TEACHER
mihyun lee
Mihyun Lee studied dance and psychology. For about 30 years of practicing dance professionally shaped her understanding of the primal nature of the body and its expression. Her perspectives on body, movement, and expression have been developed by graduate education in Somatic Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. Her advanced study in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies shaped her various services to promote psychological wellbeing through physiological practice.
In her belief, body is the main resource to navigate life. Listening to our body and attuning to its narratives, needs, and desires is the key to navigate our life in most effective way. Relationship, Polarity, and Integration have been important concepts for her private and professional life. She often finds wisdom in polarities and believes acknowledging the opposite components in polarity is a way to integrate oneself. In her work, she emphasizes increasing level of satisfaction in clients’ relationship to self, others, and environment. https://movementflow.org/
MUSICIAN
nate cavalieri
Nate Cavalieri is an Oakland-based musician, accompanist and writer. He studied music at Oberlin Conservatory, where a work-study gig as a dance accompanist changed his life. He plays with the Dominican BFA program at Alonzo King Lines Ballet, UC Berkeley, and is a regular with the CI jam at Berkeley's Finnish Hall. He loves few things in this world as much as the conversation between improvised movement and improvised music.
Organizer
merrick jacob
Merrick Jacob is a lover of movement, continuously in awe of the body and its potential for delightful expression, wild creativity, & authentic connection. Influenced by her practices of contact improvisation, figure skating, acroyoga, and hand-balancing, she guides playful movement experiences as an opportunity for deep listening, research, and co-creation. Merrick teaches & hosts contact across the SF Bay Area and beyond.
