Our Space
Moovment House’s home is within the 6th Avenues UCC, an open and affirming community. This historic building offers a rich Denver history housing local non-religious small business as part of its mission to foster community. The naturally lit space was once a gymnasium in the 1930’s and still provides its storied remnants in its wood floors. Our building is centrally located in the beautiful tree-lined North Cherry Creek neighborhood.
Our Founder
Mary Lynn Lewark
I have always been a dancer
Even before I studied dance, I was making wild dance performances with costumes jumping out of trees or off the coffee table in our living room
I have a passion to know and to learn. This has led me through countless stories and histories, fabrics and paints, trainings and travels across the world and back
I enjoy the process and the chase.
My mind and my heart are always trying to put together beautiful moments.
I love going to too much trouble and time creating a performance and the magical moment when it all comes to life.
I am most inspired by the laughter and play in children, their fearless belief that anything is possible and their adaptability to change.
I am grateful to those that come to dream, to train, to contribute
who help me make this alive space of movement.
Our Faculty
Meet the Team
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Mary Lynn Lewark
Artistice Director & Founder
Mary Lynn Lewark is a dance artist, choreographer, movement healer, yoga teacher, educator and mother. She has created Moovment House in Denver, CO, that is home to her work and companies. Here she has inspired dancers and people to develop their singular and collaborative voices in performances, workshops and everyday lives. Her authentic movement process is simple, direct, and communal, allowing a person to freely connect to their innate desire to move with their personal story.
Mary Lynn travels the world for intensive research in dance, movement somatics, storytelling and therapeutic movement. Intensive study in Tel Aviv, Israel with Ilan Lev has led her to become an advanced practitioner of the Ilan Lev Method .
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Rose Silberman
Tap, Feldenkrais & Functional Conditioning
Rose Silberman is passionate about helping people of all ages improve the way they move. A Feldenkrais® Practitioner for almost 20 years, she works with movers of all ages on their coordination, refining their athletic abilities and artistic performance. She teaches dancers, musicians, runners, swimmers, golfers, hikers, skiers, gardeners, walkers etc… Whatever meaningful action a person does in their life, she can help them to do it better.Rose also enjoys teaching tap dance. She has studied and taught tap dance since she was in high school.
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Yasmin Ipaktchi-Saiy
Yoga & Seasonal Education & Ceremony
Yasmin came to Moovment House through her kids in 2012. She is a woman of wonder and ceremony. Her heritage of being both German and Iranian, gives life to how she deeply connects the rhythm and celebration of the seasons. She is yoga teacher, mother, and scholar of Waldorf education and ritual practices. Using the ancient wisdom and hospitality of Persian culture, she blends her love for the Earth, movement, yoga and community into welcoming seasonal classes, events, workshops for all kids and adults. Her attention and aesthetic for creating community has brightened the life of Moovment House for over ten years.
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Kristen Huffman Lemoine
Feels Pretty Awesome Dance & Sound Bath
Kristen Huffman Lemoine is a vivacious teacher who offers yoga, empowering healing dance movement, and sound therapy. Kristen has been teaching her dance movement class since 2008, has pioneered sound programming for Seniors and children, and enjoys offering these restorative practices as a service to all.
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Emelia Nidel
Yoga & Seasonal Events
Emelia likes to think she is as down-to-Earth as a 6th-generation Coloradoan could be!
Through three decades in yoga study, practice and profession, she has found that teachings offer
both a vast expanse of philosophical rabbit-holes to explore
OR simple, fool-proof recipes for accessing our inherent joy and calm.
what's your fancy?
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Shea Kluender
Moovment House Photographer, Educator, Mother
Shea lives with her husband and three little girls in Arvada, Colorado. A career-educator with a passion for family advocacy and student equity, she has been a classroom teacher and school leader in a variety of roles over the last fifteen years. She has studied special and gifted education, math pedagogy and school leadership systems. Five years ago, she left the classroom role and launched her photography business focused on in-home documentary storytelling, inspired by elevating the unseen work of early motherhood. The work has grown to tell the stories of female-founded businesses and organizations as well. Shea leads groups of women to make and share honest self-portraits as a form of care and renewal.
hea's home is full of kids reading stacks of books and making beautiful messes. There are many treasures from the backyard garden, and often warm smells rising from the stove. She is inspired by spending time in the company of strong women and laughing with her husband as they plan their next outdoor adventure.