Late 2022 marks the beginning of the first year-long Somatic Movement Teacher Training, directed by Jessica Lu. Currently we are in the second round of this 13-month movement teachers training. Through this project, margit is a lead educator and has supported the vision and coordination in facilitating students in China and abroad, helping to co-create the facilitative community of the movement educators and cultural artists: core faculty James-Amutabi Connie Haines, Jessica Lu, Mary Ganzon, as well as Haoyang Li, Siwen Bo, Pearl Ubungen, Salty Xi Jie Ng, and Carol Swann. There are several other movement artists involved as private session faculty and in facilitative capacities. Graduating students are now facilitating a collective teaching organism called the Garden Academy, and many projects are brewing through the co-sponosrship of After Sunset.
Somatic Movement Teacher Training Website
The training is centered around Amerta Movement, along with the support of many other movement forms, including the Feldenkrais Method, Tuning Scores, and interdisciplinary embodied practices, and movement dialogue. This is a 200-hour community-centered training, meeting both virtually and online. It offers movement experience, practices for reflection, pedagogical tools, and individual and group support.
Much gratitude to Jessica for her visionary project and movement evolution supporting the field of somatic and "Life Movement" in China.