March 2026 Newsletter
Status: Sent
Sent: 2026-03-26
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Audience: Full list (practitioners + non-participant subscribers + prospects)
Subject line: “From Three Forms to Twenty-One”
Pre-header: “What twenty-one people experienced over seven weeks of structured practice in Montreal.”
Japanese Version
Section titled “Japanese Version”- Status: Ready to send
- Subject line: 3つのフォームから21へ：2026年冬期スタディグループの記録
- Pre-header: モントリオールでの7週間の構造化された練習を通じて、21人が経験したこと。
- HTML archive:
2026-03-newsletter-assets/2026-03-newsletter-ja.html - Audience: Japanese subscribers
- UTM campaign:
From_3_forms_to_21_ja - Notes: Body text translated to Japanese (Noto Sans JP font). Footer kept in English. All hyperlinks unchanged. Product names (Baseworks Primer, Smart Revisit, Practice Platform) kept in English.
UTM Parameters
Section titled “UTM Parameters”| Parameter | Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Campaign Source | utm_source | newsletter |
| Campaign Medium | utm_medium | email |
| Campaign Name | utm_campaign | winter_study_group_2026 |
| Campaign Content | utm_content | Per-link (see below) |
| Campaign Term | utm_term | — |
Per-link utm_content values:
| Link | utm_content |
|---|---|
| Blog article | blog_recap |
| Spring Study Group event | spring_study_group |
| Practice Sessions | practice_sessions |
| Practice Platform | platform_link |
| Brain Fodder links | brain_fodder |
Section Plan
Section titled “Section Plan”| Order | Section | Source | Length | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Header / Greeting | — | ~50w | draft |
| 2 | Feature: Winter Study Group Recap | 2026-03-winter-study-group-campaign | ~200w | draft |
| 3 | Spring 2026: What’s Coming | Study Group + Practice Sessions | ~120w | draft |
| 4 | Practice Platform & Primer Updates | Platform development | ~150w | placeholder |
| 5 | Brain Fodder | Primer Segment 9 | ~200w | draft |
| 6 | Footer / Sign-off | — | ~30w | draft |
1. Header / Greeting
Section titled “1. Header / Greeting”The Winter 2026 Study Group in Montreal wrapped up in March. We wrote about what that cohort looked like, what we observed, and what participants reported. This newsletter shares some of what stood out, what’s coming next, and a question worth sitting with.
2. Feature: Winter Study Group Recap
Section titled “2. Feature: Winter Study Group Recap”Source campaign: Winter Study Group Recap Campaign
Inside the Winter 2026 Study Group
Section titled “Inside the Winter 2026 Study Group”The Baseworks Method was developed over nearly two decades at our studio in Tokyo and across various programs. That work involved over a hundred trained teachers, a core group working together for nearly a decade, and thousands of students within the same framework. That density of operation refined the methodology through constant iteration, across a wide range of people. Very few learning environments offer that kind of sustained exposure, and when in-person activities were suspended in 2020, the question became whether that depth could be made accessible in a format that doesn’t require being in one place, with one group of teachers, over a long period of time.
The answer required building dedicated tools from scratch. The Baseworks Primer and Practice Platform are purpose-built around how people actually learn movement. They incorporate feedback loops, non-linear revisitation, and tracking that maps how each person engages with the material differently. The online work feeds directly into guided in-person sessions, and what instructors observe in person reshapes the online experience. Both sides are continuously refined. This is not a course library paired with occasional workshops. It is an integrated learning structure where the online and in-person components are designed to develop each other.
This article uses the Winter 2026 Study Group in Montreal to document how that process is working. We chose this cohort because of what it revealed: twenty-one people from strikingly different backgrounds — massage therapists, dancers, a sociology professor, a visual artist, people recovering from injuries — each engaging with the same structured material and arriving at distinctly individual outcomes. What they experienced, what we observed, and what we built in response says something about what carefully developed hybrid learning can produce.
3. Spring 2026: What’s Coming
Section titled “3. Spring 2026: What’s Coming”Study Group — Spring 2026
Section titled “Study Group — Spring 2026”The Spring Study Group begins in April at Proto Studio in Mile End. Same format: seven in-person sessions paired with the Baseworks Primer online course.
Practice Sessions
Section titled “Practice Sessions”Weekly practice sessions are running through June at Proto Studio. These are for anyone who has completed the Study Group or has equivalent Primer progress.
4. Practice Platform & Primer Updates
Section titled “4. Practice Platform & Primer Updates”[Section title TBD — waiting for Patrick’s confirmation]
Smart Revisit
Smart Revisit is one of our latest additions to the Baseworks Primer.
The Baseworks Primer introduces the method progressively — each lesson builds on the last, covering movement concepts, principles, and guided practice. Smart Revisit is a feature that queues earlier practice lessons to revisit alongside your current study.
The reason it exists: what you can perceive in a movement task changes as you develop. A lesson completed early in the course is a different experience after months of study — not because the lesson has changed, but because what you can notice in it has. It builds that return into the course structure.
Smart Revisit can be accessed from your Primer dashboard on the Practice Platform and is randomized according to how you interact with the program.
5. Brain Fodder
Section titled “5. Brain Fodder”Concept: Perception as a trainable capacity Source: The Basic Science of Memory and Attention (Primer Segment 9)
What are you not noticing?
Section titled “What are you not noticing?”There is a line from cognitive science that frames something important about practice: you can only pay attention to what you are able to perceive.
This sounds obvious until you consider what it implies. If you have never felt the difference between activating your shoulders and activating your neck, if those two things feel like one thing, then no amount of instruction to “relax your neck while drawing your shoulders down” will mean anything actionable. The instruction makes sense linguistically. It does not make sense somatically. Not yet.
Several participants in the winter study group described a version of this. One noticed she was standing differently on ice and caught herself mid-slip, something she attributed to having internalized weight placement she previously could not feel. Another described postural corrections from her chiropractor that she had understood intellectually for years but could never implement, because she did not have the sensory resolution to distinguish what was being asked.
The question this raises is not about movement specifically. It is about the relationship between perception and agency. In any domain, physical, cognitive, relational, your capacity to act is bounded by your capacity to perceive. What you cannot feel, you cannot change. What you cannot distinguish, you cannot choose between.
Something to sit with: What is a correction or instruction you have received, in any context, that made sense intellectually but that you could not act on? What would it take to perceive the distinction it was asking you to make?
6. Footer / Sign-off
Section titled “6. Footer / Sign-off”Patrick and Asia baseworks.com | Practice Platform Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook
Assembly Notes
Section titled “Assembly Notes”- Blog post must be live before newsletter sends (the feature section links to it)
- Brain Fodder stands alone — readers who skip the recap should still find value in it
- Total newsletter length target: ~700–800 words across all sections (slightly longer with the Platform updates section)
- Subject line: pick after content is finalized. “From Three Forms to Twenty-One” mirrors the blog title and creates curiosity.
- Practice Platform section needs Patrick’s input before finalizing
- Consider whether a French version of the newsletter feature is warranted for the bilingual audience
Related
Section titled “Related”- Winter Study Group Recap Campaign — featured campaign
- _newsletter-index — newsletter tracking
- _campaign-index — campaign series planning
- fluentcrm-merge-codes — merge code reference
- Memory and Attention — Brain Fodder source