Meet Our Faculty

Tele Darden

Teacher, Modules 1 - 7
website

Tele Darden (she/her) is a bodyworker, teacher and coach who guides visionary healers as they become more empowered and embodied forces for change in the world. In practice since 2007, she offers her wide range of skills and experience in somatic and intuitive healing to create deep and nourishing containers of transformation for her clients, both in the US and internationally.

Tele lives with her husband, teenager, and pets, including Pickle the ball python on traditional Susquehannock, Nentego (Nanticoke) & Piscataway lands in Maryland.

Joseph Ulysse Saine (pronoun fluid) is a Therapeutic Bodyworker and Somatic Practitioner dedicated to intercultural Earth stewardship and the regeneration of symbiotic relationships between humans and nature. With over twenty years of experience, Joseph brings a unique cross-disciplinary approach to healing rooted in the synergy of Biodynamic, Structural, Somatic & Vitalistic ways of understanding.

Joseph Ulysse Saine

Teacher, Modules 1 - 7
LMT, RCST® website

Based in the mountains of the A:shiwi (Zuni) and Diné (Navajo) peoples in northern New Mexico, Joseph is committed to supporting marginalized communities metabolizing complex intergenerational and developmental trauma. His primary efforts are in collaboration with rural Queer communities in the western US and Indigenous communities in the Great Basin.

Joseph comes from a mixed heritage of Lebanese-Armenian, French-Canadian, Scottish-American, Christian Mystical, and Faery Folkloric cultural traditions. He descends from two generations of Vitalistic and Naturopathic Practitioners and spent his early life immersed in the healing power of nature.

Joseph's private practice serves adults and children seeking transformation of personal and collective patterns. He is regularly available in Albuquerque, NM, Seattle, WA, and online via remote session. Please visit his website for more information.

Kimberly Clark

Teacher, Modules 1 - 7, and Developmental Primary Reflexes
OTR/L, RCST® , website

Kimberly Clark (she/her) graduated from the University of New England in 1992 with a Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy. While working as an OT at Brighton Medical Center, she completed a certified training program in Massage and Polarity Therapy in 1994. She began her private practice in Southern Maine to better address her patients’ needs for skilled manual therapies for pain relief and an improved quality of life.

Kimberly has received advanced training in manual techniques including Myofascial Release, Neuromuscular Re-education, and she is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist® as well as a MNRI® Core Specialist and former Instructor with the Svetlana Masgutova Educational Institute. Her AlchAlmt classes serve the Primary Reflex professional community.

Brigit (pronoun fluid), an advanced bodyworker, is the creator of the training program Alchemical Alignment. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and Board Certified Massage Therapist. She has undergrad and graduate degrees from Georgetown University. Brigit has had a successful private bodywork/somatics practice in the Washington, DC/Piscataway/Nacotchtank area since 1996. She is a life-partner, stepmother, mother, and grandmother as well.

Brigit (Brigita) is a first-generation Latvian American, from a lineage rich with healers, midwives, authors, and teachers. Her parents and all childhood community adults fled their homeland during WWII, becoming refugee immigrant children under bombs and in Displaced Person's camps, on their way to the USA. She regularly travels to post-Soviet Latvia to relate to the land, eat traditional foods, steep in the wisdom, arts and crafts of her ancestors, and also share her skills.

Brigit Viksnins

Founder, Teacher of Modules 8 - 14
MAT, SEP, RCST®, BCTMB, LMT

Brigit created a full body movement meditation -- latest video recorded in the forest in Latvia -- called The Alignment Sequence™, with permission based on movements from Aikido, Qi Gong, and bodywork stretching. It is helpful for people who want to move beyond old patterns into their Original and Potential Blueprints, and cultivate self-regulation, resilience, presence, and power.

Brigit taught Massage Therapy at PMTI in the 90's, is a few hours away from being an association-approved Biodynamic Craniosacral (BCST) teacher (well, tbh, it has been a decade and hasn't reached the top of the list yet), has assisted Somatic Experiencing (SE) trainings, and Body Into Being.

Since 2013, her devotion has been to Alchemical Alignment: Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit (see course feedback here). After facilitating fifteen cohorts of the First Year of the Alchemical Alignment program, Brigit now teaches the Second Year, the Death and Birth Modules.

Brigit values continuing education highly, and not only teaches, but also participates regularly in short or in-depth training programs as a student or an assistant. Recently those include programs by Ray Castellino and Anna Chitty (Body Into Being: PPN/BCST/SE/Polarity), Katherine Ukleja (post-grad BCST), Kain and Terrell (TST), Barral and Crobier (Neuromeningeal 1-5 and Visceral Osteopathic), Boxhall (BCST), van der Wal (Embryology), Upledger (CST), Barnes (MFR), Wanveer (Glia), Degranges (PPN/BCST/SE), Taussig (Distance Osteopathic), Bosbach Largent (Family Constellations Foundation, Norse Vala, Ancestral Mediumship), Esterman (Shadow Constellations), Eini (Karmic Constellations), Blackwell (Cosmic, Dark and Light Constellations), Bergstrom (Depo, Curse Unraveling), as well as regular ASD morning class Aikido training starting in 1991. Here is a list of some classes that have influenced her worldview.

To reach Brigit's very limited private practice calendar, schedule here if you are a practitioner interested in the program: 1 session, 3 sessions. For non-practitioners, not interested in the program, schedule here: 1 session, 3 sessions. Or you can work with Brigit in a small group setting through their newest offering, Alchemical Constellations.