Cornelia Schmitz

Human development is profoundly fascinating to me, as it is directly rooted in our embodied presence and essentially interweaving with it.

My professional path starts in psychology and psychotherapy as well as in Creative Dance and in multiple approaches to Bodywork and Movement Education (Contactimprovisation, Cranio-sacral Movement Therapy, Voice Work Roy Hart, Aikido/Shizen-Taido, Qi Gong). During my training in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) my former somatic studies rejoin into embodied exploring and experiencing our organismic tissues and processes and playing from there. When finally meeting my beloved teacher Janet Adler I find my home in the Discipline of Authentic Movement.

Each aspect of my work, whether body-based psychotherapy, supervision, or different ways of teaching individuals or groups is grounded in the Discipline of Authentic Movement, a mystical practice, a path of conscious embodiment of who we are.

– Dipl.-Psychologist
– Psychological Psychotherapist
– Supervisor (BDP)
– Dip. IBMT (Integrative Body-Work and Movement Therapy)
– Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement
– Faculty Member in Circles of Four (Postgraduate Program for preparing to become Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement)
– Faculty Member of the IBMT-Institute
– ISMETA-approved Somatic Movement Educator