About Amy and Sarah
Amy Matthews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/RSME, has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a yoga therapist and yoga teacher.
Amy is the co-founder and co-director of Babies Project with Sarah Barnaby. Previously she was a director of The Breathing Project, and co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy (published by Human Kinetics).
Amy is a Program Director for the School for Body-Mind Centering, Educational Director of the SME Program for Moving Within in Oregon, and teaches on SME & IDME Programs in the US, Germany and Italy. She taught for four years with Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen in Berkeley CA, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years.
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 has studied yoga with a variety of teachers in the Desikachar and Iyengar traditions, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.
Amy is certified as a yoga teacher and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner, is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator and has been registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT. She teaches embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in the US and internationally, and works privately integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).
CONTACT AMY: email spiralamy@babiesproject.org | website www.embodiedasana.com
Sarah is a certified BMC Teacher, Practitioner and Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) through the School for Body-Mind Centering, and is registered as a Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist through ISMETA.
Sarah teaches developmental movement to babies of all ages – from infants to elders – in NYC. She is the co-founder and co-director of Babies Project with Amy Matthews.
Sarah is trained in the Newborn Behavioral Observation (NBO) system, which is an infant-focused, family-centered, strength-based, relationship-building tool for a family meeting their new baby, and the practitioner meeting the family. She is also trained as a post-partum doula.
CONTACT SARAH: email sarah@babiesproject.org | website www.sarahbarnaby.com