Teachers

Laura has been studying, performing and teaching various dance forms in Lawrence for over 40 years. She is a certified teacher of 5Rhythms® Waves level since 2001 and Heartbeat level since 2010 trained by Gabrielle Roth and a member of the 5Rhythms Teacher Association (5RTA). She has taught locally as well as at classes and events such as Nebraska HIV/AIDS conference, Kansas University, Leiden, Holland and served as Core Faculty at the Omega Institute in New York for several years. She is also an ayurvedic Practitioner (A.P.) and is a Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner with AAPNA and NAMA. Laura is the founder of Be Moved Studio and Moon Jewel Ayurveda Center. She has recently received her 200 Hour Yoga and Shamanism Teacher Training after practicing Yoga for 45 years!

laura@bemovedstudio.com | moonjewelayurveda.com

Mariel (she/ella) is a queer Xicana of color who specializes in truama informed body work, practicing Curandera, TRE provider, anti-racist centered approaches, with a foundation in abolitionist theory. Mariel is a certified Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor through Sundara Yoga Academy and body worker with over 200 hours in other yoga specific trauma informed study. She is also a certified provider for Trauma and Tension Release Exercise, a practiced designed by Dr. David Berceli (https://traumaprevention.com/). Mariel is inspired by her ancestors, specifically her great grandmother who was her village healer and Black Feminist theory. She is a community organizer focused on collective liberation with specific training in facilitation and transformative justice models. Mariel is focused on honoring all aspects of yoga and the collective movement to decolonize this practice. She also integrates functional movement and mindful movement into her practices in order to be accessible to all bodies and identities. Mariel’s work is founded on the ideology and writing of Octavia Butler, Gloria Anzaldua, Toni Cade Bambara, adrienne maree brown and many others. Mariel firmly believes we can make the future, our collective liberated revolution irresistible. 

Camilah Hicks is a RYT-500 yoga instructor, meditation and pranayama leader, Reiki provider (3rd-level), sound therapy practitioner, clinical aromatherapist, herbalist, facilitator, intuitive tarot reader, PhD Social Welfare student at the University of Kansas, and all-around believer in the magical, mystical, and unspeakably beautiful. Camilah believes emphatically in social and reparative justice, the need and right for self-care, and the pursuit of joy. hickscamilah@gmail.com  www.heartandthird.com

Samuel Beecher is a Board Certified Structural Integration Practitioner and a Certified Hellerwork Practitioner. The curriculum in these trainings have supplemented his intuitive, play-based approach to teaching movement and has expanded his teachings from fitness to include therapeutic movement, structural support, and embodiment education.

5Rhythms was Samuel’s first exposure to Be Moved Studio and dance and has been deeply supportive in his journey to experiencing and expressing feelings through the body. Dance and movement, combined with subtler forms of body and energy work, showed him how body centered practices provide nourishments and healing beyond the physical. Samuel feels passionate about engaging in a variety of movement practices as each one shows him a different part of his being, helps him experience a greater range of (e)motion, and deepens his engagement with community.

Outside of the studio, you might find Samuel riding his bike, jumping on rocks near the river, climbing a tree in a park, or on the monkey bars at a playground with his young daughter. He has plans to continue his education to include more embodied movement practices, manual therapies, and somatic therapies.

Brook is grateful and happy to be in this experience of life. Her practices are rooted in nature, intuitive awareness, and the unitary field of vibration. Connection to the earth and all of its natural presence has been a guiding light for her path to Shamanism. In 2017 she began her studies and practice in healing through the Foundation of Shamanic Studies under her mentors Ellen Winner and Marta Schwartz. She would also like to acknowledge and accredit the wisdom of various plant/animal medicines as her teachers. She enjoys dancing, painting, laughing with her daughter, and walking the wonderful landscapes of Kansas. The plant music she plays is gathered from local areas such as the wetlands, prairies, and forests. She is a certified Integral Wellness Coach through the Wisdom of the Whole Holistic Coaching Mastery Program with the Bark Institute and is gaining certification as an End of Life Coach and Sacred End of life Doula with the Conscious Dying Institute.

“We are in this together. May we support and openly witness each other.I believe this is the truth to healing and raising our worldly vibration, we are all on our own path at our own pace and together we all share the same journey. Let us Be love, Love, and Be loved!” -Brook

Sarah “Sally” Birmingham has a love for both Vinyasa and Iyengar styles of yoga, and has also been influenced by Yi,, Restorative, and gentle forms of Yoga. Other interests include art, farming , herbalism, activism, and traveling, all of which have overlapping therapeutic benefits that have informed her yogic path. 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance, received in Austin, TX. 2014. 15-hour Trauma-informed Yoga Certification received in Oakland, CA. 2018. Sally habla español.

sbirmi@gmail.com