SUMMER SOMATICS SERIES

2026 Schedule

Weekly Somatic Movement Workshops

May 16 – June 15, 2026
The Grandel (Ballroom)

3610 Grandel Square, St. Louis, MO 63103

Karlovsky & Company Dance addresses the needs of bodymind

health, self-care, and opportunities for professional development

through our annual SUMMER SOMATICS SERIES of weekly

somatic movement workshops.

Restore | Balance | Energize

2026 Workshop Schedule

Saturday, May 16 - 10:30am - Noon:

Elemental Flow Medical Qigong with Kade Stotler

Saturday, May 23 - 10:30am - Noon:

MEISA:

movement-exploration-imagination-sensation-awareness

with Melissa Rolnick

Saturday, May 30 - 10:30am - Noon:

Patterns that Underlie our Everyday Movement - 2

with Mary Ann Rund

Monday, June 1, 6:30pm - 8pm:

The Alexander Technique: Sensing and Connecting

with Dawn Karlovsky

Monday, June 8, 6:30pm-8pm:

The Elusive Solution - Feldenkrais Method®

with Kelly Feder

Monday, June 15, 6:30pm-8pm:

Embodiment and Transformation Through Subtle Energy

with Beckah Reed

The Summer Somatics Series provides weekly somatic movement

classes with the aim to help movers of all types

discover new practices for deepening your movement

experiences, enriching performance skills, enhancing

sensory awareness, and attending to self-care.

For movers of all types - 16+ and mature movers.

Somatic education contributes to improved awareness and

movement integration to experience more ease, comfort,

and confidence. A different somatic practice is featured each

week and presented by teaching specialists who are certified

instructors in their respective field.

Karlovsky & Company Dance is thrilled to collaborate with

these amazing local teachers and to provide you with a taste

of these invaluable somatic movement experiences.

These classes are appropriate for all movement levels and can

be adapted for individual needs. They are most suited for

adult populations; however, older teens under 18 years old

are welcome when accompanied with a parent or guardian.

Questions? Contact Dawn Karlovsky, founder and artistic director

of Karlovsky & Company Dance | 314-283-1851 or

email us at: info@karlovskydance.org

See class descriptions below!

Elemental Flow Medical Qigong with Kade Stotler

Acupuncture Medicine offers a beautiful lens through which to view our bodies and their interconnectivity with each other and the natural world around us.

In this class, Dr. Kade will lead us on an exploration of the 5 elements and how they impact our bodies balance within itself and in connection to the world around us. We will begin with experiencing each of the elements. Then from here we start our movement exploration-from specific elemental medical qigong movements and acupressure locations, to noticing where in our individual bodies the qi flow surges, stagnates, reroutes, or needs boosted. Specific acupressure and medical qigong movements will be offered as foundations in addition to allowing space for individually generated movement expressions of the elements. Come prepared to move gently, sense your body, and learn some qigong movements and acupressure locations to take home with you for your own individual practice.

Dr. Kade Stotler DACM, MSOM, BFA, L.Ac (They, Them, Theirs) is an artist, mover, healer, space holder, community builder, & queerbodied human who is excited to be back in STL. Kade is a trained herbalist & licensed Doctor of Acupuncture Medicine who owns and operates Golden Oak Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine in Dogtown. They received their BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts and performed, choreographed, & taught modern dance professionally in St. Louis, Seattle, & throughout the PNW from 1997-2013. During that time they studied contact improvisation under the direction of Amii LeGendre, Karl Frost, & various SFADI instructors. Since then, their movement has been influenced through their studies in qigong, tai ji, aikido, social partner dancing-West Coast Swing, Country Two-Step & Waltz, East Coast Swing-& through the various energy & politicized somatic practices they maintain. Kade is a lover of everything outdoors especially camping, backpacking, kayaking, & tree climbing, & loves to spend time creating events that connect community to nature, movement, & embodied playful interactions.

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The Alexander Technique: Sensing and Connecting with Dawn Karlovsky

Drawing from the principles of the Alexander Technique, this workshop invites participants to explore the subtleties of communication and expression through the awakening of the senses and the power of gentle touch. What do we share and receive through touch? How do we listen, respond, and communicate without words?

Participants will be guided to experience the body not only through physical sensation but also through mindful awareness and thoughtful intention. We will integrate AT skills of inhibition - such as pausing, non-doing, and deep listening - with directed attention, personal expression, and relational awareness. Through playful exploration, we will awaken our senses and deepen our connections, discovering the harmony of a responsive, expressive body in dynamic relationship with others.

Dawn Karlovsky is the Founder and Director of Karlovsky & Company Dance. Her choreography has been commissioned and presented by universities and companies both nationally and internationally, with credits including Le Théatre du Rouret and Cie Haute Tension in France, Tsinghua University in Beijing, New World Dance Theatre in South Africa, Divadlo Štúdio tanca in Banka Bystrica, Slovakia. She has also been an Artist in Residence at Moulin Belle in France.

Dawn is a nationally certified teaching member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). Certified in 2004, she currently serves as Chair of AmSAT’s Committee for the Alexander Technique in the Performing Arts (CATPA). Her teaching fosters a holistic approach to movement and creative practice through Alexander Technique courses at Washington University as part of the Somatic Studies Certificate Program and as faculty at Webster University’s Department of Dance in St. Louis. Dawn is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Dance from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. www.karlovskydance.org

Patterns that Underlie our Everyday Movement -2 with Mary Ann Rund

Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) are a series of automatic movement sequences that progress from simple to complex in humans. These normally and naturally emerge and integrate through infancy creating patterns which inform and build our movement, physical, perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes our whole lifetime. This foundation not only guides our interactions with gravity and space, particularly important to dancers and movement-oriented folks, but supports the discovery and rediscovery of our sense of self, our relationship to others and our environment.

This workshop will explore the vertebrate (spinal) patterns which develop innately after the pre-spinal patterns. They are: spinal, homologous, homolateral, contralateral and brachiation/climbing. These patterns will then be combined into two developmental movement sequences.

Experiencing first as internal movement, then external movement and finally as locomotive, we will work as individuals and possibly with partners to reconnect with and embody these underlying patterns which provide us with richness and fullness of being, as internal sensation and connection leading to outward expression. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering® says, “BNP form the underlying words and phrases in the language of human movement.”

Mary Ann Rund (aka Reis) has taught dance and somatic movement for several decades in St. Louis. Former performer and choreographer, Mary Ann is intrigued by the potential for expression in all ages and stages of life. With a BS in Biology and a BA and MFA in dance, she decided to indulge her curiosity of somatic disciplines and chose Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) as a focus of study and practice, completing certifications in Somatic Movement Education (SME) and Infant Development Movement Education (IDME). Mary Ann currently sees private clients, is a co-teacher for the Saturday Community Modern Dance class, and indulges in the experiences of movement in varied environments such as river and ocean, field and forest, mountain and mudbank. Feel free to contact her at marund@att.net

Embodiment and Transformation Through Subtle Energy with Beckah Reed

Connect to the Energy Centers in Your Body!

How do I manifest change/innovation in my life? There are swirling vortices of energy connecting me to the “outside world”, which also allow access to a deeper sense of ‘knowing’ in my “inner world”. Through playing with breath, color, imagery, movement, and sensation I may access and explore these windows, these moving, subtle energy portals. Where will they lead me? Allow limitless possibilities to unfold, with the invitation to embody the chakras and energy fields. Beckah guides a time of personal experimentation, inviting transformation. There is no previous experience necessary, simply be in the moment, come with an openness to what unfolds with each breath. Be the observer and the participant in your journey. Do you have an intention of what you would like to manifest or change? Come Create Your Universe!

Beckah Reed taught in the Department of Dance at Webster University for over 37 years and served as artistic director of ANNONYArts, Wishbone Dance Theatre and co-artistic director of GASH/VOIGT Dance Theatre. Her love of movement has taken her to communities across the globe, focusing on connection, expression and humanistic issues. Beckah’s decades of international modern dance performance, choreography, improvisation, meditation, qigong, taiji, reiki, Continuum Movement® and somatics research, provide her with a passionate perspective of life and health. She finds joy in the dance of subtle energy! beckahreed.com

MEISA: movement-exploration-imagination-sensation-awareness with Melissa Rolnick

MEISA: movement-exploration-imagination-sensation-awareness is a developing somatic, contemplative, creative practice (in its 10th year) that revitalizes mind, body and spirit. A lifetime in somatic, contemplative movement practice and dance have informed the development of MEISA. The practice invites embodied presence through sensory connection and a questing need to know, move, and live more deeply in the authenticity of the body. Familiar patterns emerge, and transform through conscious investigation. New territories of movement potential unfold. All levels welcomed.

Melissa Rolnick is Professor Emerita at Gustavus Adolphus College. BFA SUNY Purchase, MFA Mills College. New York studies: Andre Eglevsky, Maggie Black, Valentina Pereyaslavec, Zena Rommett, Merce Cunningham, Mel Wong, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Carol Fried, Aaron Osborne, Louis Falco, Jennifer Muller, Dan Wagoner. San Francisco studies: Margaret Jenkins, Aaron Osborne, Alonzo King. Performed in SF with Joe Goode, Emily Keeler, Elina Mooney, in the companies of SF Moving Company, Cliff Keuter, Margaret Jenkins. Other studies: Iyengar yoga: Judith Lasater, Authentic Movement : Janet Adler, Dani Riggs, Gaga: Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dancers. Former faculty member at Sonoma State, Western WA, Arizona State, Fresno State, Gustavus Adolphus College. Choreography presented in California, Arizona, Minnesota, Wyoming Florida, British Columbia, Texas. In 2015 Melissa was awarded a Lenz Residential Fellowship Buddhist Studies at Naropa University. During this time, she began developing MEISA:movement-exploration-imagination-sensation-awareness, a somatic/contemplative/creative practice.

The Elusive Solution - Feldenkrais Method® with Kelly Feder

What if our mindset to fix a problem undermines our ability to improve and get better? What if connecting with yourself is more powerful than judging? What if creative and novel variations are more effective than repetitions? What if failing is succeeding? Join me as we explore these questions through the Feldenkrais Method® of Awareness Through Movement®.

Kelly Feder has always been interested in human potential and how we create and move beyond our limitations in both moving and thinking. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and has been learning and exploring with this method for almost 20 years.