All of our programs are available to be produced or contracted, and can be modified to meet your scheduling needs. Please e-mail
Carol Swann for West Coast Programs and
Martha Eddy for East Coast/ DE-SMTT programs.
MOC West Coast Certification programs are not currently open for individual enrollment. New York SMTT programs are OPEN - please see the DE-SMTT website for more details.
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Moving on Center School for Participatory Arts and Somatic Research has offered programs that bridge somatics and the performing arts for social change for nearly two decades.
Our faculty has included many of the finest educators in the San Francisco Bay area, as well as master teachers and visiting artists from around the world. Over these years, we have offered individual workshops, intensives, and a full Participatory Arts and Somatic Research Certification Program.
Our studies in Participatory Arts and Somatic Research have a transformative and leadership building impact on each of the students who pass through our doors. Our graduates are the seed planters for cutting-edge work in somatics (body-mind wellness work) in education, health, and art-making. They lead embodied social change work throughout the world. Together we provide an essential perspective in this age of technology and consumerism that aims to lead to a more embodied, just and sustainable world.
Moving on Center's Locations for Dynamic Embodiment-SMTT and Participatory Arts
East Coast and Worldwide Programs
Embracing change in these economic times we are adapting our programs to be more accessible. Our somatic leadership training can be extremely useful for negotiating change during these challenging economic times. You can engage with Moving On Center in these flexible, alive and vibrant program formats:
- East Coast Office:
Our East Coast office, directed by Co-Founder, Martha Eddy, is open and active in New York City. The office is housed with the Center for Kinesthetic Education (CKE), a unique resource for our community outreach of the MOC mission. For more information about workshops related to Module 1 or Phase 1 in certification in Dynamic Embodiment - Somatic Movement Therapy (DE-SMTT) please visit our new DE-SMTT site. You�ll learn about our exciting Masters degree partnership with the State University of NY - Empire State College, as well as doctoral studies with Santa Barbara Graduate School and International University of Professional Studies. Visit DE-SMTT. To learn how we apply participatory arts and somatic principles in schools and hospitals visit www.WellnessCKE.net. You�ll learn about our work with children with special needs as well. And to find out about programs for adults dealing various physical challenges please visit www.MovingOnAerobics.org - another one of our Community Outreach programs that is active in NY and is poised to be offered throughout the west coast.
- "Somatics for Hire"
Our listed curriculum, workshops and intensives (including teachers) are available to be produced or sponsored at regional, national and international locations with many of our fantastic faculty.
As you will see on this website, our programs include day-long and weekend workshops, intensives, and month-long modules. Although these have previously been offered within our Certification Programs, they can now be sponsored as individual programs as well.
- Educational Partnerships:
We are open to the possibility of partnering with educational institutes and organizations for short and long-term programming. We will continue our current academic relationships, such as with University of California-East Bay, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute (SBGI), and SUNY-ESC as we build more.
- Professional Services:
All of Moving On Center's Directors offer consulting and private sessions based on their individual areas of expertise. Please contact them or for more information, or look at our Professional Services page!
With our comprehensive curriculum of intensives and workshops that weave together for embodied knowledge in health, education and the arts, we are now a "moving body of work." We look forward to sharing this with you and to experiencing your curiosity and involvement!
Co-Founders, Carol Swann and Martha Eddy
See below for Programs Offered by Moving on Center!
(For full description of each go to Certification Programs and Workshops)
MOC Programs
Somatic Movement Therapy Training (SMTT)
Somatic Movement Therapy Training (SMTT) was founded by Martha Eddy in 1991, in Western Massachusetts. Martha Eddy brings a deep understanding of somatic education, movement science and human communication to highly regarded professional program. The SMTT approach was developed through her teaching, practice, and cross-pollination of Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Body-Mind Centering® over a twenty year span. Eddy is the only person in the world who has served on the certification program faculty of both of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and the School for Body-Mind Centering®. In 1995 the SMTT moved to being housed Moving On Center in California, and then became a bicoastal program in 1998.
MOC Programs Available to be Produced or Contracted
Not Currently Open for Individual Enrollment
MODULES (3-4 weeks)
Somatic Education: (3 weeks)
Socially Conscious Body: Process Arts and Professional Facilitation Training (4 weeks)
Improvisational Mind and Performance (4 weeks)
INTENSIVE
Somatics of Presence: Performance Intensive (two weeks)
INDIVIDUAL WORSHOPS (one or two day formats available)
Experiential Anatomy and Kinesiology (Martha Eddy)
Developmental Movement (Martha Eddy)
Alexander Technique (Carol Swann)
Somatic Therapy (based on the Hakomi Method) (Carol Swann)
Laban / Bartenieff FundamentalsTM (Peggy Hackney)
Authentic Movement (Susan Bauer / Bill McCully / Carol Swann)
Liberation Singing (Carol Swann)
The Elder, the Artist, and the Social Activist: Worldwork and Process Work (Lane Arye)
Theatre of the Oppressed (Aryeh Shell)
Tracking the Unconscious Facilitator (Bill McCully)
Songs and Games for Building Community (Carol Swann)
Action Theater, Improvisation, Performance (Ruth Zaporah / Sten Rudstrom)
Performance and Composition (Keith Hennessy / Jess Curtis)
Body-Mind Centering® and Improvisation (Cathie Caraker)
Voice Thru the Body (Carol Swann)
Contact Improvisation (Brenton Cheng / Vitali Kononov)
Moving on Center's Vision
Connecting Somatics, Performance and Social Change
Here at home in the US, and around the globe, there is a common acknowledgement that we live in a complex and critical era. As a species, humankind finds itself in a web of global interdependence and competing interests. In the face of corporate globalization, institutionalized racism, and our physical isolation in this era of technology, it is possible to feel frozen and hopeless. How will we meet the demands and prospects of the 21st century? What skills and perspectives will support our navigation of these turbulent straits?
Now more than ever, Moving On Center feels an immense need to provide tools for individuals, groups, and entire communities to assess our own habits and patterns, to find connections across these divides, and to allow for REAL change to occur from the inside out. Through bridging the healing and performing arts for social change, we strive to offer a pathway to LIVING the world we desire. Remembering the words of Emma Goldman: "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." We offer this curriculum as a doorway to a sense of inner balance, deepened communication, understanding, and an integration of our reflective and expressive selves.
Moving On Center has been a pioneer of holistic and interdisciplinary education for over a decade. We look forward to sharing this with you.
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