Nuria Bowart

Nuria Bowart is a student, practitioner, and teacher of multiple artistic and therapeutic disciplines involving the human body in motion. She has been involved with movement disciplines since childhood. Nuria holds a degree in performance studies from Bryn Mawr College and has toured internationally as a performer of dance, music, and physical theater. Nuria is a Certified Teacher and a certifier of teachers in the Axis Syllabus International Research Network, which investigates and compiles theoretical and practical research from the cross disciplinary study of human movement. She has taught contemporary dance, contact improvisation, and movement art through the lens of the Axis Syllabus in the US and Europe. She has been working in private practice as a Rolfer (a type of manual therapy focusing on fascia) since 1997 and has taught functional anatomy nationally and internationally, having studied with leaders in the fields of fascial research and bodywork. Nuria has also been a practitioner of Capoeira for over twenty years, having studied under the close tutelage of some of this generation’s most renowned masters of the Afro-Brazilian art form, which involves martial, musical, dance, and ritual aspects. In 2015 Nuria graduated to the rank of Contramestra with the United Capoeira Association. Nuria’s work is deeply informed and guided by her long standing spiritual practices as a dancer, mother of two, and student of traditional tantric hatha yoga. She currently resides in the SF Bay Area, California, working with clients and students in-person and online. She is developing a vision for a center for movement that celebrates culture, nature and health.