School Of Experiential Learning

Assistants & Collaborators

Isabella Shirley Miller has been working with Rosalyn since 2010 as a student, then assisting her on community workshop projects with Daisy Martinez, and in teaching Body-Mind Centering at Dartington College of Arts and then Falmouth University. Isabella is a an artist, singer song writer and performs ceremony. She also works as a free lance teacher with children and adults and she is a Practitioner in Voice Movement Integration and Shiatsu Massage. Isabella is returning to SOEL this Autumn as the principle teaching assistant on the two year course Holistic Studies in Human Anatomy 2023-2025.

Tallula Bentley has been working with Rosalyn since 2018 and graduated on the SOEL course Holistic Studies in Human Anatomy in 2021. As a learning facilitator in support of alternative education provision Tallula values whole person learning and reflective practicum through rhythm, locality and imaginal practices. She offers creative mentorship with individual and group council, exploring ways of knowing through somatic movement and first person inquiry. Tallula's research and artistic endeavours seek to represent the visceral body in theory and creative practice, questioning how renewed attention to the human (and specifically female) body in philosophy, politics, literature and psychosocial studies has paved the way for a rethinking of motherhood, disability, sexuality and death beyond biological categories.  Tallula seeks to foster a sensibility to the bodily arts, inspired by an Authentic movement practice and training in Experiential Anatomy. 

Vimmi Vatish has been attending workshops with Rosalyn since 2011. She specialises as a deep tissue massage therapist in myofascial release, has a degree in English Literature and lives in Buckfastleigh with her children. Vimmi has completed a Diploma in education and training and is teaching ESOL (English to speakers of other languages), working mostly with refugees. She previously worked as a teaching assistant at Bidwell Brook Special Education School in South Devon, has been practicing yoga for over twenty years and enjoys contact improvisation. www.mfrmassageindevon.com

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Vivian Winterhoff  has been working with Rosalyn since 2016. She came to England from Germany to study Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and lived in London for over a decade. She dabbled in Applied Environmental Economics and finally – burnt out from city living - completed a MA Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College in Devon. This is where she first met Rosalyn in 2015 and was exposed to the wonder-full world of Somatics. Some of her sensorial journey from that time is described in her Masters dissertation “For the love of wood, for the love of life: The story of a re-awakened ecological consciousness through an awareness of the vernacular”. Her work makes the case for how to design regenerative, living economies that touch and move human bodies in wholesome ways.
Though a European in her bones (she grew up in Germany), she followed the call of the forests and clear mountain streams to her birthplace in New Hampshire, USA, where she now practices Body Mind Centering, Sensory Awareness and Gindler-inspired experiences of the human body as nature. She also runs online programs such as the Joyful Breaks membership which give busy entrepreneurs (and others) a chance to make space and time for peace and calm in the middle of their workdays by learning to cultivate Somatic practices of slowing down, and making space to listen to the wisdom of their own bodies. www.joyinmovement.org

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Joni Prescott has been working with Rosalyn since 2010 assisting her at university and in Body-Mind Centering® workshops. She is a student of Authentic Movement working regularly with Fran Lavendel and lives with her husband and two children in Lochgoilhead, Argyll where she recently set up an arts organisation which helps to promote arts and cultural activities within rural areas. She is currently training to be a yoga instructor with Seasonal Yoga Glasgow and you can often find her running up the mountains that surround her home to practice Yoga and Authentic Movement.

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Tom Towey started working with Ros in 2015. He lives in Buckfastleigh in Devon with his partner Kate and their 3 children (2 have left home). He qualified in Bothmer movement (aka Spatial Dynamics) in 2009 and he has been a games and movement teacher in the London and South Devon Steiner schools for over 15 years. At present he teaches games and movement (and maths) as part of a Steiner style home school set up with his partner Kate. The somatics work with Ros has really helped and informed his movement work with the children as well as his own journey of healing accident trauma. More recently he has found Dance and is about to start a Moving Together community dance practitioner training with Leela Fisk.

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Cassie Osborne has been studying and working with Rosalyn Maynard since 2008 when she began exploring Somatics and Authentic movement. Fascinated by the connection between body-mind and intentional habitual movements led Cassie to became a regular assistant of Rosalyn Maynard at SOEL, as well as a certified Shiatsu practitioner. In 2010 Cassie graduated with a BA from Dartington Colleague of Arts where she deepened her exploration into Creative Performance and Movement Art. She continues to follow her passion for dance and singing in her community, and is part of a local jazz duo and band. Cassie loves the outdoors and spends much of her spare time hiking, swimming, growing herbs, and soft fruits on her small holding near Ashburton with her Partner Jacob. Since 2020 she has run the Sound Art holiday club for children at Dartington Hall.