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Natan is a Hudson Valley - based movement educator, bodyworker, and somatic therapy practitioner who believes in the body’s own wisdom and creativity to heal, guide, and express ourselves.

He has been on faculty at the Tamalpa Institute since 2016, guiding groups in healing and transformation through movement, embodiment, and the arts; and supports people individually through his private practice in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, hakomi (mindfulness-based somatic psychotherapy), somatic movement therapy and the expressive arts.

  • Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (RSME/T) with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).

  • Certified Craniosacral Therapist (RCST) with the North American Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association (BCTA/NA)

  • MA in Education from Goddard College where I studied the intersection of somatics, creativity, and education. 

  • Certificate program in Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy with the Hakomi Institute of California (Comprehensive Training Levels 1 and 2)

  • Certificate program in Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Training Approach (ISITTA) through Embodywise with Manuela Mischke-Reeds

  • Relational Touch in Psychotherapy through Relational Somatic Healing, with Shirley Bar-Dvir

  • Certificate program in Somatic Education Module with Moving on Center

  • Certificate program in Movement-Based Expressive Arts Therapy with the Tamalpa Institute 

  • Ongoing study in Body Mind Centering, a somatic approach to experiential anatomy, movement, and embryology.

  • Over 500 hours of massage therapy training.

  • Ongoing practice in yoga and meditation since 2010. 

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