Tina Stromsted, PhD, LMFT, BC-DMT, RSMT/E, SEP, is a Jungian analyst, dance/somatic psychotherapist, international educator, and author with over 45 years of clinical experience across hospitals, community mental health, and private practice. She is the director of Soul’s Body® Center and cofounder of the Authentic Movement Institute, and teaches at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Jung Platform, the Marion Woodman Foundation, and the International Association of An

Michael Bean has an extensive background as a film and television actor, and as a teacher of professional actors. Although his first love was ecstatic dance, he’s explored deeply in improvised social partner dances and is passionate about blues-fusion and contact improvisation, and loves to take influence from a variety of styles. You can find him professionally at @confidenceoncamera and www.confidenceoncamera.com ___ "Good Choices - A holistic conversation about dance, art

What does it truly mean to expand our somatic awareness and integrate the depth of the body into our modern world? In this second solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer continues her deep dive into Somatics and Applied Anatomy. Moving from the foundational concepts of the living soma, Sabine shares a rich historical roadmap and outlines practical ways to bridge the gap between deep inner inquiry and active external expression. Sabine maps out the historical timeline wher

Andrew Wass A dancer and researcher, Andrew Wass blurs the boundaries between empirical inquiry and embodied experience. With a background in Biochemistry from UC San Diego and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University, Wass situates his inquiries in the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and process-oriented concert dance. He has explored and taught contemporary technique, Contact Improvisation, and Ensemble Thinking for over two decades across Europe, Asia, a

What does it truly mean to experience the body from within? In this solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer breaks down one of the core pillars of her work in Holistic Dance: Somatics and Applied Anatomy. Moving beyond the clinical definitions, Sabine explores how somatic practices shift our focus from a purely performative, measurable body to the deeply rich, subjective landscape of the living soma. Sabine dives into the origins of the field, explaining the fundamental d

Content Note / Trigger Warning: This episode contains references to sexual abuse, trauma, and sensitive personal experiences. In this fourth and final episode of the Healing Series on my Good Choices Podcast, I share parts of my personal story for the first time publicly. I want to be clear: I am not going into details. There are aspects of my story I choose to keep private — to protect myself and my family. And at the same time, it feels important to name it. I am a survivor

What is Contact Improvisation — really? In this solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer dives into the history, philosophy, and deeper principles of Contact Improvisation — beyond festival impressions and “touch dances”. She speaks about: • CI as an open-source form (not a fixed method) • its roots in postmodern dance and the radical research of the 1970s • the difference between soft skills (listening, gravity, center, counterbalance) and hard skills (lifts, movement pat

In this third and final solo episode of the Good Choices Podcast Healing series, Sabine Parzer turns her attention to integration — the often overlooked, yet essential phase of healing. Following Embodiment (Part 1) as an ongoing daily practice and Transformation (Part 2) as a condensed, intense phase of change, this episode explores integration as the process of digesting, sorting, weaving, and anchoring what has been experienced. From her perspective as a professional dance

In this second solo episode of the Good Choices Podcast, Sabine Parzer continues her exploration of healing, this time focusing on the theme of transformation. Building on Part 1, where embodiment was introduced as a daily, non-verbal practice, Sabine reflects on healing as an ongoing, never-finished process — one that changes throughout different phases of life, personal history, and lived experience. In this episode, she explores: Healing as a dynamic, lifelong process rath

Good Choices | A Holistic Conversation about Dance, Art & Life with Sabine Parzer In this solo episode of the Good Choices Podcast, Sabine Parzer reflects on the theme of healing — a complex and often loaded word that is deeply connected to embodiment, transformation, and integration. As the founder of the Holistic Dance Institute and an experienced dance pedagogue and somatic practitioner, Sabine shares her perspective on healing as an intention rather than a promise. Drawin

Nina Wehnert is living in Berlin and Italy, is a certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®). She is part of the directing and core teaching team of moveus, the licensed BMC® Training Program in Germany. She is offering her own training program at Somatische Akademie Berlin and teaches BMC® internationally at Contact Improvisation festivals, in workshops and in dance and yoga teacher trainings. She is dancing Contact Improvisation since more than 30 year

Selena La Brooy, also known as ‘Selena BoBeena’, lives off-grid on Salt Spring Island, where she explores her relationship with land,...

Martina is an occupational therapist (VEÖ,1988) with specialisation in Ayres Sensory Integration Therapy(R), dance-movement therapist...

In this solo episode of Good Choices – A Holistic Conversation about Dance, Art & Life, Sabine Parzer shares her personal and...

Sabine Müller is a movement explorer, bodyworker, dancer and facilitator, continuously curious about the bodymind. Movement, touch,...

Angela-Mara Florant (GER) had her first experience with CI during her performance arts studies in Besançon, France. Based in Hamburg, she...

Shinichi serves as the Artistic Director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat, founded by Shinichi in 1998. He is the editor...

Independent dance artist, practices, teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making. Danced with leading groups in the...

Independent dance artist, practices, teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making. Danced with leading groups in the...

Jurij Konjar is a slovenian artist working in the field of dance. Following his education at PARTS in Brussels the creation of his early...