AMELIE GAULIER           

Body-Mind Centering® practitionner & Somatic Movement Therapist Member of ISMETA.                                      Art practitioner, Mindfulness Instructor (MNDFL) & community Organizer.

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. My own ongoing healing journey is teaching me how to weave somatics and contemplative practices into a path of care, deep listening, and embodied presence. This process invites a continuous exploration of how embodiment, art, activism, and social transformation intersect and inform one another. I believe we must nourish our imaginative consciousness and begin to close the gap between our politics and our relationship to spirituality—a call echoed by Audre Lorde. Rooted in our innate capacity to feel ourselves fully, this is how we begin to co-create collective, compassionate and liberatory ways of living—ways that bring us into right relationship with ourselves, the land, and one another. Of French and Mediterranean white-bodied descent, I’m based in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land.

I believe that pedagogical and therapeutic ethics are woven with the threads of social justice—dismantling racism and white supremacy through the living embodiment of interconnectedness, inclusiveness, and compassion. Healing awakens as we listen deeply to the signals of our bodies and the stories carried in our lineage. Through this embodied awareness, we can overcome inherited traumas, heal collectively, and intentionally course-correct our human consciousness toward collective trust and a broader sense of what belonging can feel like for all.

Listening with as little judgment as possible allows us to understand the power of the words and concepts we use to describe our experiences. In my work as a health therapist, I commit to uncovering the underlying needs of people and situations, facilitating the body’s innate wisdom to guide, orient, and connect us.

Together, through dialogue, we co-create meaningful actions and resources that heal and release what needs to be freed, so we may continue our shared human journey.

As a community organizer, I help people reconnect with the deep wisdom of their bodies and ancestry, engage in collective decolonial repair, and activate radical care within a global ecosystem of solidarity and change. I trust in the collective intelligence of our bodies to guide healing and transformation through listening and story-sharing.

As a facilitator, I center liberatory pedagogies grounded in parole située—a form of speech that honors the speaker’s lived experience and acknowledges the positionality of their perspective within broader systems of power and history. This embodied, situated way of speaking roots itself in personal “I” statements and is grounded in the resilience carried through our lineages and struggles.

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

I’ve 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.