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Global Roots of Somatic Movement Videos 1, 2, and 3 

With (1) Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Eleanor Criswell, and Paul Linden; (2) Sondra Fraleigh, Larry Goldfarb, and Daria Halprin; (3) Patricia Bardi, Alice Cummins, and Mariko Tanabe

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During its ongoing Legacy and Evolution Project, ISMETA’s creative team became inspired to explore the global roots of our somatic movement practices. This package consists of three hourlong videos created from conversations with some of the most respected elders in our field. The recordings highlight the lives and primary influences on the development of their somatic movement practices.

https://ismeta.org/legacy-evolution-somatic-movement

Global Roots of Somatic Movement Video 1

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

MSME/T, Developer of Body-Mind Centering®

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is a movement artist, researcher, educator, therapist and developer of the Body-Mind Centering® approach to movement and consciousness. Body-Mind Centering® is an exploration of how we embody our body systems, tissues and cells as well as our developmental movement patterns and embryological development. In 1973, Bonnie founded The School for Body-Mind Centering®. She is also one of the founders of ISMETA. Her work has influenced the fields of dance, bodywork, yoga, body psychotherapy, infant and child development and many other body-mind disciplines. Bonnie is the author of the books, Sensing, Feeling, and Action, Basic Neurocellular Patterns: Exploring Developmental Movement, and The Mechanics of Vocal Expression, as well as numerous videos on embodied anatomy, cellular consciousness, dance, embryology, and working with children with special needs. For more information about her books and videos, please visit bonniebainbridgecohen.com 

Eleanor Criswell-Hanna

MSME/T, PhD

Eleanor Criswell Hanna, EdD, C-IAYT, MSME/T was an emeritus psychology professor at Sonoma State University (1969-2009) and founding director of the Humanistic Psychology Institute (now Saybrook University). She was on Meridian University's faculty and Board of Directors, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. As Director of the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training (1990-2024), she conducted trainings in Hanna Somatic Education, Somatic Yoga, Equine Hanna Somatics, and Canine Hanna Somatics. Former president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, the International Association for Yoga Therapists, and the Somatics Society (1990-2021), she was a licensed psychologist, IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist, BCIA certified biofeedback practitioner, and member of ISMETA.

Paul Linden

MSME, PhD, Developer of Being In Movement®

Paul Linden is a body awareness educator, a martial artist, and an author. He is the developer of Being In Movement® mindbody education, and founder of the Columbus Center for Movement Studies in Columbus, Ohio USA. He holds a BA in Philosophy and a PhD in Physical Education. He has been practicing and teaching Aikido since 1969 and holds a sixth-degree black belt in Aikido as well as a first-degree black belt in Karate. He is an instructor of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education. He has extensive experience teaching people such as musicians, athletes, businesspeople, computer users, pregnant women, adult survivors of child abuse, and children with attention deficit disorder. His work has focused on trauma recovery and peacemaking. Paul has taught many workshops in places from Germany and England, to Russia and Ireland, to Israel and to Ecuador. He has written numerous papers and books on diverse topics, as well as creating a number of instructional videos. For more information, please visit: https://www.being-in-movement.com/

Global Roots of Somatic Movement Video 2

Sondra Fraleigh

RSMT, MS, Founding Director of EastWest Somatics

Sondra Fraleigh, Eastwest Director, Professor of Dance Emeritus and Fulbright Scholar, is an international leader in dance, yoga, and somatic healing arts. She Is a Registered Feldenkrais® teacher and Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist. Sondra is RYT-1000 registered yoga teacher with more than 1000 hours of training and teaching. Through her institute, she offers registration with Yoga Alliance. She has been a professor of dance and somatics for more than 40 years, now retired from the Department of Dance at the State University of New York at Brockport. Sondra continues to teach through her institute and is a mentor to dancers and somatic practitioners in the USA, Europe, Japan, Mexico and India. For more information, please visit: https://www.eastwestsomatics.com/

Larry Goldfarb

MSME, PhD, Founder and Director of Mind in Motion 

Larry Goldfarb has maintained a private Feldenkrais practice for 40 years, during which time he has also taught public classes and workshops, professional seminars, teacher training, and postgraduate programs. He provides both in-person and online supervision, coaching, program design, and mentoring. A pioneer in distance learning, Larry has made programs available via the Internet for more than a dozen years; he has taught in conferences, clinics, universities, dance schools, acting programs, conservatories, and public forums around the world for more than 35 years. For more information, please visit: www.mindinmotion-online.com.

Daria Halprin

MSME/T, MA, Co-founder and Director of Tamalpa Institute

Daria Halprin, a dancer, poet, teacher, and author, is among the leading pioneers in the field of movement/dance and expressive arts education and therapy. Her work bridges the fields of somatic psychology, movement/dance therapy, expressive arts therapy, community-based arts and health education, organizational consultancy, leadership development, social change and performance. Bringing a life-long practice in the arts to her work, published writings include: Coming Alive; The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy; contributing author Expressive Arts Therapy: Principles and Practices, Poesis: Essays on the Future of the Field; Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced. In 1978, Daria co-founded the Tamalpa Institute where she directs training programs in movement/dance and expressive arts education, consultancy and therapy. She teaches in educational, health and art centers throughout the world. For more information, please visit https://www.tamalpa.org/ and https://www.dariahalprin.org/

Global Roots of Somatic Movement Video 3

Patricia Bardi

MSMT, Creator of Voice Movement Integration

Patricia Bardi is a bodywork specialist, educator, licensed natural health practitioner and a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA). For more than 40 years, she teaches internationally and maintains a private practice working with children and adults in Amsterdam. Patricia is the director of the VMI Somatic Practice Certification Program, a professional training she founded more than 35 years ago. The program is professionally accredited by ISMETA. She has developed and taught Organ Rebalancing, an advanced bodywork training for professional healthcare practitioners and manual therapists at numerous holistic health institutes including Dr. Rudolf Merkel M.D.’s School for CranialSacral Osteopathy in Zurich. Organ Rebalancing is recognized as a post-graduate continuing education training for natural health practitioners and complementary health care practitioners. For more information, please visit: https://patriciabardi.com/

Mariko Tanabe

MSME/T, Director of Esprit en Mouvement

Mariko Tanabe is inspired by the healing powers of human movement and expression. She has been performing her works during the past 30 years in Japan, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Italy, Malaysia, Canada and in several cities in the United States. She has taught at various festivals, universities and dance companies internationally. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Le Gesu/Centre de Creativite (Montreal) where she performs and collaborates in several events each year. She trained with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – the founder of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) and is a Certified Practitioner and Teacher of BMC®, a BMC® Yoga Teacher and Infant Developmental Movement Educator. She maintains a private practice working with individuals from all backgrounds and supports dancers and choreographers in their artistic, technical and personal development. She was the Program Director of the Licensed BMC® Training Program in Montreal. For more information, please visit: https://marikotanabe.com/

Alice Cummins

MSME/T, Founder and Director of Somatic Wisdom

Alice is a dance artist, Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Master Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist (ISMETA). Based in Perth, she is a master teacher offering independent workshops throughout Australia. She  has collaborated with musicians, writers, visual artists and filmmakers. Her solo work has been performed at PICA (Perth Institute of Performing Arts); Performance Space, Sydney; Dancehouse, Melbourne and RoseAnne Spradlin Studio, NYC. Alice has a 30-year history of creating improvisational performances and a commitment and love of this compositional form. Her work is influenced by Body-Mind Centering®, new dance practices and feminist philosophy. She has a Master of Arts from Victoria University and has been researching different modes and realizations of the body and performance over many years, often outside of institutions and the traditional places for the transference of performance knowledge. Alice has taught in university departments of: dance, theatre, visual art and the built environment in Australia and the United States. For more information, please visit: http://www.alicecummins.com/