Amy Matthews, Director of Sonder Movement Project
Amy Matthews, BMC® Teacher, IDME, CMA, RSMT/RSME has been teaching in the US and internationally since 1994. She has taught on somatic certification programs and in a variety of university and studio settings, integrating experiential anatomy, kinesiology, embryology, and developmental movement with inquiries into pedagogy, educational philosophy, and movement practices.
Amy is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher. She is the co-founder and co-director, with Sarah Barnaby, of Babies Project in NYC, and is the Program Director of Sonder Movement Project, which offers the Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) programs for the School of Body-Mind Centering®.
Amy taught for four years with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Berkeley CA, was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years, and created the Advanced Studies Program for The Breathing Project with Leslie Kaminoff, as well as co-authoring the book Yoga Anatomy with him.
Amy has studied for many years with Irene Dowd and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and has participated several times in Gil Hedley’s dissection workshops. She has studied yoga with a variety of teachers in the Desikachar and Iyengar traditions, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.
Amy is currently based in Maine and offers online and in-person sessions and classes that integrate Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).
Learn more about Amy here.
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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Olive Bieringa
Olive Bieringa is a dance maker, somatic movement therapist and cultural producer who grew up in Wellington, New Zealand. She is a Registered ISMETA Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, a Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Shiatsu practitioner and certified DanceAbility teacher, working with dancers of all abilities. She holds an MFA in Performance and New Media from Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY and a BA from the European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands. She is currently based in Oslo, Norway.
Olive teaches internationally in Body-Mind Centering® trainings for Moveus/Germany, Leben nuova/Italy, Moving from Within/USA, Soma/France, Sonder/USA and in universities and festivals such as Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Praxis Festival/Oslo, Impulstanz Festival/Vienna, Movement Research/NYC, and for dance companies Lyon Opera Ballet, Footnote Dance, Touch Compass/New Zealand. As a curator & producer she has developed projects such as SEEDS Festival (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science) at Earthdance/USA and Public Art St Paul’s City Art Collaboratory, bringing together artists and scientists.
Learn more about Olive here.
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.
Learn more about Rebecca's program here.
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.
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.
Learn more about Wendy here.
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.
Learn more about Sarah here.