Movement Collage
A truly unique class guided by multiple teachers
Session 2
Samantha Holland, Mary Badon, and Janet Jacobson 4-23-2023
Our movement collage tradition continues by popular request! In this session, three presenters will guide us in somatic movement sequences of about 30 minutes each. Presenters typically select movement sequences that have been personally important in their own somatic development. They are always inspiring for our work with classes and clients!
Samantha Holland, PhD, Samantha Holland, PhD, is a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator and Certified Essential Somatics® Movement Teacher (EMST). Her background is in academia (philosophy, anthrozoology, film and literature) and as a practicing barrister, overseas volunteer, bereavement counselor, and more. Having practiced yoga for 25 years and tried many things to combat chronic neck pain and other symptoms, it was a short "somatic yoga" workshop that revealed pandiculation as the technique that would actually work! Samantha started training with Martha Peterson and her team at Essential Somatics shortly thereafter, to learn to change her own life and the lives of others. Based in the Scottish Highlands, she teaches both online and in person. She's created several School of Somatic Awareness "SoMA" programs for those battling with stiffness, discomfort, and pain, and also delivers training to counselors and psychotherapists wanting to improve their own comfort and learn about the whole, embodied person from a Somatics-informed perspective.
Website: www.somaticsamantha.com
Phone: +44 (0) 7546 666135
Email: hello@somaticsamantha.com
Mary Badon, MD, is the owner of SOMA Movement Studio in Connecticut. She has focused her career on helping her clients feel better within their own bodies through movement. After medical training at Yale School of Medicine, she studied multiple movement systems including the Pilates Method, GYROTONIC Expansion System, and most recently began Somatics training. Her style of teaching combines her depth of knowledge of the human body with perspectives from the movement systems she has studied.
Website: https://www.somamovementstudio.com/
Phone: (860) 402-1261
Email: mary.badon@gmail.com
Janet Jacobson is a CNA/HHA, Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide, RNA/Restorative Nursing Assistant, and a certified ACE/American Council on Exercise Personal Trainer and Behavioral Change Specialist working with people of all ages at all levels of physical awareness and ability. Fusing dance with lifestyle, she and her colleagues brought a healthy body consciousness into the therapeutic power of recreation, sport, and relaxation practices. She is a qualified Somatic educator, grounded in her practice called "Creative Movement". She teaches this in Memory Care Communities; a powerful imagination is her primary tool when helping people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Her career spans five decades.
Phone: (510) 965-3090
Email: janetsue.jacobson@gmail.com