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The Teachers

Unergi Body Psychotherapist and artist Ute Arnold has gathered a faculty trained in the following:

  • Alexander technique (energy sensory system)
  • Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement™
  • Gestalt (talk therapy)
  • Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Art therapy
  • Psychodrama
  • Dream analysis
  • Nature awareness (contact with the elementals)
  • Chakras (body energy system)

Meade Andrews, Ph.D (Silver Springs, MD) is an internationally recognized teacher of the Alexander Technique, and other forms of Psychophysical Re-education. On the faculty of the Department of Performing Arts at American University in Washington, DC for 12 years, she performed, choreographed dance concerts, and directed plays, while instituting a wide variety of creative programs for BA and MFA students. Since 1986, she has taught numerous Alexander Technique workshops at universities and conservatories in the United States, Japan, Spain and Australia.

Michal Ben Reuven, M.A., CFT: Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner (Princeton, NJ) has academic degrees in psychology and counseling, and has 15 years of dance training. Michal has applied these experiences since 1989 to help people regain pain-free movement, a calmer mind and positive outlook, and reach their potential.

Glenna Batson, P.T., M.A., Dance Education (Hillsborough, NC) is a professor of physical therapy and functional anatomy, with extensive clinical experience in chronic pain rehabilitation, and guest residencies and workshops in dance education and somatics. Certified in the Alexander Technique, she is currently on the faculties of the American Dance Festival and the Music Department of Salem College. Her private practice, Movement Re-Visions, is her springboard for retraining and rehabilitation.

Jan Baty, M.M (Newark, DE) focuses her teaching activities on expressivity and creativity, the artist in each one of us. Her musical studies include Eastman School of Music, Yale School of Music and the Julliard School. An accomplished violinist, she was a member of the Montreal Symphony and the Delos String Quartet. As a faculty member of the Alexander Foundation of Philadelphia, she has worked deeply with those preparing to become teachers of the Alexander Technique in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Dale Beaver, B. M. (Columbus, OH) has been a church musician for over 30 years. After a 10-year apprenticeship in the Alexander Technique, he became a teaching member of Alexander Technique International. He has a private practice in Columbus, Ohio and has conducted workshops at Ohio State University, Youngstown State University, Viterbo College, Cincinnati Conservatory, and Grand Valley State University.

Matthew Cohen, M.A. LMFT (Philadelphia, PA) was the director of the Body Synergy Institute, a School of Body Psychotherapy which he founded in 1979. As a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and practitioner of emotionally focused bodywork he trained many psychotherapists and body workers in the study of holistic approaches to body-mind-emotion integration. He studied with Ida Rolf, PhD and many other mind-body therapeutic modalities. He has both a natural and well-honed ability to help individuals and couples to experience emotional freedom and discover self-supportive choices. In every educational step along the way, he has integrated and internalized his studies. He is committed to the primacy of the collaborative relationship between therapist and client as fundamental steps to self-healing.

Zoana Gepner-Muller (Philadelphia, PA) was a co-founding member of "Bewegliches Theater Zürich" and a member of "Eclipse Theater," London. She is a Reiki Master/Teacher and a graduate of the Alexander [Technique] Foundation, Philadelphia and a faculty member since 1988. She teaches classes and workshops in the U.S. and Europe and offers private sessions in Philadelphia. Her interest is to teach harmonious co-creative living with the Earth and more peace and joy.

Rob Gepner-Mueller (Philadelphia, PA) draws from his life's work as an actor, clown theater teacher, Tai Chi player and teacher, teacher/trainer of the Alexander Technique, and as an artisan working in wood and stone. The unifying thread in these varied pursuits is the cultivation of the ability to connect. "Connection in the interplay with performers or audience, with my student's patterns of movement and freedom to choose anew, connecting in my use of tools to shaping harmonious flow of materials and space, including my own being. I trust that by connecting we can 'free in relationship' to the whole world and our whole selves".

Marjory Hirsh (New Hope, PA) has completed six years of undergraduate and graduate studies at the Unergi School of Body Psychotherapy and is a member of the Unergi Training core faculty. Twenty years ago, she studied Reiki with Beth Gray and has been a Reiki Master for the last 12 years. She has been a yoga and meditation teacher for 30 years. She received her degree in Elementary Education from the University of Pennsylvania and has been passionately interested in the latest body-mind research and how we can re-educate the body's nervous system messengers to create more easeful and healthy lifestyles. She offers private Unergi Body-Psychotherapy sessions at her home in New Hope, PA.

Patty & George Lyons (Doylestown, PA) Feldenkrais and Aikido Teachers.

Melody Schaper, M.F.A (Kimberton, PA) Melody Schaper is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. She received a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography from Arizona State University and has a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Modern Dance from Lake Erie College. Melody was an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina in the Dance and Theater Department teaching dance,  movement in the actor training program and chroeographing and performing regularly. At the University of South Carolina she also taught athletes, members of the basketball, football and softball teams, swimmers, divers and intramural athletes. She has co-taught several dream workshops with a Jungian therapist and has worked with movement performance from a Jungian perspective. Recently she has been intrigued with the foundations of Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education and has been studying Eurythmy as well as working with the young child in the Waldorf Kindergarten and the early grades. Through all, and at the very core of Melody's work is a profound interest in and respect for an individuals growth and gradual awakening to deeper parts of themselves through working with the body. 

Mary Lou Tromanhauser (Oak Park, IL) After teaching dance for 35 years and directing a dance studio for 21 years, the Unergi training was Mary Lou's next 'step' in continuing her fascination with the mind/body connection and how its wisdom can inform our lives. As a certified Unergi practitioner and Feldenkrais Teacher, she has learned the language of this body-mind interface, and offers her skills as a guide and companion to those who seek direct contact with their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual world. She has participated in and led workshops and on-going practices in movement, creativity and spiritual explorations since 1977.