One-on-one sessions

One-on-one sessions take place at 80 E. 11th Street at Broadway, just below Union Square in Manhattan, and last approximately 70 minutes. During the session, Jae will study the way you walk and run, discuss your running history and your goals with you, and then create a lesson to help you take the next step in your running.
The Balanced Runner
During the lesson, you’ll usually lie fully clothed on a low table similar to a massage table, and Jae will gently move you and verbally guide you through movements important to your running. This process accomplishes three crucial things:

  • It allows you to feel subtleties in your movement that are key to improving your form but difficult to discover while you’re actually running.
  • It allows you to experiment with your movement safely, without risking injury.
  • It allows you to actually feel better coordination so you can apply it, avoiding the frustrating cycle of someone telling you to run differently, and you having no idea how to make it happen and despairing that you’ll ever discover what it feels like.
At the end of the lesson you’ll return to running, applying what you learned on the table and getting familiar with a set of sensory reference points to help you run that way in the future. Over the next several days you’ll notice that you feel lighter and looser, running with better form and efficiency. After that the changes will become familiar and will begin to feel completely natural.

The effect of the lessons is cumulative. Occasionally a single lesson can spark the critical shift needed to transform your running, but most of the time a sequence of lessons is necessary for you to reach your goals.

 
Scheduling a session

One-on-one sessions are available:

Mondays from 10 am to 8:30 pm
Wednesdays from 1 pm to 8:30 pm
Fridays from 10 am to 6:30 pm
Saturdays, varying hours
To schedule a session, call Jae at 646-256-4414 or email info@balancedrunner.com.