A kinesthetic learner myself, I have always known intuitively that requiring children to sit still and listen isn’t always the best way to learn. I’ve been drawn to movement-based learning approaches since I was a teenager working in Barcelona’s acclaimed public daycare system, which followed Emmi Pikler’s free movement philosophy. Since then I’ve graduated with an MA in museum education, published two books on teaching art history through movement, run my own school in Barcelona, and taught movement at some of the top traditional schools in New York City.
Drawn to Waldorf pedagogy, I trained at the Sunbridge Institute and became a lead early childhood teacher at Rudolf Streiner, also in New York City. At Steiner, I started a sensory integration and movement program for early childhood and elementary children. I focus on preventative work with the children, their families and teachers. Currently, I continue at Steiner and other schools as a consultant while working with the Simplicity Parenting team as their sensory integration movement specialist, where I draw on my background in early childhood Waldorf education, dance education, psychomotricity and neuromotricity, mindfulness, yoga, and recent research in neuromotor development.
I have trained and mentored teachers in movement-based learning techniques in the US, Europe, South Africa and Indonesia.