Who we are:
Michael Lear - has been a longtime Trager® Movement Educator, Vipassana meditator and is a Yoga Alliance 500hr. Registered Yoga Instructor. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and International Management. He founded BWWB after his first trip to South East Asia in 1998, in particular Cambodia, where he felt compelled to introduce The Trager Approach to help mine victims suffering from acute psychophysical trauma and children with polio. Click here to read "The Cambodian Trager Fund" article that laid the ground work for BWWB.
After the 2004 Tsunami he traveled to Sri Lanka to aid in the recovery of those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress related pain. Since then he's returned an additional two times to train physical therapists at Navajeevana Rehabilitation Center in Tangalle and members of the UK based Physical therapy group, Motivation.org in The Trager Approach to address PTS pain, chronic muscle pain and spasticity, and Cerebral Palsy.
As a advocate for the works of Victoria Boutenko and Drs. Weston Price and Gabriel Cousens, (in particular raw organics) Michael's passion for "food as medicine"is a large part of his message. Recognizing the lure of and negative impact of the western diet on generational health, he, hopes to reeducated local health professionals on the benefits of eating an organic whole foods diet, raw when possible, and the importance this holds for the long term health of local communities.
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Jennifer Stickel is a Certified Raw Living Foods Chef, artist/Painter and a organic gardener. She is also an advanced Ashtanga Yoga practitioner. She is committed to sharing her knowledge about the healing power of whole living foods. Jennifer has accompanied Michael during clinical visits in Sri Lanka where she has conducted art and drawing classes for children displaced by the tsunami. Visit Jen's Myspace page here.
Kate Rose is a Trager® Movement Education Instructor, teaching the Trager® Core Curriculum Trainings internationally. She has been a Certified Trager® Practitioner for over 19 years and has practiced Holistic Healing for over 30 years.Her work focuses on the structure of feeling as it effects movement and healing, and the dynamics of psychophysical integration as applied through The Trager Approach.
After living four years in Italy , Kate has returned to the US and is presently focused on working to stop the Genocide in Darfur. She is a founding member of the Michigan Darfur Coalition, and has created the project "One At A Time ", Lost Children of Sudan /Going Home, for the Lost Boys of Sudan in Lansing, Michigan.
She hopes through Bodyworkers Without Borders /Team Whole Health to take her passion and skills to Africa to work to expand the use and application of the Trager® Approach as an adjunct to traditional Physical Therapy, both in training therapists and offering programs for community education; for treatment of individuals suffering from the effects of war, integrating healing for the mind, body, emotions and spirit.
Her focus is on the fluidity of the mind body systems. By learning to feel the equilibrium throughout the system, connecting our self awareness through conscious feeling and rediscovering our natural balance, we learn ways to develop and support the synergy of structure and flluidity, Through this gentle approach we find the tranquil still point and from that place the movement and freedom that is integral to our beings; and with that the discovery of its continually expanding nature and our vast potential for freedom and effortlessness.
Her teaching is a joyful experience, full of freedom and emphasizing trust and the rediscovery of the natural wisdom, of our mind body being. Her ability to understand how each individual learns and her complete faith in each persons ability to, at their own pace, discover themselves in an ever deeper way, along with her patience and humor, create a dynamic learning and healing environment of self discovery.
Kate speaks and teaches in English and Italian, trained for 20 years as a classical ballet dancer, loves music, gardening and animals. She has taught TRAGER in Italy, Scotland, England, the Nederlands, Egypt, Israel and the US. She is presently living in a small cottage in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her dog Angel.
Bios Coming Soon:
Anthony Di Girolamo, LMT, Certified Rolfer
Michael Hillenbrand DC,
Stephani-Lila Murdoch, CTP, CST
Beth Cole, CMT, LAc
.
Michael Lear - has been a longtime Trager® Movement Educator, Vipassana meditator and is a Yoga Alliance 500hr. Registered Yoga Instructor. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and International Management. He founded BWWB after his first trip to South East Asia in 1998, in particular Cambodia, where he felt compelled to introduce The Trager Approach to help mine victims suffering from acute psychophysical trauma and children with polio. Click here to read "The Cambodian Trager Fund" article that laid the ground work for BWWB.
After the 2004 Tsunami he traveled to Sri Lanka to aid in the recovery of those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress related pain. Since then he's returned an additional two times to train physical therapists at Navajeevana Rehabilitation Center in Tangalle and members of the UK based Physical therapy group, Motivation.org in The Trager Approach to address PTS pain, chronic muscle pain and spasticity, and Cerebral Palsy.
As a advocate for the works of Victoria Boutenko and Drs. Weston Price and Gabriel Cousens, (in particular raw organics) Michael's passion for "food as medicine"is a large part of his message. Recognizing the lure of and negative impact of the western diet on generational health, he, hopes to reeducated local health professionals on the benefits of eating an organic whole foods diet, raw when possible, and the importance this holds for the long term health of local communities.
Click Here for a more complete profile
Jennifer Stickel is a Certified Raw Living Foods Chef, artist/Painter and a organic gardener. She is also an advanced Ashtanga Yoga practitioner. She is committed to sharing her knowledge about the healing power of whole living foods. Jennifer has accompanied Michael during clinical visits in Sri Lanka where she has conducted art and drawing classes for children displaced by the tsunami. Visit Jen's Myspace page here.
Kate Rose is a Trager® Movement Education Instructor, teaching the Trager® Core Curriculum Trainings internationally. She has been a Certified Trager® Practitioner for over 19 years and has practiced Holistic Healing for over 30 years.Her work focuses on the structure of feeling as it effects movement and healing, and the dynamics of psychophysical integration as applied through The Trager Approach.
After living four years in Italy , Kate has returned to the US and is presently focused on working to stop the Genocide in Darfur. She is a founding member of the Michigan Darfur Coalition, and has created the project "One At A Time ", Lost Children of Sudan /Going Home, for the Lost Boys of Sudan in Lansing, Michigan.
She hopes through Bodyworkers Without Borders /Team Whole Health to take her passion and skills to Africa to work to expand the use and application of the Trager® Approach as an adjunct to traditional Physical Therapy, both in training therapists and offering programs for community education; for treatment of individuals suffering from the effects of war, integrating healing for the mind, body, emotions and spirit.
Her focus is on the fluidity of the mind body systems. By learning to feel the equilibrium throughout the system, connecting our self awareness through conscious feeling and rediscovering our natural balance, we learn ways to develop and support the synergy of structure and flluidity, Through this gentle approach we find the tranquil still point and from that place the movement and freedom that is integral to our beings; and with that the discovery of its continually expanding nature and our vast potential for freedom and effortlessness.
Her teaching is a joyful experience, full of freedom and emphasizing trust and the rediscovery of the natural wisdom, of our mind body being. Her ability to understand how each individual learns and her complete faith in each persons ability to, at their own pace, discover themselves in an ever deeper way, along with her patience and humor, create a dynamic learning and healing environment of self discovery.
Kate speaks and teaches in English and Italian, trained for 20 years as a classical ballet dancer, loves music, gardening and animals. She has taught TRAGER in Italy, Scotland, England, the Nederlands, Egypt, Israel and the US. She is presently living in a small cottage in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her dog Angel.
Bios Coming Soon:
Anthony Di Girolamo, LMT, Certified Rolfer
Michael Hillenbrand DC,
Stephani-Lila Murdoch, CTP, CST
Beth Cole, CMT, LAc
.