Paula Sager

**Paula Sager** is a teacher of embodied and contemplative practices and founder of [Three Stone Studio](https://www.threestonestudio.org/) where she teaches the Discipline of Authentic Movement and Contemplative Inquiry. She also teaches at Voice Body Mind Healing Collaborative in Providence, Rhode Island, and is a faculty member of Circles of Four, an international post-graduate program designed to prepare teachers of the Discipline of Authentic Movement.    She was introduced to the Discipline of Authentic Movement in 1990 and began in-depth study with founder, Janet Adler, in 1994.  She has a degree in Dance from Bennington College and a graduate degree from the Barfield School at Sunbridge College, where her research with thesis mentors Janet Adler and Arthur Zajonc focused on the development of the inner witness. She has presented at conferences for the American Dance Therapy Association, Body-Mind Centering Association, and the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education. Paula became certified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1989.   Paula co-founded _A Moving Journal_, a print publication devoted to Authentic Movement, serving as editor and writer from 1994 to 2006. Her essays and interviews have appeared in the _Valley Advocate_, _A Moving Journal_, _Contact Quarterly_, _Journal for Authentic Movement and Somatic Inquiry, _and_ Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices_. She is co-author with Lizbeth Hamlin of _Red Thread, Two Women_, published by Pacific Editions (2006).