certification teachers
Background photo: Zion Tree in Winter by Kay Nelson
Kelly Ferris Lester
Kelly is our Team Administrator. She taught with with Sondra in New Zealand in 2014 and at Zion in 2017. She is a professor and has published on somatics.
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Ruth Way
Ruth has been with our work since 2000, and has taught several Certification Workshops. She teaches at Plymouth U. in the UK. Email:
Akiko Kishida
Akiko teaches Shin Somatics in Japan. She also has many clients who benefit from her work, including her father. Email:
Lani Weissbach
Director of Embodied Learning, Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective
Independent butoh artist/workshop leader
Rick Biehl
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Rick Biehl. Eastwest teacher, has a chapter in Sondra's book, Moving Consciously.
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Eastwest Graduates:
Clara Reyes, St. Maarten Island.
Akiko Kishida, Tokyo
Sri Van Der Kroef
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Sri lives in Santa Barbara and has taught and assisted in Certification Workshops. For more about Sri email,
Ashley Meeder
Ashley Meeder is our Certification Teacher in Mexico . She is a dancer, photographer, and enjoys performing in nature. She specializes in somatic movement for pain. Email:
Christina Marie
Sears
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Christina lives in
Michigan, and is the director of People Dancing. She likes to perform and to teach somatic work. For workshops in the Midwest or private tutorials email:
Sarah Jeffreys
Lives and works in Ashland, Oregon. Certification Teacher and Wilderness Guide. Email:
Karen Smith
Karen has been with
Eastwest since 2001, and has taught several Certification Workshops.
She lives in
Brighton in the UK. Email:
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Eastwest Graduate, Roman Morris
Kay Nelson
Kay co-teaches with Sondra in Utah, and is our Communications
Director. She is also a Life Couch and LMT.
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Karin Rugman
Karin teaches at Bath Spa University in the UK, and has taught several EWS Certification workshops.
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Manda Jane Johnson
Manda lives in New Zealand and has assisted Sondra in Utah. She has studied several somatic methods and is a Shin Somatics Certification Teacher.
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Email: jmandajane@gmail.com
Amy Bush
Amy Bush teacher in Western NY near Lake Geneva. She often teams with Michele Ikle to teach workshops at Hobart William and Smith College in Geneva.For more about Amy, Email:
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Eastwest Student Amber Watkins, walking the Kayenta Labyrinth
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Eastwest Graduate,
Norianna Diesel-Potts
Catherine Schaeffer
Catherine is an award winning teacher. She assisted Sondra in Tuscany and has published on somatics, enjoys butoh, lives in PA, and teaches in the Northeast. Email,
Wilhemeena Monroe
Wilhemeena directs Soul Centre in Auckland New Zealand and is a yogini, butohist, healer, teacher, artist and writer. She teaches Shin Somatics Workshops and
mentorships. Email:
Michelle Ikle
Michelle is a professor of dance at Hobart & William Smith College in Geneva NY, on beautiful Lake Seneca.
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Some of Ashley Meeder's students in Mexico
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Eastwest Graduate,
Robert Bingham
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Eastwest Graduate,
Alycia Bright Holland