Teaching and Speaking

brooke is an experienced artist and educator working across generations, abilities, and cultures.

Credentials:

Somatic Movement Educator (SME) from Body Mind Centering® (BMC)

Licensed California General Contractor #980256

Superadobe specialization apprentice, Cal Earth, USA.

MA in the Body in Performance, Trinity Laban, London.

BFA in Dance Performance Choreography, CalArts, USA.

Topics Include:

  • Learning how to Build with Superadobe

  • Learning how to Speak: Healing Resources for the Voice

  • Learning how to Move: Embodied Languages of the Land

  • Active Consent: How to Not Assume

  • The Movement of Homeostasis: Resources for Restoring Balance

  • Resolving the Moro Reflex in the Growing Adult Body.

  • Bones, Blood, and Heart - the Rhythms of Connection

  • Additional Workshops are based on individual systems in the body and include Senses and Perceptions, Basic Neurocellular Patterns, Endocrine system, Nervous system, Primitive Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses, Muscular system, Skeletal system, Ligaments and Fascia, Organs, and Fluids. 

  • Somatic Education

    Somatic Education is an experiential learning practice for individuals and communities connecting body and land for health, healing, and freedom of expression. Learn More

  • Online Classes

    Recorded content and classes available for purchase. Learn More

  • Earth Building

    Empowering individuals and communities how to work with the earth to build a home, fire pit, children’s playscape, or earth marker. Learn More

Experience

University of California at Santa Barbara:

Created curriculum and taught:

  • Improvisation, Advanced Improvisation

  • Choreography, Advanced Choreography

  • Embodied Anatomy

  • Pedagogy

  • Dance for non-dance majors

  • *Hired as a guest in six other departments on campus

With special support from UCSB Dean of Humanities:

  • Somatics and Social Justice: The Evolving Indigenous Embodiment

  • Earth and Body: We are the Material

Teaching Sites:

USA

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Santa Monica College

  • Embodied Social Justice Certification Program, Online.

  • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Winona State University

  • Monica Ross School

  • Los Angeles Eco Village

  • Earthdance

  • California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (CalEarth)

  • Braille Institute

  • Bioneers Indigeneity Program

  • California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture

International

  • Dans i Varmland, Varmland, Sweden

  • International Dance Conference and Performance Festival, Bytom, Poland. 

  • Trinity Laban, London, UK

  • Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

  • Guachochi, Mexico