Instructors

Instructors include Jaimen McMillan, Bonnie Bolz, Maureen Curran, Will Crane, Jackie Davis, Cordula Feuerstack, Dorothea McMillan, Christopher Montanaro, Joan Carr Shimer; guest instructors include Norman Davidson, Ernst Lehr as well as supporting graduates of SDI training programs.

Jaimen McMillan, SDI's Director and the founder of Spacial Dynamics®, has been training movement educators, movement therapists, and other movement professionals for over two decades. He carries a private therapeutic practice, works with the handicapped, top-level athletes, and movement artists including actors, dancers, and mimes. He also serves as a movement consultant for businesses in spatial ergonomics. He has directed the North American In-Service Training Program in Spacial Dynamics® since its founding in 1989. He served as the co-director of the School for Bothmer Gymnastics in Stuttgart, Germany, for over 20 years, and continues to direct Spacial Dynamics®  training programs in Germany. He conducts a training program for movement therapists in England, as well as lecturing internationally. He is a registered somatic movement therapist (RSMT) and member of the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA).

Current interests include implementing the Spacial Dynamics Maintenance Program recently published ('The Fourfold Path to Healing' by Tom Cowan, Sally Fallon, Jaimen McMillan), and sharing Spacial Dynamics and Body Recall movement with seniors.

   Maureen Curran, a world class gymnast, has taught movement to   children and adults for over 20 years. In 1987 she teamed up with Jaimen McMillan to develop a spatially oriented curriculum to teach movement education to children from early childhood through the high school years. This child-based curriculum has dramatically changed the thrust of physical education and is applied in private and public schools around the globe. Maureen successfully pioneered Spacial Dynamics activities in Prison Outreach programs and currently trains employees of the state prison

system in this approach. She is a master instructor and a vibrant force in Spacial Dynamics workshops and trainings world-wide.

  Jackie Davis teaches Movement Education at the Pine Hill Waldorf School in New Hampshire, grades 1-8.Jackie has been founder, director, and coach of Circus Arts for Youth programs locally and on a national level (American Youth Circus Organization). In addition to teaching, she has enjoyed a career in mime for over 28 years. A former student of Marcel Marceau, Jackieholds degrees in Theater and Non-verbal Expression in the Arts. She graduated from

the Spacial Dynamics training program in 2001 and currently brings circus arts (juggling, club swinging, balance activities, clowning) to the the Spacial Dynamics training sessions.

  Cordula Feuerstack studied Bothmer Gymnastics and Spacial Dynamics in Germany and the USA. She has actively been part of the Spacial Dynamics organization since 1992 and is currently the Outreach Coordinator and Dean of Student Affairs for Spacial Dynamics Institute in Mechanicville, NY. She teacher Bothmer Gymnastics and Spacial Dynamics movement and movement therapy.

pupils (PACT- Pentathlon, Arts, Co-operation, Truce). Together they have furthered these events throughout North Amercia since 1984. From 1999 on he has helped to direct All in Peace (formerly known as OlymPeace) activities for festivals in Greece in 2001 and 2003, and in Ecuador in 2004. Thom serves as a mentor, consultant, and adult educator to many Waldorf schools and continues his work with the SDI PACT model for regional and international festivals. Thoms is a guest instructor in the Spacial Dynamics Institute training programs.

John Takacs DO, is an Osteopathic Physician and surgeon engaged in family and occupational practice, extending the bounds of conventional medicine with Anthroposophical, complimentary, and alternative concepts and incorporating Spacial Dynamics principles into general health care, injury resolution and treatment promoting mental, emotional and spiritual well being. He is a graduate of the Spacial Dynamics 2004 IS-5 training, is involved as a school doctor and is active in organizations fostering healing and peaceful impulses.

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