Amy Matthews, CMA, SME, RYT, RSMT/RSME

Amy has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner. Originally a dancer and choreographer, Amy has been on the faculty of the Year-Long Certificate Program at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies since 2000, and teaches embodied asana® classes and workshops at the Breathing Project, Movements Afoot, and the Society for Martial Arts Instruction in NYC.

Amy works privately as a movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga and Body-Mind Centering®. Amy's embodied asana® workshops and anatomy classes are a part of the Breathing Project's Advanced Studies Program, and she teaches embodied anatomy in a variety of yoga Teacher Training programs. Amy recently collaborated with Leslie Kaminoff on the book Yoga Anatomy, published by Human Kinetics.

Amy is certified as a yoga teacher by Heart of Yoga and Yoga Union, and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner. She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). Amy has participated several times in Gil Hedley's dissection workshops, and has studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd, and BMC® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She studies yoga with Mark Whitwell, Alison West, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.

10/6/07