Return from injury
When the body protects itself after pain or injury, it can learn patterns that linger long after healing. We work with those patterns patiently, without forcing a return before your body is ready.
SUJO for dancers · Sessions
Technique begins
with trust.
For dancers who want to recover from injury, meet the demands of performance with more ease, or understand the patterns behind the way they move.
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The work
Your training asks a lot of you.
Your support should, too.
SUJO is not about adding more effort to an already demanding practice. It is about understanding the order in which your body supports itself — then helping it find a more intelligent way to move.
Summer Jones · Dance background
A life
in dance.
Summer Jones began her dance training in El Cajon at a branch of the California Ballet School. She went on to complete her education on a full scholarship at School of American Ballet in New York City. During this time she also performed in full length ballets with San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet and California Ballet and was ensemble with Seaworld’s City Streets.
She danced professionally with Radio City Music Hall as well as various companies in New York and San Diego including California Ballet and San Diego Dance Theatre. She earned a master’s degree in American Ballet Theatre pedagogy in the professions and higher education from New York University and is certified in all levels of the National Training Curriculum. Summer has taught ballet in positions ranging from company instructor for California Ballet Company to guest master class teacher at Cornish College of the Arts, modern and ballet teacher at the Jillana School and assistant teacher at JKO’s School at American Ballet Theatre. As a choreographer, she’s represented the United States at the International Ballet Festival in Miami. Her dance films have shown in gallery at UCSD and have been accepted into film festivals in Brazil and Germany.
Most important, Summer loves helping dancers at all stages of their educations and careers and cherishes the work as an honor and a privilege.
Refine your technique
For dancers who are not injured but know that something feels inefficient, blocked or uneven. SUJO gives you a precise way to listen beneath the shape of the movement.
Prepare for performance
A tailored session can support the demands of rehearsal, touring and performance — so you arrive with more options, not more tension.
A first session
We begin with
your story.
- Listen. We talk about your training, performance demands, injuries and what you would like to return to.
- Observe. We look at the movement patterns your body uses now — with care, curiosity and no judgement.
- Move. You begin to feel the method through tailored sequences and clear cues.
Start here
Make room for
what your body
can become.
Sessions are individual and shaped around your practice. Write to us with a few words about where you are now.