25 at
DNA Awakening School, 1615 S. Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, IN inside the Art and Awakening Center. Fee: $15
Parking on the street and across the street in the fenced area.
Registration encouraged at https://www.dnaempowerment.com
Drop-ins also welcome.
We begin our class with “Please lie on your back.” You will then be verbally guided through small and slow mindful movements to interpret in your own way without any demonstration. It allows you the time and space to be with yourself, without judgement, while becoming aware of unexpected and interesting connections within and between the movements. As you attend to improving the quality of your movement, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the body can reorganize and release. Students are often amazed at the quick and clear changes that occur through the neuromuscular repatterning that happens in an Awareness Through Movement lesson! Unique to the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education these lessons tie directly into functional movements of daily life, such as walking efficiently, safely lifting objects, and improving one’s posture in sitting or standing.
You will need a comfortable surface to lie on that you will be able to slide on. A blanket or sleeping bag over a yoga mat for example. You might need a little support under your head. You’ll remove your shoes, glasses, and anything else on your body (watches, earrings etc.) This keeps your brain from having to consider anything else except your movement. This is not an exercise class but rather a somatic practice of movement re-education.
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T’ai Chi, Qigong® in person at the Botanical Gardens, Fort Wayne, IN Tuesdays 10 a.m. -11:00 a.m. January 20-February 24, 2026 Call Fort Wayne Parks and Rec to register 260-427-6460.
Dance for PD (dance movement in chair for those with limited mobility) In Person at the Fort Wayne Dance Collective, 437 East Berry Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Mondays 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. (Call 260-424-6574 to register,fwdc.org, drop in’s welcome) Fall Classes start September 8