Marina Tsartsara is a Dance and Visual Artist & educator (MSc), a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher in the official Body-Mind Centering® trainings in the UK, Spain & Greece. She is also the Administrative Director of the Greek BMC® program ISTOS. Since 2014 she has been researching and developing 'Somatic Art Practice', an transdisciplinary practice that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the two branches of Mindfulness & Drawing and BMC® & Visual Artmaking. Her BA (Hons) and MSc studies are on 'Dance & Visual Art' and 'Screendance' (Videodance). Her MPhil is on Performance Autoethnography researching on the subject of the personal experience of genetic/chronic physical illness via dance and visual arts (Medical Humanities). She is a Somatic Therapist, Mindfulness teacher and a Hakomi student. Main influences in her teaching come from dear teachers like: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Curious, Charlie Morrissey, Julyen Hamilton, Deborah Hay, Miranda Tufnell, Rosemary Butcher, Kirstie Simson, Liz Aggiss among others. https://www.somaticwellbeing.info/