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All four of our directors are available for teaching workshops at your venue or for individual consultations. Carol, Martha, Susan and Peggy all have extensive international teaching experience and unique private practices. To learn more, click on the following links: Carol Swann (Berkeley, CA) Martha Eddy (New York, NY) Susan Bauer (Oakland, CA) Peggy Hackney (Sonoma County, CA) CAROL SWANN Our Executive Director, Carol Swann, is available for private sessions or for workshops at your venue. She specializes in Voice, Massage, Group and Conflict Facilitation, Alexander Technique, Somatic Therapy, and Contact Improvisation. Bio Carol Swann is a teacher, private practitioner, facilitator, director, performer and visionary. Her work is focused on contributing toward a more socially just and connected world. She grew up in an Intentional Community committed to the training and practice of nonviolent direct action and consensus decision making. She has extensive experience in founding, directing and running non-profits, collectives, projects and events. She has been teaching and performing Somatic based work for thirty-five years in the U.S., Latin America, Russia and Europe. She is a seasoned facilitator in group process and conflict facilitation. She brings unique skills in community building through: Somatic interactions, co-operative games, group singing, movement work including folk dancing and creating special events or ritual. She teaches classes and workshops in: Voice through the Body, Contact Improvisation and New Dance, Somatic Therapy Principles (Registered Movement Therapist Certified) based on the Hakomi Body-Psychotherapy Method (graduate of the Professional Hakomi Therapy Institute), Co-operative Games, Group Singing, Group Process (influenced by Arnold Mindell's work in "Worldwork") and The Alexander Technique (NASTAT Certified). She is also a Certified Massage Therapist, has certification pending in Pilates and has maintained a private practice in all the above in conjunction with the workshops and classes she teaches. Alone or with other colleagues she collaborates in teaching facilitation and conflict facilitation workshops and trainings. She has taught in venues and institutions such as: Movement Research (N.Y.), Esalen Institute (CA.), Omega Institute (N.Y.), Tufts University ((Mass.), Javierana University (Bogotá Columbia), Stamford Univ. (CA.), Theater School of Amsterdam (Holland), European Dance Development Center (Holland), Bevegungs Art (Germany),Moving Arts (German), Tanzfabrik (Germany), Chisenhale (England),The Modern Dance School of Budapest and Improvisation Festival (Hungary), Dance New England, Northern California Dance Collective, Art of Community, American Friends Service Committee, The West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival of CA., The Seattle Improvisation Festival, Russia Contact Improvisation Festival, The Cambridge Food Co-op, The Arlington Food Coop of Boston, and Alexander Technique Schools in: Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France. Work in Facilitation has included: Pleasanthill Co-housing, Old Oakland Co-housing, NCDC (Northern California Dance Collective), The West Coast Contact Festival, Cell Space and Process Circles at Moving On Center, Conflict Facilitation Training workshop in Berkeley with Laird Schaub, Emerald Earth, Alice Arts Center of Oakland, The Zen Center of Berkeley and The Noodle Factory in Oakland. She is a co-founding member/director and teacher of the workshops: Acappella Motion (Smith College, Mass.), Island Movement (Maine), New Forms Dance (Boston) , Outfall (CA.) Conflict Facilitation with Laird Schaub, My Body's Talking, Is Anyone Listening? (Art of Community), and Project Mexico. She has been the Administrative Director for the following non-profits: The Folk Arts Center of New England (Boston), The Ethnic Folk Arts Center (N.Y.), Movement Research (N.Y.), Interface (CA.) She is currently Co-Founder, Executive Director and core faculty at MOC. Additional Training: * Unlearning White Liberal Racism - two year intensive study group Self Assessment of unique strengths as a process consultant: I have special skills in connecting the cognitive with the body. I like to assist people's understanding of themselves and others through other modalities of taking in and receiving information by using exercises that engage people physically such as: bringing awareness of sensation from their own bodies, moving people into groups or formations that generate dialogue differently, encouraging people to take on opposite perspectives/roles in exchanging physical places, looking at emotional charges through mindfulness and amplification etc. I also have extensive experience in bringing in "play" (new games, singing, movement work) as a tool for co-operative problem solving, bringing connectedness and spirit to hard and agitated situations and general community building. I utilize my skills as a therapist to help look at deeper themes that sometimes get overlooked by general themes or vice versa, help to sort out what is someone's personal work versus the collective's work. Contact Information: CAROL SWANN MARTHA EDDY, CMA, Ed.D., RSMT My private practice centers in movement. I use, exercise, movement exploration, verbal guidance, voice work, and touch to facilitate self-awareness, movement ease, and enhanced expression. I combine my education as an exercise physiologist, teacher of Body-Mind Centering, Certified Laban Movement Analyst, registered somatic movement therapist, with a Doctorate in Movement Science and Education to meet the specific needs of clients. As a performer and educator I enjoy the spontaneous interplay of meeting and working with new people and themes. I also draw on my training in diverse holistic practices such as nutrition and massage therapy to inform my referrals to other skilled professionals. I am delighted to work with infants and their parents, as well as children, working professionals, and elders, who come for sessions with a wide variety of goals. Other projects:
Anatomy/Kinesiology Fitness and Wellness Movement Skill Instruction Research Methods Somatic Movement Theory Susan Bauer, Program Director and Core Faculty at Moving on Center, is a dance / somatics educator who offers workshops, classes, trainings, and individual private sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in dance and somatics, with an emphasis on Authentic Movement and Experiential Anatomy. She also serves as a Dance Education Consultant and Grant Writer for several arts organizations on the East and West coasts. She is available for consultation, guest residencies, and classes/workshops in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Courses and Offerings
Susan offers independent workshops and classes in the following areas:
Susan also offers individual private sessions in the following:
Consultations for Individuals: Susan also offers individual consultations to students, teachers, university faculty, bodyworkers, dancers, chorographers, somatic practitioners and others seeking to develop their careers with passion and purpose. This often includes discussing your unique interests, evaluating educational and degree options, and brainstorming on next steps in the research and / or activation process. This is a most rewarding and inspiring process of both discovery and actualization. Full Biography
PEGGY HACKNEY Our Assistant Director, Peggy Hackney, offers individual client work in Somatic Movement Therapy and Movement Repatterning as well as Movement Classes/Workshops in the beautiful Napa Valley, CA. She specializes in personal approaches to moving fluidly and creatively in the world. Peggy is also available for guest residencies in the United State and Europe. For additional information about classes/workshops, or to schedule an appointment, please contact her at: 707-944-8473 or 707-738-0764 or PJHackney@aol.com. Client sessions are negotiated at a fee scale of $90 for 1 1/2 hour session. Sample classes and/or workshop residencies might include the following topics:
A Message from One Workshop Participant: "Dear Peggy--I attended your 'Dancing From Your Core' workshop at the University of Minnesota (sponsored by our state Dance Educator's Coalition) a few weeks ago. Thank you for providing such an incredible environment for self-discovery and insight. You facilitated with such grace and acceptance yet I felt challenged and stimulated to examine some very difficult inner territory. So many light bulbs have popped on in recent weeks. Amazing to realize that we know so much in our bodies but recognize so little." Mary Pettit, Minneapolis, 2003 Bio Peggy Hackney is a dancer who performed in NYC for 11 years before touring the country with the Bill Evans Dance Co. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Duke University and an M.F.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. In addition Peggy is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, a Certified Teacher of Labanotation, a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA), and a Certified Massage Therapist. She was a co-founder of the Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) Certification programs in New York City, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Berlin, and Berkeley. In 2004, Peggy did residencies at the Rotterdam Dance Academy in The Netherlands, New York University Dance Department in New York City, Enchant Dance Co. in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Art Therapy Italian in Bologna and Rome, Italy. She currently has a grant from the National Science Foundation through NIGH to research the use of LMA to improve the dynamics of Motion Capture in Animation. In addition to being Director of the Berkeley Laban/Bartenieff Program, she is co-Director of Moving on Center, works as a Massage Therapist at the Verandah Club Spa in Yountville. She will teach Choreography at Sonia State University in spring 2005. Peggy is author of the book Making Connections: Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals, (Routledge). Available from Taylor and Francis Publishing: 1-800-634-7064. Other publications include her video tape, Discovering Your Expressive Body, and A Study Guide to Elementary Labanotation, both distributed by Princeton Book Co. Peggy is happily married to Rob Anglin, who does architecture in the Napa Valley. Their daughter, Ashby Anglin, attends Sarah Lawrence College. |
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