Video 2: Our Immune System Reflected The Global Pandemic: A Body-Mind Centering® Perspective (UCV#2)

Wendy Masterson has an extensive career as an educator, administrator, choreographer and artist. Upon retiring from Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan) in 2016, she opened The Motion Space in Montana where she combiners her background as a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and Infant Developmental Movement Educator; GYROTONIC® Pre-Trainer/Trainer and GYROKINESIS® Trainer; Somatic Dance Educator; and Reiki Master in working with infants through adults on balancing movement, fitness and recuperation.  She holds sessions online and in her studio. Wendy served on the BMCA Board of Directors for six years and co-directed The Kinesthetic Learning Center, a BMCsm training program. She has presented her work at international somatic movement and dance medicine conferences.

Toni Smith
MFA, BMCP, IDME

Toni Smith has a B.A. in Dance and Religion from American University and an M.F.A. in Dance from Temple University. She is achoreographer and a current member of the New York State DanceForce.  She was the Artistic Director of Toni Smith and Dancers, toured with the Vanaver Caravan and worked with various other contemporary choreographers.  Toni Smith a member of the dance faculty at Skidmore College for two decades, and served as the Artistic Director of the National Museum of Dance.  She currently has a private practice in Body-Mind Centering® and is a Certified Infant Development Movement Educator working with adults and children and professionals in the field of disabilities and wellness.  Toni Smith has served as the Faculty Advisor for Summer Dance at Skidmore College for three decades. Toni teaches yoga for all ages and abilities.  Toni is a  dance scholar and guest lecturer whose recent articles, “The Last Pirouette”, “The Story of D” “Seven Moments of Codification” “Psycho-physical Integration” were published in Currents, the Journal of the Body-Mind Centering® Association.  She is a frequent reviewer of African American Dance texts for The Multicultural Review.  Toni Smith is the Founder and a Member of Partners in Dance: a Consortium of Capital Region Dance Sponsors.

Annie Brook
Ph.D, LPC, RSME, BodyMind Centering® Teacher

Annie Brook is a therapist in high regard in the Somatic community. Her unique experiential approach gets lasting results with complex trauma. She blends psychotherapy, sensory-motor neuroscience/cognition, play therapy, early bonding attachment, Body-Mind Centering, cranial sacral, touch/movement education, and perinatal therapy. Annie draws on over 3 decades of experience, and has worked as a therapist in public schools, Children’s Hospital Child Trauma centers in Oakland and Seattle, as former Director of Body Psychotherapy in the MA Somatic Psychology program at Naropa University, and co-owns Colorado Therapies. She has learned to help work with complex trauma on an embodied level; helping those in the most difficult situations, such as abused foster children, adopted children and their families, and gang youth. Annie understands families, embodied development, and health.