Amy Matthews
Amy Matthews, BMC Teacher, IDME, CMA, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher based in NYC.
Amy has partnered with Sarah Barnaby to create Babies Project – a space in NYC dedicated to developmental movement for babies (of all ages). Previously she was a director of The Breathing Project, and co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy (published by Human Kinetics).
Amy is a Program Director for the School for Body-Mind Centering®, and teaches on SME & IDME Programs in the US, Germany and Italy. She taught for four years with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen in Berkeley CA, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years.
Amy has participated several times in Gil Hedley’s dissection workshops, and has studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd and BMC with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has studied yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.
Amy is certified as a yoga teacher and as a shiatsu practitioner, is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator and has been registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT. She teaches embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in the US and internationally, and works privately integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering® and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).
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David Thomas France
David Thomas France is a Movement Therapist, researcher, and senior yoga instructor with over 25 years experience. He is a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, a form of physical and sensory education that encompasses all the body systems and developmental aspects of human experience. David has studied yoga with masters throughout the world, particularly influenced by Rodney Yee, Donna Farhi, and Erich Schiffmann, and now focuses on personal research and deep listening to his guide practice. In tandem with his movement studies he has studied the Ayurvedic and Osteopathic traditions of healing and bodywork. Uncompromisingly eclectic and interdisciplinary, he brings to his lessons a broad range of experiences from athletics, martial arts, contemplative arts, dance, and healing arts. Originally from from the San Francisco Bay Area, David teaches internationally, and has lived in Japan since 2007.
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Kim Sargent-Wishart
Kim Sargent-Wishart is an educator, researcher & artist specializing in somatic movement methodologies across a range of applications, including continuing education, creative development and leadership. Research & practice interests include embryology as a model for embodiment and creative practice, somatic writing, contemplative photography & perceptual process. Residing near Melbourne Australia, Kim is administrative director and teacher on the SME program at Somatic Education Australasia (SEA). She is a Certified Practitioner (1999) and Teacher (2019) of Body-Mind Centering® and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist (ISMETA).
Kim has studied and taught various forms of movement and bodywork for several decades, including receiving a BA with Honors in Dance (Wesleyan University, 1987), Massage Therapist qualification (Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy, 1990), and an apprentice-based Pilates instructor training (San Francisco, 1993). She completed a PhD in Performance Studies from Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia, 2016) with a focus on somatics, experiential embryology and Tibetan Buddhist philosophies in creative practice. Her arts practice is influenced by Miksang photography, screendance, somatic writing and dance/movement improvisation, and her writings have been published in several journals and anthologies. She is the co-founder of ASTER Association and co-editor of The Art of Embodiment. Kim teaches extensively online and is currently a visiting tutor at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
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Rebecca Haseltine
Rebecca is a Certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Teacher with over 20 years experience working with children and adults. Body-Mind Centering® is a deep study of the body through awareness, movement and touch integrated with anatomy, physiology, development and embryology. This study began in college when she created a special major combining dance, art, science and education. Rebecca’s practice is informed by studies in dance, taiji, qigong, and yoga. She has taught Bodymapping™, and Somatic Drawing™ classes and workshops in the Bay Area and in Europe since 1992. She taught at the Bridge School for 11 years, doing creative movement and art with children with severe physical and language impairment. Rebecca is also a visual artist working with somatic and environmental themes. To see her artwork, please visit www.rebeccahaseltine.com.
Rebecca Haseltine is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist through the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association and is a Certified Somatic Therapist through the Associated Massage and Bodywork Professionals. Rebecca is also certified as an Infant Developmental Movement Educator.
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Tarina Quelho de Castro
Tarina has a masters in Clinic Psychology (PUC São Paulo- Brazil) and is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher. She is a researcher interested in movement and relationships. In the early 2000’s at Estudio Nova Dança (São Paulo-Brasil) she got to know movement exploration and composition through contact-improvisation, motor coordination (Piret & Béziers) and new dance approaches, first as a student and later as a teacher. Amongst teachers that she has taken classes from are Tica Lemos, Cristiane Paoli-Quito, Adriana Grechi, Lu Favoretto, Lisa Nelson ,Steve Paxton, Alito Alessi, David Zambrano e André Trindade. Working mainly in Brasil, in the past 23 years she has taught dancers, actors, special needs children and psychiatric patients. Currently she teaches at the Drama School in Universidade de São Paulo (Escola de Arte Dramática – EAD/ECA/USP) and at both the Brazilian and Uruguayan BMC® programs, where she is also the co-director. As a theater director she has been touring with the show Is This a Black? ( Isto é um Negro?). One of the questions she feels implicated in today, being a mestizo person, is how can somatics support our political imagination so that we can surpass ourselves.
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Wendy Hambidge
Wendy Hambidge is a certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Teacher, Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, and an Infant Developmental Movement Educator. As an artist, she produced dance work for 30 years and holds an MFA in choreography and performance. Wendy first encountered Body-Mind Centering® in 1990 where she found it to radiate with possibility for self-study, movement, and choreography. Wendy now utilizes BMC with clients, ranging from artists and athletes to parents and babies, to develop deep physiological awareness—supporting individuals through somatic inquiry related to coordination, development, muscle patterning, creativity, performance, injury, chronic pain, and psychophysical integration.
Based in Portland, OR, Wendy has taught Experiential Anatomy in the Yoga Shala Teacher Training Program and Embodied Anatomy and Yoga (EAY) program with Amy Matthews. She regularly assists Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (BMC℠ founder) and currently teaches Experiential Anatomy for The People’s Yoga Teacher Training Program, and the School for Body-Mind Centering® Licensed Programs throughout the US and Europe.
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IDME FACULTY w/Amy Matthews
Sarah Barnaby
Sarah is certified as a BMC Practitioner and Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) through the School for Body-Mind Centering®. She is also registered as a Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA.
Sarah teaches developmental movement to babies of all ages in NYC. She also teaches yoga asana and anatomy in group classes and private sessions. She is the co-founder and co-director of Babies Project with Amy Matthews.
In addition to being an SME and IDME, Sarah is certified in Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga (EDMY) and Embodied Anatomy and Yoga (EAY), Body-Mind Centering® programs that teach developmental movement principles and an embodied approach to anatomy in relation to yoga practice.
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Satu Palokangas
Satu Palokangas is a BMC Practitioner and Teacher. Since 2006 she has been researching and creating the practice of Ecosomatics, which she teaches at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki, Finland. Currently Satu is collaborating with Sarah Barnaby on a 3-year research project on cells, babies, and community, funded by the Kone Foundation.
Learn more about Satu here.