I was looking for myself.
Movement brought me home.
Anina Van Alstine
“The body never lies. ”
Martha Graham
“How you move is who you are.”
Anna Halprin
My movement studies began at Sarah Lawrence College where I studied Eastern Movement Skills with Katya Delacova. I studied at the Tamalpa Institute with Anna and Daria Halprin, learning movement-based performance art and guiding skills to enhance and provide resources for healing. I also have trained privately with Jamie McHugh, Alice Rutkowski, Taira Restar, Ken Otter and Adriane Marchione. I am interested in the application of dance as a healing art as taught by Anna Halprin and also in working with people in the business world, facilitating communication through the movement arts. I love working with movement as metaphor and find it enriches communication in every venue where it is used. I am always amazed at the ways in which the body, given a voice, can inform us of resources we may have ignored and create opportunities for personal and social transformation. The skills I learned at Tamalpa Institute have informed my work as a Real Estate Broker. Working with movement images helps people to clarify their goals at a practical level by bringing in the imagination and taking them “outside the box” to express their wishes!
I travelled with and assisted Anna Halprin in venues within the United States and France. I previously taught group and private movement classes in various venues in Santa Cruz including for the Dominican Cancer Support Group, and have taught classes for Realtors in using expressive arts as a guiding skill for clients. I am a Guild Certified Feldenkrais practitioner.
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