East meets West in a unique program of Healing movement.

The Eastwest Somatics Institute for Dance and Movement Therapy has announced its 2004 schedule of classes. Six-day intensives, as well as shorter programs for personal growth, will be offered in Kalani, Hawaii; Charleston, South Carolina; Osaka and Fukuoko, Japan; San Francisco, California; London, England; and Brockport, New York. [] The institute is sponsored by the State University of New York at Brockport Department of Dance and is recognized by the International Movement Education and Therapy Association. Certification requires 600 hours and completion of six levels of study, and can be accomplished over a two- to three-year period. Graduates earn the designation of registered movement therapist or registered movement educator. Certificates of completion are available for two thirty-six-hour courses, Core Movement and Somatic Release I and II. [] Program founder Sondra Fraleigh is a professor of dance at SUNY Brockport and is certified in the Feldenkrais Method[R]. She designed the curriculum to combine such Western healing movement practices as Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique[TM], Breathwork, and Craniosacral Therapy, with Eastern modalities of yoga, meditation, and Japanese butoh techniques. For more information, visit www.brockport.edu/~dance/somatics.