AMELIE GAULIER           

Body-Mind Centering® and Somatic Art practitioner - Mindfulness Instructor (MNDFL) Registered Professional Somatic Movement Therapist Member of ISMETA.

“My own ongoing healing processes is teaching me how to support weaving somatic(s) and contemplative approaches to carve out a path of care and deep listening. And furthermore to foster understanding of how embodiment practices, art and activism and social transformation relate and intersect. We need to nourish our  imaginative consciousness,  from our innate capacity to feel ourselves, to co-create ways to live a collective liberatory path”

I believe that learning how to care and heal is a transformative journey even in the smallest aspects of the self and impact the communities around us. I think strongly that pedagogical and therapeutic ethics includes the practice of social justice and the dismantling of racism and white supremacy through embodying our actions in interconnectedness, inclusiveness and compassion. By learning from our own story and lineage through listening and paying attention to our body signals, can we overcoming our inherited traumas, heal in depth collectively and humanize our consciousness. By listening with as little judgement as we can handle, can we understanding the power of the words and concepts we use to describe our experiences. In my practice, as a health therapist practitioner, I commit to understand the underneath needs of people and situations. Doing so, I intend facilitating the seizing of the body wisdom's potentials to guide, orient and connect us. Together, in dialogue, we create meaningful actions and resources to heal and ease what need to be free up to continue our human journey.

Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) is an integrative approach to movement, the body, and consciousness. 

I recently completed a Masters Research Degree at the INSPE / UPEC, National Institute of Professorship and Education in Paris; my research focuses on enactive pedagogy and embodied cognition. The Master ArtEnact focused on the engineering and training practices in art and pedagogy and is the first professional diploma in France to offer trans-disciplinary training for educators, artists and mediators. I study the science of social justice and I am specifically interested in inquiring about intergenerational and racialized trauma, on co-creating individual and collective tools and protocols through embodied listening and collecting stories to foster empathy, compassion, self agency and collective thriving.

I am a Registered Professional Somatic Movement Therapist Member of ISMETA.

My therapeutic work involves

- Using guided somatic explorations to deepen the awareness of your embodied self

- Creating space for healing from traumatic experiences/obstacles using grounding, body scan, visualisations, somatizations, guided movement...

- Learning to be more at ease with discomfort, from sensations to emotions

- Uncovering stress and trauma patterns (originated in work issues, power dynamics, relationships and sexul abuse, accident, long term illness, systemic oppression...)

- Befriending our whole body and emotions 

- Questions and journaling about somatics contents and process

- Feedback talk, verbalisation of the somatic process

I practice as a movement educator and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering (BMC®) certified in 2010 with SOMA (Paris, France). Brooklyn based since 2015, my native country is France. I completed the level I of study in Body-Mind Psychotherapy (BMP) with Susan Aposhyan and become a certified MNDFL meditation instructor in 2021. As a performance artist, I have been teaching improvisation through movement, voice, and imagination to children and adults for 14 years. My passion for pedagogy and somatic practices leads me to see people for individual BMC® and BMP private and group sessions.