Core Movement Center brings together a dynamic mix of practitioners and instructors from a variety of modalities.  The Center is grateful to be a gathering space for those with an appetite for expanding self power.  We welcome your unique contribution to this ongoing dynamic process.

Linda Burquez

Linda BurquezFounder of Core Movement Center. Linda's passion for transformation and movement inspire her. She offers group and private sessions in the movement arts including Pilates, Trance Dance, Yoga, Nia, and Medical Qigong. Her healing arts services are therapeutic massage, polarity therapy and medical qigong treatments. Also infused in her work are the intuitive arts of tarot and subtle body analysis.
The Core Movement Center Team:
Michele Appleby
Linda BurquezMichele brings a grounded calm presence and a precision attention to detail to her yoga and pilates mat classes. She is a certified massage therapist.
Airakah Bottelfson
Linda BurquezComing from the big island of Hawaii, Airakah's dynamic enthusiasm and roots style infuses her classes with laughter, primal energy and joy.
Deanna Darby
Linda BurquezDeanna is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in somatic
psychotherapy. She has trained in a variety of body-work modalities and has a master's degree in depth psychology. Deanna's work is based on the fundamental role of the body and movement in creating meaning, relationship, and thought.
Karel Hendee
Karel Hendee is a White-Belt Nia Instructor, Level II Yoga Instructor, and Fiber Artist who enjoys weaving together dance, spirituality, and nature. She is also a performing musician and Appalachian clogger. Interested in both the healing power and intense joy of movement, Karel aspires to share, learn, and grow with her dance-mates of all ages and abilities.
Kara Eby
Linda BurquezFor over 20 years, Kara Eby, has practiced and taught various systems of movement and spirituality from Continuum and Tensegrity, to Pilates and yoga, to A Course in Miracles and Woman's groups. She believes that movement is a powerful tool of transformation and that the body can be a doorway to the Divine. Kara's passion is to provide a space for people to explore themselves… Their inner worlds… their outer worlds… and the movement of the moment.
Rosemary Partridge
Linda BurquezWith over 30 years of experience in Tarot, Spiritual Counseling, Ritual and Healing Arts, Rosemary offers clarity and insight for the integration of the spiritual and emotional elements of being embodied.
David Samson
David Samson has been practicing and teaching Tai Chi for 15 years. He enjoys teaching students of all levels.
Aimee Retzler
Aimee received her Nia white belt in April 2008 and loves watching people fall in love with their bodies all over again when they discover the practice of Nia. Since moving to Nevada City from San Francisco in 2007, Aimee has been enjoying her community involvement and is a Board Director for Hospice of the Foothills and Chair of Live Healthy Nevada County Food and Nutrition Action Committee. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, OH and is the owner of Aimee’s Marketplace – a strategic business and marketing consulting company. Beyond her professional life, she spends time with her husband and three young children enjoying hiking, snow sports of all kinds, canoeing, camping and music.
Linda:
Airakah:
Deanna:
JaiDev:
linda@coremovementcenter.com
airakahb@yahoo.com
deanna59@mac.com
jaidev_pk@yahoo.com