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, UK 
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 Edinburgh, Scotland 
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 Cambridge, UK 
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T
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 London, UK Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor
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 London, UK 
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME
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 Leeds, UK 
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E
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 London, UK 
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME
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 Blackheath, London 
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST
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 North Norfolk, UK 
Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Director Cert BMC RSMT SRDMP CTP
info@ibmt.co.uk, linda@lindahartley.co.uk
Linda is a somatic movement therapist, transpersonal and body psychotherapist, teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement, and writer. She runs workshops and retreats in Norfolk, and is founding director of the IBMT training programmes in the UK, Lithuania and Russia. Her work brings together over forty years of experience in movement, meditation, healing and therapeutic arts.
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT Norwich, UK 
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons)
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 Stroud, UK 
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827
Mari’s trauma-informed one-to-one somatic 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 Devon, UK 
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT, RSMT, Dip Coun, BA (Hons)
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 Morecambe,UK 
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME
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 Cornwall, UK 
Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA
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, UK 
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 Harpenden, UK 
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons
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.
Melissa Softley Cert IBMT London, UK 
Cert EDP (IBMT), CET (level 4), RYT (BWY), PgDip, BSc (Chem). With a passion for the poetic and profound intelligence of the body, Melissa teaches both A&P and Movement practices. As a Movement Therapy student with IBMT she found a transformative practice, offered with deep respect for our shared human being-ness, woven together with rigour, compassion and creativity. She offers:- Weekly classes of blended yoga and somatic enquiry
- Experiential embodiment themed workshops
- Anatomy trainings
- 121 therapy
Tel: 07815 624 368
Russia Title Address Description Anna Begunskaia Dip IBMT Saint Petersburg, 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, 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 its 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. I’m looking for the creative power, that vibrates in cells of our bodies, that shows how to be a co-creator of your own life.
Anna Titova Dip IBMT Moscow Russia 
Somatic therapist and somatic movement practitioner, Body-Mind Gestalt therapist BMGT, Registered member of ISMETA (RSMT/Е).
Teacher, speaker, organizer and co-host in different projects in the field of somatics, mindfulness business, antistress yoga-therapy and teaching healing practices (osteopathy). Leading group processes and individual sessions.
The organizer of international somatic program Somatic BODY Training in Moscow.
The organizer and creator of projects "Fascia. The Living Matrix" and "Pelvic space: from stress to enjoyment"
Evgenii Belozerov Cert IBMT Saint Petersburg, 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 Dip IBMT Moscow, 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, Russia 
Tel: +7 9629 338 312
Maria is a ISMETA registered somatic movement therapist and educator, she offers individual sessions and group classes both online and offline. She is a co-organizer and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow. She has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines since 2003. Over 10 years she's taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-creator of international CI festivals.
Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT Moscow, 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 Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT Vilnius, 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, 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, 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. Raima Drąsutytė Cert IBMT Vilnius, 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 Lower Saxony, 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.
Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT Göttingen, 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 Berlin, Germany 
Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance
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.
Poland Title Address Description Anna Panster Cert Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland 
M.Ed., Cert PW, SE™ Practitioner in training (Advanced level)
Phone: +48 668077336E-mail: annapanster.work@gmail.com
Web: https://somacircle.getcourse.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/
Anna offers support that helps people to overcome difficulties, find deeper connection to the inner resources and feel more at home in their own skin.
She integrates her diverse experiences in IBMT, Process-oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, motherhood and immigration. Anna is a trauma-trained and polyvagal-informed practitioner.
Spain Title Address Description Leticia Santafé Dip IBMT Madrid, Spain 
Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT
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.
Diploma Holders Title Address Description Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT Vilnius, 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, UK
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, 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, 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 its 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. I’m looking for the creative power, that vibrates in cells of our bodies, that shows how to be a co-creator of your own life.
Anna Titova Dip IBMT Moscow Russia
Somatic therapist and somatic movement practitioner, Body-Mind Gestalt therapist BMGT, Registered member of ISMETA (RSMT/Е).
Teacher, speaker, organizer and co-host in different projects in the field of somatics, mindfulness business, antistress yoga-therapy and teaching healing practices (osteopathy). Leading group processes and individual sessions.
The organizer of international somatic program Somatic BODY Training in Moscow.
The organizer and creator of projects "Fascia. The Living Matrix" and "Pelvic space: from stress to enjoyment"
Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT Vilnius, 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 Edinburgh, Scotland
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 Cambridge, UK
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T
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 London, UK Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor
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 London, UK
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME
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 Lower Saxony, 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, 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. Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT Leeds, UK
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E
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, 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 London, UK
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME
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 Berlin, Germany
Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance
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 Blackheath, London
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST
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 Santafé Dip IBMT Madrid, Spain
Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT
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.
Liliya Semashko Dip IBMT Moscow, 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 Winkelman Dip IBMT Stroud, UK
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA
Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827
Mari’s trauma-informed one-to-one somatic 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, Russia
Tel: +7 9629 338 312
Maria is a ISMETA registered somatic movement therapist and educator, she offers individual sessions and group classes both online and offline. She is a co-organizer and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow. She has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines since 2003. Over 10 years she's taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-creator of international CI festivals.
Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT Moscow, 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 Devon, UK
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT, RSMT, Dip Coun, BA (Hons)
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 Morecambe,UK
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME
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 Cornwall, UK
Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA
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, UK
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 Harpenden, UK
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons
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 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, 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).
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT Norwich, UK
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons)
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, 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.
Anna Panster Cert Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
M.Ed., Cert PW, SE™ Practitioner in training (Advanced level)
Phone: +48 668077336E-mail: annapanster.work@gmail.com
Web: https://somacircle.getcourse.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/
Anna offers support that helps people to overcome difficulties, find deeper connection to the inner resources and feel more at home in their own skin.
She integrates her diverse experiences in IBMT, Process-oriented Psychology, Integrative Dance Movement Psychology and Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, motherhood and immigration. Anna is a trauma-trained and polyvagal-informed practitioner.
Melissa Softley Cert IBMT London, UK Cert EDP (IBMT), CET (level 4), RYT (BWY), PgDip, BSc (Chem). With a passion for the poetic and profound intelligence of the body, Melissa teaches both A&P and Movement practices. As a Movement Therapy student with IBMT she found a transformative practice, offered with deep respect for our shared human being-ness, woven together with rigour, compassion and creativity. She offers:- Weekly classes of blended yoga and somatic enquiry
- Experiential embodiment themed workshops
- Anatomy trainings
- 121 therapy
Tel: 07815 624 368
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Voris Dip IBMT | Manchester, UK |
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 | Edinburgh, Scotland |
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 | Cambridge, UK |
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T 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 | London, UK | Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor 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 | London, UK |
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME 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 | Leeds, UK |
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E 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 | London, UK |
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME 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 | Blackheath, London |
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST 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 | North Norfolk, UK |
Linda Hartley MA, IBMT Director Cert BMC RSMT SRDMP CTP info@ibmt.co.uk, linda@lindahartley.co.uk Linda is a somatic movement therapist, transpersonal and body psychotherapist, teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement, and writer. She runs workshops and retreats in Norfolk, and is founding director of the IBMT training programmes in the UK, Lithuania and Russia. Her work brings together over forty years of experience in movement, meditation, healing and therapeutic arts. |
| Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT | Norwich, UK |
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons) 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 | Stroud, UK |
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827 Mari’s trauma-informed one-to-one somatic 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 | Devon, UK |
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT, RSMT, Dip Coun, BA (Hons) 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 | Morecambe,UK |
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME 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 | Cornwall, UK |
Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA 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, UK |
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 | Harpenden, UK |
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons 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. |
| Melissa Softley Cert IBMT | London, UK | Cert EDP (IBMT), CET (level 4), RYT (BWY), PgDip, BSc (Chem). With a passion for the poetic and profound intelligence of the body, Melissa teaches both A&P and Movement practices. As a Movement Therapy student with IBMT she found a transformative practice, offered with deep respect for our shared human being-ness, woven together with rigour, compassion and creativity. She offers:
Tel: 07815 624 368 |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Begunskaia Dip IBMT | Saint Petersburg, 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, 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 its 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. I’m looking for the creative power, that vibrates in cells of our bodies, that shows how to be a co-creator of your own life. |
| Anna Titova Dip IBMT | Moscow Russia |
Somatic therapist and somatic movement practitioner, Body-Mind Gestalt therapist BMGT, Registered member of ISMETA (RSMT/Е). Teacher, speaker, organizer and co-host in different projects in the field of somatics, mindfulness business, antistress yoga-therapy and teaching healing practices (osteopathy). Leading group processes and individual sessions. The organizer and creator of projects "Fascia. The Living Matrix" and "Pelvic space: from stress to enjoyment" |
| Evgenii Belozerov Cert IBMT | Saint Petersburg, 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 Dip IBMT | Moscow, 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, Russia |
Tel: +7 9629 338 312 Maria is a ISMETA registered somatic movement therapist and educator, she offers individual sessions and group classes both online and offline. She is a co-organizer and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow. She has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines since 2003. Over 10 years she's taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-creator of international CI festivals. |
| Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT | Moscow, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, 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, 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, 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. |
| Raima Drąsutytė Cert IBMT | Vilnius, 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 | Lower Saxony, 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. |
| Frauke Burchards Dip IBMT | Göttingen, 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 | Berlin, Germany |
Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance 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. |
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Panster Cert | Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland |
M.Ed., Cert PW, SE™ Practitioner in training (Advanced level) Phone: +48 668077336E-mail: annapanster.work@gmail.com Web: https://somacircle.getcourse. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ Anna offers support that helps people to overcome difficulties, find deeper connection to the inner resources and feel more at home in their own skin.
|
| Title | Address | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Leticia Santafé Dip IBMT | Madrid, Spain |
Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aistė Kriukelytė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, 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, UK |
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, 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, 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 its 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. I’m looking for the creative power, that vibrates in cells of our bodies, that shows how to be a co-creator of your own life. |
| Anna Titova Dip IBMT | Moscow Russia |
Somatic therapist and somatic movement practitioner, Body-Mind Gestalt therapist BMGT, Registered member of ISMETA (RSMT/Е). Teacher, speaker, organizer and co-host in different projects in the field of somatics, mindfulness business, antistress yoga-therapy and teaching healing practices (osteopathy). Leading group processes and individual sessions. The organizer and creator of projects "Fascia. The Living Matrix" and "Pelvic space: from stress to enjoyment" |
| Auksė Luišaitė-Jauniškė Dip IBMT | Vilnius, 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 | Edinburgh, Scotland |
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 | Cambridge, UK |
Beverley Nolan Dip IBMT RSME/T 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 | London, UK | Brenda Naso Dip IBMT MA RDMP DMP Clinical Supervisor 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 | London, UK |
Charlotte Darbyshire Dip IBMT RSME 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 | Lower Saxony, 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, 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. |
| Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT | Leeds, UK |
Fabiano Culora Dip IBMT BA Hons RSMT/E 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, 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 | London, UK |
Gaelin Little Dip IBMT, BA (hons), RSME 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 | Berlin, Germany |
Heike Kuhlmann Dip IBMT MA Dip Physical Ed. and Biology, Dance 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 | Blackheath, London |
Jane Okondo Dip IBMT MA RSME/T CRST 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 Santafé Dip IBMT | Madrid, Spain |
Leticia Fernandez-Rua Santafé Dip IBMT 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. |
| Liliya Semashko Dip IBMT | Moscow, 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 Winkelman Dip IBMT | Stroud, UK |
Mari Winkelman Dip IBMT RSMT MA Tel: +44 (0)7932 440 827 Mari’s trauma-informed one-to-one somatic 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, Russia |
Tel: +7 9629 338 312 Maria is a ISMETA registered somatic movement therapist and educator, she offers individual sessions and group classes both online and offline. She is a co-organizer and a teacher of the IBMT Diploma Programme in Moscow. She has been practicing contact improvisation and somatic disciplines since 2003. Over 10 years she's taught CI, movement improvisation and body awareness in Russia, Europe, Japan, Thailand, Israel. Maria is a co-creator of international CI festivals. |
| Nina Kungurova Dip IBMT RSMT | Moscow, 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 | Devon, UK |
Paul Beaumont Dip IBMT, RSMT, Dip Coun, BA (Hons) 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 | Morecambe,UK |
Penny Collinson Dip IBMT MA RSME 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 | Cornwall, UK |
Rachel Lambert Dip IBMT BA Hons MA 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, UK |
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 | Harpenden, UK |
Susanne Barry Dip IBMT RSMT/E Bsc Hons 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 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). |
| Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT | Norwich, UK |
Mari Joyce EDP Cert IBMT RCST Ba (Hons) 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, 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. |
| Anna Panster Cert | Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland |
M.Ed., Cert PW, SE™ Practitioner in training (Advanced level) Phone: +48 668077336E-mail: annapanster.work@gmail.com Web: https://somacircle.getcourse. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ Anna offers support that helps people to overcome difficulties, find deeper connection to the inner resources and feel more at home in their own skin.
|
| Melissa Softley Cert IBMT | London, UK | Cert EDP (IBMT), CET (level 4), RYT (BWY), PgDip, BSc (Chem). With a passion for the poetic and profound intelligence of the body, Melissa teaches both A&P and Movement practices. As a Movement Therapy student with IBMT she found a transformative practice, offered with deep respect for our shared human being-ness, woven together with rigour, compassion and creativity. She offers:
Tel: 07815 624 368 |
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.