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Dr Anna Dako, AHPP, RSME/T, UKSMDT
I am the founder of DUNAMI - Movement Arts Wellbeing, a platform for ecologically mindful growth, creative development, psycho-somatic health and intercultural dialogue. DUNAMI’s offer includes regular practice-based workshops: Spring Seedling and Body Scapes, as well as self-therapy resources. I specialise in supporting and working through versatile psycho-somatic imbalances, and love guiding experiential walks outdoors, especially throughout Aberdeenshire.
My practice focuses on practice-based research in creative arts and environmental psychology perspectives on mental health and wellbeing. I have developed multiple movement-based approaches towards more embodied ways for ‘being well’ with the natural environment guided by processes of Somatic Felt Thinking. The methodology is now offered as an online course in Eco-Somatic Movement Education and further described in my recent books ‘Dances With Sheep - On RePairing the Human-Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving Towards Wellbeing’ and Walking to Wellbeing - A Guide to Practising Self-Care in Somatic Felt Thinking.
Visit me at: https://www.dunami-somatics.com/anna-dako
Martina Polleros, RSME/T
Martina trained in Dance between Art and Therapy, at the Bewegungsinstitut Essen and continued her education with Bodybliss – Continuum Movement at the Somatic Academy in Munich. She also studied the Life Art Process of Anna Halprin with Ulla Schorn and completed her MA in Dance and Somatic Wellbeing at UCLAN University U.K. with distinction in 2014. She has worked with Susan Harper, Miranda Tufnell, Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose, to name a few of wonderful teachers who have formed, inspired and supported her work throughout the years.
She is currently teaching somatic movement classes, working as a somatic coach for a health prevention program in a large insurance company and working as an ISMETA certified somatic movement therapist in Vienna. She teaches sensory integration for pedagogues and is also the founder of a one year “heart-listening circle”, an exploratory research circle to cultivate heart-listening.
Martina is a part of a German NGO called Emergency Pedagogy, that works mainly with children of all ages in areas of huge crisis around the world. Her last operation was in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in 2019.