Core-Focused Yoga

Community Workshop in Partnership with Duke Dance Department: Open to all – no Duke affiliation required!

This movement practice is designed to awaken and strengthen your core to support ease, stability, and freedom in everyday movement. Through mindful sequencing we’ll explore how activating the deep core muscles can support efficient alignment for your spine, hips, and shoulders. Expect a blend of grounding breathwork, dynamic flow, and longer holds that challenge the body while cultivating awareness and strength. The class is moderately challenging yet accessible to all levels—designed for anyone seeking to build functional strength, enhance postural balance, and move with greater confidence both on and off the mat.

Limited mats and blankets will be available. Students are encouraged to bring their own mats and props if they have them.
 

Kristin Clotfelter co-directs Studio C Projects (SCP), a collective investigating intersections of movement, design and performance; is Associate Artistic Director of Barriskill Dance Theater School, and teaches dance at Duke University. Kristin has been a member of Susan Marshall & Company since 2011, and Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre since 2005.  She has also worked with Joanna Kotze, Londs Reuter, Johannes Wieland, Sara Shelton Mann and Abigail Levine. Additional performance credits include: The Metropolitan Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, State Theater of Kassel in Germany, and Punchdrunk’s off-Broadway show, Sleep No More.  She has been awarded residencies through Durham Independent Dance Artists, Tobacco Road Dance Productions and Dance Omi. SCP’s work has been presented by the North Carolina Dance Festival and Company. Kristin holds a BFA with honors and a minor in Visual Arts from the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University program and an MFA from the University of the Arts.