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Founder/Director LSSA
B.Ed. M.Sc. Grad Dip psychology
Diploma Dance/Movement Therapy
Certified Movement Analyst LIMS
Reg. Somatic Movement Therapist ISMETA
Reg. Psychodynamic Psychotherapist PACFA ANZAP AASP
Prof. Dance Movement Therapist DTAA |
Sandra maintains a clinical practice in Psychodynamic and Somatic Psychotherapy in Canberra, working with a spectrum of issues from chronic pain through to personality disorders. Over twenty five years of studying and exploring body and movement therapies as well as clinical training in Self-psychology (Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Sydney), inform her work. She is an invited presenter in Laban Movement Analysis around Australia, Canada, and Asia. She is also a guest speaker on psychotherapeutic issues such as chronic pain, multiple personality disorders, and trauma.
Beginning her working life as a Research Geophysicist in the oil industry, Sandra’s analytical mind enabled her to write some of the industry’s initial oil exploration computer programs, which she then taught in Europe, UK, Canada, and Australia. However, in 1981 she decided to turn her scientific enquiries in the direction of the human body and movement, beginning with graduate work in anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and exercise physiology. Concurrently, she satisfied the artist-within by studying numerous forms of Contemporary Dance and Ballet, as well as Yoga and Pilates.
In 1985 Sandra obtained a Certification in Laban Movement Analysis (CMA through LIMS®, University of Washington). Living in Asia from 1984 to 1988, Sandra taught Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals sm (LMA/BF) as well as Contemporary Dance to groups that had never before experienced Western movement material. She was invited to give workshops to the People’s Republic of China’s PLA Song and Dance Troupe, to the Guangdong Academy of Dance, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, as well as many fitness groups in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1989 Sandra returned to the US and worked in the aerobic dance and fitness industry applying LMA/BF principles. She also studied Jungian thought and offered LMA/BF movement courses tied to Jungian thought at the C. G. Jung Institute of Psychoanalysis and Creative Arts in Houston, Texas. In addition, Sandra was the guest LMA/BF teacher for the Bill Evans Summer School of Dance, Colorado Springs, Colorado (1988 to 1990).
In 1992 Sandra moved permanently to Canberra and established The Ouldeah Centre for Pilates and Movement Therapy (1992 to 1999). She introduced Canberra to the therapeutic benefits of Pilates-based Movement Therapy, educating insurance companies and local medical practitioners of the benefits for their patients. Sandra holds over 25 years experience with the Pilates Method and Movement Therapy and has used that to further the Pilates industry in Australia. She was a Founding Councillor of the Australian Pilates Method Association, the Australian credentialing body, and co-authored the curriculum used at UTS for training Pilates Method instructors. She has developed training programs for Pilates-based Rehabilitation Practitioners, using somatic movement methods, including LMA/BF.
Along with her credentials in verbal psychotherapy, Sandra is a professional Dance/Movement Therapist (or Movement Psychotherapist). She teaches Dance Movement Therapy for the Wesley Institute (Sydney) and for IDTIA (Melbourne). She regularly teaches professional development workshops for the DTAA (Melbourne) and has been invited to share her LMA/BF skills with the Feldenkrais community.
Sandra is a member of the core faculty for LSSA’s Laban Movement Analysis and Bodymind Practice™ Certification Program, and runs Introductory courses in LMA/BF and experiential anatomy.
Sandra is continually drawn to the synthesis of new ideas that span the spectrum of movement and psyche. She is currently completing a graduate degree in psychology from Charles Sturt University which she hopes will lead to doing research in the area of somatics and movement.
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Founder/Director LSSI, LSSC
MA Jungian and Post Jungian Studies
Certified Movement Analyst LIMS
Reg. Somatic Movement Therapist ISMETA
Sr. Dance Movement Therapist |
In 2003/4 Janet directed the first LIMS accredited CMA intensive in Ontario, Canada, at York University, Toronto. In the last 30 years, she has performed, choreographed, directed, trained dancers and dance movement therapists, and presented workshops and master classes throughout Europe, the US, Canada, and in India.
After ten years of professional dance training, and voice and piano studies at Loyola College of Music, Janet began performing with both Modern and contemporary Indian dance companies in New York City in 1977. In 1980, she co-founded (with Lev Tagayev) and edited the newspaper “INSTEP with the Performing Arts of New York”; and in 1983 founded her own Repertory Dance Theatre Company. After working for several years with Kundalini and Hatha Yogas, Zena Rommett floor barre technique, Pilates matwork, and other body disciplines available for dancers in New York in the 1970s, Janet met and commissioned CMA Gregg Lizenbery to work with her company in 1984. The expression of elegant artistry and technical ease which Gregg brought to his work, inspired Janet to commit to developing the integration of Bartenieff Fundamentalssm into other body practices, as part of an eclectic, body-centered training for professional dancers.
Seven years later, Janet received her CMA from LIMS, NY while performing with Peter Madden’s Dance Process, and working at Sports Training Institute, and Sports/Dance/Fitness Inc. in New York City. She soon established a private practice as a Movement Consultant in New York and New Jersey; and began teaching as core faculty on CMA intensive and weekend programs at the University of Quebec in Montreal, and at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 1995, Janet relocated to London, England as full time faculty for The Laban Centre’s professional dance training and dance movement therapy degree programs. While working in England, she received her MA (with distinction) in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies. Janet’s dissertation thesis was subsequently published in the academic Jungian Journal, Harvest— titled “The Phenomenological Body and Analytical Psychology”. Janet is drawn particularly to contextualising LMA and Somatic practices within the fields of Phenomenology, critical Jungian theory, and psychodynamic therapeutic models.
At Laban, in London, from 1995-2003 Janet developed and established the first LMA/BF syllabus used as Fundamental Skills training in Laban’s Dance Theatre training programs; and created the first integrative LMA model used as a core teaching component in the MA in Dance Movement Therapy in Britain. In 2002, she additionally built LMA/BF as one of four essential elements of DMT education and training at Goldsmiths University of London, by collaboratively designing, and then directing the first 2-year DMT Masters degree in England and Europe. She has helped to establish LMA/BF in England and parts of Europe as a primary aspect of DMT training, and as a somatic approach to professional dance training. She has presented ongoing workshops in European cities, including London, Camarthen (Wales), Paris, Bratislava, Zagreb, and Warsaw, and provides continuous development and training in LMA for dance therapists and trainees in Prague. In the East, Janet has presented BF workshops for contemporary Indian dancers at India’s Shankar Centre for Performing Arts; and designed LMA workshops for NGO workers brought together by a British Council development project in Bengal, India.
Currently residing in the States, Janet directs Certification programs for LSSC and LSSA, and as Founder/Director of LSSI continues the development of somatically-based Certification programs internationally. She has completed two states of Warren Lamb’s Movement Pattern Analysis training, utlizied in business and team building; and is working with dance therapist Corinne Ott on the program development for a mindfulness, movement-based seaside Spa in Hvar, Croatia.
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BA (Hons) MA
Certified Movement Analyst LIMS
Reg. Somatic Movement Therapist ISMETA
Cranial sacral Practitioner UPLEDGER |
Nadine has worked collaboratively in Theatre, Opera, and Dance as a choreographer, rehearsal director, and movement coach for over 20 years. She has been Associate Director of The Ontario School of Ballet, and her movement coaching includes productions such as "Yeates in Love", working with the Aldburough Connection, and an ongoing association with Rosignol Productions in Toronto. After years of professional experience, Nadine earned an honours degree specializing in Canadian Dance History, and an MA in Dance from York University. She also studied Labanotation at Ohio State University.
Nadine graduated from the first LIMS® Certification in Movement Analysis (CMA) Program offered in Canada in 1994, after which she worked as faculty at York University for over 10 years, teaching Movement Analysis, Ballet, and the Dance Experience. While at York, Nadine created a Labanotation Score of the Canadian landmark work “The Wise Virgins” by Gweneth Lloyd (reconstructed by Anna Blewchamp); and co-authored, with Katherine Cornell, Toronto Dance Theatre, 1968-1998 Stages in a Journey.
Nadine acquired advanced studies as a CMA in the area of Chronic Pain with Dianne Woodruff, PhD, focussing on the area of assessment protocols and myofascial tissue manipulation. Nadine completed training in Pilates Mat work in 1997, which she modified to include not only Bartenieff Fundamentals sm but also Laban’s Space Harmony movement scales, to meet the specific needs of a senior individual and group population. She has created a course in Experiential Anatomy for dancers and actors in Ryerson University's Theatre School, which she taught for several years. Nadine has worked as a CranioSacral Practitioner since 1999, and has completed 4 levels of training with the Upledger Institute. She continues to work as an Upledger Institute Teaching Assistant, while seeking CranioSacral Certification, and study in CranioSacral for Pediatrics.
Nadine was core faculty for the LIMS Certification in Movement Analysis program hosted by York University in 2003; runs prerequisite programs in LMA , BF, and Anatomy /Kinesiology; and is a core faculty member of Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies Canada. She works regularly as a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT), as a movement coach, and as a CranioSacral practitioner at the Bosnar Centre for Health in Toronto.
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