Welcome to The Everything Space
The Everything Space, located on the unceded homeland of the Western Abenaki People in downtown Montpelier, is a collaboratively run movement studio providing skillful and accessible somatic education, curated by Abbi Jaffe and Amanda Franz since 2014. We are specifically dedicated to the education of diverse somatic practices as an integral part of social and environmental justice work.
The Everything Space centers the body’s intelligence as a liberatory, political act. We are dedicated embodiment activists, passionate about somatic education and therapy, social and environmental justice, community centered growth, large and small scale transformation, and more.
We strive to cultivate resilience, rewilding, presence and connection for all bodies.
Learn more about our mission here.
The Everything Space centers the body’s intelligence as a liberatory, political act. We are dedicated embodiment activists, passionate about somatic education and therapy, social and environmental justice, community centered growth, large and small scale transformation, and more.
We strive to cultivate resilience, rewilding, presence and connection for all bodies.
Learn more about our mission here.
Abbi Jaffe, RSME/T, BSW she/theyAbbi is an embodiment educator, facilitator, somatic bodyworker and a Real Dialogue Specialist in training. Abbi has a bachelor's of Social Work degree and is a certified Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (RSME/T) with ISMETA. All of Abbi's offerings are trauma informed.
Abbi passionately teaches classes and workshops in growing resilience, being trauma informed, 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 1998. Abbi has been teaching embodiment since 2001 and is asked to teach throughout New England (Middlebury College Center for Health and Wellness, Goddard College, Dance New England Summer Camp, VT AcroYoga Festival, Green Mountain Druid Camp, The Annual Burlington VT International Contact Jam, EarthSpirit’s Rites of Spring, Wanderlust Vermont Yoga Festival). |
Amanda Franz RSME/T, BA she/theyAmanda 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 and Therapist 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. |