Root & Branch Bodywork

Class update! 🚨

Starting next week, our dear friend Elliott Gittelsohn will be teaching handstands at Root & Branch on Tuesdays at 6pm. He is also available for private and semi-private lessons upon request.

Elliott Gittelsohn has been working in circus and movement since age 12, training at Circus Smirkus Academy, The Clown Conservatory, and with Mongolian contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. He has performed with companies including Capacitor, Celebrity Cruises, Sister Magic Productions, MOTH Poetic Circus, Vau de Vire Society, and Kinetic Arts Production.

Elliott coaches contortion, flexibility, and hand balancing, and has directed and taught at programs including Circadium, Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, Kinetic Arts Center, San Francisco Circus Center, Hampshire College, and Circo Caribe. He holds a degree in Performing Arts from the LEAP Program, where he researched psychological stress and recovery in circus training and performance, and is the co-founder of 2nd Hand Circus.

Soft tissue work is also nervous system work, and sometimes the most gentle techniques yield the most profound results.

Calm it down, then build it up! 🌿