Manuela Mischke-Reeds, M.A.,
is a somatic therapist and educator. She is a
certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, is a Trainer for the San Francisco
Hakomi Professional Trainings, and teaching member of the South Pacific
Hakomi training team training in Australia and New Zealand. She is
currently
co-lead Trainer in the Sydney Training.
Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy, movement
therapy
and somatic trauma work. She co-developed "Waking Up from the Family
Trance", a somatic approach to exploring and transforming internalized
Family Systems. Which she presented at the 2003 USABP Conference in
Baltimore. She has taught "Engaging the Creative Self " workshops
in Japan
and Australia, a somatic movement process she developed that explores
the
creative and cellular organization of the self. Manuela is also an
authorized Continuum Movement Teacher leading regular Continuum classes
and
workshops in SF and abroad. She is adjunct faculty at JFK University,
Orinda, CA teaching in the Holistic Studies Program and guest teacher
at New
College in San Francisco. She is a member of the teaching faculty
at Body
Therapy Center in Palo Alto, training bodyworkers in Hakomi therapy
and
somatic counseling.
Manuela holds an MA in Somatic Psychology from California Institute
of
Integral studies, and a BA in Dance Therapy from the Naropa Institute.
She
is a Somatic Experiencing Practioner (Trauma work) in the method developed
by with Peter Levine. In addition she has trained in various methods
of
working with trauma (EMDR and SE), counseled survivors of political
oppression and torture and victims of trauma. She has co-created the
Continuum Movement series Trauma called "Moving through life-
Trauma
resolution through Continuum Movement" , an integration of Continuum
Movement
and trauma therapy work, which is taught regular in the Bay Area.
Manuela
has extensive training in the field of art, movement and dance, as
well as
in Buddhist meditation (Tibetan Buddhism). Her passion is to explore
the
complex interweaving of sensation and emotions into the experience
we call
the body. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Union Institute
and
University, where she will be integrating and researching the field
of
somatic and movement, trauma and pre and perinatal psychology.
You can
email Manuela at: mmrhakomi@pacbell.net.
www.somatic-inquiry.com
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