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Peggy Zeitler
She is a U.S. American who studied Indology and has lived in Munich since 1967. Her background includes Gestalt therapy and Sensory Awareness, and she maintains a private practice for Sensory Awareness. She is associated with the Peggy Zeitler Publishing House, a founding member and board member of Wege der Entfaltung e.V., a founding member of Pikler Verband Europa e.V., and serves as a Pikler advisor.
Helga Wolf
Sascha Rimasch
I came to Charlotte Selver by chance in 1996. With Charlotte, I found what I had always been missing, and this is what I try to pass on. Over time, a number of people have gathered around me who have been working with me for many years. It is beneficial for all of us, and if you would like to join us, you are very welcome. We also work by phone, so anyone can participate from anywhere.
Norbert Erez Lyonn
Leonore Quest
She began her work with Ilse Middendorf through formal training and many years of assisting. This breathwork, together with the subsequent years of study with Frieda Goralewski and Charlotte Selver—both in the lineage of Elsa Gindler—has shaped her life path. From 1970 onward, she taught courses initially in Berlin at the Max Reinhardt School, the Fritz Kirchhoff Acting School, and at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (later Lehniner Platz). She worked for many years at the Goralewski Institute and in the psychosomatic department of the Brandenburg Clinic in Bernau. She is currently in private practice. Since 2003, she has been offering weekly classes at the Bewegungsraum am Lietzensee in Berlin, as well as longer workshops together with Thomas Niering.
Thomas Niering
Based in Berlin since 1970, he worked as a lawyer until 1985. From 1983 to 1985, he trained with Gindler teacher Frieda Goralewski and Michel Benjamin, and participated in study groups with Sophie Ludwig. From 1988 to 1996, he studied with Charlotte Selver in Sensory Awareness, as well as with Charles Brooks, Seymour Carter, Ruth Veselko, and Marianne Haag. He also pursued further training in Gestalt therapy.
Since 1985, he has worked in private practice, and since 2003 together with Leonore Quest at Bewegungsraum am Lietzensee in Berlin. From 1986 to 1999, he worked as a trainer at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, and until 2017 as a lecturer in Camera Acting and at the Berlin Film Acting School. He is currently also teaching at various adult education centers (Volkshochschulen) in Berlin.
Elisabeth Lenzen
She is a licensed practitioner for body-oriented psychotherapy (HPG) and a certified physical education teacher. The central focus of her many years of professional work is the question of movement as an art that supports personal development, healing, and the maintenance of health. Her work is grounded in the integration of diverse movement- and mindfulness-based approaches, including Feldenkrais, Eutony, Dance Therapy, Initiatory Therapy, Zen Buddhism, Sufism (Pir Zia), and the work of teachers who have been particularly influential to her: Peter Loomans (Personal Bodywork), Dr. H. Heinl (Integrative Body- and Movement Therapy / Thymopractice), I. Koch-Lauscher (Breathwork according to Middendorf & Vening), Seymour Carter (Sensory Awareness), S. Harper (Continuum Movement), Ute Strub (Hengstenberg-Pikler Work), H. Petzold (Gestalt and Integrative Therapy), R. C. Schwartz / S. McConnell (Somatic IFS), among others.