About Amelia Windecker


July 5th, 2008

Most of my life I have been pursuing knowledge of how our bodies work, how we process information and the rich life we can discover and develop through deepening this understanding. I am an artist, a traveler, a northwest native and have a deep connection with nature. I have studied in New Jersey, Massachusetts, The Netherlands and most recently here in Seattle, San Francisco and Victoria BC.

I feel very strongly that reconnecting people with their bodies is a powerful source of healing and growth. The through-line of my life-long studies has always involved an element of the body. I come to bodywork from the areas performance and movement.  From that I bring, a great deal of information and knowledge. I have encountered many teachers and methods of exploration. In the last 17 years my studies, both brief and extensive, have included:

  • Hellerwork Northwest: training and certification
  • Sundust Oracle Institute: 3 Year training: Char Sundust
  • Brenneke School of Massage:
    • Swedish Massage techniques
    • injury treatment
    • Elective exploration:
      • Autogenics
      • Craniosacral Therapy
      • Cadaver Lab
      • Visceral manipulation
      • Structural analysis
      • Myofascial Release Technique
      • MFR as it is used in Hellerwork (lower and upper body)
with Maureen Warren
  • BFA in Acting, Emerson College
    • Program developed by Kristen Linklater: Freeing the Natural Voice (book)
    • Mastering where and how vibration exists in the body and how to access emotion and connection with breath and voice
  • teaching modern dance: youth and adults
  • 3 Years of performance study with Deborah Hay: My Body the Buddhist (book)
    • Meditation
    • Movement
    • Performance
    • Administration/Organization of 3 intensives (international participants, fully hosted)
  • group/personal study with Don & Diane St. John:
Paths of Connection – Somatic Re-Sourcing
    • Anatomy and Function of: nervous system (autonomic), brain, heart
    • Neuroplasticity
    • Self Awareness
    • Communicating while maintaining self
  • A collage of experience with movement techniques including:
    • Pilates
    • Ballet
    • Yoga
    • Continuum
    • Body-Mind Centering
    • Alexander
    • Graham
    • Cunningham
    • Feldenkrais
    • Zen Imagery
    • Authentic Movement – Witnessing
    • Guided Meditation (body and mind focus)
    • Martial Arts: Qi Gong, Capoeira, Kung Fu, Tai Chi
    • Weight Sharing/Contact Improvisation (understanding gravity and lever)
    • Aerial Dance performance and teaching (gravity and traction)