Sarah Barnaby
Sarah lives in New York City, where she teaches infant handling skills and facilitates movement development for babies and toddlers. She has taught yoga, experiential anatomy, and developmental movement for adults and elders for over 10 years. Sarah is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, Teacher and Infant Developmental Movement Educator. She is co-founder and co-director, with Amy Matthews, of Babies Project, a non-profit that supports caregivers and babies and offers developmental movement education for babies, toddlers and adults in their NYC space (and now online). She has shared her interest and research in cellular biology, evolution, embryology, physiology and emergence in a series of "Geek Nights" over the past 7 years as well as at conference presentations.
Satu Palokangas
Satu Palokangas (FIN) is a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, Teacher and Infant Movement Developmental Educator, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner and an ISMETA registered Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator. With a background in dance and performance studies, Satu has been teaching somatic methods since 1997 and Ecosomatics since 2006.
The founder and director of the Somatic Movement Therapy and the Ecosomatic trainings in Finland, she is a regular guest faculty at the Dance and Acting departments of the Theatre Academy of Helsinki, the Eino Roiha Dance & Movement Therapy Training in Jyväskylä, and visiting faculty at the School for Body-Mind Centering.
Collaborators, Co-conspirators, Inspiration & Invaluable support:
The following people and their work/words have influenced and inspired the evolution of our work and questions in considerable ways. We want to acknowledge that nothing grows in isolation - and that our research questions arise from lush, experiental ground tended by many teachers and mentors before us.
Amy Matthews
Amy Matthews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/RSME, is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, a yoga therapist and yoga teacher and a Program Director for the School for Body-Mind Centering.
Amy is the co-founder and co-director of Babies Project with Sarah Barnaby and a co-author of the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy with Leslie Kaminoff.
Carol Swann
Carol Swann has been teaching voice, somatics, Alexander Technique, Authentic Movement, Contact and Performance Improvisation for over 35 years. She is co-founder and director of Moving On Center School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Education, which links somatics and performing arts for social change.
She is a registered movement therapist and educator with a private practice in Somatic Psychology and Alexander Technique.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is a movement artist, researcher, educator and therapist and the developer of the Body-Mind Centering® approach to movement and consciousness. An innovator and leader, her work has influenced the fields of bodywork, movement, dance, yoga, body psychotherapy, childhood education and many other body-mind disciplines. In 1973, she founded The School for Body-Mind Centering®.
Koneen Säätiö / Kone Foundation
Kone Foundation (Finland) is an independent non-profit organization with a mission to make the world a better place by advancing bold initiatives in research and the arts.
Sarah’s and Satu’s research on critical somatics has been generously supported by the Kone Foundation.