About Us

The MOVEUS TEAM

Jens Johannsen, Jens Johannsen, 1959, is a dancer and movement-teacher and -therapist from Germany. Since 1978 he has been exploring the relations of body and mind on personal, social and global levels. For many years he studied with teachers in the fields of theatre, dance, voice, ritual, humanistic and Buddhist psychology, yoga, meditation, body-therapy and others. Among his teachers are Matt Mitler, Grotowsy-Laboratorium, Carl Rogers, Tim Buckley, Martha Moore, Patricia Bardi, Aja Addy, Lama Chime Rinpoche, Upledger Institute, Suprapto Suryodharmo, Amos Hetz, Ron Kurtz and Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. Jens has Performance-experience since 1980 and has been teaching internationally since 1982.
Jens is a senior BMC®-Teacher, teaching in the trainings of the School for Body-Mind Centering since 1993. He directed the last European training at Chiemsee, Germany. For 15 years Jens has been leading his own BMC-training groups that run from one to several years. He works with clients of all ages. He is interested especially in meditation in and through movement and has also been co-developing an application-program of BMC to alpine skiing. Jens in his work integrates detailed knowledge about the physical body and the process of embodiment with humour, joy of movement and expression with a spiritually open approach.

Friederike Tröscher, Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering. Occupational therapist and dancer (new dance, contact improvisation). Teaching movement since 1992 and working with people individually since 1988. Offers individual sessions, classes, workshops and a 1-year training program in BMC and was part of the team setting up the BMC Practitioner program at Chiemsee 2003-2007. Works with babies and adults and teaches BMC for dancers, actors, musicians and other bodyworkers. She is interested in using BMC to explore our potential and deepen our presence, no matter where in life we are. Mother of a 6-year old boy and a little daughter she lives with her family in Cologne.