Dr. Krista Sattler
Archives: Directory of Leaders
Hannah Rausch
Christine Rainer
From 1986 to 1989, I studied the Feldenkrais Method with Ned Dwelle and Eutony with Marianne Kjellrupp in Munich. In 1990, I joined a study group with Charlotte Selver at Green Gulch Farm in California. Since then, the practices of Sensory Awareness and Zen have been at the heart of my personal and professional path.
My principal teachers in Sensory Awareness have been Charlotte Selver and Peggy Zeitler. Along the way, I have also been deeply influenced by Anna Tardos, Vanja Palmers, and Brother David Steindl-Rast.
My husband, Hans, and I have four adult children and are the grandparents of three grandchildren.
In addition to Sensory Awareness, I worked as a Pikler trainer for more than 30 years, accompanying professionals in developing a respectful and attentive approach to young children. Today, I offer Sensory Awareness seminars and individual sessions for people from all walks of life. I also teach in the Pikler® training program and in the Gestalt training program in Vienna.
Misty Hannah
Misty feels Sensory Awareness as a living practice. She is the founder/director of Compassionate Accompaniment CIC, a not for profit helping individuals and communities create compassionate care practices through Sensory Awareness and somatic movement. She is a qualified, registered, insured Somatic Movement Educator and Qi Gong/Taiji practitioner. She holds a Masters Degree in Dance and Somatic Well Being from University of Central Lancashire and is a registered professional member of ISMETA. Misty is a Sensory Awareness Leader and an End of Life Companion with a focus on grief support.
Peter Honerlage
I have been practicing Sensing since 1987 and for some years I have been a leader and I regularly give face-to-face and zoom workshops. Sensing has changed my life.
Mariela Valdez
Logo-therapist. Sensory Awareness practitioner since 1998. Student of Charlotte Selver and Lee Klinger Lesser. I found this practice full of opportunities of exploring who I am and how do I respond to what each moment is asking, and the most important discovery, where I am responding from. Offering this rich soil with others is something that I deeply honor and bow to.
Michael Richter
Michael Richter MA is an artist, teacher, community builder, coach/mentor, performer and researcher who helps individuals and organizations learn and grow via creative process and Sensory Awareness. He has developed and currently teaches in multiple online dance and somatic certification courses, including the Curriculum in Motion® Institute at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Language of Dance® Master Practitioner in motif notation, the Dancing Reading Online Group, and the Selver Awareness Leaders Training Institute. Michael also volunteers on the Board of the Sensory Awareness Leaders’ Guild.
Maria Antonieta Osornio Ramirez
She is a Humanistic Psychotherapist and has been a practitioner of Sensory Awareness since 1996. She was a student of Charlotte Selver and Lee Lesser, who trained her as a leader. For many years, she has offered workshops and classes, including work with a group of people with disabilities at the foundation she founded in 1991 (FHADI). She integrates this practice into her psychotherapeutic sessions as well as into her personal life, considering it her main support.
“For me, Sensory Awareness is presence—the ability to savor each moment just as it presents itself, embracing that everything is exactly as it is…”
Mercedes Lopez
Mercedes Lopez lives in Mexico City. She attended classes with Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks on a regular basis since 1979 until they passed away. Mercedes has a Master’s degree in Psychology and has incorporated the practice of Sensory Awareness, as well as the studies on Buddhism that she has done for the past 10 years, into the model that she uses in her courses and her private practice.
Fanny Morell
She is a painter, sculptor, and writer. She taught Sculpture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for 30 years. In 1981, she met Charlotte Selver in Barra de Navidad and continued working with her until 2001. She later worked with Lee Klinger Lesser and subsequently joined Sensory Awareness Foundation as a Sensory Awareness leader. She has led workshops in Barra de Navidad for 12 years, as well as in Querétaro, Valle de Bravo, other locations in Mexico, and in Panama City. She also participated in workshops organized by Ray Fowler in Querétaro and at Rancho 7.