Amy Matthews

Amy is a guest teacher for OYBC. Amy Matthews, CMA, SME, RYT, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and a Body-Mind Centering Practitioner. Amy has been on the faculty of the Year-Long Certificate Program at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies since 2000, and teaches embodied asana classes and workshops at Movements Afoot, the Breathing Project and the Society for Martial Arts Instruction in NYC. Amy works privately as a movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga and Body Mind Centering. She co-teaches Still Moving karate and Yoga workshops with Sensei Michelle Gay for the Society for Martial Arts Instruction, and anatomy workshops for LIMS. Amy's 'Embodied Asana' workshops and anatomy classes are a part of the Breathing Project’s Advanced Studies Program, and she co-teaches with Alison West on Yoga Union's Teacher Training program. Amy is certified as a Yoga teacher by Heart of Yoga and Yoga Union, and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner. She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, and is registered at the 500-hour level through Yoga Alliance. She studies kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd and BMC with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Amy also studies Yoga with Kevin Gardiner, Mark Whitwell and Alison West, and karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.