AMY MATTHEWS
Amy Matthews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher based in Maine.
She has partnered with Sarah Barnaby to create Babies Project – a space in NYC dedicated to developmental movement for babies (of all ages). 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 also taught for four years with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Berkeley CA, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in NYC for 10 years.
She currently teaches embodied anatomy, developmental movement, and yoga workshops for adults in New York, across the country in Portland, Philadelphia, Berkeley, Dallas, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Nebraska, and internationally in Ireland, Italy, England, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia and Japan.
Amy is the Program Director for the Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) programs at Sonder Movement Project, a licensed organization of the School for Body-Mind Centering, and teaches on SME & IDME Programs in the US, Germany and Italy.
She has studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd and BMC with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and has participated several times in Gil Hedley’s dissection workshops. She has studied yoga with a variety of teachers in the Desikachar and Iyengar traditions, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.
Also certified as a yoga teacher and as a shiatsu practitioner, Amy 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 and works privately integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).
