Presentations for you or your group. On-site 45-minute lecture-demonstrations for anyone who spends the day in chairs, on their feet, or in front of a mirror. Posture, movement, and the small daily habits that catch up to all of us.
Book a talk“Moving through life is how you think when you move through life. There is no course connected to this. There is no book connected to this. I'm here to make people think of how they move through life.”
Moving Through Life is a 45-minute lecture-demonstration I bring to your office, studio, or group. I'm Michele Hart, dancer and actress, and I've been teaching adults for more than twenty-five years.
Along the way I figured out that most of what I was telling dancers applied to everyone else too: how they stand, how they sit, how they reach across a desk without thinking.
I'm not going to ask you to get on the floor. I'm not going to tell you to join a gym or take a walk. You already know that. What I'll do is show you the small, specific things you're doing every day. Twisting one knee in the kitchen. Curling your hands over a keyboard. Never quite standing all the way up when you stand up. Then I give you the fix for each one. Head to toe, in order, with reasons attached.
A few minutes with Michele, in her own words.
“We are designed to be in movement. We're not designed to be in a box.”
Anywhere there's a group of people who spend most of the day in chairs, on their feet, or in front of a mirror.
For companies that want to give their team something better than another wellness email. I come in during lunch, speak for forty-five minutes, take questions, and leave everyone a little more aware of what their desk is doing to them. No mats, no changing clothes, nobody asked to exercise in front of a coworker.
For acting schools, actors' agents, and movement classes that want a guest session on placement, symmetry, and the things that catch up to all of us. I speak the language and I know the injuries. I've been fixing them in dancers for a quarter century.
For volunteer and charitable organizations, senior centers, and religious groups. These are the talks I care about most. I offer greatly reduced rates for charitable groups, and for the right cause I'll come for free. Ask.
One visit. Forty-five minutes. Everyone stays in their chair unless they want to stand.
A complete head-to-toe presentation followed by a full Q&A session. Delivered on-site anywhere in Southern California.
You sit. You watch. I demonstrate. No participation required, though most people can't help trying a stretch from their seat.
Office workers, drivers, pianists, retirees. Tell me who's in the room and I'll fully tailor the experience for them.
Actionable solutions for specific problems: shoulders around your ears, tingling wrists, or mysterious knee aches.
No jargon. No woo-woo. Just simple, mechanical truths about movement and posture, using no props beyond my own two feet and a straight chair.
This isn't an ongoing subscription or a twelve-week course. It's a single seed planted in the mind that grows in the body.
Michele Hart has been dancing for fifty years, teaching adults for more than twenty-five. She is an actress and a dancer. Along the way she realized that almost everything she was telling dancers applied just as well to people who had never set foot in a studio.
“I am the person you go to when the balance doesn't hold, when the turns don't work, when the jump is not landing the way it's supposed to. I'm a fixer.”
Posture, symmetry, the way a foot strikes the ground, the way a wrist curls over a keyboard. The rules didn't change, only the audience did. Moving Through Life grew out of that realization.
Today she brings those twenty-five years into offices, studios, and community rooms across Southern California as a 45-minute lecture-demonstration. She stands all the way up, and is still, by her own account, a champion sloucher who knows exactly when to stop slouching.
Michele sits down for a longer conversation about posture, movement, and the habits that shape how your body feels over a lifetime.
The phone is the best way to reach me. I prefer it. Email works too. I answer every inquiry myself within 1-2 business days.