Maria Holm
Website
https://www.mariaholmmovement.com/
About
Maria Holm,
GYROTONIC Master Trainer
GYROKINESIS Master Trainer
Maria is a native of Sweden where she received her BFA in Dance, Dance Education and Fine Arts from The Swedish University College of Dance, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1986. Two time recipient of the Swedish Carina Ari Award and twice awarded Carina Ari's Honorary stay in Paris, France. She has performed and taught extensively as a professional dancer and teacher in Sweden, throughout Europe and the US for over three decades.
Living and working in New York City, she has been on faculty at ABT’s annual Collegiate and Summer Intensive courses, since 2005.
She started her own exploration of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM at the system’s creator, Juliu Horwath’s White Cloud Studio, in New York City, in 1994, and have continued ever since.
She teaches a wide range of clients, is a very experienced Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and Specialized Equipment Instructor. She was named Gyrotonic Pre-Trainer in 2003, and is a Gyrokinesis and Gyrotonic Master Trainer.
Owner, Educator and Senior Instructor of Movement Beyond, since 2011. Maria has been working with SMT Young-ah Kim and Movement Beyond since it’s foundation in 2002.
Maria is a Certified Level 2 Reiki Practitioner since 1994 and teaches Ballet technique class.
Interested in the body in motion for over thirty years, she works towards Body/Mind Awareness with a detailed understanding of the process, to achieve a fluid, kinetic body, which moves through space with functionality, strength, breath, and ease.