Infinite Threads · Class
Soma Flow
Built on the art of the ballet barre. Deceptively hard. Absolutely no experience required.
It looks gentle. Small movements, no jumping, nothing thrown around. Then about twelve minutes in, your standing leg starts shaking and you understand what is actually happening.
The barre is the most efficient body-training instrument anyone has ever built — and almost nobody outside a ballet studio ever gets to use it. Soma Flow takes what the barre does and opens it to everybody, with pilates and yoga woven through: the deep core work that holds you up, and the long opening stretches that let the work land.
You follow along.
That is the whole instruction.
I cue it continuously and you move with me. Nothing to memorize, nothing to get right, no sequence you are supposed to already know. If you lose the thread, you find it again on the next phrase — which is also the practice.
Who It Is For
You do not need to be a ballerina
You do not need to have ever taken a dance class. You do not need to be flexible, strong, young, or thin.
This is a judgement-free room, and I mean that structurally rather than as a slogan.
Nobody is watching you. I am teaching, not inspecting.
There is no level, no front row, and no one to keep up with.
Every movement has a smaller version and a bigger one. Both are the exercise.
You can stop whenever you like and rejoin whenever you like.
Nothing here is about how your body looks. It is about what it can feel and what it can do.
It is also, quietly, very good for people who have been moving all their lives — dancers, athletes, yoga teachers — who know technique from the outside and would like to meet it again from the inside.
What an Hour Feels Like
Into the flow, and out again
Settle
Breath, spine, weight. Finding the floor and noticing what turned up today — because it is different every time, and the practice should meet the body you actually brought.
Work
Barre-based sequences with pilates threaded through. Small, precise, accumulating. This is the part that is harder than it looks.
Open
Long yoga-based stretch carried on the breath, so things open because you are breathing rather than because you are forcing. The energy moves. You leave warmer and more awake than you came in.
Somewhere in the middle of that, if the room is right, the thinking quiets down. Body and mind stop negotiating and go in the same direction for a while. That is the flow, and it is the real reason to come.
The Music
The mood is set by sound
The playlist is not background. It is how the class is shaped — tempo, weight, where the effort rises and where it lets go. I score each one to the season we are actually in, so the mood of the month is in the room without anybody having to talk about it.
You do not need to know anything about that. You just move to it.
Weekly · One Hour
Tuesdays · 10am
Granby, MA
Thursdays · 7:15pm
East Longmeadow, MA
Both also on Zoom
Email to Book · In Person or Zoom →Passes and the full schedule live on Punchpass. Come in socks you can grip in, or bare feet. Anything you can move in is the right thing to wear.
Come as you are.
Follow along.
It is harder than it looks, and you will be fine.