Marina Tsartsara
Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Graduate of Embody-Move, Infant Developmental Movement Educator
Certified BMC Somatic Movement Educator, Practitioner, Teacher & IDME.
I am the administrative director of the Greek BMC Program, Istos, and the co-director of the MA course ‘Trauma, Art & Embodiment’ in Barcelona offered by Poiesis Institute. I am developing a Somatic Art Practice®: a transdisciplinary practice & education that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the two branches of Mindfulness & Drawing and BMC® & Artmaking.
I have a BA (Hons) in ‘Dance & Visual Art’, an MSc in dance film studies ‘Screendance’ and an MPhil is in Performance Autoethnography in which I researched the subject of the personal experience of chronic physical dis-ease via dance and visual arts (Medical Humanities).
As a dance artist, I have been teaching and performing internationally since 2007.
The main influences in my work come from Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Curious, Charlie Morrissey, Julyen Hamilton, Deborah Hay, Miranda Tufnell, Rosemary Butcher, Kirstie Simson, Liz Aggiss and others. I am currently a trainee in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy.