I am white bodied woman of french and mediterranean descent) and practice and work in the field of somatic movement healing therapy, performance art making, and community organizing. My work invites the body as a site of wisdom, care, and possibility, inviting people to reconnect with sensation, presence, and embodied awareness as pathways toward healing and collective transformation. I am interested in emergent, relational pedagogies that support liberatory ways of being and becoming. I enjoy faciliating spaces rooted in relationship, listening, and shared learning. I am living in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land. Amélie Gaulier (she/they)              

I believe that wellbeing—through body, mind, heart, belly, and cellular care—is a transformative journey, even in the smallest aspects of our relational self, and it can ripple outward to impact the communities around us. I strongly hold that pedagogical and therapeutic ethics include practicing social justice by embodying our actions with interconnectedness, inclusiveness, and compassion.

In my work as a somatic healing and therapy practitioner, I commit to understanding the underlying needs of people and situations. By learning from each other and listening with our whole-body intelligence and language—practicing noticing sensations with as little judgment as we can— we can aim to deepen our understanding of the words and concepts we use to describe our experiences.

Through this approach, I tend to facilitate access to the body’s wisdom, guiding, orienting, and connecting us. Together, in dialogue, we create meaningful actions and resources to heal and metabolize what needs to be released, allowing us to continue our human journey with purpose and direction.

And a little bit more of who I am for the curious:  My parents named me Amélie. Gaulier and Dewitt are the name of the family of my father's father and mother. My ancestry runs from Spain to unknown lineages from my mother lineage whose last name is Hernandez-Lozano & Esteban Chanca.  I identified as a white-based body, female and whole alive organism. My native country is France, where I grew up in the suburb of Paris and later in Paris to study and work different jobs from painting walls to selling books, from working as a waitress to welcoming visitors in exhibition art center, from assisting theater directors to teaching improvisation, somatic and dance. Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) practitioner certified in 2010 with SOMA (Paris, France), my passion for pedagogy and somatic practices are a long journey which leads me to see people for individual BMC® private and group sessions. Also a performance artist, I teach art and movement for children and adults in different institutions and contexts for 14 years. I have been privileged to practice and to be involved into Authentic Movement, QiGong, Contemplative Dance Practice and Mindfulness meditation with various teachers and approaches. A crucial practice and container I had to learn to return to myself had occurred between 2002 and 2014 when and where I follow the path to commit for a weekly jungian psychotherapy with Nicole Crinière. I have been studying Body-Mind Psychotherapy with Susan Aposhyan who I discovered while in my BMC training. From my early years in Paris I have been engaged in various form of activism to bridge art community and right for housing, demystifying artistic practice through my radical choice to pursue improvisation as an art form by itself in a context of solo performance within a collective, to educating myself in communal healing practices to empower and repair our heart, psyche and planet. Today, I continue to educate myself to find meaningful resources and actions to dismantle all forms of oppression, uprooting the harm white supremacy is causing, and create healing practices to meet the needs to mend our collective wounds whose healing has been held back and intoxicated by and from colonial-imperialism to neoliberalism, techno-feudalism from classism to patriarchy, anti-blackness, anti-queer, anti-trans, anti disable to systemic racism and racial capitalism ... I do find love and courage by following many leaders in the field of embodied social justice who uplift and help me to stay grounded, responsible and to create a sustainable and generative world where all of us can thrive. Acknowledging the teaching of Rev angel Kyodo Williams, Stacy K.Haines, Prentis Hemphill, Amber Mc Zeal, Dr Sara King, Dr Rae Johnson, Nkem Ndefo, Kai Cheng Thom, Kerri Kelly, Resmaa Menakem, Peter Levine, Gabor Mate and so many beautiful and powerful people who inspire me to showing up in this world we all share and are into. I am a Registered Professional Somatic Movement Therapist Member of ISMETA (Registered Somatic Movement Practitioners have completed extensive training in ISMETA Approved Training Programs)since 2016. Recently I have completed a Master Research's Degree at the INSPE / UPEC, National Institute of Professorship and Education in Paris, University. The work focused on the engineering and training practices on artistic creation and develops an enactive pedagogy, linking research in neuroscience and psychology showing the crucial role of the moving body and emotions in learning, and renews the mutual questioning between arts and sciences. It  is the first professional diploma in France to offer trans-disciplinary training for educators, artists and mediators. With my peer collaborator Sabrina Benhamouche, our research entitled "Journalisme Somatique" intent to understand how our self narratives and our mental constructs can be modulated through cognitive rest and somatic movement. the work focuses on embodied cognition and creating enactive tools for group training to enlarge body awareness in regards on our unconscious/conscious on historical and interpersonal trauma and resilience responses. The practical aspect of  the research  intend to create forms of social "epoché" where embodied listening and speech can be experienced to engage ourselves in a dynamic of mutual enrichment. Our inquiries approach the studies and practices on somatic education, post-colonialism/decoloniality and micro-phenomenology. 

My work invites the body as a site of wisdom, care, and possibility, inviting people to reconnect with sensation, presence, and embodied awareness as pathways toward healing and collective transformation.