Michelle Cohen-Cote, MA, RSMT/E, brings to the fields of health and wellness her belief and passion in the power of movement, somatic awareness, and transformational coaching for enhancing wellbeing and embodiment. She is a registered somatic movement therapist/educator, dancer, and Sacred Depths Coach. Michelle has been a thought leader in the movement world since 1998. She has certifications in Pilates, Yoga, and Gyrotonic®, Body-Mind Dancing™, Dynamic Embodiment™, and Embodied Yoga and Body-Mind Centering®. She has a Master’s in Dance and Somatic Wellbeing. Michelle is currently training to become an Infant Developmental Movement Educator through the school of Body-Mind Centering® to further her work with babies and prenatal, postpartum and menopausal clients. Michelle has a very diverse private practice working with children through seniors in both virtual and in-person settings and also offers transformational coaching for clients looking to change a life situation and achieve their goals through a step-by-step mind-body approach.

Michele Minnick (Ph.D., C.M.A.), is an artist, educator, researcher, and somatic movement therapist, dedicated to wellness in all its complex forms and rich meanings. These include: a resilient connection to body, earth, and spirit, engagement in community, the ability to perceive and transform unjust systems and practices, and the creation of a healthful culture for all. She has worked for 25 years as a theatre and performance artist and educator, specializing in The Performance Workshop and Rasaboxes originated by Richard Schechner. She has co-authored and edited a book on this work, Inside the Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises, to be released by Routledge in May 2023. She has integrated LMA, BF, and BMC into her teaching of movement for actors, performance art, the training of numerous ensembles for productions, in her work as a teaching artist with Arts for Learning Maryland, and in classes and certification programs in LBMA in the U.S. and Brazil. Michele is a core creator with Submersive Productions in Baltimore, where she lives.. She has been training in somatic abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem, Carlin Quinn and others since 2021. Currently, she is developing her private practice, The Vital Body, as she completes the Dynamic Embodiment program with Martha Eddy. Michele uses the tools of theatre, performance studies, and somatic movement education in social contexts with Vital Matters, an initiative she started in 2022 to address issues of climate change, environmental racism, and related challenges through an interdisciplinary, collaborative, arts-based process. 

You learn about some of her work here: https://bakerartist.org/be-part-of-the-art/curated-collections/michele-minnick-0