Ka Rustler creates, performs and shares her research and teachings in an international circuit. Working with pioneers in the field of Contact Improvisation, theatre and dance she has been a collective member of Tanzfabrik Berlin, co-author of multi – layered productions and performs with numerous artists framing social and ecological contexts theoretically situated within feminist understandings of embodied subjectivity. As a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner & Teacher for over three decades, her work experience includes somatic psychotherapy, applications and methods derived from BMC® and other somatic practices and their relevance at the interface of performance-neuroscience –somatics. She is a member of Cranky Bodies a/company testing non-hierarchical and cross-generational collaboration in an international collective and continuous work practice, co -founder of the Authentic Movement Research Group Unwinding the Body and of C.A.R.E. an education program for teachers and therapists to support babies, children and adolescents in their developmental process. Living next to the forest, neighboring a farrowing brook, she is married, mother of two children, stewarding a permaculture garden with newts, violet carpenter bees as well as edible treasures and (potent smoothie) weeds.

Significant teachers

Nancy Stark Smith, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen