Courses, Coaching, Community
Everything here is built on The SkateSmart Somatic Method™: you’ll learn how a movement feels off the ice before you take it into your skating. Members of the DSS get community pricing (upwards of 13% off).
Feel It, Then Skate It
Your coach’s correction is information. Feeling is what turns it into movement. A live 90-minute class on the somatic side of skating with Maja, built on four principles you already use on the ice: breath, sensing, initiation and connectivity. Each one gets taught, practised on your floor at home, then taken onto the ice. Bring your questions, because the Q&A is part of the class!
Join the live class free on Sunday, October 4th
The Digital Skating School
The online home for adult figure skaters who take their skating seriously. You get every course in the school, live calls with Maja each week, guest specialists on what skating asks of your body, and a room full of skaters at your stage who train the way adults learn. Ask a question at midnight and somebody’s awake. Free to join while the doors are open. Come and skate with us!
Free to join for a limited time
Coaching Session With Maja
A 1-on-1 online session with Maja. Bring an element you’ve been chewing on, a video of your own skating, or a question about how to structure your season. She watches what you’re actually doing, tells you what she sees, and gives you something specific to take to your next practice. Send your video when you book and she watches it beforehand. You keep the recording and your action items.
Build Your Skating Foundation From the Inside Out
Never skated, or been on the ice a few times without ever knowing what to do with your feet? This course takes you from your very first step to skating forwards and backwards, stopping when you choose to, and holding your balance on one leg. Three on-ice modules, plus off-ice training you do at home. An audio guide puts Maja in your ear while you skate. No experience needed.
Lock in pre-sale pricing at 40% off
Fast Track to Sharpen Your Skating Skills
You can already do your crossovers and your turns. What you want now is the quality: cleaner edges, more glide, more flow, less effort. Five modules take you from off-ice training through the on-ice tutorials, then onto the ice with Maja’s voice in your ear while you skate, so the correction arrives while you’re moving. Five live feedback calls across the ten weeks, and it’s yours to repeat.
Fast Track: Off-Ice Edition
The off-ice training of The SkateSmart Somatic Method, for skaters whose edges feel forced or choppy. Five modules slow skating right down so you can feel the correct positions in your body and build the control that every edge sits on. All of it is doable at home with a mat, and each module’s yours to repeat as often as you need. Come back to the ice stronger than you left it!
Understanding Pain, Injury & Recovery
Pain is your body’s protection system, and learning how it works changes how you recover. Philipp Tischendorf spent two decades on the German national skating team and is now an osteopath. He shows you how to read your body’s signals, pace your energy, and recover on a clear plan: calm it down, then build it back up. You’ll skate with more trust in yourself and less fear of a twinge.
Pilates for Skaters
Skating asks for a kind of body control most of us were never taught how to build, and Pilates builds it. Imogen Croft, a former competitive skater and a certified Body Control Pilates teacher, maps the six principles onto your edges and your landings, so you hold your centre through a turn and land strong. Three parts you do at home, plus three rink tools to take with you.