is a movement educator, cultural instigator, and dance poet. Margit’s syncretic approach is based on decades of practice in movement/art lineages such as Suprapto Suryodarmo’s Amerta Movement, the Feldenkrais Method, Lisa Nelson’s “tuning” scores, Wild Goose Qigong, Taoist healing arts, dance, somatics, and composition. These forms are the basis for a mosaic of inquiries, encounters, and offerings and are assembled through the vivid grove — a live art school for moving, learning, creative evolution, and collective liberatory practices. Margit collaborates with queer, feminist, and critical race studies, as well as earth-erotics, intercultural dialogue, neurophenomenology, sacred landscapes, and poetics. Margit teaches internationally, throughout the States and at home. Shx has co-created large-scale cultural projects, festivals, choreographs, writes, and co-edited Embodied Lives: Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement. Margit is dedicated to our capacities to grow and engage through subtle movement, listening, perceptual vibrancy, breathing, and communication. Shx looks forward to this unique opportunity to practice with you all. Pronouns: Shx/Hir & They/Them ​https://vividgrove.org

is a biodynamic craniosacral therapy practitioner, movement artist and teacher. The study and experience of stillness and movement inform Mary's work. Her foundation came from different forms including improvisation (group and solo), Feldenkrais ATM, Body-Mind Centering®, Continuum, 3D-Workout™ (based on Bartenieff fundamentals), qi gong and tai chi, dance and performance, as well as biomechanical approaches as Pilates and osteopathic exercises such ELDOA. The depth of this foundation led her to even more subtle work in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, leading to inquiries into the relational field.  All of this deepens her practice in Tibetan Buddhism and cultivation of lived Dharma.  Mary has taught and practiced in various cities in the United States and Canada. She was a seminal figure in bringing Pilates to Singapore, building several studios. Mary lives and practices on Gabriola Island, Canada with her partner where they are goundskeepers on the land they live on. Pronouns: She/Her

is BaltimorePiscataway born and OaklandOhlone raised. They are a multimodal artist who uses performance, facilitation, dance, music and writing as parts of their process. They are committed to creating art and opportunities that inspire people into using creative expression, their bodies, their experiences of pleasure and possibility to emphasize abolitionist sensibilities for visioning beyond the edge of their discovered imagination. They enjoy the way somatic practices, movement, and mindfulness call them into appreciating the dynamic ways we have chosen to choreograph our humanity. They are committed to restor(y)ing their life through vulnerability, courage and a mindset that honors the ancient, the present and our potential futures. They are grateful for their ancestors who have walked in dignity through the complexities of this world, demonstrating what is possible, both in light and shadow, many blessings. Pronouns: They/He

is a teacher, private practitioner, facilitator, co-director, performer and activist. Her work is focused on contributing to a more socially just and inter-connected world. She is a co-founder (with Martha Eddy), director/faculty of Moving On Center-School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Research, bridging Somatics and the Performing Arts for Social Change (1994-current). She was Admin. Director/Curator for Movement Research (N.Y.) from 83′-86′. Carol has been teaching and performing Contact improvisation, movement improvisation and vocal related work for over 40 years in the U.S., Latin America, Russia, Israel and Europe. She has extensive studies in Body Mind Centering, Laban/Bartenieff MovementStudies, Roy Hart Theater, Theater of the Oppressed and Social Somatics which informs everything does. She maintains a private practice in Somatic therapy, (based in Hakomi Method, Somatic Experiencing Trauma Training & Process Work/Arnold Mindell), Alexander Technique (NASTAT), teaches Voice, Social Somatics, Authentic Movement, Improvisation, Group Process and Conflict facilitation. For three years she curated/facilitated a monthly series “Somatics In Action” featuring professionals in every field in Somatics and currently continue to co-teach with various faculty, workshops in the “Socially Conscious Body”. Carol’s performance history and collaborators has included: Eszter Gal, Kirstie Simson, Jess Curtis, Andrew Harwood, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Nancy Stark Smith, Angus Balbernie, Paul Langland, Daniel Lepkoff, Ka Rustler, Brenton Cheng, Vitali Kononov, Julyen Hamilton and many others. http://www.movingoncenter.org

is an artist, educator, and diasporic body from the tropical metropolis of Singapore, with ancestry tracing to coastal Southern China. Serving an enchanted process guided by the noumenal and oracular, her transdisciplinary practice is an alchemical site in collaboration with people’s lives, individual and shared dream imaginaries, within the interdimensional, intimate vernacular. In hopes of uncovering hidden selves and histories in kinship with the other-than-human, she tends to the erotic, ancestry, ageing, the inner worlds of older women, the end-of-life, and relationships with the departed and spirit worlds, while examining artists’ lives and what gets to be called art. The work she has developed across cultures and contexts, locally and internationally, manifests in diverse forms from ritual-gathering, co-created meals, community space and durational site-specific project, to one-on-one encounter, performance, video, installation, conversation, publication, painting, and writing. Xi Jie is an akashic records practitioner and studies Qigong, Butoh and Hokkien, her ancestral tongue. She created the Ancestor Dream Visitation Repository 托夢庫, has an MFA in art and social practice from Portland State University, and is the 2024 winner of the Chamberlain Award for social practice artists. Pronouns: she/her saltythunder.net baibairesearch.art

is an Amerta Movement practitioner and appointed pribadi art teacher. Professional life includes experience as an actor, director and performance artist. Lecturer for elementary teachings and practice of performing arts. Practitioner and guide for Sumarah-Meditation and longterm student of the Ridhwan School and its Diamond Approach. Pronouns: He/Him/His

has 30 years of teaching experience with different groups of participants with different physical abilities, and has studied and practiced the structure, anatomy and mechanics of bodily movement for many years. In 1999, he became one of the first Pilates and Gyrotonic educators in Hong Kong, studying under Juliu Horvath, the founder of Gyrotonic. In 2002, he began to study “Sui Yi Kung” with Mr. Ho Chung Tai. He studied with Dr. Ruthy Alon, one of the thirteen wonders of the first cohort of teacher training in 2002 under Moshe Feldenkrais. Over the past ten years, he has practiced various bodyworks and therapies, including sports massage, myofascial releasing techniques, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Tui Na. In recent months, he has been studying Structural Therapy Manipulation class with Mr. Liang-Chuan Lin, one of the leading orthopedic surgeons in Taiwan. David has been invited by different organizations and festivals around the world to give lectures and share his experience. He was a guest lecturer for the School of Dance of the Hong Kong University. In 2023, David and Hongyi Liu founded Somalign, a platform dedicated to spreading the idea of “bringing the body back to its natural alignment through playful and relaxing movement exploration”. Pronoun: He/Him

has specialised in intercultural research and performance, with particular interest in voice and sound. Public workshop programme The Nature of Sound; Amerta Movement Practitioner; extensive studies in South Indian Carnatic music with Sivasankara Panikkar. Ongoing Group Relations Conference ‘Energy, Creative Collaboration and Wellbeing’ for Il Nodo Group; qualified Craniosacral practitioner. Student of the Ridhwan School following the Diamond Approach.  Pronouns: He/Him/His