Giselle Sato
Archives: Directory of Leaders
Fernando Gil Montañez
He is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism in the Karma Kagyu lineage, having taken refuge in 1989. He is the creator of the MAD meditation courses and regularly facilitates Sensory Awareness classes and seminars. He leads summer retreats designed to reconnect with what is present in our lives and to create a space for regeneration, combining Sensory Awareness, meditation, and yoga as skillful means of returning to oneself. He is a kinesiologist and osteopath, which gives him a deep understanding of bodily processes and allows him to bring embodied presence into his teaching.
Elisenda Vila
I am a psychologist and psychotherapist, trained at the Erich Fromm Institute in Barcelona, and trained in Sensory Awareness with Krista Sattler. I accompany people in finding their path of awareness and their inner space of freedom—and whenever possible, I play and let my imagination and creativity take flight, creating small jewels.
Àngels Massagué Magriña
I was born in Barcelona in 1957. I hold a degree in Educational Sciences and am currently a Sensory Awareness Leader. I enjoy feeling integrated in nature and listening to and participating in life, learning moment by moment. I have worked with musicians, dance groups, expectant couples, and groups of all ages. I use Sensing as a working methodology in all my groups, including Conscious Gesture, and in the trainings I offer in Pelvis and Birth, Perineum—Integration and Movement, Synovia, and Respiratory Kinetics.
Miren Elisabet Gordoa
Llegué al Sensory Awareness cuando me encontraba en un estado muy delicado de salud, y esta práctica supuso un gran cambio para mí. Estar presente en mi enfermedad y la escucha a mi cuerpo y a mi ser fue el punto de partida para la recuperación. Soy líder en consciencia sensorial, músico, musicoterapeuta y profesora de guitarra experimental. En todas las actividades que ofrezco la consciencia sensorial está presente y el lugar de partida son la presencia y la escucha a uno mismo.
Miren Salmerón
I hold a degree in Physiotherapy (license no. 148) and am a certified osteopath (D.O.), with over 20 years of experience in private practice, specializing in pediatric and obstetric osteopathy. I am a member of the Sensory Awareness Leaders Guild and a student of Lee Klinger Lesser.
Olga Requena
Trained as a massage therapist and psychocorporal therapist, I encountered the work of Elsa Gindler and Charlotte Selver in the early 1990s through a book by Charles Brooks. In 2009, I began facilitating groups in conscious body practice, including Muscle Chain Stretching and Work with Bodily Potential. I connected with the practice of Sensory Awareness through Lee Klinger Lesser, whom I consider my teacher, continuing to explore how to live as a truly human being. It is an honor to accompany and support others on this path.
Ina Dunkel
She teaches and accompanies processes of body awareness, conscious and creative movement. A dancer, she has had Sensory Awareness present in her life and professional work for over 30 years, becoming an increasingly valuable ally. The deep respect for and trust in the human potential fostered by this practice led her to Authentic Movement and Craniosacral Biodynamics as important elements of her training and professional activity. She is deeply grateful to Lee Klinger Lesser, Krista Sattler, and the entire community of practitioners.
Núria Vives
At the age of seven, I began dancing and later trained as a ballet teacher. I am a pedagogue and psychomotor therapist and worked accompanying children with difficulties. I studied and worked with Blandine Calais-Germain, author of Anatomy of Movement. Together, we co-authored Giving Birth in Movement, which has been translated into eight languages. I offer training in various countries on this subject.
I discovered Sensory Awareness through Charles Brooks. For more than 30 years, together with my teachers Krista Sattler and Lee Klinger Lesser, my life and work have been forever transformed. Together with my husband, Enric Bruguera, I co-direct the Center for Body Pedagogy in Palafrugell.
Enric Bruguera
He began his relationship with this work over 25 years ago, driven by an interest in observing sensations and the perceptual possibilities of the human organism. He offers Sensory Awareness workshops in many cities across Spain and internationally, including the United States, Mexico, Chile, Italy, India, and Argentina. Since 2013, he has organized and directed online Sensory Awareness courses in Spanish. Together with his wife, Núria Vives, he co-directs the L’Eix Center for Body Pedagogy in Palafrugell (Girona). He currently serves as President of the Sensory Awareness Leaders Guild.