To find an IBMT practitioner near you, use your usual device controls (e.g. double click/spread fingers) to zoom in on the map and click on the markers to find out about each practitioner. Locations are approximate.
Below the map is a table, listing practitioners by country and also Diploma & Certificate Holders.
UK Title Address Description Amy Voris Dip IBMT Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, M4 7JA, United Kingdom 
Amy offers individual sessions and group workshops. Her one-to-one work and facilitation practice are concerned with cultivating the qualities of depth, sensitivity and play in relationship. Her background in contemporary dance and current research with Authentic Movement as a creative practice underpin her work as a facilitator. Alongside her studio practice, Amy has taught in higher education since 1999.
Barbara Erber Dip IBMT MSc RDMP Teviot Place, Pleasance, Southside, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2QN, United Kingdom 
Barbara trained as a dance movement psychotherapist. She worked with traumatized adults and children in various settings, focusing on the relationship between physical symptoms and trauma. Barbara offers sessions in private practice and is doing a PhD studying how Authentic Movement increases embodied presence and feelings of safety in everyday life.
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T E-RYT500 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7957 250 619
Beverley offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions and small Authentic Movement group work in Cambridge. She integrates somatic themes and techniques into her personal yoga practice and teaching, traveling widely through the UK offering workshops and short training modules.
Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Brenda is a somatic movement therapist and dance movement psychotherapist. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults and acute & chronic mental health. She also teaches on the MA DMP at Goldsmiths College. Her practice of Authentic Movement deeply influences her work. She sees in the body’s expressions a potential resource for profound holistic change.
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME Greater London, England, United Kingdom 
www.la-traversee.com or www.candoco.co.uk
Charlotte is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator, offering individual sessions, group workshops and artist residencies from her home in France, where she co-runs an inter-disciplinary arts initiative called La Traversee. She also is a dance artist and maker and artistic co-Director of CandoCo Dance Company for disabled and non-disabled dancers. She also teaches in London.
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7747 121 291
Fabiano has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist, body worker, Pilates and yoga teacher. He also teaches experiential anatomy and movement improvisation classes in theatre and dance settings. His research interest is in the relationship between expressive moving arts and therapeutic processes. Fabiano’s personal ongoing practice of Authentic Movement underpins his work as a therapeutic witness. He is registered with ISMETA.
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME (London & Norwich) Greater London, England, United Kingdom 
Tel 07419310956
Gaelin is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator. She offers individual sessions and group workshops for all ages and abilities including physical & learning difficulties. Alongside her therapeutic practice Gaelin also works as a dance artist, this underpins her understanding of the body in all its richness and wisdom.
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST Blackheath, Blackheath Vale, Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7500 838 563
Jane offers individual sessions in IBMT, Discipline of Authentic Movement, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She is on the international faculty for IBMT and travels throughout the UK and Europe teaching Continuum and Somatic Movement retreats. In her private practice her interest encompasses how somatic movement supports early development patterns, resourcing from somatic trauma, and embodying fluid movement practices. Jane is also on the board for ISMETA which is the professional body for Somatic Movement Educator and Therapists.
Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Director Cert BMC RSMT SRDMP CTP Swanton Novers, North Norfolk, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom 
info@ibmt.co.uk, linda@lindahartley.co.uk
Linda is a somatic movement therapist, transpersonal and body psychotherapist, Authentic Movement teacher, and writer. She runs workshops and retreats in Norfolk, and is founding director and senior trainer of the IBMT training programmes in the UK, Lithuania and Russia. Her work brings together forty years of experience in movement, meditation, healing and therapeutic arts.
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons) Norwich, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: 07738 467 137
Mari is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist and a student of Somatic Movement Therapy, integrating her learnings from the IBMT training into her practice. She offers individual therapy sessions and occasional workshops in the heart of Norwich. She has a particular interest in how we can orient to the inherent health of our body-mind system, resourcing ourselves to feel greater presence, connection and aliveness.
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA 71, Horns Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, South West England, England, GL5 1EG, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827
Mari’s one-to-one therapy supports adults to find safe, meaningful connection to their health and emotional challenges by locating resource and support in their bodies. Her work is client-centred and utilises approaches including dialogue, embodied enquiry and movement. She also facilitates movement groups and workshops, which are designed to support relaxation, interoception and movement exploration.
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT BA Dartington, South Hams, Devon, South West England, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7967 558 254
Paul is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He offers 1:1 sessions for adults, and for babies, young children and their parents. He works in a private practice, as an associate for an Adoption Consultancy, and visiting lecturer for a number of UK Universities. He is on the UK IBMT Faculty.
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME Morecambe, Lancashire, North West England, England, LA4 4FE, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7979 445169
Penny works in private practice as a somatic movement practitioner and Authentic Movement teacher. She also works as a Supervisor. Her background spans twenty five years of professional dance including improvisation, contemporary and creative dance. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader on MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body.
Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA Helston, Cornwall, South West England, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7903 412 014
www.wildwalks-southwest.co.uk/body-and-nature-retreat-days/
Rachel is a Walk Guide, Forager, Author and Somatic Educator. She has a passion for nature - both inside and outside the body. She offers short courses to inspire and explore the connection between body and environment and has a compassionate, sometimes playful and unique approach.
Rosey Cole Dip IBMT Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)161 465 9173 / +44 7551 925 335
www.bodywisenaturalhealth.co.uk
Rosey has long been interested in exploring and working with her body as a way of resourcing and supporting herself. She loves to share this with others and has practised and taught yoga at Bodywise in Manchester for many years. She has a background in meditation and Buddhist practice. Rosey offers both individual and group sessions in somatic bodywork and movement therapy. She also runs workshops exploring how mindful movement can support people living with chronic pain and ill health.
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons Harpenden, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, AL5 4FF, United Kingdom 
Tel: +44 (0)7711 847 415
bodywisepilatesharpenden@gmail.com
My passion is the unique interactions between mother and baby. How the body and movement grows the brain and how communication between parents and babies can be joyfully enhanced by Developmental Movement Understanding. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator I hold both private sessions and workshops.
Russia Title Address Description Anna Begunskaia Dip IBMT Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia 
Tel: +7 9045 113 583
Anna offers individual sessions and educational work with groups based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. In her practice, she integrates IBMT approach, ideokinesis and Authentic Movement. Anna organizes somatic and experiential anatomy classes in Saint-Petersburg.
Anna Feoktistova Dip IBMT Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia 
Tel: +7 (915) 184-92-33
Anna offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions, regular somatic classes for groups, and training course for pregnant women. Mother of two home-born boys, and blogger. I’m in love with the wisdom, indwelling in the body and it’s movement. The main issue in IBMT work for me is how to find connection with ourselves, coherence between all inner parts and processes, and how to nourish listening and trust in the relationship with myself and the world.
Anna Titova Dip IBMT Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia 
I offer one-on-one sessions in integrated movement therapy, bodymind gestalt therapy, contact improvisation and cranio-sacral biodynamics.
I am interested in exploring developmental patters, embryology and hands-on-work into individual and group processes. I teach classes and workshops in Contact Improvisation, Somatics, BodyMind and Embodiment approach in Russia, Israel and Estonia.
Ekaterina Kviatkovskaia Cert IBMT Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia 
+79104608412
I’ve been looking for the way of relating with the body that would find a response in me. I practiced massage, sport, yoga. The theme that I’m interested in now is how to improve the quality of life, release everything superficial and be honest with oneself. I offer individual somatic sessions integrating aspects of Feldenkrais method, Ideokinesis, Patterns of Early Movement Development, Pilates. Appreciating the seriousness of the practice, I try to add some humor in the processes. I believe, that posture, power, sustainability are supported by inner sensing of ourselves.
Evgenii Belozerov Cert IBMT Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia 
In all my classes I use a somatic approach, I teach workshops on the integration of arts and different types of creativity. The author of the professional program on music-dance development for kids 0-3 years old. I offer somatic classes and workshops on voice, individual somatic sessions, vibroacoustic massage with singing bowls. In all my practice I see my task to help people to connect with their authenticity. I’m a musician and I practice contact improvisation. Assistant of the Moscow IBMT program (2019-2020).
Liliya Semashko Cert IBMT Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia 
Tel: +7 903 121 1257
Email: lvsemashko@gmail.com
Liliya offers individual/group sessions with adults/children by using IBMT techniques to improve functional states and develop dance improvisation. She presents the results of her work at international congresses and symposiums.
Maria Grudskaya Dip IBMT, RSMT/E Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia 
Tel: +7 9629 338 312
Maria has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist. Since 2003 she has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines. Over 10 years she\'s taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness classes in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-organiser and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow and international CI festivals.
Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia 
+7916 517 5494
Nina is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT, ISMETA) and has a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She lives and works in Russia, Moscow. She studied Somatic Psychotherapy, Process Oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Trauma Work. More than 15 years she practices Authentic Movement, since 2017 Nina is a Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She offers individual sessions and group work in weekend seminars, year-long groups, and retreats.
Lithuania Title Address Description Aina Pakelte Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania 
+37069957775
Aina offers individual sessions and group workshops as a somatic movement therapist and educator and gives yoga classes. Aina is interested in body-mind resources, body psychotherapy. She teaches how body and mind can positively influence each other through challenges of life. Aina sees the body as an irreplaceable support for a psyche.
Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania 
tel. no.: +370 685 46665
Aiste is a contemporary dance artist. She applies somatic experience in her dance classes and explores how it can be used in creative work and performing. She gives experiential workshops on Movement Development Patterns, Embodied Anatomy and other somatic experiences as well as offers individual somatic therapy sessions.
Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania 
Tel.: +370 687 16006
Auksė is a former dancer and choreographer, practitioner of Dance Movement Therapy. She offers individual IBMT and DMT sessions for adults, runs small Authentic Movement group and gives DMT classes for refugees. She integrates creative methods and meditation technics into her work.
Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania 
I am Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene, Vilnius, Lithuania, Dip IBMT, an assistant for the IBMT third year program in Vilnius.Danguole works as IBMT practitioner, pilates teacher and holds a master degree in rehabilitation. Her work combines specific structured exercises, developmental movement patterns and building awareness in all body systems while moving. She gives 1:1, leads workshops ("Discover your bones"; "From one cell to two legged creature"), teaches experiential anatomy. Justina Vasileviciute Cert IBMT Vilnius 
Justina is a coach and a spiritual student and incorporates bodywork in all her practices. If you are curious to listen to the wisdom of your body, grounding yourself and being very clear on where your body wants to take you, contact her. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, but also works online worldwide. Raima Drąsutytė Cert IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania 
+370 618 10502
https://www.facebook.com/
Raima is the Vilnius IBMT coordinator. She offers individual IBMT sessions for adults/children/autistic children by integrating Movement Development Patterns, Authentic Movement and expressive arts. She teaches Experiential Anatomy and does educational somatic movement workshops. Raima is a visual and performance artist (MA in Arts and Sculpture). In her creative work, somatic and artistic experiences are deeply interconnected.
Germany Title Address Description Cornelia Schmitz Dip IBMT Pronto Casa, 7, Parkstraße, Viewegsgarten- Bebelhof, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, 38102, Germany 
Tel: +49 5317 7626
In her private practice Cornelia offers body based psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision and Authentic Movement for individuals and groups. She also runs workshops in “Bewegungsgewebe”. Her work is rooted in her profound interest in conscious awareness and the subtle and material tissues and processes of our being as embodied human creatures.
Elke Sirowy Cert IBMT Hamburg, Germany Tel: +49 4038 3789
psychotherapie-sirowy@freenet.de
Elke is a psychotherapist and has worked in her own practice in Hamburg since 1993. Drawing from her professional experience and various therapeutic trainings, she integrates bodywork and movement therapy, body psychotherapy and psychodrama therapy in her work. Horses and other animals are a source of inspiration for her.
Evgeny Meshcheryakov Dip IBMT Neusäß, Augsburg (district), Swabia, Bavaria, 86356, Germany 
Evgeny offers individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. Since 2008 he has been practicing contact improvisation and also has over 7 years of experience in Aikido. In his practice, he integrates the IBMT approach and Authentic Movement.
Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany 
Frauke has worked in a psychosomatic clinic for over fifteen years. She also offers sessions and workshops in bodywork and dance based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy in a private studio. Children and adults are welcome. In her work she connects detailed knowledge about the physical body with sensation, emotion and the joy of movement.
Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10965, Germany 
Heike teaches movement and dance classes and offers individual sessions in Somatic Movement Education/Therapy. Her classes and workshop in Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Movement are grounded in the IBMT work, mainly applying the principles of Body-Mind Centering. She also works as a dance artist and is part of the Global Water Dances Performance Kollektiv Berlin.
Maren Hillert Dip IBMT Berlin, Germany 
Maren is a trainer for the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow as well as in Vilnius/Lithuania. In addition to her intensive teaching work, she runs her own practice in Berlin where she gives individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, Contact Improvisation, and early child development. Her current interest is to support adults in re-exploring their inner process around birth in order to find deep healing.
Stefan Beier Dip IBMT Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 332 0520 3185
E-mail: beier@genderwerk.de
Stefan works in private practice as a somatic movement therapist and BodyMind coach. He also runs workshops and training courses especially with a focus on gender issues and men-women relationships, and specialises in men’s health. Furthermore he assists in a spiritual and consciousness development training with Thomas Hübl.
Spain Title Address Description Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT Barquillo de Madrid, Villafuerte, Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain 
Tel: +34 6303 19798
Leticia offers individual therapeutic sessions and work with groups in the field of voice/body/somatics. She has worked for many years on the research of voice/body in theatre and performing arts. She is interested in working with children and parents to offer support with infant movement developmental. Authentic Movement is her practice of nurture and support. Leticia is an Infant Movement Developmental Educator with the Body-Mind-Centering Association in Europe, and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA.
Estonia Title Address Description Alexey Rezenkov Cert IBMT Estonia 
+372 58405584
Alexey offers both group work for adults and children and individual somatic sessions. He is the author of the PlaySomatic Method based on play, creative approach to life and finding a natural way to harmony of body and mind. In his work he uses methods of somatics, dance movement therapy and contact improvisation. He is also a certified coach of dance psychological trainings. He develops his programmes in Estonia, Finland and Russia.
Diploma Holders Title Address Description Aina Pakelte Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania
+37069957775
Aina offers individual sessions and group workshops as a somatic movement therapist and educator and gives yoga classes. Aina is interested in body-mind resources, body psychotherapy. She teaches how body and mind can positively influence each other through challenges of life. Aina sees the body as an irreplaceable support for a psyche.
Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania
tel. no.: +370 685 46665
Aiste is a contemporary dance artist. She applies somatic experience in her dance classes and explores how it can be used in creative work and performing. She gives experiential workshops on Movement Development Patterns, Embodied Anatomy and other somatic experiences as well as offers individual somatic therapy sessions.
Amy Voris Dip IBMT Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, M4 7JA, United Kingdom
Amy offers individual sessions and group workshops. Her one-to-one work and facilitation practice are concerned with cultivating the qualities of depth, sensitivity and play in relationship. Her background in contemporary dance and current research with Authentic Movement as a creative practice underpin her work as a facilitator. Alongside her studio practice, Amy has taught in higher education since 1999.
Anna Begunskaia Dip IBMT Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia
Tel: +7 9045 113 583
Anna offers individual sessions and educational work with groups based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. In her practice, she integrates IBMT approach, ideokinesis and Authentic Movement. Anna organizes somatic and experiential anatomy classes in Saint-Petersburg.
Anna Feoktistova Dip IBMT Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia
Tel: +7 (915) 184-92-33
Anna offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions, regular somatic classes for groups, and training course for pregnant women. Mother of two home-born boys, and blogger. I’m in love with the wisdom, indwelling in the body and it’s movement. The main issue in IBMT work for me is how to find connection with ourselves, coherence between all inner parts and processes, and how to nourish listening and trust in the relationship with myself and the world.
Anna Titova Dip IBMT Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia
I offer one-on-one sessions in integrated movement therapy, bodymind gestalt therapy, contact improvisation and cranio-sacral biodynamics.
I am interested in exploring developmental patters, embryology and hands-on-work into individual and group processes. I teach classes and workshops in Contact Improvisation, Somatics, BodyMind and Embodiment approach in Russia, Israel and Estonia.
Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Tel.: +370 687 16006
Auksė is a former dancer and choreographer, practitioner of Dance Movement Therapy. She offers individual IBMT and DMT sessions for adults, runs small Authentic Movement group and gives DMT classes for refugees. She integrates creative methods and meditation technics into her work.
Barbara Erber Dip IBMT MSc RDMP Teviot Place, Pleasance, Southside, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2QN, United Kingdom
Barbara trained as a dance movement psychotherapist. She worked with traumatized adults and children in various settings, focusing on the relationship between physical symptoms and trauma. Barbara offers sessions in private practice and is doing a PhD studying how Authentic Movement increases embodied presence and feelings of safety in everyday life.
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T E-RYT500 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7957 250 619
Beverley offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions and small Authentic Movement group work in Cambridge. She integrates somatic themes and techniques into her personal yoga practice and teaching, traveling widely through the UK offering workshops and short training modules.
Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom Brenda is a somatic movement therapist and dance movement psychotherapist. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults and acute & chronic mental health. She also teaches on the MA DMP at Goldsmiths College. Her practice of Authentic Movement deeply influences her work. She sees in the body’s expressions a potential resource for profound holistic change.
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME Greater London, England, United Kingdom
www.la-traversee.com or www.candoco.co.uk
Charlotte is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator, offering individual sessions, group workshops and artist residencies from her home in France, where she co-runs an inter-disciplinary arts initiative called La Traversee. She also is a dance artist and maker and artistic co-Director of CandoCo Dance Company for disabled and non-disabled dancers. She also teaches in London.
Cornelia Schmitz Dip IBMT Pronto Casa, 7, Parkstraße, Viewegsgarten- Bebelhof, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, 38102, Germany
Tel: +49 5317 7626
In her private practice Cornelia offers body based psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision and Authentic Movement for individuals and groups. She also runs workshops in “Bewegungsgewebe”. Her work is rooted in her profound interest in conscious awareness and the subtle and material tissues and processes of our being as embodied human creatures.
Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene Dip IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania I am Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene, Vilnius, Lithuania, Dip IBMT, an assistant for the IBMT third year program in Vilnius.Danguole works as IBMT practitioner, pilates teacher and holds a master degree in rehabilitation. Her work combines specific structured exercises, developmental movement patterns and building awareness in all body systems while moving. She gives 1:1, leads workshops ("Discover your bones"; "From one cell to two legged creature"), teaches experiential anatomy. Evgeny Meshcheryakov Dip IBMT Neusäß, Augsburg (district), Swabia, Bavaria, 86356, Germany
Evgeny offers individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. Since 2008 he has been practicing contact improvisation and also has over 7 years of experience in Aikido. In his practice, he integrates the IBMT approach and Authentic Movement.
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7747 121 291
Fabiano has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist, body worker, Pilates and yoga teacher. He also teaches experiential anatomy and movement improvisation classes in theatre and dance settings. His research interest is in the relationship between expressive moving arts and therapeutic processes. Fabiano’s personal ongoing practice of Authentic Movement underpins his work as a therapeutic witness. He is registered with ISMETA.
Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Frauke has worked in a psychosomatic clinic for over fifteen years. She also offers sessions and workshops in bodywork and dance based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy in a private studio. Children and adults are welcome. In her work she connects detailed knowledge about the physical body with sensation, emotion and the joy of movement.
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME (London & Norwich) Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Tel 07419310956
Gaelin is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator. She offers individual sessions and group workshops for all ages and abilities including physical & learning difficulties. Alongside her therapeutic practice Gaelin also works as a dance artist, this underpins her understanding of the body in all its richness and wisdom.
Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10965, Germany
Heike teaches movement and dance classes and offers individual sessions in Somatic Movement Education/Therapy. Her classes and workshop in Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Movement are grounded in the IBMT work, mainly applying the principles of Body-Mind Centering. She also works as a dance artist and is part of the Global Water Dances Performance Kollektiv Berlin.
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST Blackheath, Blackheath Vale, Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7500 838 563
Jane offers individual sessions in IBMT, Discipline of Authentic Movement, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She is on the international faculty for IBMT and travels throughout the UK and Europe teaching Continuum and Somatic Movement retreats. In her private practice her interest encompasses how somatic movement supports early development patterns, resourcing from somatic trauma, and embodying fluid movement practices. Jane is also on the board for ISMETA which is the professional body for Somatic Movement Educator and Therapists.
Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT Barquillo de Madrid, Villafuerte, Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain
Tel: +34 6303 19798
Leticia offers individual therapeutic sessions and work with groups in the field of voice/body/somatics. She has worked for many years on the research of voice/body in theatre and performing arts. She is interested in working with children and parents to offer support with infant movement developmental. Authentic Movement is her practice of nurture and support. Leticia is an Infant Movement Developmental Educator with the Body-Mind-Centering Association in Europe, and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA.
Maren Hillert Dip IBMT Berlin, Germany
Maren is a trainer for the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow as well as in Vilnius/Lithuania. In addition to her intensive teaching work, she runs her own practice in Berlin where she gives individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, Contact Improvisation, and early child development. Her current interest is to support adults in re-exploring their inner process around birth in order to find deep healing.
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA 71, Horns Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, South West England, England, GL5 1EG, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827
Mari’s one-to-one therapy supports adults to find safe, meaningful connection to their health and emotional challenges by locating resource and support in their bodies. Her work is client-centred and utilises approaches including dialogue, embodied enquiry and movement. She also facilitates movement groups and workshops, which are designed to support relaxation, interoception and movement exploration.
Maria Grudskaya Dip IBMT, RSMT/E Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia
Tel: +7 9629 338 312
Maria has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist. Since 2003 she has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines. Over 10 years she\'s taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness classes in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-organiser and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow and international CI festivals.
Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia
+7916 517 5494
Nina is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT, ISMETA) and has a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She lives and works in Russia, Moscow. She studied Somatic Psychotherapy, Process Oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Trauma Work. More than 15 years she practices Authentic Movement, since 2017 Nina is a Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She offers individual sessions and group work in weekend seminars, year-long groups, and retreats.
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT BA Dartington, South Hams, Devon, South West England, England, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7967 558 254
Paul is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He offers 1:1 sessions for adults, and for babies, young children and their parents. He works in a private practice, as an associate for an Adoption Consultancy, and visiting lecturer for a number of UK Universities. He is on the UK IBMT Faculty.
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME Morecambe, Lancashire, North West England, England, LA4 4FE, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7979 445169
Penny works in private practice as a somatic movement practitioner and Authentic Movement teacher. She also works as a Supervisor. Her background spans twenty five years of professional dance including improvisation, contemporary and creative dance. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader on MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body.
Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA Helston, Cornwall, South West England, England, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7903 412 014
www.wildwalks-southwest.co.uk/body-and-nature-retreat-days/
Rachel is a Walk Guide, Forager, Author and Somatic Educator. She has a passion for nature - both inside and outside the body. She offers short courses to inspire and explore the connection between body and environment and has a compassionate, sometimes playful and unique approach.
Rosey Cole Dip IBMT Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)161 465 9173 / +44 7551 925 335
www.bodywisenaturalhealth.co.uk
Rosey has long been interested in exploring and working with her body as a way of resourcing and supporting herself. She loves to share this with others and has practised and taught yoga at Bodywise in Manchester for many years. She has a background in meditation and Buddhist practice. Rosey offers both individual and group sessions in somatic bodywork and movement therapy. She also runs workshops exploring how mindful movement can support people living with chronic pain and ill health.
Stefan Beier Dip IBMT Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 332 0520 3185
E-mail: beier@genderwerk.de
Stefan works in private practice as a somatic movement therapist and BodyMind coach. He also runs workshops and training courses especially with a focus on gender issues and men-women relationships, and specialises in men’s health. Furthermore he assists in a spiritual and consciousness development training with Thomas Hübl.
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons Harpenden, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, AL5 4FF, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7711 847 415
bodywisepilatesharpenden@gmail.com
My passion is the unique interactions between mother and baby. How the body and movement grows the brain and how communication between parents and babies can be joyfully enhanced by Developmental Movement Understanding. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator I hold both private sessions and workshops.
Certificate Holders Title Address Description Alexey Rezenkov Cert IBMT Estonia
+372 58405584
Alexey offers both group work for adults and children and individual somatic sessions. He is the author of the PlaySomatic Method based on play, creative approach to life and finding a natural way to harmony of body and mind. In his work he uses methods of somatics, dance movement therapy and contact improvisation. He is also a certified coach of dance psychological trainings. He develops his programmes in Estonia, Finland and Russia.
Ekaterina Kviatkovskaia Cert IBMT Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia
+79104608412
I’ve been looking for the way of relating with the body that would find a response in me. I practiced massage, sport, yoga. The theme that I’m interested in now is how to improve the quality of life, release everything superficial and be honest with oneself. I offer individual somatic sessions integrating aspects of Feldenkrais method, Ideokinesis, Patterns of Early Movement Development, Pilates. Appreciating the seriousness of the practice, I try to add some humor in the processes. I believe, that posture, power, sustainability are supported by inner sensing of ourselves.
Elke Sirowy Cert IBMT Hamburg, Germany Tel: +49 4038 3789
psychotherapie-sirowy@freenet.de
Elke is a psychotherapist and has worked in her own practice in Hamburg since 1993. Drawing from her professional experience and various therapeutic trainings, she integrates bodywork and movement therapy, body psychotherapy and psychodrama therapy in her work. Horses and other animals are a source of inspiration for her.
Evgenii Belozerov Cert IBMT Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia
In all my classes I use a somatic approach, I teach workshops on the integration of arts and different types of creativity. The author of the professional program on music-dance development for kids 0-3 years old. I offer somatic classes and workshops on voice, individual somatic sessions, vibroacoustic massage with singing bowls. In all my practice I see my task to help people to connect with their authenticity. I’m a musician and I practice contact improvisation. Assistant of the Moscow IBMT program (2019-2020).
Justina Vasileviciute Cert IBMT Vilnius
Justina is a coach and a spiritual student and incorporates bodywork in all her practices. If you are curious to listen to the wisdom of your body, grounding yourself and being very clear on where your body wants to take you, contact her. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, but also works online worldwide. Liliya Semashko Cert IBMT Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia
Tel: +7 903 121 1257
Email: lvsemashko@gmail.com
Liliya offers individual/group sessions with adults/children by using IBMT techniques to improve functional states and develop dance improvisation. She presents the results of her work at international congresses and symposiums.
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons) Norwich, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom
Tel: 07738 467 137
Mari is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist and a student of Somatic Movement Therapy, integrating her learnings from the IBMT training into her practice. She offers individual therapy sessions and occasional workshops in the heart of Norwich. She has a particular interest in how we can orient to the inherent health of our body-mind system, resourcing ourselves to feel greater presence, connection and aliveness.
Raima Drąsutytė Cert IBMT Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania
+370 618 10502
https://www.facebook.com/
Raima is the Vilnius IBMT coordinator. She offers individual IBMT sessions for adults/children/autistic children by integrating Movement Development Patterns, Authentic Movement and expressive arts. She teaches Experiential Anatomy and does educational somatic movement workshops. Raima is a visual and performance artist (MA in Arts and Sculpture). In her creative work, somatic and artistic experiences are deeply interconnected.
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Voris Dip IBMT | Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, M4 7JA, United Kingdom |
Amy offers individual sessions and group workshops. Her one-to-one work and facilitation practice are concerned with cultivating the qualities of depth, sensitivity and play in relationship. Her background in contemporary dance and current research with Authentic Movement as a creative practice underpin her work as a facilitator. Alongside her studio practice, Amy has taught in higher education since 1999. |
| Barbara Erber Dip IBMT MSc RDMP | Teviot Place, Pleasance, Southside, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2QN, United Kingdom |
Barbara trained as a dance movement psychotherapist. She worked with traumatized adults and children in various settings, focusing on the relationship between physical symptoms and trauma. Barbara offers sessions in private practice and is doing a PhD studying how Authentic Movement increases embodied presence and feelings of safety in everyday life. |
| Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T E-RYT500 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7957 250 619 Beverley offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions and small Authentic Movement group work in Cambridge. She integrates somatic themes and techniques into her personal yoga practice and teaching, traveling widely through the UK offering workshops and short training modules. |
| Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor | London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom | Brenda is a somatic movement therapist and dance movement psychotherapist. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults and acute & chronic mental health. She also teaches on the MA DMP at Goldsmiths College. Her practice of Authentic Movement deeply influences her work. She sees in the body’s expressions a potential resource for profound holistic change. |
| Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME | Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
www.la-traversee.com or www.candoco.co.uk Charlotte is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator, offering individual sessions, group workshops and artist residencies from her home in France, where she co-runs an inter-disciplinary arts initiative called La Traversee. She also is a dance artist and maker and artistic co-Director of CandoCo Dance Company for disabled and non-disabled dancers. She also teaches in London. |
| Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E | Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7747 121 291 Fabiano has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist, body worker, Pilates and yoga teacher. He also teaches experiential anatomy and movement improvisation classes in theatre and dance settings. His research interest is in the relationship between expressive moving arts and therapeutic processes. Fabiano’s personal ongoing practice of Authentic Movement underpins his work as a therapeutic witness. He is registered with ISMETA. |
| Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME (London & Norwich) | Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
Tel 07419310956 Gaelin is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator. She offers individual sessions and group workshops for all ages and abilities including physical & learning difficulties. Alongside her therapeutic practice Gaelin also works as a dance artist, this underpins her understanding of the body in all its richness and wisdom. |
| Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST | Blackheath, Blackheath Vale, Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7500 838 563 Jane offers individual sessions in IBMT, Discipline of Authentic Movement, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She is on the international faculty for IBMT and travels throughout the UK and Europe teaching Continuum and Somatic Movement retreats. In her private practice her interest encompasses how somatic movement supports early development patterns, resourcing from somatic trauma, and embodying fluid movement practices. Jane is also on the board for ISMETA which is the professional body for Somatic Movement Educator and Therapists. |
| Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Director Cert BMC RSMT SRDMP CTP | Swanton Novers, North Norfolk, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom |
info@ibmt.co.uk, linda@lindahartley.co.uk Linda is a somatic movement therapist, transpersonal and body psychotherapist, Authentic Movement teacher, and writer. She runs workshops and retreats in Norfolk, and is founding director and senior trainer of the IBMT training programmes in the UK, Lithuania and Russia. Her work brings together forty years of experience in movement, meditation, healing and therapeutic arts. |
| Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons) | Norwich, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: 07738 467 137 Mari is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist and a student of Somatic Movement Therapy, integrating her learnings from the IBMT training into her practice. She offers individual therapy sessions and occasional workshops in the heart of Norwich. She has a particular interest in how we can orient to the inherent health of our body-mind system, resourcing ourselves to feel greater presence, connection and aliveness. |
| Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA | 71, Horns Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, South West England, England, GL5 1EG, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827 Mari’s one-to-one therapy supports adults to find safe, meaningful connection to their health and emotional challenges by locating resource and support in their bodies. Her work is client-centred and utilises approaches including dialogue, embodied enquiry and movement. She also facilitates movement groups and workshops, which are designed to support relaxation, interoception and movement exploration. |
| Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT BA | Dartington, South Hams, Devon, South West England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7967 558 254 Paul is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He offers 1:1 sessions for adults, and for babies, young children and their parents. He works in a private practice, as an associate for an Adoption Consultancy, and visiting lecturer for a number of UK Universities. He is on the UK IBMT Faculty. |
| Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME | Morecambe, Lancashire, North West England, England, LA4 4FE, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7979 445169 Penny works in private practice as a somatic movement practitioner and Authentic Movement teacher. She also works as a Supervisor. Her background spans twenty five years of professional dance including improvisation, contemporary and creative dance. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader on MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body. |
| Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA | Helston, Cornwall, South West England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7903 412 014 www.wildwalks-southwest.co.uk/body-and-nature-retreat-days/ Rachel is a Walk Guide, Forager, Author and Somatic Educator. She has a passion for nature - both inside and outside the body. She offers short courses to inspire and explore the connection between body and environment and has a compassionate, sometimes playful and unique approach. |
| Rosey Cole Dip IBMT | Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)161 465 9173 / +44 7551 925 335 www.bodywisenaturalhealth.co.uk Rosey has long been interested in exploring and working with her body as a way of resourcing and supporting herself. She loves to share this with others and has practised and taught yoga at Bodywise in Manchester for many years. She has a background in meditation and Buddhist practice. Rosey offers both individual and group sessions in somatic bodywork and movement therapy. She also runs workshops exploring how mindful movement can support people living with chronic pain and ill health.
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| Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons | Harpenden, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, AL5 4FF, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7711 847 415 bodywisepilatesharpenden@gmail.com My passion is the unique interactions between mother and baby. How the body and movement grows the brain and how communication between parents and babies can be joyfully enhanced by Developmental Movement Understanding. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator I hold both private sessions and workshops. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Begunskaia Dip IBMT | Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia |
Tel: +7 9045 113 583 Anna offers individual sessions and educational work with groups based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. In her practice, she integrates IBMT approach, ideokinesis and Authentic Movement. Anna organizes somatic and experiential anatomy classes in Saint-Petersburg. |
| Anna Feoktistova Dip IBMT | Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
Tel: +7 (915) 184-92-33 Anna offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions, regular somatic classes for groups, and training course for pregnant women. Mother of two home-born boys, and blogger. I’m in love with the wisdom, indwelling in the body and it’s movement. The main issue in IBMT work for me is how to find connection with ourselves, coherence between all inner parts and processes, and how to nourish listening and trust in the relationship with myself and the world. |
| Anna Titova Dip IBMT | Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
I offer one-on-one sessions in integrated movement therapy, bodymind gestalt therapy, contact improvisation and cranio-sacral biodynamics. |
| Ekaterina Kviatkovskaia Cert IBMT | Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
+79104608412 I’ve been looking for the way of relating with the body that would find a response in me. I practiced massage, sport, yoga. The theme that I’m interested in now is how to improve the quality of life, release everything superficial and be honest with oneself. I offer individual somatic sessions integrating aspects of Feldenkrais method, Ideokinesis, Patterns of Early Movement Development, Pilates. Appreciating the seriousness of the practice, I try to add some humor in the processes. I believe, that posture, power, sustainability are supported by inner sensing of ourselves. |
| Evgenii Belozerov Cert IBMT | Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia |
In all my classes I use a somatic approach, I teach workshops on the integration of arts and different types of creativity. The author of the professional program on music-dance development for kids 0-3 years old. I offer somatic classes and workshops on voice, individual somatic sessions, vibroacoustic massage with singing bowls. In all my practice I see my task to help people to connect with their authenticity. I’m a musician and I practice contact improvisation. Assistant of the Moscow IBMT program (2019-2020). |
| Liliya Semashko Cert IBMT | Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
Tel: +7 903 121 1257 Email: lvsemashko@gmail.com Liliya offers individual/group sessions with adults/children by using IBMT techniques to improve functional states and develop dance improvisation. She presents the results of her work at international congresses and symposiums. |
| Maria Grudskaya Dip IBMT, RSMT/E | Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
Tel: +7 9629 338 312 Maria has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist. Since 2003 she has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines. Over 10 years she\'s taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness classes in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-organiser and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow and international CI festivals. |
| Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT | Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
+7916 517 5494 Nina is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT, ISMETA) and has a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She lives and works in Russia, Moscow. She studied Somatic Psychotherapy, Process Oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Trauma Work. More than 15 years she practices Authentic Movement, since 2017 Nina is a Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She offers individual sessions and group work in weekend seminars, year-long groups, and retreats. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aina Pakelte Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
+37069957775 Aina offers individual sessions and group workshops as a somatic movement therapist and educator and gives yoga classes. Aina is interested in body-mind resources, body psychotherapy. She teaches how body and mind can positively influence each other through challenges of life. Aina sees the body as an irreplaceable support for a psyche. |
| Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
tel. no.: +370 685 46665 Aiste is a contemporary dance artist. She applies somatic experience in her dance classes and explores how it can be used in creative work and performing. She gives experiential workshops on Movement Development Patterns, Embodied Anatomy and other somatic experiences as well as offers individual somatic therapy sessions. |
| Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
Tel.: +370 687 16006 Auksė is a former dancer and choreographer, practitioner of Dance Movement Therapy. She offers individual IBMT and DMT sessions for adults, runs small Authentic Movement group and gives DMT classes for refugees. She integrates creative methods and meditation technics into her work. |
| Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania | I am Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene, Vilnius, Lithuania, Dip IBMT, an assistant for the IBMT third year program in Vilnius. Danguole works as IBMT practitioner, pilates teacher and holds a master degree in rehabilitation. Her work combines specific structured exercises, developmental movement patterns and building awareness in all body systems while moving. She gives 1:1, leads workshops ("Discover your bones"; "From one cell to two legged creature"), teaches experiential anatomy. |
| Justina Vasileviciute Cert IBMT | Vilnius |
Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, but also works online worldwide. |
| Raima Drąsutytė Cert IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
+370 618 10502 https://www.facebook.com/ Raima is the Vilnius IBMT coordinator. She offers individual IBMT sessions for adults/children/autistic children by integrating Movement Development Patterns, Authentic Movement and expressive arts. She teaches Experiential Anatomy and does educational somatic movement workshops. Raima is a visual and performance artist (MA in Arts and Sculpture). In her creative work, somatic and artistic experiences are deeply interconnected. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cornelia Schmitz Dip IBMT | Pronto Casa, 7, Parkstraße, Viewegsgarten- Bebelhof, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, 38102, Germany |
Tel: +49 5317 7626 In her private practice Cornelia offers body based psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision and Authentic Movement for individuals and groups. She also runs workshops in “Bewegungsgewebe”. Her work is rooted in her profound interest in conscious awareness and the subtle and material tissues and processes of our being as embodied human creatures. |
| Elke Sirowy Cert IBMT | Hamburg, Germany | Tel: +49 4038 3789 psychotherapie-sirowy@freenet.de Elke is a psychotherapist and has worked in her own practice in Hamburg since 1993. Drawing from her professional experience and various therapeutic trainings, she integrates bodywork and movement therapy, body psychotherapy and psychodrama therapy in her work. Horses and other animals are a source of inspiration for her. |
| Evgeny Meshcheryakov Dip IBMT | Neusäß, Augsburg (district), Swabia, Bavaria, 86356, Germany |
Evgeny offers individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. Since 2008 he has been practicing contact improvisation and also has over 7 years of experience in Aikido. In his practice, he integrates the IBMT approach and Authentic Movement. |
| Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT | Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Frauke has worked in a psychosomatic clinic for over fifteen years. She also offers sessions and workshops in bodywork and dance based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy in a private studio. Children and adults are welcome. In her work she connects detailed knowledge about the physical body with sensation, emotion and the joy of movement. |
| Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance | Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10965, Germany |
Heike teaches movement and dance classes and offers individual sessions in Somatic Movement Education/Therapy. Her classes and workshop in Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Movement are grounded in the IBMT work, mainly applying the principles of Body-Mind Centering. She also works as a dance artist and is part of the Global Water Dances Performance Kollektiv Berlin. |
| Maren Hillert Dip IBMT | Berlin, Germany |
Maren is a trainer for the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow as well as in Vilnius/Lithuania. In addition to her intensive teaching work, she runs her own practice in Berlin where she gives individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, Contact Improvisation, and early child development. Her current interest is to support adults in re-exploring their inner process around birth in order to find deep healing. |
| Stefan Beier Dip IBMT | Berlin, Germany | Tel: +49 332 0520 3185 E-mail: beier@genderwerk.de Stefan works in private practice as a somatic movement therapist and BodyMind coach. He also runs workshops and training courses especially with a focus on gender issues and men-women relationships, and specialises in men’s health. Furthermore he assists in a spiritual and consciousness development training with Thomas Hübl. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT | Barquillo de Madrid, Villafuerte, Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain |
Tel: +34 6303 19798 Leticia offers individual therapeutic sessions and work with groups in the field of voice/body/somatics. She has worked for many years on the research of voice/body in theatre and performing arts. She is interested in working with children and parents to offer support with infant movement developmental. Authentic Movement is her practice of nurture and support. Leticia is an Infant Movement Developmental Educator with the Body-Mind-Centering Association in Europe, and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alexey Rezenkov Cert IBMT | Estonia |
+372 58405584 Alexey offers both group work for adults and children and individual somatic sessions. He is the author of the PlaySomatic Method based on play, creative approach to life and finding a natural way to harmony of body and mind. In his work he uses methods of somatics, dance movement therapy and contact improvisation. He is also a certified coach of dance psychological trainings. He develops his programmes in Estonia, Finland and Russia. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aina Pakelte Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
+37069957775 Aina offers individual sessions and group workshops as a somatic movement therapist and educator and gives yoga classes. Aina is interested in body-mind resources, body psychotherapy. She teaches how body and mind can positively influence each other through challenges of life. Aina sees the body as an irreplaceable support for a psyche. |
| Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
tel. no.: +370 685 46665 Aiste is a contemporary dance artist. She applies somatic experience in her dance classes and explores how it can be used in creative work and performing. She gives experiential workshops on Movement Development Patterns, Embodied Anatomy and other somatic experiences as well as offers individual somatic therapy sessions. |
| Amy Voris Dip IBMT | Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, M4 7JA, United Kingdom |
Amy offers individual sessions and group workshops. Her one-to-one work and facilitation practice are concerned with cultivating the qualities of depth, sensitivity and play in relationship. Her background in contemporary dance and current research with Authentic Movement as a creative practice underpin her work as a facilitator. Alongside her studio practice, Amy has taught in higher education since 1999. |
| Anna Begunskaia Dip IBMT | Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia |
Tel: +7 9045 113 583 Anna offers individual sessions and educational work with groups based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. In her practice, she integrates IBMT approach, ideokinesis and Authentic Movement. Anna organizes somatic and experiential anatomy classes in Saint-Petersburg. |
| Anna Feoktistova Dip IBMT | Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
Tel: +7 (915) 184-92-33 Anna offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions, regular somatic classes for groups, and training course for pregnant women. Mother of two home-born boys, and blogger. I’m in love with the wisdom, indwelling in the body and it’s movement. The main issue in IBMT work for me is how to find connection with ourselves, coherence between all inner parts and processes, and how to nourish listening and trust in the relationship with myself and the world. |
| Anna Titova Dip IBMT | Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
I offer one-on-one sessions in integrated movement therapy, bodymind gestalt therapy, contact improvisation and cranio-sacral biodynamics. |
| Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
Tel.: +370 687 16006 Auksė is a former dancer and choreographer, practitioner of Dance Movement Therapy. She offers individual IBMT and DMT sessions for adults, runs small Authentic Movement group and gives DMT classes for refugees. She integrates creative methods and meditation technics into her work. |
| Barbara Erber Dip IBMT MSc RDMP | Teviot Place, Pleasance, Southside, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2QN, United Kingdom |
Barbara trained as a dance movement psychotherapist. She worked with traumatized adults and children in various settings, focusing on the relationship between physical symptoms and trauma. Barbara offers sessions in private practice and is doing a PhD studying how Authentic Movement increases embodied presence and feelings of safety in everyday life. |
| Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T E-RYT500 | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7957 250 619 Beverley offers individual IBMT therapeutic sessions and small Authentic Movement group work in Cambridge. She integrates somatic themes and techniques into her personal yoga practice and teaching, traveling widely through the UK offering workshops and short training modules. |
| Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor | London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom | Brenda is a somatic movement therapist and dance movement psychotherapist. She has experience working with children, adolescents, adults and acute & chronic mental health. She also teaches on the MA DMP at Goldsmiths College. Her practice of Authentic Movement deeply influences her work. She sees in the body’s expressions a potential resource for profound holistic change. |
| Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME | Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
www.la-traversee.com or www.candoco.co.uk Charlotte is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator, offering individual sessions, group workshops and artist residencies from her home in France, where she co-runs an inter-disciplinary arts initiative called La Traversee. She also is a dance artist and maker and artistic co-Director of CandoCo Dance Company for disabled and non-disabled dancers. She also teaches in London. |
| Cornelia Schmitz Dip IBMT | Pronto Casa, 7, Parkstraße, Viewegsgarten- Bebelhof, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, 38102, Germany |
Tel: +49 5317 7626 In her private practice Cornelia offers body based psychodynamic psychotherapy, supervision and Authentic Movement for individuals and groups. She also runs workshops in “Bewegungsgewebe”. Her work is rooted in her profound interest in conscious awareness and the subtle and material tissues and processes of our being as embodied human creatures. |
| Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene Dip IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania | I am Danguole Venslavice-Mykolaitiene, Vilnius, Lithuania, Dip IBMT, an assistant for the IBMT third year program in Vilnius. Danguole works as IBMT practitioner, pilates teacher and holds a master degree in rehabilitation. Her work combines specific structured exercises, developmental movement patterns and building awareness in all body systems while moving. She gives 1:1, leads workshops ("Discover your bones"; "From one cell to two legged creature"), teaches experiential anatomy. |
| Evgeny Meshcheryakov Dip IBMT | Neusäß, Augsburg (district), Swabia, Bavaria, 86356, Germany |
Evgeny offers individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. Since 2008 he has been practicing contact improvisation and also has over 7 years of experience in Aikido. In his practice, he integrates the IBMT approach and Authentic Movement. |
| Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E | Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7747 121 291 Fabiano has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist, body worker, Pilates and yoga teacher. He also teaches experiential anatomy and movement improvisation classes in theatre and dance settings. His research interest is in the relationship between expressive moving arts and therapeutic processes. Fabiano’s personal ongoing practice of Authentic Movement underpins his work as a therapeutic witness. He is registered with ISMETA. |
| Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT | Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Frauke has worked in a psychosomatic clinic for over fifteen years. She also offers sessions and workshops in bodywork and dance based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy in a private studio. Children and adults are welcome. In her work she connects detailed knowledge about the physical body with sensation, emotion and the joy of movement. |
| Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME (London & Norwich) | Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
Tel 07419310956 Gaelin is a registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator. She offers individual sessions and group workshops for all ages and abilities including physical & learning difficulties. Alongside her therapeutic practice Gaelin also works as a dance artist, this underpins her understanding of the body in all its richness and wisdom. |
| Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance | Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10965, Germany |
Heike teaches movement and dance classes and offers individual sessions in Somatic Movement Education/Therapy. Her classes and workshop in Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and Movement are grounded in the IBMT work, mainly applying the principles of Body-Mind Centering. She also works as a dance artist and is part of the Global Water Dances Performance Kollektiv Berlin. |
| Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST | Blackheath, Blackheath Vale, Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7500 838 563 Jane offers individual sessions in IBMT, Discipline of Authentic Movement, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She is on the international faculty for IBMT and travels throughout the UK and Europe teaching Continuum and Somatic Movement retreats. In her private practice her interest encompasses how somatic movement supports early development patterns, resourcing from somatic trauma, and embodying fluid movement practices. Jane is also on the board for ISMETA which is the professional body for Somatic Movement Educator and Therapists. |
| Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT | Barquillo de Madrid, Villafuerte, Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain |
Tel: +34 6303 19798 Leticia offers individual therapeutic sessions and work with groups in the field of voice/body/somatics. She has worked for many years on the research of voice/body in theatre and performing arts. She is interested in working with children and parents to offer support with infant movement developmental. Authentic Movement is her practice of nurture and support. Leticia is an Infant Movement Developmental Educator with the Body-Mind-Centering Association in Europe, and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA. |
| Maren Hillert Dip IBMT | Berlin, Germany |
Maren is a trainer for the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow as well as in Vilnius/Lithuania. In addition to her intensive teaching work, she runs her own practice in Berlin where she gives individual sessions based on Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, Contact Improvisation, and early child development. Her current interest is to support adults in re-exploring their inner process around birth in order to find deep healing. |
| Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA | 71, Horns Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, South West England, England, GL5 1EG, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827 Mari’s one-to-one therapy supports adults to find safe, meaningful connection to their health and emotional challenges by locating resource and support in their bodies. Her work is client-centred and utilises approaches including dialogue, embodied enquiry and movement. She also facilitates movement groups and workshops, which are designed to support relaxation, interoception and movement exploration. |
| Maria Grudskaya Dip IBMT, RSMT/E | Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
Tel: +7 9629 338 312 Maria has a private practice working as a somatic movement therapist. Since 2003 she has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines. Over 10 years she\'s taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness classes in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-organiser and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow and international CI festivals. |
| Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT | Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
+7916 517 5494 Nina is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT, ISMETA) and has a diploma in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She lives and works in Russia, Moscow. She studied Somatic Psychotherapy, Process Oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Trauma Work. More than 15 years she practices Authentic Movement, since 2017 Nina is a Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She offers individual sessions and group work in weekend seminars, year-long groups, and retreats. |
| Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT BA | Dartington, South Hams, Devon, South West England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7967 558 254 Paul is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He offers 1:1 sessions for adults, and for babies, young children and their parents. He works in a private practice, as an associate for an Adoption Consultancy, and visiting lecturer for a number of UK Universities. He is on the UK IBMT Faculty. |
| Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME | Morecambe, Lancashire, North West England, England, LA4 4FE, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7979 445169 Penny works in private practice as a somatic movement practitioner and Authentic Movement teacher. She also works as a Supervisor. Her background spans twenty five years of professional dance including improvisation, contemporary and creative dance. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader on MA Dance & Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body. |
| Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA | Helston, Cornwall, South West England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7903 412 014 www.wildwalks-southwest.co.uk/body-and-nature-retreat-days/ Rachel is a Walk Guide, Forager, Author and Somatic Educator. She has a passion for nature - both inside and outside the body. She offers short courses to inspire and explore the connection between body and environment and has a compassionate, sometimes playful and unique approach. |
| Rosey Cole Dip IBMT | Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)161 465 9173 / +44 7551 925 335 www.bodywisenaturalhealth.co.uk Rosey has long been interested in exploring and working with her body as a way of resourcing and supporting herself. She loves to share this with others and has practised and taught yoga at Bodywise in Manchester for many years. She has a background in meditation and Buddhist practice. Rosey offers both individual and group sessions in somatic bodywork and movement therapy. She also runs workshops exploring how mindful movement can support people living with chronic pain and ill health.
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| Stefan Beier Dip IBMT | Berlin, Germany | Tel: +49 332 0520 3185 E-mail: beier@genderwerk.de Stefan works in private practice as a somatic movement therapist and BodyMind coach. He also runs workshops and training courses especially with a focus on gender issues and men-women relationships, and specialises in men’s health. Furthermore he assists in a spiritual and consciousness development training with Thomas Hübl. |
| Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons | Harpenden, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, AL5 4FF, United Kingdom |
Tel: +44 (0)7711 847 415 bodywisepilatesharpenden@gmail.com My passion is the unique interactions between mother and baby. How the body and movement grows the brain and how communication between parents and babies can be joyfully enhanced by Developmental Movement Understanding. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator I hold both private sessions and workshops. |
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| Alexey Rezenkov Cert IBMT | Estonia |
+372 58405584 Alexey offers both group work for adults and children and individual somatic sessions. He is the author of the PlaySomatic Method based on play, creative approach to life and finding a natural way to harmony of body and mind. In his work he uses methods of somatics, dance movement therapy and contact improvisation. He is also a certified coach of dance psychological trainings. He develops his programmes in Estonia, Finland and Russia. |
| Ekaterina Kviatkovskaia Cert IBMT | Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
+79104608412 I’ve been looking for the way of relating with the body that would find a response in me. I practiced massage, sport, yoga. The theme that I’m interested in now is how to improve the quality of life, release everything superficial and be honest with oneself. I offer individual somatic sessions integrating aspects of Feldenkrais method, Ideokinesis, Patterns of Early Movement Development, Pilates. Appreciating the seriousness of the practice, I try to add some humor in the processes. I believe, that posture, power, sustainability are supported by inner sensing of ourselves. |
| Elke Sirowy Cert IBMT | Hamburg, Germany | Tel: +49 4038 3789 psychotherapie-sirowy@freenet.de Elke is a psychotherapist and has worked in her own practice in Hamburg since 1993. Drawing from her professional experience and various therapeutic trainings, she integrates bodywork and movement therapy, body psychotherapy and psychodrama therapy in her work. Horses and other animals are a source of inspiration for her. |
| Evgenii Belozerov Cert IBMT | Saint Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, 190000, Russia |
In all my classes I use a somatic approach, I teach workshops on the integration of arts and different types of creativity. The author of the professional program on music-dance development for kids 0-3 years old. I offer somatic classes and workshops on voice, individual somatic sessions, vibroacoustic massage with singing bowls. In all my practice I see my task to help people to connect with their authenticity. I’m a musician and I practice contact improvisation. Assistant of the Moscow IBMT program (2019-2020). |
| Justina Vasileviciute Cert IBMT | Vilnius |
Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, but also works online worldwide. |
| Liliya Semashko Cert IBMT | Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia |
Tel: +7 903 121 1257 Email: lvsemashko@gmail.com Liliya offers individual/group sessions with adults/children by using IBMT techniques to improve functional states and develop dance improvisation. She presents the results of her work at international congresses and symposiums. |
| Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons) | Norwich, Norfolk, East of England, England, United Kingdom |
Tel: 07738 467 137 Mari is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist and a student of Somatic Movement Therapy, integrating her learnings from the IBMT training into her practice. She offers individual therapy sessions and occasional workshops in the heart of Norwich. She has a particular interest in how we can orient to the inherent health of our body-mind system, resourcing ourselves to feel greater presence, connection and aliveness. |
| Raima Drąsutytė Cert IBMT | Vilnius, Vilnius city municipality, Vilnius County, Lithuania |
+370 618 10502 https://www.facebook.com/ Raima is the Vilnius IBMT coordinator. She offers individual IBMT sessions for adults/children/autistic children by integrating Movement Development Patterns, Authentic Movement and expressive arts. She teaches Experiential Anatomy and does educational somatic movement workshops. Raima is a visual and performance artist (MA in Arts and Sculpture). In her creative work, somatic and artistic experiences are deeply interconnected. |
Abbreviations
Dip IBMT (Diploma in IBMT)
Fully qualified to practise as an IBMT Practitioner. Has completed three years of training in Infant Movement Development; Authentic Movement and Therapeutic Presence; Embodied Anatomy and Movement Re-patterning: Body Systems 1 & 2; Somatic Psychology, and is eligible to become a registered ISMETA practitioner.
Cert IBMT (Certificate in IBMT)
Has completed three years of training and is working towards the Diploma requirements. Can integrate IBMT into their existing practice and may offer reduced-rate IBMT sessions
Cert EDP (IBMT) (Certificate in Embodied Developmental Psychology)
Has completed a two-year CPD programme in Embodied Developmental Psychology, and can integrate this work into their existing practice
IBMT Associate
Has completed a significant part of the IBMT Diploma curriculum and is an ISMETA-registered practitioner integrating IBMT into their practice.