bodyART originated from Robert Steinbacher through working with special needs children in Salzburg, Germany. His mission was to help people live their desire. He believed in treating the human as a unity between muscle and organs on one side and mind and soul on the other side.
Mind, body, soul connection.
Steinbacher and his partner Alexa Le created bodyART together, thinking, how does an exercise need to be taught so that everybody can perform it?
bodyART is an intense, holistic, functional, whole body, transformative workout that combines strength, flexibility, cardio and breath work. It is based on the Eastern principles of Yin and Yang and the 5 elements. bodyART training creates a dynamic balance between activity and passivity, tension and release. It effects and balances each participant, in the individuals needs while experiencing a vigorous yet energizing physical regiment.
The ultimate aim of bodyART training is to ensure the correct function of the entire human body through functional strength and stabilization of the human motion system.
We all want beautiful bodies. Or at least I know I do!!! In the past I have used exercise as a form of “punishment,” from binge drinking, eating, purging, not feeling confident, overall excessive behavior, which always resulted in feeling like I need to escape from my own body. I have learned the importance of mind, body, soul connection. That food is nourishing, that exercise is nourishing, (when selecting the right kind.) What is inside makes the outside beautiful. Exercise is now something that feels so good!!! A necessity to be me, to get more in tune with myself. Today, I can happily say, I don’t want to escape. It doesn’t come naturally to me, and has definitely taken me time to figure this out. I am grateful to be on a path of this realization and to continue on this way, learning and growing more and more.
I always loved bodyART. I remember my first class I took was at Equinox in New York City. Ryan Beck, one of the co-founders was teaching. I was always deathly hungover and wanted to “sweat out the toxins” from the night before. I would do a barre class then a bodyART class, (which at Equinox it was a version of bodyART called deepEXTREME.) Ryan would lift me up during the jumps, it was so fun, even though I was dying inside... Always injured from over-running, eating like shit, and drinking fungal poisons aka alcohol. I was totally imbalanced, so self-conscious yet living unconsciously, dead. No clue where or what my soul was. It was somewhere looking at me saying, you are going to figure this out someway or another...I would also perform the excises to the highest extreme to kill myself, work harder, sweat harder… When now I realize that the question I should have been asking is, what does my body need today? It is different everyday! HELLO, ONE DAY AT A TIME!!!!
It is different for every person every day. bodyART provides the freedom from thinking good and bad movements, it is all about bio-individuality.
We are all different...but made up of the same parts inside, muscles, bones, a heart, a brain…
We are also all one. We just look different so we know who is who. But we are all the same beings, really.
Anyway, I am so happy to be able to say that I am a bodyART teacher!
And that I can finally enjoy the class and utilize its magic the way it was designed to be.
No pop music.
No judgement.
Universal, anyone can do it, from young kids to my grandma!
It’s about balance, it’s about breath, it’s about functional training.
Yin and yang baby, gotta have both.
I tend to have more yang, and am working on that balancing that every day.
bodyART is amazing and I am so excited to share it.
No equipment.
No shoes.
All love.
