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MARGOT
S. BIESTMAN, M.A.
Sausalito, California
Phone: (415) 332-0279 Fax: (415) 332-5588 e-mail margot@breathexperience.com
Margot Biestman is a certified teacher and practitioner of Middendorf Breathexperience"!. She is on the teaching/training staff of THE U.S. MIDDENDORF INSTITUTE FOR BREATHEXPERIENCE"! in Berkeley, California. She also has a private practice in Sausalito and Sonoma, California. She is a founding member and former president of the board of THE BREATH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO (BCSF), a non-profit organization for the advancement of Middendorf Breathwork education. She conducts breath classes, workshops, and retreats, is an author, and has extensive experience in public and private education with people from 3-93. She has also taught classes in Creative Living, which include: writing, art, breath movement, drama, psychology, and group dynamics, has been a presenter at the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapist national conference, and has participated as a breath therapist in a research study at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF for patients with chronic low-back pain.
OBJECTIVE:
TO TEACH MIDDENDORF BREATHWORK THE EXPERIENCE OF BREATH IN TRAINING PROGRAMS, CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, RETREATS, AND INDIVIDUAL HANDS-ON SESSIONS USING BREATH DIALOGUE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
January
2003 to October 2004
BREATH THERAPIST, RESEARCH PROJECT AT OSHER CLINIC FOR INTEGRATIVE
MEDICINE, UCSF,
San Francisco, CA
Member
of teaching/training team from the U.S. Middendorf Breath Institute. Research study
by Wolf-Eberhard Mehling,
M.D. to explore benefits of The Experience of Breath for patients
withchronic low back
pain.
April 1999 to Present
TRAINING AND TEACHING STAFF MEMBER OF THE U.S. MIDDENDORF
BREATH INSTITUTE
July 1995 to Present
TEACHER AND PRACTITIONER OF THE EXPERIENCE OF BREATH
Sausalito, Sonoma, and The Sea Ranch,
CA
Certified teacher and practitioner of Middendorf Breathwork-The Experience
of Breath-in classes,
workshops, retreats, individual hands-on
sessions.
Presentations and Workshops:
Conflict Resolution with Breath: 4
workshops, Sausalito and Sonoma, CA, Hana and Kipahulu, Maui
The Experience of Breath for teachers, parents,
writers, health professionals, counselors, artists,
dancers, somatic therapists:
Sausalito, Gualala,
Sonoma, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland, CA, Ghost Ranch and Santa
Fe, New Mexico; Hana
and Kipahulu, Maui, Hawaii
The Experience of Breath for Massage Therapists,
Freestone, California
School Age Consortium Conference, Los Altos,
CA
April 1985 to Present
AUTHOR
The Experience of Breath:
Exploring
Healing with The Experience of Breath: My Story, U.S. Association of Body
Psychotherpy
Journal, 2002.
What
is the Natural Breath? The Healing Breath: Journal for Of Breathwork
Practice, Psychology,
and Spirituality,
Joy Manné, ed., www.healingbreathjournal.org,
2000
"Breath
Soliloquy Everyday Experiences: Breath and Emotions in Middendorf Breathwork,
Breathline
newsletter, The Breath Center of San Francisco, 1999
What is Sensing? What is Presence? Breathline, newsletter, The Breath Center of San Francisco,
1999
"What is Middendorf Breathwork? Pèrgot Press, 1998
"An
Interview with Ilse Middendorf and Juerg Roffler: The Experience of Breath ,
co-producer of
video, Samuel
Merritt Colleges, Oakland, CA 1997
"Middendorf
Breathwork, The Experience of Breath, co-author with Juerg Roffler, chapter
in a book
of bodywork, to be published by Station Hill Press
Editor of articles about Middendorf Breathwork by Juerg Roffler 1994-present
Other published works:
Grammie Stories (a series of 8 audio-tapes for children and their families), 1991, 1992, Pergot Press
Travel for Two: The Art of Compromise, 1986, Pèrgot Press
Books
for Elementary Teachers, Parents, Principals, Far West Laboratory for Educational
Research
and Development, 1970-1980
(see below)
.
1985-1995
PUBLISHER
Established and managed publishing company, Pèrgot Press.
1953 to Present
ARTIST
Breath Art Expressions on Silk, Watercolor, collage, metalsmith, jewelry. Group and one-person shows, museums, festivals. Awards.
January 1984 to December 1999
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH PROMOTION PROJECT
Developed, directed, and taught courses-Creative Behavior In Aging and Creative Living.
July 1968 to June 1989
TEACHER TRAINER, TEACHER
Institute for Creative and Artistic Development, Oakland, CA
Developed
curriculum and taught classes using The Creative Behavior Process for adults
and children. Member
of a team who developed Speech in Color (a reading and writing program
for children). Member
of Advisory Board, 1989-1992.
January 1970 to June 1984
EDUCATION CONSULTANT, San Francisco Bay Area, Pacific Northwest, Honolulu
Conducted in-service teacher training classes and workshops in elementary schools; guest
October 1980 to July 1983
TEACHER-ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Vallejo, CA
5th and 6th grades - public elementary school.
July 1979 to September 1980
SITE COORDINATOR, BASIC EDUCATIONAL SKILLS PROJECT
Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA
Training, technical assistance, developer of program with parent involvement in Headstart
January 1970 to June 1980
STAFF
DEVELOPER, TEACHER TRAINER
Responsive Education Program
Author of 7 books and various articles in the field of language arts education, curriculum
Follow Through school districts throughout the country.
Classroom
demonstrations, liaison between Responsive Education Program and school district
programs.
January 1968 to January 1970
KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
Marin Country Day School, Corte Madera, CA
Developed curriculum. and team-teaching in Kindergarten program.
September 1959 to June 1965
NURSERY SCHOOL PARENT AND TEACHER
Sausalito Nursery School
Developed dance/movement and language arts program for nursery school co-operative.
EDUCATION
MIDDENDORF BREATH INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO, San
Francisco, CA
Certified teacher and practitioner of Middendorf
Breathwork The Experience of Breath, July
1990 to July 1995
Completed 3-and-one-half-year training program. "The
Experience of Breath. Its Connection To
The Essence Of The Self," thesis. Participated in workshops and
continues in post-graduate
training courses in San Francisco, Germany, Switzerland, Italy.
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY. Rohnert Park, CA
Master of Arts; "Reading and Self-Concept Development: Speech in Color With The
Creative Behavior Process,* thesis., 1976 to 1978
Major Early Childhood Education
Minor. Special Education
INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT, Oakland, CA
1967 to 1972
Major- Participated in teacher training, art, writing, drama, movement classes using the
Creative Behavior Process, study of group dynamics.
UNIVERSlTY OF CALIFORNIA. BERKELEY, MILLS CQLLEGE. Oakland. CA
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY. and HOLY NAMES COLLEGE, Oakland, CA
1968 to 1971
Major: Education Courses leading toward Life Standard Elementary Teaching Credential
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Stanford. CA
September 1949 to March 1953
Major. French; Minor- Art. Bachelor of Arts, with distinction
CREDENTIALS
AND CERTIFICATIONS:
* Certified teacher and practitioner
of Middendorf Breathwork
*Life California Standard Elementary Teaching Credential
*Life
California Community College Credential: Nursery School and Pre-School Education,
Professional Education.