More about Artemis What actually happens? You move, most of the time. We work through the twelve Artemis forms slowly, with a lot of attention on what you are feeling. Between the movement there is storytelling and some anatomy, so you understand what your body is doing. You are not trying to match a shape someone shows you. You are finding how that shape works in your body. None of this is improvised. Each form takes you further into the same deep core, so that by the end you know your way around it and can find it anywhere. How is it different from yoga or pilates? Two things. You work at a low level of effort, around a quarter of what you have, held steadily. And we work from the inside out. The deep support first, then everything that sits on it. It looks quiet from the outside. It is not. This is bodyweight work held at steady tone, so people do get stronger doing it. That is not why we do it, but it happens. What is conscious body tone? It is the low, steady engagement that holds you upright without you thinking about it. Most of us have either lost it or swapped it for gripping. Artemis teaches you to find it, and to turn it up and down at will. Everything else in the practice sits on it. What are the twelve forms? Twelve movement shapes named for animals and figures. Earth Huntress, She Bear, Horse, Hummingbird, Atalanta, Observer and others. They run from simple to complex, meaning how much they ask of your deep support. You will meet most of them over the weekend. Where does it come from? Christy Punnett has been developing this work for close to thirty years and codified it as Artemis about five years ago. It sits in a lineage of somatic movement built largely by women. Elsa Gindler and Mabel Todd taught people to learn from the inside rather than be corrected from outside. Ida Rolf opened up fascia, the connective tissue that runs through the whole body, as the thing movement actually happens in. Tom Myers, who trained with Rolf and wrote Anatomy Trains, is a mentor to Christy and a continuing influence on the work. Do I need to be fit or flexible? No. Come as you are, at whatever tone you have today. Nobody arrives already knowing how to do this. What happens after the weekend? You take the practice home and can keep going with us online. We will send you what comes next once you are here.