About

Ekalos (Eka) is a GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer as well as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. She has been teaching the GYROTONIC®  Movement system since 1996. She is a graduate of the 2013 Berkeley 7 Feldenkrais Professional Training program with Director Dennis Leri.  Eka has also studied Qi Gong with Dr Binkun Hu and completed Kundalini Yoga teacher training program in 2019. She has performed around the world with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Moving People Dance, Catherine Cabeen and Company, and Robert Wood Dance NY among others. In the present Eka creates open system performances that explore dimensions of time and space underneath thought-based movement control. Ideas from dynamic systems approach to development and Moshe Feldenkrais’ work and writings inspire her movement practice and her performance systems. Eka uses experiential anatomy principles that she learned from years of studying alternative movement systems to teach functional movement from the inside out. Eka strives to initiate her students into a dialogue of development with their movement patterns that can inform their movement continually in their lives. She teaches her students of all walks of life to increase options for movement, develop their awareness, and enact action patterns more efficiently. Eka strives to activate her audience and her movement students into a dialogue of development that elucidates the ‘spells’ we are casting that may deserve some revision. Creating systems that invite everyone into greater awareness and autonomy is her passion. 

*A note on her name, Eka was formerly known as Echo pre 2015.

* As of 2017 Eka has decided not to teach the Foundation Training. While her current master trainier status is Inactive, she continues to teach private sessions to students in the Santa Fe area.

Eka currently gives private sessions in Gyrotonic at two studios in Santa Fe New Mexico. Please contact her directly to schedule a session. 505 469 6978

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Eka grew up in Los Angeles, CA where she studied Jazz, Ballet and Modern dance. Her jazz teachers included Jackie Sleight (serving as Sleight’s assistant from 1990-1994), Terry Beeman, and Doug Cauldwell. She studied Modern with former Alvin Ailey dancer Ron Brown and performed his works in Crossroads Dance Company. Her ballet teachers were Adelia Roman and Rosemary Valaire. Eka moved to New York City in 1994 after graduating high school and continued her dance education on full scholarship at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. It was through her training in the Gyrotonic method in the mid nineties that Eka learned to trust the innate intelligence of her own body.  In 1996 she was accepted into the Martha Graham Dance Company at the age of 20, with whom she performed in the United States and Europe. While in New York Eka trained in Ballet with Finus Jung, Modern with Max Stone, Klein Technique from Susan Klein, and the GYROTONIC® Method with Juliu Horvath. She also danced professionally with the Pearl Lang Dance Company and Javier Dzul Dance Theater. In 2001 Eka moved to Santa Fe, NM to focus on creating her own work and teaching. She served as a principal dancer and resident choreographer for Moving People Dance Theater from 2003- 2009, performing works by Robert Moses, Gail Gilbert, and Sam Watson among others. Eka has trained highschool age pre-professional dance students in Santa Fe since 2004. Her students have been accepted to Juilliard, Boston Conservatory, NYU Tisch, Cal Arts, University of Arizona, Skidmore, Cornish and Lines Pre-professional Program among others. 


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