INSTRUCTORS

The Movement Arc’s 250 hour Expressive Movement Facilitator program is taught by four main instructors whose bios you can read below: Amanda Penaloza Banks, Hana Kamea Kemble, Danielle McCulloch, and Veronica Berezowsky. Each instructor has a minimum 10 years experience in their practice and recognition by and membership with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). Dr. Martha Eddy teaches one of our ISMETA ethics classes. Other guest instructors may also make appearance.

Hana teaches the Dipping Your Toes In workshop, Moving Child online courses, Introduction to Dance Therapy online course, and Embodiment Tools 21 Day Journey, and Embodiment Foundations Program.

Hana and Amanda together teach the Somatic Movement Classes online.

We feel so lucky to get to work together as a team, please take a moment to read about the backgrounds of our instructors. Instructors have their own practices and projects outside of The Movement Arc too, and you can read about those projects by visiting their own websites too.

Hana Kamea Kemble

Amanda Peñaloza-Banks

Danielle McCulloch

Veronica Berezowsky

Embodiment Foundations Program

A 50 hour program for personal development focused on introducing somatic movement and embodiment skills to those with or without prior movement experience. 25 hours are taught online (over 3 months) followed by a 25 hour in-person embodiment retreat on beautiful Saltspring Island over 4 days.

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50 Hours

Expressive Movement Facilitator Program

A 250 hour 10 month long ISMETA accredited certificate program, which offers skills training for professionals in the facilitation of somatic & expressive movement, dance and embodiment practices for community applications. This program is mainly focused in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies framework though also draws from other lineages and modalities as per instructor expertise areas.

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250 HOURS