Jens Johannsen is a dancer and movement-teacher and therapist from Germany. Jens has explored the relationship of body and mind on personal, social and global levels. Jens studied theatre, dance, voice, ritual, humanistic and Buddhist psychology, yoga, meditation, body-therapy and others. He has performance experience since 1980 and has been teaching internationally since 1982. Jens is senior BMC® teacher, teaching in the School for Body-Mind Centering® since 1993. He directed the last European training at Chiemsee, Germany. For 15 years Jens has been leading his own BMC training groups that run from one to several years. He works with clients of all ages. He is interested especially in meditation in and through movement and has co-developed an application-program of BMC to alpine skiing. He integrates in-depth knowledge about the physical body to the embodiment process, with humour and the joy of expressive movement within a spiritually open approach.

Katy Dymoke is a certified teacher and practitioner in Body-Mind Centering® from Manchester. Katy has been teaching BMC® in England since 1997 and integrated into her job as Movement Psychotherapist in the NHS as a touch based specialist. As a professional dancer and director of Touchdown Dance Katy creates dance theatre and film. Touchdown Dance is unique for integrating blind and sighted dancers in a professional touring and workshop company. Collaborating with musicians, actors and dancers for 25 years, she has been an advocate for integrated arts practise. Katy has presented at conferences, been a guest lecturer and has published her writing on touch based working methodology and integrated dance. Katy is doing a PHD on the impact of touch in Movement Psychotherapy. Katy established the Body-Mind Centering® certification programs in the UK as she believes in the innate intelligence of the body and the joy it brings. Katy also runs a practice from home. A lover of the outdoors and physical activity she has a 3rd Dan in Jujitsu.

Thomas Greil: Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering, started together with Myra Avedon, Jens Johannsen and Friederike Tröscher the Chiemsee Program 2003-2007. He is currently the adminstrative director of the Association SOMA which is offering the BMC Cert. Program in France and Brussels since 2006. He is offering private session, group classes and parent-baby groups. He works with babies, children and adults especially with neurolological and muscular/skeletal challenges.

Gloria Desideri is a Registered Movement Therapist and Educator (ISMETA), BMC® Certified Teacher/Practitioner, Somatic Movement Educator and Infant Developmental Movement Educator. She is also Certified Teacher of Kinetic Awareness and practitioner of Somatic Experiencing® (Dr. Peter Levine's approach to trauma and post-traumatic stress symptoms). With a background of a professional dancer and choreographer (1977 - 1992), she integrates in her work several movement practices and body-mind disciplines. Upon returning to live in Italy in 1998, after 15 years in the U.S., she started to collaborate with the Public Health System (ASL-Viterbo) directing BMC-based projects for children with severe disabilities and their families. She also directed training programs for the educators of the public day care centers of Viterbo. In 2004, she has founded the cultural association Leben. In 2006 she organized an international conference featuring Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and launching the first BMC® training in Italy. This activity is today organized by the company Leben nuova srl constituted by Desideri in February 2009. Gloria has a private practice as therapist and consultant for adults and children with their parents.