Debora Pereira Bolsanello, M.A.

Debora Bolsanello has studied with the founders of CERA – Center of Research on Antigymnastics1 (Montreal, Canada), with the instructors of the Centre Pilates of Montreal as well as with different somatic education teachers in Brazil and Canada: Angel Viana, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Eutonie, Table Gymnastics, Somarythms, Continuum, and Holistic Gymnastics.

Debora Bolsanello holds a BAC in anthropology (University of Montreal) where she has researched the role of culture in health. She also has a degree in specialized superior studies in Somatic education, where she increased her knowledge in alternative approaches in the reeducation of movement. Debora Bolsanello holds a master (UQAM) where she researched the application of somatic education with drug addicts in treatment.

Debora is Brazilian and lives in Canada. She has worked as a somatic educator in Brazil, Canada, and Peru in different women centers, within institutions devoted to drug addiction and in hospitals with cancer and aids patients. She is now involved in the dissemination of somatic education in an academic context among physiotherapists. She teaches "Anthropology of the contemporary body" and "Introduction to Somatic education" at Pestalozzi University, Rio de Janeiro. She is the director of the Technical Training on Somatic Education in Rio de Janeiro (Centro Integrado de Reabilitação) and Nova Friburgo (Bio Ritmo).

1  The pillars of the Antigymnastics method were established in Paris in the 70’s by the French physiotherapist Thérèse Bertherat.