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Our directors are available to teach workshops at your venue or for individual consultations. Carol and Martha have extensive international teaching experience and unique private practices. To learn more, click on the following links: Carol Swann (Berkeley, CA) Martha Eddy (New York, NY) CAROL SWANN Our Executive Director, Carol Swann, is available for private sessions or for workshops at your venue. She specializes in Vocal Somatics, Group Process and Conflict Facilitation, Alexander Technique, Somatic Therapy, Dance Improvisation and Authentic Movement.
Bio Carol Swann is a teacher, private practitioner, facilitator, director, performer and activist. Her work is focused on contributing toward a more socially just and connected world. She grew up in an Intentional Community committed to the training and practice of nonviolent direct action and consensus decision making. She has extensive experience in founding, directing and running non-profits, collectives, projects and events. She has been teaching and performing Somatic based work for thirty-five years in the U.S., Latin America, Russia, Israel and Europe. She is a seasoned facilitator in group process and conflict facilitation. She brings unique skills in community building through: Somatic interactions, co-operative games, group singing and movement work.
Voice through the Body, Improvisation, Somatic Therapy (RSMTsm), (graduate
of the Professional Hakomi Institute of San Franciso and certified from the
Process Work Institute of Portland), Group Process and Conflict Facilitation
(influenced by Arnold Mindell's work in "Worldwork"), Authentic
Movement, Group Singing, Co-operative Games and The Alexander Technique (AmSAT
Certified).
She is also a Certified Massage Therapist, has certification pending in Pilates and has maintained a private practice in all the above in conjunction with the workshops and classes she teaches. Alone or with other colleagues she collaborates in teaching facilitation and conflict facilitation workshops and trainings. Somatic Therapy (Psychology) Combines the principles of the "Hakomi Method" of Body Psychotherapy, and "Process Work" (Arnold Mindell) to create a dynamic container for individual, couples or relationship work. Carol's extensive training is Somatic Movement Re-patterning modalities such as Body-Mind Centering (R), Laban Movement Analysis, Movement Improvisation and Voice work can further invite the many parts of each person or relationship into a wider range of expression if appropriate. Carol's focus is to support each clients work with compassion, curiosity, ease and expression in order to unravel each individuals own truth and the patterns in the way. She has taught in venues and institutions such as: Movement Research (N.Y.), Esalen Institute (CA.), Omega Institute (N.Y.), Tufts University (Mass.), Javierana University (Bogotá, Columbia), Stanford
Univ. (CA.), Theater School of Amsterdam (Holland), European Dance Development
Center (Holland), Bevegungs Art (Germany), Moving Arts (Germany), Tanzfabrik
(Germany), Chisenhale (England), The Modern Dance School of Budapest and
Improvisation Festival (Hungary), Theatre Academy of Helsinki (Finland),
Findhorn Community (Scotland), Moscow Contact Improvisation Festival (Russia),
Acappella Motion, Island Movement, OutFall, Dance New England, Northern
California Dance Collective, Art of Community, The West Coast Contact
Improvisation Festival of CA, The Seattle Improvisation Festival and Alexander
Technique Schools in: Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France. Ester Gal, Ka Rustler, Angus Balbernie, Daniel Lepkoff,
Andrew Harwood, Jess Curtis, Stephanie Maher, Cathy Caraker, Katerina Ericson, Vitali Kononov,
Anna Halprin, Chris Mathias, Brenton Cheng, Peggy Hackney, Lisa Smidt, Julyen Hamilton, Kirstie Simpson, Tomaj Trenda, Nancy Stark Smith, Byran
Brown, Hillel Kraus and others. Her parents, Marj and Bob Swann, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer,
Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Andre Bernard, Bonnie Bainbridge
Cohen, Meredith Monk, Trisha Brown, Daniel Lepkoff, Ismael Houston Jones, John Roland, Irene Dowd, Release Technique, Roy Hart
Theater, Process Work (Arnie Mindell), Janet Adler, Peggy Hackney, Ruth Zaporah, Aikido and numerous other artists and art
forms, nature and politics. Work in Facilitation has included: Pleasanthill Co-housing, Old Oakland Co-housing, NCDC (Northern California Dance Collective), The West Coast Contact Festival, Cell Space, Moving On Center-School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Research, Conflict Facilitation Training workshop in Berkeley with Laird Schaub, Emerald Earth, Alice Arts Center of Oakland, The Zen Center of Berkeley, Arlington Food Co-op, The Cambridge Food Co-op, American Friends Service Committee and The Noodle Factory in Oakland.
Acappella Motion (Smith College, Mass.), Island Movement (Maine), New Forms Dance (Boston) , Outfall (CA.) Conflict Facilitation with Laird Schaub, My Body's Talking, Is Anyone Listening? (Art of Community), and Project Mexico.
The Folk Arts Center of New England (Boston), The Ethnic Folk Arts Center
(N.Y.), Movement Research (N.Y.), Interface (CA.)
* Unlearning White Liberal Racism - two year intensive study group Self Assessment of unique strengths as a process consultant: I use Somatic skills in connecting the cognitive with the body. I like to assist people's understanding of themselves and others through various exercises that engage people from a deeper body-mind awareness such as: paying attention to body sensations, postures and gestures that allow unconscious expression to be put into meaning, moving people into groups or formations that generate dialogue differently, encouraging people to switch roles to experience the opposite polarity which is often inside them, looking at emotional charges through mindfulness and amplification etc. I have extensive experience bringing "play" (new games, singing
and movement work) as tools for:
community building, co-operative problem solving and intervention. I utilize my skills as a Psyco-social Activist to help look at deeper themes
(systemic) that sometimes get overlooked by general themes or vice versa, help
to sort out what is someone's personal work versus the collective's work.
Contact Information: CAROL SWANN MARTHA EDDY, CMA, Ed.D., RSMT
Other projects: Eco-somatics:
Global Water Dances www.GlobalWaterDances.org Conflict
Resolution through Movement and Dance (92nd Street Y)www.EmbodyPeace.org Perceptual-Motor
Development www.eyesopenminds.com Somatic Design: www.Bodyconsciousdesign.com
Anatomy/Kinesiology Fitness and Wellness Movement Skill Instruction Research Methods Somatic Movement Theory
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