Carol Swann (RSMT/RSME, AmSAT) is a teacher, private practitioner, facilitator, director/co-founder, performer and activist. Her work is focused on contributing toward a more socially just and inter-connected world. She has been teaching and performing Somatic based work for thirty-five years in the U.S., Latin America, Russia, Israel and Europe. Her work is deeply influenced by her parents Bob & Marj Swann, Contact Improvisation, Release Technique, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Andre Bernard, Process Work (Arnold Mindell), Body-Mind Centering (tm), Theater of the Oppressed, Hakomi Body- Psychotherapy, Roy Hart Theatre, Ruth Zapora, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Balkan Singing and numerous other artists, art forms, nature and liberatory politics.