New Space, New Home
Written by - SMT Maria Holm
We are moving and are excited to see you in our new space soon!
From Monday October 2nd 2023, we will be in a new space and home, just as beautiful and great as our old but with new energy and feel.
We will still be the same studio, Movement Beyond, as we always been and we will go in to our next era. Nothing will change, more than our location, which it has a few times before. In our city with its ever-changing landscape and need for change in buildings and neighborhoods, this is a common occurrence.
We started as Movement & Beyond on Spring Street, in Soho, NYC in 2002, with our then Master Trainer Young-Ah Kim. A first generation Master Trainer who worked very closely for all the years with the creator of our movement system, Juliu Horvath. Young-ah Kim and Maria Holm, who is our current Master Trainer, was already working together at this point.
Maria also started her path at Juliu Horvath’s studio White Cloud here in NYC in 1994. Young-ah Kim and Maria Holm made our Soho studio one of the first fully equipped GYROTONIC(R) studios and training facilities of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM(R), after Juliu Horvath closed his own studio White Cloud in NYC. We opened in Soho NYC in 2002.
There was actually a very early version of our studio with SMT Young-Ah, and MT Maria at the Physical Arts Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in late -90ies and early 2000. Ahead of this neighborhood’s time and of Williamsburg gentrification, it truly wasn’t the neighborhood it is today, we had to move. We briefly housed in Body Evolution’s 2nd Avenue location, before moving to our 73 Spring Street, Soho home, where we opened our studio in 2002.
We moved to 580 Broadway in 2009, where we were very happy for so many years and might have been where you first came across us. A hidden studio on the 12th floor, spread by word of mouth, we have grown into the studio we are today.
We survived the pandemic, started to have social media presence and reach more of the movement world and hosted more training courses with international instructors.
We celebrated our 20th anniversary as a studio last year in December 2022. We thank all of you who came out! And all of you who supported us through all the years, and still do. You are our dedicated clients, friends and family, and the bedrock of our studio! We are so thankful for you all!
As with everything in our fast paced city, our neighborhood Soho has changed rapidly, especially in and after the pandemic, and so also the building where we are housed. We did not get our lease renewed. The building had other plans for the future. We searched and found our new home with new fresh energy, wiping the slate clean from pandemic restrictions and building renovations of our old building.
We are excited for this next chapter of evolution of our studio and what it will hold for us all, and we hope you are too! And excited to yet again Move Beyond.
Please join us on this next step on our journey! If you can, please help to support our move, to set up in our new space. We have created a GoFundMe page where all Friends of Movement Beyond can support and help us move in to our new home and era. See Link below.
We thank you for your support!
Looking forward to seeing you at 401 Broadway, on the corner of Canal street, from October 2, 20023, Suite 709
For our GoFundMe Page Link, and to make a donation, please click on the photo.
Thank you for your Support!