Motion Studios

10/02/2026

This Sunday.

Most of us spend a lot of energy on what other people need from us. This is two hours pointed the other direction.

The first hour, Terri Sanchez coaches. She spent 35 years in the Intelligence Community and now helps people work out what they actually want, not what they've been handed, not what sounds reasonable. You'll leave with a one-page vision for your next chapter, written in your own words.

The second hour, you lie down. Esther Heideman leads Yoga Nidra with Tibetan singing bowls. No poses, nothing to get right, nothing to hold. The mind at the edge of sleep is unusually open, so what you wrote in hour one has somewhere to land.

No experience needed. Nothing to bring. Wear something comfortable and show up.

✨TURNING INWARD✨
📅Sunday, October 4 | 3 to 5pm | $50

The first of nine Sundays at Motion. Prepay for all nine by Oct 4 and get a free GYROTONIC® group class.

20 spots per workshop. SIGN UP at MotionStudiosVA.com/specialevents 📲

10/01/2026

OCTOBER at Motion Studios🎃

10/01/2026

Your spine can move seven ways. Most days it moves one.

Sitting, driving and looking at a phone can leave much of that movement unused. GYROKINESIS® explores the spine’s full range through gentle, rhythmic motion. Vinyasa Yoga adds a steady flow guided by breath.

Nathan Martin brings both together in his Saturday class. Whether you’re feeling stiff, strong or somewhere in between, come move with us.

Props are available at the studio but bring your own mat if you have one.

📅Saturdays
⏰9am to 10am
📍Middlesex Family YMCA | 11487 General Puller Highway in Hartfield

AND

📅Saturdays
⏰11am to noon
📍Northern Neck YMCA | 39 William B. Graham Court in Kilmarnock
💰Both locations are FREE for YMCA members | $15 day pass for non-members
We hope to see you there!

09/30/2026

Yoga isn't working? It might not be you.

You've been showing up. Holding the poses. Breathing when they tell you to breathe.
And the results everyone talks about—the openness, the ease, the strength—aren't quite arriving. Or worse, something hurts.

Here's the thing about a yoga mat: it gives you no feedback. If you're hanging in your joints instead of lengthening through them, nothing tells you. If one hip is doing all the work, nothing corrects it. You can practice a mistake for years and get very good at it.

Some people call the GYROTONIC® equipment "yoga machines," and it's not a bad description. The pulleys and straps add just enough resistance to show you where the movement is actually coming from, and just enough support to let you find the right place. You feel the spine lengthen instead of guessing. You feel the hip open instead of forcing it.

Then you take that back to the mat, and yoga finally does what it was supposed to.

Beginner GYROTONIC® : for anyone who's never touched a Tower. No experience, no pressure.
📅Tuesdays | 5:30 to 6:30pm with Sam Van Saun
📅Thursdays | 11:30am to 12:30pm with Susan Johnson
📅Fridays | 11am to noon with Sam Van Saun

Advanced Beginner GYROTONIC® : once the fundamentals feel familiar and you're ready for more range and complexity.
📅Thursdays | 1 to 2pm with Sam Van Saun

SPACE IS LIMITED. Sign up at bit.ly/beginnergyro 📲 Registration in advance is required.

09/29/2026

Trouble sleeping?

If your body has forgotten how to power down, no amount of lying in the dark will remind it.

A nervous system that's been running on alert all day—all week, all year—doesn't know where the off switch is anymore. It's not a willpower problem. It's a pattern problem.

Patterns can be retrained.

Sustained sound gives the body a clear, repeated experience of what calm actually feels like: heart rate slowing, breath deepening, muscles releasing without instruction. Do that once, and it's a good hour. Do it every Saturday, and the nervous system starts to remember the way back on its own, including at 11pm when you need it most.

Think of it as sleep school for your body.

Join Esther every Saturday from 5 to 6pm for Tibetan Singing Bowls at Motion Studios. Sign up at bit.ly/SoundTherapy-MotionStudios 📲

Prefer a more personal setting? Weekday bowl sessions are available by appointment. Book your private or duet session directly with Esther—text or call 917-553-0824.

09/28/2026

GYROTONIC® Exercise was created in the 1980s.

Forty years later, it's still mostly known in the circles where it started—elite dancers, professional athletes, and the practitioners who work with them.

That's changing. As the fitness world moves toward integrated, functional, whole-body movement, this method is exactly where the industry is headed. It just got there first.

The teachers who train now are the ones who'll be established when it becomes mainstream.

Motion Studios, the largest facility in Virginia offering GYROTONIC® Exercise, in the Northern Neck, is hosting the Pre-Training and Foundation Course this fall.
Get on board before everyone else does.

LEARN MORE: bit.ly/TeacherTraining-Fall2026 📲

Contact us directly with any questions. We are happy to help guide you every step of the way.

09/25/2026

"Life coach" can mean almost anything. So here's who's leading our October 4th workshop.

Coaching isn't therapy and it isn't advice. A coach doesn't tell you what to do with your life, she asks the questions that get you to your own answers, then helps you build a plan you'll actually follow.

Terri Sanchez spent 35 years in the Intelligence Community, retiring as a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive at the Pentagon, where she led strategy and workforce development for more than 50,000 Airmen. She deployed to Afghanistan. She holds the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service, capped at 5% of career senior executives in a given year, and the Air Force's highest civilian award. Her ICF credential required documented coaching hours, mentor coaching, and a live performance evaluation. Not a weekend certificate.

She spent a career developing leaders inside the U.S. government. On October 4th, she's doing it for twenty of you.

Then you lie down. Esther Heideman, a voice that has filled the Met and Carnegie Hall, leads Yoga Nidra with Tibetan singing bowls, so what you wrote in hour one settles into hour two.

✨TURNING INWARD✨
📅Sunday, October 4 | 3 to 5pm | $50

The first of nine Sundays at Motion. Prepay for all nine by Oct 4 and get a free GYROTONIC® group class.

20 spots per workshop. SIGN UP at MotionStudiosVA.com/specialevents 📲

Motion Studios offer a variety of special events check the website or our page to get the latest info.

09/24/2026

GYROKINESIS® Methodology is the sister method to GYROTONIC® Exercise. Same principles, same circular three-dimensional movement, same emphasis on the spine but with one thing removed.

The equipment.

On the GYROTONIC® machines, the pulleys and handles guide you. They give feedback. They tell you where the movement should go. GYROKINESIS® takes all that away and asks you to find it yourself, on a mat and a simple chair, using nothing but your own sense of where your body is in space.

That's harder than it sounds. It's also the point. Proprioception, the body's internal map of itself, sharpens fastest when there's nothing external doing the work for you.

And because the sequences flow and repeat, coordinated with breath, the nervous system settles instead of bracing. People walk out of a GYROKINESIS® class describing something closer to clarity than fatigue.

Nathan Martin, a Master Trainer in both methods, folds this work into his Saturday Vinyasa class. You'll leave knowing your body a little better than when you arrived.

Props are available at the studio but bring your own mat if you have one.

📅Saturdays
⏰9am to 10am
📍Middlesex Family YMCA | 11487 General Puller Highway in Hartfield

AND

📅Saturdays
⏰11am to noon
📍Northern Neck YMCA | 39 William B. Graham Court in Kilmarnock
💰Both locations are FREE for YMCA members | $15 day pass for non-members
We hope to see you there!

09/23/2026

Learn Latin and Spanish gets easier. So does Italian. So does French. Not because you studied them, but because you learned the thing they all came from.

GYROTONIC® Exercise is the Latin of movement.

Golf, tennis, swimming, sailing, dance, running, rowing—every one of them comes down to the same few things: rotation through the spine, weight shifting through the hips, breath coordinating the whole system, and the ability to move through an arc without locking up. Sports just dress those fundamentals differently.

Learn the common denominator and every sport starts making sense from the inside. You move better in all of them. You get hurt in fewer of them. And you can pick up a new one without starting from zero.

Beginner GYROTONIC® classes, three times a week:
📅Beginner GYROTONIC® | Tuesdays 5:30 to 6:30PM
📅Beginner GYROTONIC® | Fridays 11am to noon
📅Advanced Beginner GYROTONIC® | Thursdays 1 to 2pm

Privates and duets are also open—the same hands-on work, built entirely around your history, your restrictions, your goals. Duets share that attention with a partner or friend.

SPACE IS LIMITED. Sign up at bit.ly/BeginnerGyro 📲 Registration in advance is required.

09/22/2026

Here's an experiment. Bring your watch.

Wear your fitness tracker, smartwatch, or ring to class. Don't change anything else. Lie down, let the bowls play, and check the data afterward.

Look at what your heart rate did. Look at your heart rate variability. Look at whether your device thought you were asleep, and if so, how deep. People are regularly surprised to find their trackers logging light sleep, deep sleep, even REM, in the middle of a Saturday evening on a studio floor.

You already know sound relaxes you. This is a chance to see it in numbers.
Saturdays, 5 to 6pm, world-renowned classical singer Esther Heideman leads our Tibetan Singing Bowl class.

Join Esther every Saturday from 5 to 6pm for Tibetan Singing Bowls at Motion Studios. Sign up at bit.ly/SoundTherapy-MotionStudios 📲

Prefer a more personal setting? Weekday bowl sessions are available by appointment. Book your private or duet session directly with Esther—text or call 917-553-0824.