About

Meet the editors/creators behind the embryo book project:

We are all three Body-Mind Centering® teachers, and our collaboration on the embryo book project is informed by this shared experience, as well as our other movement and embodiment practices. 

Kim Sargent-Wishart is a somatic educator, researcher, writer & photographer. Her research interests include experiential embryology and physiology as models for creative practice, the life cycle, and the dynamics of perception. A student of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition for many years, her arts practice is influenced by Miksang contemplative photography and dance/movement improvisation. Her practice-led PhD research explored a practice-dialogue between western and Tibetan Buddhist narratives of embryology, and their relationships to creative practice and perception. 

Kim has a BA in Dance from Wesleyan University and a PhD in Performance Studies from Victoria University. A movement educator and bodyworker since the early 1990s, she is a Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (ISMETA). Kim co-directs Somatic Education Australasia in Melbourne, and recently co-edited The Art of Embodiment (2021). She lives on the Bellarine Peninsula in Australia. 

Visit Kim’s website at www.kimsargentwishart.com

Amy Matthews has been teaching movement workshops and courses in the US and internationally since 1994. Integrating experiential anatomy, kinesiology, embryology and developmental movement with inquiries into pedagogy, educational philosophy and movement practices, she has taught on somatic certification programs and in a variety of university and studio settings.

Amy is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, a Certified Movement Analyst, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher. She co-founded Babies Project with Sarah Barnaby and created the Advanced Studies Program for The Breathing Project with Leslie Kaminoff, as well as co-authoring Yoga Anatomy.

She is currently based in Maine and NYC.

Visit Amy’s website at www.movementpractices.com

Rebecca Haseltine loves to move and loves to watch movement of all kinds, including trees in a storm and caterpillars on the ground. She was a professional dancer and her BA combined dance, art, and science. She taught art and movement for children with physical and language impairment for 11 years at The Bridge School. She currently practices bodywork and movement therapy in San Francisco, teaches in Body-Mind Centering® training programs, offers BMC classes online, and works with babies and parents.

Rebecca’s artwork is body-based and explores environmental themes. She has taught classes and workshops in Somatic DrawingTM and includes drawing in her somatic teaching. She has contributed several articles to Currents, the BMCA journal, and has worked as a copy editor on several publications. She’s working on a long term writing project whose topic keeps changing.

Visit Rebecca’s websites at www.bodylearning.net and www.rebeccahaseltine.com