- BMC® Festival Diversity and Balance

Dancer, BMC® Practitioner & Teacher

She teaches Body-Mind Centering® in workshops, at festivals and in various dance and yoga teacher trainings. Since 2018 she is offering her own BMC® training program at Somatische Akademie and since 2019 she is part of the teaching team of moveus, the german BMC® training program of the School for Body-Mind Centering®.

MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography 

Heike is interested in the unfolding process of human beings. It is more than the individual unfolding, but in how people can meet each other at eye level through personal development and inclusion of structural conditions in her somatic facilitations. Being a condition to become Critical Somatics. She accompanies somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops and trainings. Activism and somatics are interwoven in her artistic work. More information on: www.somatik-tanz-choreographie.de, www.heikekuhlmann.net

Ka Rustler has been performing, researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 30 years. BMC® Teacher

BMC®-Practitioner, Workshop Facilitator & Coach

Nina is Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and innovation trainer. She is passionate about people and facilitating individual as well as group processes in various ways & contexts. She loves journeys that lead you into the different tissues of your body and open the possibility to sense and get to know yourself better. Next to her passion for BMC® and anatomy, Nina supports multidisciplinary teams with empathy, communication and creativity techniques to generate ideas and innovative solutions.

Dancer, dance pedagogue, BMC® Somatic Movement Educator, Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analyst (Certificate "basic") and musician

Jennie practices and teaches contact improvisation and somatic bodywork. Her artistic work and teaching focus on the experience of activity and rest, regeneration, appreciation and self-care, individuality, communication and community.

Somatic Movement Educator and Practitioner of Body-Mind-Centering® (2018/2022)

Julia Kleinknecht is certified as Somatic Movement Educator and Practitioner of Body-Mind-Centering® (2018 / 2022)

She is a graduate in cinematography, dancer, theatre professional and dramatherapist (certified DGfT).
Intensive movement and bodywork practice since 2002 - Aikido, Shiatsu, Yoga, Contemporary dance and Contact Improvisation, discovering BMC® in 2005 and teaching it since 2018, e.g. at Tanzfabrik Berlin, fabrik Potsdam and Somatische Akademie Berlin.
Trained in „Nouveau Cirque“ at Espace Catastrophe in Brussels, in Acting and Physical Theatre at International Network Of Actors and MimeCentrum Berlin, and scholar of the Tanzfabrik Berlin from 2005-2009.

Currently Julia is engaged as dramatherapist in a primary school in Berlin Neukölln and in a project with children living in refugee shelters. She’s also regularly assisting in the BMC®training programs and offering private sessions.

Yogateacher, BMC® Somatic Movement Educator, Bodywork (Thai Massage, Osteothai, Craniosacral Therapy)

I practice and teach Conscious movement, Breath awareness and Meditation.

Bodywork for me is a holistic dialogue primarily through the use of mindful presence, cellular touch and directly working with the different structures of body and mind.

The main focus of my work encompasses the direct experiences of well-being within activity and stillness. Exploration of new spaces and possibilities to deepen the relationships between Earth, Space, Myself and Others.

Political Economist (BA, MSc, PhD), Organisational Developer and Facilitator, Somatic Movement Educator

Barbara loves to trace root causes: Why do we organize politics and economics the way we do, and how could it be more beneficial to life? For 20 years, she has sought, found and passed on answers to this question in academic, parliamentary and civil society contexts. Now she combines this political brainwork with bodywork: guiding people to perceive themselves in a more differentiated way and, with this ability to feel, be able to encounter other people and their own work in a way that is free and powerful.

Photo credit: Felix Weinhardt

Somatic Movement Educator (Body-Mind Centering®) & Choreographer, Dancer

Laura Gary is a trained Somatic Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering®. As a choreographer and dancer, her focus is on the connection between body awareness and creative expression.

Her artistic background includes contemporary dance, somatic practice and improvisation. In her artistic work, she explores how personal stories, genealogical influences and inner emotions find expression in movement through improvisation and body awareness.

Her choreographic practice combines somatic techniques and improvisation, both on stage and in nature, inviting us to explore deeper layers of the self through dance.

Photo credit: Katarzyna Łukasiewicz