Jaimen McMillan, SDI's Director and the founder of Spacial Dynamics®, has been training movement educators, movement therapists, and other movement professionals for over three 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 and organizations in injury prevention ,team building, and conflict management.

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 trainings in Europe for educators and therapists. He is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) and member of the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA). Jaimen McMillan is the director of the Arts Center on the Hudson. He lectures internationally , is a regular contributor to magazines on health and education, and is a co-author of "Zirkus Spielen" and "The Fourfold Path to Healing" together with Dr, Tom Cowan , MD and Sally Fallon.

Bonnie teaches Movement Education at the Garden City Waldorf School on Long Island, New York, but lives in Hadley, Massachusetts, where she worked at the Hartsbrook Waldorf School leading the Movement Education program for 1st through 8th graders for ten years. She graduated from the Spacial Dynamics® training in 1996 and continues to present work in the In-Service Training sessions, sharing curriculum and developmental activities. Bonnie is a certified Movement Therapist, Trager Bodywork® Practitioner and has trained in the Waldorf Early Childhood Program.

Cordula has been a Spacial Dynamics® practitioner since 1993 and continues to deepen her studies. Cordula is passionate about working with people living with disabilities or conditions that make movement challenging, and in 2008 opened her private practice, MoveAbility, near Saratoga Springs, NY. A graduate of The Center for Natural Wellness School of Massage Therapy in Albany, NY, Cordula is excited to offer clients therapeutic massage to initiate positive soft tissue changes in the body, along with movement (Re-)Education of patterns that may have been contributing to physical restrictions and limitations. The combination of both can promote lasting change towards greater mobility and well-being.

Cordula is a NY State Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT), a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (RSMT) through ISMETA, and a Spacial Dynamics® Practitioner Level II, enrolled in Level III. Additionally, she is a member of ABMP (Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals) and holds a National Certification for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCTMB).

Ernst Lehr, an engineer from Germany, is a visiting instructor in the Spacial Dynamics Trainings. His specialty is the Metamorphosis of form which, building on Projective Geometry, gives a fluid experience of the phenomenon of inversion, where space and counter space "come in play".

Heather Lanier is a Waldorf early childhood educator applying the principals of Spacial Dynamics in the arts of parenting and teaching.

She works as an educational consultant giving workshops at Waldorf schools and meeting individually with families seeking new parenting dynamics. She brings Spacial Dynamics into childcare through the California Coast Lifeways training which Heather co-directs with Marianne Alsop. Heather is a teacher in the Spacial Dynamics In-Service training programs.

At her home, a family ranch in Big Sur California, she leads mothers', family, and school retreats. During these retreats, participants work on the permaculture farm, care for the animals, create artistically, cook in the Nourishing Traditions style, sing dance and play together, and live in an atmosphere of loving respect and connection with the land.

For Waldorf school classes from 4-12 grades Heather and her staff offer curriculum enhancement through outdoor learning programs.

Jackie taught Movement Education at the Pine Hill Waldorf School in New Hampshire before entering Harvard's Graduate School of Education for a Masters in Education in Human Development & Psychology. Jackie has been a founder, director, and coach of several Developmental Circus Arts programs and is a founding member of the 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 SDI training sessions.

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John is an Osteopathic Physician and surgeon engaged in family and occupational practice, extending the bounds of conventional medicine with Anthroposophical, complimentary, and alternative concepts. His work incorporates 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, including Hands In Peace.

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Kay Zwirn is the voice of the Spacial Dynamics Institute's headquarters. Her background includes professional training and work for a financial institution in New York City, a decade of organizational and administrative experience in a school, and dedication to her family, raising together with her husband, two vibrant and nearly grown children. All these roles have prepared her for the multi-tasking she performs so well and add the professional and personal touch she gives to all those who interact with our Institute.

Kim grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand with four siblings. Kim represented New Zealand in rugby (NZ secondary schools team) and attended teacher's training college majoring in Physical Education/ Health, Sports Psychology and Mathematics. He is married and has two children, ages 19 and 17. Kim has worked in the United States of America since 1994, having been a class teacher, a movement teacher and a Project Manager for the Spacial Dynamics® Institute and Hands In Peace. He has over 20 years teaching experience, and has taught a wide range of groups, ages five years to adult.

Now he has moved back to Portland, Oregon to share his experiences and work with the wonderful communities in the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Rim. He gained his Level II Movement Therapist Certification through the Spacial Dynamics® Institute. He is creating a Dynamic Connections movement studio that introduces people to the principles of Spacial Dynamics®, which provides a space to practice these principles fro greater health and to compliment physical and movement therapy.

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Maureen, a world class gymnast, has taught movement to children and adults for over 25 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.

She is a master instructor and a vibrant force in SDI workshops and trainings world-wide. Maureen successfully pioneered Spacial Dynamics® activities in Prison Outreach programs, and presently is developing programs for her organization, Movement As A Path Of Transformation®, on Orcas Island, Washington, and Maui, Hawaii.

Thom is a professional educator who has taught all levels from first grade to college. He has worked in public and independent schools and spent five years as an elementary school principal. Thom has over twenty years experience as a Waldorf teacher both as a class teacher and high school teacher. He has a great love of movement and sports and is a certfied Spacial Dynamics® practitioner.

Thom and Jaimen have been instrumental in developing a model that combines arts and athletics for fifth grade pupils (PACT - Pentathlon, Arts, Co-operation, Truce). Together they have furthered these events throughout North America 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 I model for regional and international festivals. Thom is a guest instructor in SDI training programs.

Valerie is a movement consultant to schools and organizations, a movement coach, a movement artist, and writer. With a lifetime of dance training and performing experience, she has been a trainer/choreographer at Hands In Peace festivals around the world. She is a licensed Lebed Method® instructor, a certified Spacial Dynamics® practitioner and Bothmer Gymnast®. She was the movement educator at San Francisco Waldorf School for fifteen years where she helped develop a movement program for grades one through twelve, including Spacial Dynamics® in the high school and historical dances through the grades.

In private practice in San Francisco, Valerie is affiliated with the Fourfold Healing Clinic of Dr. Tom Cowan, where she offers therapeutic movement privates, coaching, and classes for young and old through her studio business, San Francisco Movement for Health and Healing. In 2008, she was a contributing instructor for movement in Stanford University's Agile Aging course at the Hasso Plattner School of Design.

Will has had a lifetime love and joy for movement . From his childhood growing up in Southern California, surfing and water activities were a big part of his life. The fluid movements of Aikido caught his eye and Will trained in Aikido and Kenjutsu, later becoming an instructor in these arts. As his interest in education (and Waldorf Education in particular) grew , Will pursued the Teacher Training program at Rudolf Steiner College. In 1986 he became a class teacher at the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, New York.

The first Spacial Dynamics® Training in North America began in 1989 and Will joined 59 others in this new initiative. Two years later he became Director of Physical Education and Athletics at Green Meadow where he still teaches grades 1-12. In addition Will has taught workshops and Teacher Training programs at Sunbridge College, Antioch, Creative Speech Spring Valley as well as in the In-Service Trainings of the Spacial Dynamics Institute.