A Personal Invitation to the April 19-23 Somatic Movement Summit

From Your Co-Hosts, Brian Siddhartha Ingle and Gayatri Schriefer


Our second annual Somatic Movement Summit, co-hosted by Brian Siddhartha Ingle and Gayatri Schriefer, takes place April 19-23.

This FREE summit features a global gathering of more than 40 highly sought-after somatic movement experts and teachers who’ll be sharing simple embodiment practices to move you from stress, anxiety, fatigue, or depletion into easeful states brimming with vitality and relaxed alertness.

This groundbreaking summit will reveal the medicinal art and power of embodied motion. Get ready to move and be moved!

To register for free, click here.

Gayatri: Hi, my name is Gayatri Schriefer.

Brian Siddhartha: And I am Brian Siddhartha Ingle, and we are the hosts of the upcoming Somatic Movement Summit.

Gayatri: So this is a free, online summit that airs from the 19th to the 23rd of April.

Brian Siddhartha: And we have 40 top speakers from six different continents, sharing their wisdom, their insights, and their practices.

Gayatri: We have sessions covering the Feldenkrais Method, Hanna Somatics, Utiny Trager work, breathwork. What else?

Brian Siddhartha: The way of the heart, embodied art. And...

Gayatri: And some of our top speakers are Eleanor Criswell Hanna, Don Hanlon Johnson, Paul Linden, Judith Aston.

Brian Siddhartha: Russell Linda....

Gayatri: Some of the top speakers at the summit are Eleanor Criswell Hanna, Judith Aston, Paul Linden, Debbie Rosas.

Brian Siddhartha: Russell and Linda Delman, and Hugh Milne, the osteopath.

Gayatri: We really hope that you will join us for these many amazing practices and speakers.

Brian Siddhartha: We have been on an incredible journey, incredible transformational journey, and we invite you to join us that you too can experience what we found as we hosted this summit.

Gayatri: So please register for this online free event and join the global somatic community for this week of transformational sessions.

Brian Siddhartha: We’ll see you then.


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 program director of the Ingle Institute for Somatic Education. Brian is a graduate of the British College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training. For more than 30 years, Brian has been inquiring into authentic systems of self-healing, movement and personal development. He has a background in Ayurvedic Medicine, Vedic Astrology and has been based in India since 1995.

His 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 the Russian-speaking countries with his team.

Gayatri Schriefer is a co-founder of Living Somatics — offering training programs world-wide in the clinical hands-on work and movement lessons of Living Somatics. Gayatri holds a bachelor’s degree in education, with the focus on health promotion and education. She is a certified Hanna Somatic Educator from the Novato Institute for Somatic Research and Training in California, USA. Gayatri counsels clients, gives trainings and workshops internationally.

From an early age, Gayatri inquired into the field of conscious movement. For the last twenty years she has been studying and practicing embodied movement, including Hanna Somatics, Equine Somatics, the Feldenkrais Method, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, Body Mind Centering, Qigong, and several styles of yoga.

Gayatri guides her clients and students into greater embodied freedom, self-love and natural self-expression. She has spent her adult life inquiring into systems that bring about transformation, well-being and spiritual awakening. Gayatri is a firm believer that each person is self-responsible, self-regulating and self-healing. She teaches the principle of awareness with slow mindful movement, creating a field to reconnect with oneself and discover how the light of one’s own awareness enhances integration, authenticity and freedom.

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This article appears in: 2021 Catalyst, Issue 6 - Somatic Movement Summit

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