Gayatri Schriefer is a certified Hanna Somatic Educator and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator. She is a graduate of the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in California, USA. Gayatri holds a bachelor’s degree in Education with a focus on health promotion. She is a co-founder of Living Somatics, which offers professional training programs in the clinical hands-on work and movement lessons of Living Somatics.
Gayatri is passionate about making somatic disciplines available to the world, and to connect and grow the global somatic community. Gayatri is a co-host of the yearly virtual Somatic Movement Summit, a collaboration between The Shift Network and Living Somatics. She now lives in Sweden, consults clients internationally, and teaches trainings and workshops in-house and online. Additionally, Gayatri has been facilitating women’s circles for 20 years and co-facilitates women’s leadership programs. She has travelled the world studying and teaching somatic disciplines.
Over the course of her adult life, Gayatri has studied somatic movement and spiritual modalities, including Hanna Somatics, Equine Somatics, the Feldenkrais Method®, Watsu®, Body-Mind Centering®, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, Qigong, tracking, several styles of yoga, and dance. She has spent many years living in India during her studies of various spiritual traditions.
Gayatri’s mission is to offer pathways to greater self-connection, transformation, and elevation in the somatic lived experience. She is a firm believer that each person is self-responsible, self-regulating, and self-healing. Through her facilitations, Gayatri creates a field of wholeness for aligning oneself to live in resonance with the great mystery of life.
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Brian Siddhartha Ingle is a licensed Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and a naturopath. He is a certified Hanna Somatic Educator, a Somatic Yoga teacher, a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method®, and an aqua bodyworker. He is a co-founder of Living Somatics, and the founder and educational director of the Ingle Institute for Somatic Education.
Siddhartha is also a co-host of the online Shift Network Somatic Movement Summit. He’s a graduate of the British College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training. For more than 30 years, Siddhartha has been inquiring into authentic systems of self-healing, movement, and personal development. He has a background in Ayurvedic Medicine and Vedic Astrology, and has been based in India since 1995.
Siddhartha’s work takes him traveling extensively, sharing his passion for somatic movement as a vehicle to greater freedom. He teaches workshops and professional trainings all over the world, including India, Europe, and Russian-speaking countries with his team.
