I grew up by the country side in the south of Taiwan playing with soil, trees, and touching the earth. I was always in tune with my surroundings; and the wellness of the people around me. I grew up with my father being gone most of the year for work, and my mother as the only care taker of the household for 5 children. I witnessed my mother’s versatility on her every touch and care.

Touch has always been around me through dance and life. However, I didn’t realize the importance of it until I had my concussion back in 2012 working with Gesel Mason Performance Project. I fell on my head during one of the performances. I had symptoms of concussion but couldn’t afford any further medical assistance. Fortunately, with dance community, we all look out for each other. Through my friends’ recommendation, I was touched by a Bartenieff practitioner, who simply placed her hands at the base of my skull for the longest time. She was tenderly and patiently holding me to allow the trauma of the concussion to spill out through my head to her healing hands. I felt heat waves and love. My tears were involuntarily dripping out of my eye sockets with pain, relieve, and joy. That was my first experience with Bartenieff hands-on work.

In my graduate study at University of Utah, I was fortunate to have the full scholarship to attend the Integrated Movement Studies (IMS)* where I received my training for Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (CLMA) in 2014. The training offered me an in-depth of the healing and attentive touches, wellness of the human body function and expression, and the anatomical perspectives of kinesthetic awareness with myself and others.

I care about wellness of human being. Without my healthy body, mind and spirit, who am I? As I have witnessed during the severity of COVID-19, I know that my embodied being is vital for the community around me. I want to share my hands-on practice with you because I believe that we all deserve to have greater range of health, motion, and emotion.

My Bartenieff hands-on session is to bring awareness to my clients the places that the clients might need attention with. For instance, I work with the troubled areas rather than work on the problem. Whenever we have trouble on certain area, we want to work on it. Rather, I talk with the clients about their life experience and observe their standing and process their pain through activating other areas of their body.

With my background in dance (embodying and educating), CLMA , and Certified Yoga and Yoga Nirdra, I believe these different methods of healing practices have prepared me to meet you and provide you the care you need.

*Bartenieff Fundamentals is an extension of Laban Movement Analysis, extended and developed by Irmgard Bartenieff, who trained with Warren Lamb before becoming a physiotherapist. Concepts and principles of kinesiological functioning are identified which are embodied in particular sequences and extended into all types of movement possibilities.

The resources are from:

*Laban Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies

*Integrated Movement Studies (IMS)

*$100 for 1st hands-on experience. $75 for dance artists.

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