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School of Relational Bodywork

Faculty

RELATIONAL BODYWORK

RELATIONAL EMBODIMENT

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF SOMATIC SEXOLOGY

+ CONTINUING PRACTITIONER DEVELOPMENT

Meet The School Leadership Team
  • Julian Marcus
    Founder & Director of Trainings
    Founder of School of Relational Bodywork, practitioner trainer, Certified Somatic Sex educator and Clinical Somatic sexology and Coaching.
  • Ella Mesma
    Consent Curriculum Director
    Wheel of Consent® Facilitator, professional dancer, choreographer, embodiment coach and certified Rolfing practitioner.
  • Liz Ray
    Curriculum Designer + Somatic Trainer

    Certified Somatic Sex Educator with PhD in Arts Based Curriculum Design + 25 years of experience in body-based practices

Meet The Teacher Team
  • Julia Pessis
    Bodyworker + Somatic Sexologist
    Somatic Sexologist, bodyworker, intimacy coach and educator in exploring and expanding our capacity for pleasure.
  • Christoper Gladwell
    Awareness & Breath-work
    Embodied meditation teacher, author, and breath-work guide working at the intersection of conscious breath-work, mind mastery, embodied awareness, and evolutionary and neurobiology.
  • Nicola Garrett
    Bodywork Educator
    Certified Somatic Sex Educator and Specialist in Scar Tissue Remediation, Internal Pelvic Work & Caster Oil Therapies
  • Svitlana Textoris
    Trauma Informed Practice
    Certified Somatic Sexologist
    + BodyMind Gestalt Therapist and Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner.
Senior Practitioner Mentors & Curriculum Advisers
  • Ellen Heed
    Anatomy, Physiology & Scar Tissue Remediation
    Internationally recognised authority on pelvic bodywork and trauma-informed clinical practice.
  • Joseph Kramer
    Founder of Sexological Bodywork Modality
    Founder and curriculum contributor to the modality aspects of Sexological Bodywork
  • Betty Martin
    Creator of the Wheel of Consent ®
    Senior supervising educator on the topic of embodied consent.
  • Philip Shepherd
    Author, Embodiment Coach & Practitioner Mentor
    Philip Shepherd is recognised as a leader in the global embodiment movement. He is the creator of The Embodied Present Process™ (TEPP), which he shares worldwide in workshops and Facilitators Trainings.

    Helping people reunite the thinking of the head with the deep, present and calm intelligence of their body.
  • Carol M. Davis
    DPT, EdD, MS, FAPTA - USA
    Carol is Professor Emerita and immediate past Vice Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami Florida.

    Dr. Davis is an international lecturer and consultant and a respected author in rehabilitation literature.
  • Dirk Oellibrandt
    Taoist Practice + Bodywork Practitioner Mentor
    Dirk is a traditional and at the same time modern alchemist. His talent is to bring people to their core in a natural way and to let them experience the true potential and the path life offers them.

    A strong drive to help others in their search and in their process of awakening, lead him through a long period of study of different therapeutic methods.
Contact
For more information or questions please get in touch here:

Lisbon, Portugal