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Martha Eddy, Ed.D., MA, CMA, RSMT (Founder and Director of Dynamic Embodiment SMTT, MOC Director of Somatic Studies, Co-founder) is an exercise physiologist, registered Movement Therapist (RSMT), also trained in Massage Therapy, who is in private practice in NYC. She was certified in somatic movement work with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Irmgard Bartenieff, and was on the certification program faculty for both the School for Body-Mind Centering® and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies from 1984-1994. She founded the Somatic Movement Therapy Program (SMTT) in 1992 and renamed it DE-SMTT in 2008. Eddy is particularly known for somatic-movement-based contributions in the fields of dance, dance science, conflict resolution, child development, and vision enhancement. She completed her doctorate in Movement Sciences and Education at Columbia University. She lives in New York City. Dr. Eddy was the invited speaker at the National Dance Education Organization to give the address on the state of Early Childhood Dance Education at the 2009 national conference.

In her position as Founder and Director of the DE-SMTT program she coordinates Moving On Center’s somatic curriculum and works closely with our faculty and mentors around the world. She has been involved with dance and performance since she was eight years old. She also directs our partnership organization in NYC – the Center for Kinesthetic Education (www.WellnessCKE.net) where clients of all ages come for classes and private sessions, and professional teachers and therapists come for training. She is involved in research, arts-based educational program designs, and educational consulting nationally and internationally. She has published numerous articles on these subjects. She created BodyMind Dancing© in 1987 and Moving On Aerobics © (MOA) in 1999. Many DE-SMTT graduates are taking these somatic movement programs out into the field

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Carol Swann Executive Director, Co-founder) is a teacher, performer, facilitator, private practitioner, and visionary. She has been teaching and performing dance and vocal related work for over twenty years in the U.S. and in Europe. She is co-founder, teacher, and Executive Director of Moving On Center, School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Research in California. She is an ex-member of Mandala International Folkdance Ensemble, Libana and Vocal Repercussions. She is a co-founding member/director and teacher of the workshops: Acappella Motion, Island Movement, New Forms Dance and Outfall. Other teaching venues have included Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, Stanford University, Tufts University, Theater School of Modern Dance (Holland), European Dance Development Center or EDDC (Holland), Bevegungs-Art (Germany), Tanzfabrik (Germany), Chisenhale (England), Alexander Technique Schools in: Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France and Movement Research where she was the director from 1983-1986. She has performed solo and in collaboration with performers such as Simone Forti, Andrew Harwood, Daniel Lepkoff, Kirstie Simpson, Nancy Stark Smith, Jess Curtis, Anna Halprin, Lisa Schmidt, Paul Langland and Angus Balbernie.

She is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique (AMSAT), has a certificate of study from the Process Work Institute of Portland, is a graduate of the Professional Hakomi Therapy Institute, is certified in massage and specializes in conflict facilitation. She maintains a private practice in somatic therapy and teaches Voice, Alexander Technique, Pilates, and Contact Improvisation. Additionally, she was a director/collaborator with a work-group of dance/artists committed to improvisational performance and investigation. Her studies and work have been greatly influenced by Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Andre Bernard, Ruth Zaporah, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Meredith Monk, Trisha Brown, Daniel Lepkoff, Release Technique, Roy Hart Theater, Process Work (Arnie Mindell) Aikido and numerous other artists and art forms, nature and politics.

Lenore Grubinger, RMST, LMT is a Developmental Movement Therapist who has been helping infants, children and adults through bodywork and developmental movement for over 30 years. Lenore is a Senior Teacher of Body-Mind Centering and a longtime teacher and practitioner of CranioSacral Therapy. She works with people of all ages, and specializes in helping parents of infants and children with special needs. She is on the faculty of the Infant Developmental Movement and Education program and teaches internationally. Ms. Grubinger is a member of the International Association of Healthcare Practitioners and the International Somatic Movement Therapy and Education Association, and is the author of 'Seven Recommendations for You and Your Baby'.

Susanne Kukies is a Registered Movement Therapist and physical therapist in Berlin, Germany. She has been working in the field of movement and healing as a performer, dancer and practioner for 30 years. A member of the first class at Moving on Center, she opened up her own private practice as a Somatic Movement Therapist 1998 and is working since than with 10 to 20 clients a week. After completing the program at MOC, she continued to assist Martha Eddy, and started to teach with the program in 2004. In groups, she develops her own mixure of body, sound, movement and energy/ healing work as well as successfully integrating bodywork into management trainings.

2007 she started an own training in the field of somatic movement ecducation and therapy. It is basically a Continuing Education program of 160 hours focussing on the complex issues involved in practicing hands-on bodywork ‘one by one’ and a deepening teaching groups

Trisha Bauman, CMA and BMC Practitioner, has taught on the SMTT faculty for the past ten years and maintains a private practice in San Francisco. She has danced in the NYC companies of RoseAnne Spradlin and Vicky Shick, and in the French companies of Daniel Larrieu (Centre Choregraphique National de Tours), Mathilde Monnier (Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier), Cecile Proust, Herman Diephuis and Alain Buffard. With these companies, she has toured and performed at the most prestigious international dance and theater venues, including Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, La Mama, PS 122, Danspace/St. Mark's Church, The Joyce/Soho (NYC); Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (USA); Festival d'Automne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Theatre de la Ville (Paris); Festival de Marseille, Festival Montpellier Danse, Festival d'Avignon/La Cour d'honneur du Palais des Papes (France); Festival International de Nouvelle Danse (Montreal); Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico); Festival TanzImAugust (Berlin); Festival ImPulsTanz (Vienna); and Festival d.a.m.p.f. (Koln). Her research and performance projects include collaborations with Swiss painter Mathias Schauwecker, renowned French dance critic/historian Laurence Louppe; and choreographers Lisa Nelson (USA), Susanna Szperling (Buenos Aires) and Rahel Vonmoos (London).

A certified practitioner in Body-Mind Centering and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, she is on the certificate faculty at LIMS in NYC. A popular guest artist/teacher, she is invited around the world to teach, lecture and coach within international dance, theater and somatic research. Venues include Trisha Brown Dance Company (NYC), Centre Georges Pompidou/Musee national d'art moderne, Cie. Philippe Decoufle, Ballet Preljocaj (Paris); ImPulstanz Festival (Vienna); Mathew Bourne Company's "Swan Lake" (London); PARTS/Rosas (Brussels); Sasha Waltz Dance Company (Berlin); Sydney Dance Company (Australia); Tseh Summer School - Moscow Dance Agency (Moscow); Teatro San Martin (Buenos Aires); and university residencies at Harvard University, Denison University, Bowdoin College, New York University, Salem State College and Holy Cross College (USA); Universite de Paris VIII (Paris); and Universitat Bern (Switzerland). Photo: C.deCharms

Linda Tumbarello is a Certified Body-Mind Centering® Teacher and Practitioner and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Linda receives a Learning thru Movement grant to share her expertise in her upcoming book Dancing through Life, a guide for women to bring more wellbeing and joy into throughout their lives using movement, body awareness and new ways of thinking. Linda has taught extensively in the somatics field, as SMTT faculty since 1991 and on the faculty of the School for Body-Mind Centering from 1977 to 2006. Linda has worked for over 30 years integrating Body-Mind Centering, Body Centered Psychotherapy, therapeutic movement, and hands-on healing in her private practice. She has offered advanced training to many practitioners in the body-mind field, specializing in approaches she has developed for Healing from Trauma and Integrating the Chakras. She loves to dance and plans to keep dancing as long as she lives.

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