Jens Johannsen is a dancer and movement-teacher and -therapist from Germany. Jens has explored the relationship of body and mind on personal, social and global levels. Jens studied theatre, dance, voice, ritual, humanistic and Buddhist psychology, yoga, meditation, body-therapy and others. He has performance-experience since 1980 and has been teaching internationally since 1982. Jens is senior BMC® teacher, teaching in the School for Body-Mind Centering® since 1993. He directed the last European training at Chiemsee, Germany. For 15 years Jens has been leading his own BMC training groups that run from one to several years. He works with clients of all ages. He is interested especially in meditation in and through movement and has co-developed an application-program of BMC to alpine skiing. He integrates in-depth knowledge about the physical body to the embodiment process, with humour and the joy of expressive movement within a spiritually open approach.
Katy Dymoke is a certified teacher and practitioner in Body-Mind Centering® from Manchester. Katy has been teaching BMC® in England since 1997 and integrated into her job as Movement Psychotherapist in the NHS as a touch based specialist. As a professional dancer and director of Touchdown Dance Katy creates dance theatre and film. Touchdown Dance is unique for integrating blind and sighted dancers in a professional touring and workshop company. Collaborating with musicians, actors and dancers for 25 years, she has been an advocate for integrated arts practise. Katy has presented at conferences, been a guest lecturer and has published her writing on touch based working methodology and integrated dance. Katy is doing a PHD on the impact of touch in Movement Psychotherapy. Katy established the Body-Mind Centering® certification programs in the UK as she believes in the innate intelligence of the body and the joy it brings. Katy also runs a practice from home. A lover of the outdoors and physical activity she has a 3rd Dan in Jujitsu.
Mette Anne Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, went to art school from 1981 - 84 where she started working with clay, and worked intensively with that for many years and has her own studio since 1987. After a long journey to India she longed to explore artistic expression with other people, so from 1988 - 1991 she studied Grotowski, New Dance and was a member of a Butoh performance group for a year and made several performances. From 1991-94 Mette did the practitioner program at the School of Body-Mind Centering®, and became a teacher in 1997. She also studied The Totem Pole Process, a blend of Jungian Psychology and Shamanism. Mette has taught BMC® in both weekend workshops and in programs in Europe and in her own studio in Denmark. Mette enjoys applying all the elements she has explored in her teaching, and seeks to give room for the hidden and wild places in us.
Friederike Tröscher is a practitioner and teacher for Body-Mind Centering®. She was also trained as an occupational therapist, dancer (new dance, contact improvisation) and rebirther. She teaches movement since 1992 and works with people individually since 1988. Friederike offers individual sessions, classes, workshops and a 1-year training program in BMC® and was part of the team setting up the BMC® Practitioner program at Chiemsee/Germany 2003-2007. Currently she is involved in preparing the next practitioners program in Germany, starting September 08. She works with babies and adults and teaches BMC® for dancers, actors, musicians and bodyworkers from other fields. She is interested in using BMC® to explore our potential and deepen our presence, no matter where in life we are. Mother of a little boy she lives with her family in Cologne.
Gloria Desideri is a Registered Movement Therapist and Educator (ISMETA), BMC® Certified Teacher/Practitioner, Somatic Movement Educator and Infant Developmental Movement Educator. She is also Certified Teacher of Kinetic Awareness and practitioner of Somatic Experiencing® (Dr. Peter Levine's approach to trauma and post-traumatic stress symptoms). With a background of a professional dancer and choreographer (1977 - 1992), she integrates in her work several movement practices and body-mind disciplines. Upon returning to live in Italy in 1998, after 15 years in the U.S., she started to collaborate with the Public Health System (ASL-Viterbo) directing BMC-based projects for children with severe disabilities and their families. She also directed training programs for the educators of the public day care centers of Viterbo. In 2004, she has founded the cultural association Leben. In 2006 she organized an international conference featuring Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and launching the first BMC® training in Italy. This activity is today organized by the company Leben nuova srl constituted by Desideri in February 2009. Gloria has a private practice as therapist and consultant for adults and children with their parents.