Constance Clare-Newman

Over 30 years of teaching embodiment, Constance Clare-Newman has developed a trauma-sensitive, neuroscience-informed, ecological approach to embodiment practices that focus on wholeness of being within the natural world. She has been studying and teaching movement practices her whole life, as a horse trainer, as a modern dancer and as an Alexander Technique teacher since 2001. She is a co-founder of Desert Movement Arts, an intergenerational collective based in Coachella Valley, CA. Constance has taught in performing arts departments of Academy of Art University, University of Redlands, and ACT in San Francisco. Constance is especially interested in transcending familiar movement vocabularies and engaging in deeper presence and flow of somatic and nature explorations. Her teaching is grounded in her own deep study of embodiment practices, dance, improvisation, meditation, breathwork, trauma work, contemplative traditions, deep ecology, social justice and addiction recovery.