Oct. 11 Teacher Meeting
Our fall teacher meeting was a beautiful chance to gather, share updates, and ground ourselves in this next season together. As M8 continues to grow, our focus remains on clarity, connection, and collaboration — so we can all move fluidly within the studio and the systems that support us.
Here’s a quick recap of what we covered, starting with the most practical piece: getting everyone fully set up on Momence.
Getting Started: Teacher Login + Mobile Shortcut
One of the most important updates we reviewed was how to access your Momence teacher account, where you can see your class schedule, manage attendance, and stay connected to your clients.
You’ll want to make sure you’re using the Teacher / Practitioner Login rather than the client-facing version. Here’s how to do that:
Go to the login page:
Select “Teacher / Practitioner Login” from the options.
Log in with your credentials.
If you haven’t set a password yet, click Forgot Password to reset.
To access Momence easily from your phone:
You can “pin” or “add to home screen” from your browser to create an app-like shortcut.
For iPhone (Safari):
Open Safari and go to momence.com/sign-in.
Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow).
Select Add to Home Screen, name it “Momence (Staff),” and tap Add.
For Android (Chrome):
Open Chrome and log in to Momence.
Tap the three-dot menu (top right).
Choose Add to Home Screen, rename if you wish, and tap Add.
That’s it! You’ll now have a one-tap shortcut on your phone for easy access to the M8 schedule, class rosters, and student notes.
Need a Visual Walkthrough?
If you prefer watching instead of reading, here are a few helpful tutorials and references:
New Moon Gatherings: Monthly Connection + Collective Intention
We also took a moment to revisit our New Moon gatherings, which have become a monthly rhythm of community, movement, and renewal here at M8. These evenings are open to everyone — teachers, clients, and friends — as a space to reset, reflect, and realign with the energy of each lunar cycle.
Our next New Moon Gathering will take place on Tuesday, October 21st at 5:30 p.m.
This month’s New Moon is in Libra, the sign of balance, beauty, and harmony, which couldn’t be a more fitting theme for this season.
To celebrate, we’ll weave together two beautiful energies:
The Libra New Moon — inviting equilibrium, grace, and connection.
The Festival of Light (Diwali) — honoring illumination, inner radiance, and renewal.
For this gathering, Rebekah will be guiding the breathwork and movement portion of the evening, infusing her own essence into the experience as we collectively move and breathe into balance.
Following the movement, we’ll share in candle making — creating our own light as a symbolic and tangible reminder of our intentions. Each candle will be blended with grounding and heart-centered scents to represent Libra’s harmonious energy and the return of inner light as we enter the darker half of the year.
All teachers are warmly invited to join, either as participants or simply to soak in the energy and connection. You can sign up directly through the schedule on Momence (look for New Moon in Libra Gathering).
Monthly Movement Theme: Libra → Balance
Our conversation then flowed naturally into the next layer of M8’s evolution — how we can integrate astrology-inspired movement themes into our classes each month.
For the remainder of Libra season, we’re anchoring into the theme of balance. This isn’t only about physical stability, but the energetic and emotional balance that mirrors Libra’s essence of harmony, partnership, and beauty.
As you teach throughout the next two weeks, consider how “balance” can be felt in your classes:
Through breath — equal inhale and exhale, the dance between effort and ease.
Through symmetry — balancing left and right sides, front and back, inner and outer awareness.
Through supportive strength — stabilizing the smaller muscles that create poise and precision (ankles, hips, core, shoulders).
Through relational awareness — inviting students to feel balanced in how they give and receive energy in movement.
Balance, in Libra’s world, is not static — it’s dynamic. It’s the micro-adjustments that keep us centered amid change, just as our bodies do with each breath and posture.
Coming Next: Scorpio → Depth
As we move toward Scorpio season, our next movement theme will shift to depth — exploring the layers beneath the surface. Scorpio rules transformation, the deep core, and the unseen systems that sustain life and power.
In our movement language, this translates beautifully into:
Engaging the deep stabilizers — pelvic floor, psoas, multifidi, transverse abdominis.
Cultivating core strength and spinal integrity, from root to crown.
Allowing emotional depth to move through the body — grounding, releasing, and awakening inner resilience.
Exploring the hips and sacral center, where Scorpio energy invites release, creativity, and embodiment.
This seasonal rhythm invites us — and our clients — to feel connected to something larger: the cyclical intelligence of nature, the cosmos, and the body’s own flow.
The Meaning Behind M8
As we wrapped up our meeting, Rebekah asked one of the most thoughtful questions of the day: “What does M8 really mean?”
It’s a question that has evolved just as M8 itself has evolved. When the name first came to life, the “M” stood for Mindfulness, Movement, and Monterey — three roots that have always grounded this space. The “8” was my number, symbolizing both infinity and balance, but also connecting to the eight principles of Pilates, the eight limbs of yoga, and the many other systems of wholeness built on that same sacred geometry.
Over time, though, the meaning deepened. The “M” began to represent something even greater — Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning liberation or freedom.
At its heart, M8 is about guiding each person — teacher, student, seeker — toward their own experience of freedom. Freedom in the body through movement. Freedom in the mind through awareness. Freedom in the spirit through connection and presence.
This is not a fixed destination but a continuous process of evolution. Every class, every breath, every conversation is part of that unfolding — the gentle release of what binds us and the awakening into greater possibility.
M8 has always been more than a studio; it’s a living, breathing practice of liberation.
Closing
Our teachers’ meetings are never just about logistics — they’re about vision, alignment, and remembering why we do what we do. This one felt especially meaningful: grounding into our systems, syncing with the seasons, and reconnecting to the heart of M8 as both a practice and a path.
Here’s to moving forward in balance, in depth, and in freedom — together.
