Welcome to The Everything Space
The Everything Space, located on the unceded territory of the Abenaki Nation in downtown Montpelier, is a collaboratively run movement studio providing skillful and accessible somatic education, curated by Abbi Jaffe and Amanda Franz. We are specifically dedicated to the education of diverse somatic practices as an integral part of social and environmental justice work.
Opened in 2014, our community of support has grown to include Josie Green (Rental Coordinator, Service Provider), Mea Starr (Garden Project Co-Organizer), Sarai Hinkley (Service Provider), and Hazel Turrone (Flyering Extraordinaire, Facilitator), along with numerous facilitators (see below) who host their potent offerings here.
The Everything Space centers the body’s intelligence as a liberatory, political act. We are dedicated embodiment activists, passionate about somatic education, social and environmental justice, community centered growth, large and small scale transformation, and more.
All of the facilitators that teach here have different focuses and share a commitment to the studio's vision. The facilitators attend twice yearly in-house educational trainings on relevant topics such as being trauma/resilience informed, unpacking privilege & systemic oppression, and creating cultures & communities of support.
The Everything Space has maintained itself through the generous donations of two private investors, a frugal budget, reciprocally supportive relationships, creative economy, and is very much a volunteer effort.
We strive to cultivate resilience, rewilding, presence and connection for all bodies.
Learn more about our mission here.
Opened in 2014, our community of support has grown to include Josie Green (Rental Coordinator, Service Provider), Mea Starr (Garden Project Co-Organizer), Sarai Hinkley (Service Provider), and Hazel Turrone (Flyering Extraordinaire, Facilitator), along with numerous facilitators (see below) who host their potent offerings here.
The Everything Space centers the body’s intelligence as a liberatory, political act. We are dedicated embodiment activists, passionate about somatic education, social and environmental justice, community centered growth, large and small scale transformation, and more.
All of the facilitators that teach here have different focuses and share a commitment to the studio's vision. The facilitators attend twice yearly in-house educational trainings on relevant topics such as being trauma/resilience informed, unpacking privilege & systemic oppression, and creating cultures & communities of support.
The Everything Space has maintained itself through the generous donations of two private investors, a frugal budget, reciprocally supportive relationships, creative economy, and is very much a volunteer effort.
We strive to cultivate resilience, rewilding, presence and connection for all bodies.
Learn more about our mission here.
Abbi Jaffe, RSME, BSW (she/they)Abbi Jaffe is an embodiment activist and teacher, bodyworker, social worker and community builder. Abbi inspires others to follow their own body's curiosity and impulses, embrace grief and celebration, unleash their radiant resilience, and to be exquisite.
Abbi passionately teaches classes and workshops in growing resilience, being trauma informed yoga, contact improvisation dance, acro yoga, authentic movement, contemplative dance practice, and embodied community building and has been leading people on expeditions in the wilderness and within themselves since 2000. Abbi has been teaching embodiment for over 12 years and is asked to teach throughout New England (Middlebury College Center for Health and Wellness, Dance New England Summer Camp, VT AcroYoga Festival, Druid Camp, The Annual Burlington VT International Contact Jam, EarthSpirit’s Rites of Spring, Wanderlust Vermont Yoga Festival). Abbi is a certified Somatic Body Practitioner, a certified Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA, and has a Bachelor's of Social Work from the University of Vermont. Learn more at growingreciprocity.com. Check out Abbi's offerings here and on our Classes/Events page. |
Amanda Franz, RSME, BA (she/they)Amanda Franz is a magic maker of creative transformation. She organizes for, lives and breathes the interconnection of body and Earth. Through bodywork, education, facilitation, embodiment activism and community building, she invites people into the profound intelligence of their bodies and empowers them to bring that intelligence everywhere they go. She is deeply investigating what it means to be a human, right now, in this world, and how to cultivate dynamic resilience within the midst of the chaos.
Along with her ardent listening to the body, she has been cultivating healthy relationship to the Earth by growing and wild-crafting food and medicinal herbs. She runs a small apothecary called Wild Thing Herbal Apothecary, from plants with which she has cultivated reciprocal relationship. Amanda has been studying, teaching, and performing various somatic movement modalities throughout the United States and in Canada and Russia for the past 15 years. She is a certified Somatic Body Practitioner and is a certified Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA, as well as a certified Level II Collab trainer and facilitator. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from Oberlin College and forever holds Missouri, the place of her birth, dear to her heart. Check out Amanda's offerings here and on our Classes/Events page. |
Exceptional Teachers & Facilitators
Lucy Schmid, M.EdLucy is a teacher, mover, improviser, and performer of everyday life. She recently completed her Masters in Education at Goddard College with a focus on embodied learning. This summer she participated in a Playback Theater “Core Training” in NYC. She can’t wait to co-explore the communal magic of Playback Theater within the Central Vermont community! Sarai Louise Hinkley
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The Everything Space: 64 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier VT 05602, Unceded Territory of the Abenaki Nation