Janet is Educational Co-Director of SOMA, Co-Administrator of the Infant Developmental Movement Education Program and Somatic Education Movement. In this context, she draws upon her experience as a certified Somatic Movement Educator, Practitioner and Teacher of BMC®, specializing in infant developmental movement. Since 2005, she has been teaching in BMC® certification programs across Europe.
Janet is also a dancer and choreographer, and from 1982 to 1991 performed with the Greek National Opera dance company in Athens. Since 1992, she has lived in Paris, where she teaches and pursues her own dance research and creations. Her artistic career has been deeply influenced by her meeting and working with Jerome Andrews (dancer, choreographer, and student of Joe Pilates), Solange Mignoton and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (founder of BMC® in the USA).
Janet is also certified in the Pilates method, and in Reiki II. She has studied the art of Craniosacral and the biodynamic approach with Dr. William Martin Allen, Ph.D.DDO. for 20 years. She draws upon a wide range of professional experiences, as a dancer, BMC® teacher, BMC® practitioner and Pilates teacher. She has maintained a private practice since 1989.

Lulla codirects SOMA’s Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner Program. She trained in the United States, and was certified in 1998.
Between 1999 and 2014, in partnership with the Astragale Dance Company based in Besançon, Lulla brought into form and then directed the ‘Art du mouvement expérimental’ Somatic Education Training Program, as an inquiry into the relationship between somatic practices and dance. She regularly teaches BMC® and dance improvisation in a number of cities across France, as well as with the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regional Conservatory, equally based in Besançon. Lulla also works as a choreographer with the Astragale Dance Company, with whom she creates interdisciplinary performances and productions. She is currently working on an Instant Composition process, in collaboration with a group of amateurs and professionals.

Anne is a coadministrator of the Infant Developmental Movement Education Program. She teaches regularly in School for Body-Mind Centering® Programs throughout Europe. She works as a BMC® Practitioner in Grenoble, supporting adults of all ages, families with their babies, and children with special needs, through one-to-one, individual sessions. In September 2017, she created the ‘Jardin et Mouvement’ studio and practice center, which hosts somatic movement education and conscious movement classes and workshops.
Anne has been a dance choreographer for 25 years. Today, she works with professional and amateur dancers, children and vulnerable population groups, and takes a deeply somatically-influenced approach to the transmission of dance. She is involved in a number of peer exchange facilitation processes, and actively participates in two European projects: SPARKS (Somatic Practices, Arts and Creativity for special needs) exploring a somatic approach to disability, and LEAP (Learn, Exchange, Apply, Practice) exploring the transmission of dance.

Anne Expert is a Certified Teacher and Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (ISMETA).
Since 2003, she is involved in developing and sharing embodied presence and expression through artistic projects, professional trainings, workshops and private practice. She works with dance and theatre schools and universities, has taken part and directed performance projects in dance and Contact Improvisation in Lyon, France. She teaches in European BMC® Certification Programs since 2013.
In France, she founds a training in somatic practices based on Body-Mind Centering®, together with Authentic Movement and Contact Improvisation, Matières, Arts Somatiques, addressed to professionals in the fields of arts, education, health and environment. She has a background in aikido and tai chi, an extensive practice in meditation, a special interest and sensibility for embryology and biodynamic approaches.

Marie Christine is a contemporary dancer and dance teacher, certified in Functional Analysis of the Dancing Body (Analyse fonctionnelle du corps dans le mouvement dansé - AFCMD) in 1992. Her dance and teaching experience give her a solid foundation in anatomy, physiology and movement analysis. She trained in BMC® with SOMA from 2006 to 2010, under the supervision of Vera Orlock, Lulla Chourlin, Thomas Greil and Janet Amato as her main teachers. She became a BMC® Teacher in 2012, and now specializes in Infant Developmental Movement Education. She regularly supervises parent-baby groups and transmits BMC® to a wide audience of people of all ages, in both amateur and professional settings. She has been a member of SOMA’s teaching faculty since 2012, teaching in both the Somatic Movement Education Program, and, in particular, in the IDME Program.

Nadia is an artist and doctor in Esthetics from the University of Paris 8.Trained in the image and performing arts, specialising in various movement practices (dance, Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering®, Yoga) which engage her to base her artistic and theoretical research on her somatic experience. She directs the research of the Corps collectif, an artistic laboratory and performance group. She created the company les Souliers Rouges in 2001, then founded Le prix de l'essence in 2007. The field she explores more particularly today is that of performance. The disciplines that feed her practice are art, philosophy, neuro-sciences, cognitive and natural sciences, ethnography, ethology... In parallel with her experimental video practice, she carries out her research within the Collective Body. She divides her time between creation, research and teaching. She has been teaching movement (somatic practice, yoga, improvisation, choreographic writing) for twelve years to drama students from Paris conservatories. At the University of Paris 8, she teaches performance, the practice of performative actions and the link between sensation, movement and image production.

Dancer and choreographer, specialist of Laban Kineticography, Jean-Marc met the BMC in the early 2000s with Vera Orlock. He followed his internships, and trained with the SOMA team of teachers. He became a practitioner in 2010, then a trainer in 2019. Currently, he teaches BMC and dance at the Conservatory of Pantin and the School of Samovar in Lilac. He develops his activity as a choreographic artist and practitioner on the territory of eastern Paris, with very diverse audiences as part of the association 244. He has been teaching at SOMA since 2020.

Sophie is a somatic therapist, BMC teacher and performer. Her career is atypical: first nurse until 2008, dancer-performer in a collective of artists Les Connasses in Toulouse, then co-director of a table d'hôte in Brussels. She returned to Toulouse in 2013. In 2008, she met the BMC during her training as a contemporary dancer. She is ESM certified, practitioner and trainer in 2019. The BMC® links her past nursing practice to dance performance. She joined the Association des Professionnels du BMC® in France first, then the Body-Mind Centering® Association, of which she became vice-president in 2019. She works to connect BMC professionals nationally and internationally. It organizes workshops for all audiences, for artists and individual sessions in Toulouse. She collaborates with the electro-metal rock group Sidilarsen: management, choreography and artist coaching.

Portuguese artistic researcher, doctor of biology, choreographer, dance teacher for 20 years, Sara is certified somatic educator, practitioner and specialist in child motor development since 2016/2017. She joined the group of certified BMC® teachers in 2019. Sara works with babies, children, teens and adults in Europe, South America and Black Africa. She teaches and supports Spanish and French BMC programs. She manages the Franco-Portuguese dance company LeMooveNeMent. Its intention is the link between people and places according to an approach of human ecology.

Performer, choreographer and contemporary dance teacher, Dominique is a trainer at the State Diploma of dance teacher in Montpellier. She discovered BMC® in the early 2000s during a Contact Improvisation internship. She trained with SOMA in the first French program. She became a practitioner in 2010, then an assistant and translator. She continued with the specialization in Motor Development FDMN and became a trainer for SOMA in 2017. She works in BMC® at the Conservatoire de danse de Montpellier. She gives workshops and internships in different with workshops parents babies in the Cevennes. Deeply committed to the human dimension of teaching, she supports the organic quality of the movement through her BMC® experience and thus links her skills as an artist, educator and somatic educator to the service of all audiences.

Thomas has been teaching in professional trainings of BMC® (SME, PP and IDME) since 2003, and in France since 2006. He is a co-founder of SOMA and was for many years the education director of SOMA. End of 2017 after moving to Italy, he stepped back from his responsibilities. He is still coordinating with Lulla Chourlin the BMC Practitioner program in France. He studied with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the US over many years. His passion for research in movement, touch and bodily expression led him to take an interest in neuro-motor development in childhood, the ways in which movement and perception are built in the emotional, social and cultural context. He works with families, babies, children and people with disabilities. Since 2016 he lives in Salerno, Italy where with Carla Bottiglieri has created minima somatica, a nucleus of research and somatic practice, which investigates other forms of circulation and sharing of body knowledge.

Odile Seitz-Walser has been living and working in Berlin for 20 years, where she has continued her career as a choreographic artist, which began in France, and as a choreographer with the Collectif Praticable. She teaches regularly at the Berlin University of Dance (HZT), as well as in different dance centres such as the Fabrik in Potsdam or the Tanzfabrik in Berlin, and in various dance workshops in Europe. Her workshops are aimed at both professional and amateur dancers, as well as families, offering parents, babies and young children the opportunity to dance together while exploring the principles of child motor development.

Franco-Peruvian born in Paris, she trained in contemporary dance, instant composition, Peruvian dances and also the Analysis of Movement at the University of Paris 8. She certified as Somatic Educator BMC (2008), Practitioner (2010) and trainer (2019), specialized in sensorimotor development (2012). In addition, she deepens her career with the integration of archaic reflexes (RMTi) and a Master in Arts therapies at the University Paris Cité. She intervenes at the crossroads between pedagogue, choreographic artist and therapist to better accompany the living and the difference. She works at the Free Dance Song School, Un Neuf Trois Soleil and at Coopaname, with audiences with specific needs (children with ASD and adults with mental disorders) in institutions and offices in Paris. She has been a trainer at Soma since 2020. She is currently leading a choreographic project for early childhood.

Après un Master en Histoire à l'Université de Gand, Eva Maes étudie la danse au programme international du Cunningham Dance Studio (NY) et au Conservatoire Royal d'Anvers. En 2003, elle rencontre le travail de Lisa Nelson et commence ses études à la School for Body-Mind Centering® (USA), où elle obtient son diplôme en 2006 en tant que Praticienne. En 2018-2019, elle complète la formation d'enseignant BMC en Italie et enseigne dans les programmes de formation agréés de Body-Mind Centering® en Italie et au Brésil. Parmi ses autres collaborations en danse figurent Chantal Yzermans/Radical Low, Anouk Llaurens, … Fluctuant continuellement entre les environnements éducatifs, artistiques et de recherche, elle dirige récemment le projet, Transmettre le corps au Conservatoire Royal d'Anvers, en Belgique, et enseigne dans le même institut.