About Centa's Work
As a lifelong practitioner of body-mind inquiry, art practice, poetry, and personal story, Centa draws from these deep wells of knowing, and forms tiny bundles of imaginative opportunity for you. She thinks of it as deep play, as we attend to that creative capacity within us.
Through engaging in this multi-disciplinary approach to cultivating resilience, you will take with you—
— renewed enthusiasm and curiosity
— embodied confidence
— a daily, doable creative practice
— courage (heart) to change what you can
Centa Therese facilitates somatic awareness and creative process experiences for groups and individuals.
Her coaching and teaching are body-centric and neuro-informed, providing vital psychobiological interventions for a dysregulated nervous systems and enhancing inherent creative resilience.
Centa curates practices that foster self-empathy, curiosity, connection, genuine responsiveness, self-agency, and creative candor.
Following are a few examples of what her students and clients have expressed experiencing:
- "I found my true voice emergent in my writing."
- "Writing my story of abuse and sharing with the group was a first for me."
- "While hollowing a ball of clay, I noted my hands expressed their own innate intelligence."
- "I experienced an uncontrolled flow of images, arising from my soma (living body), which brought deep healing."
- "I discovered I could hold different points of view in my developing memoir."
- "I confronted my terror at the prospect of completing a novel, ten years in the making, and went on to finish it."
Centa’s deeply intuitive approach to coaching is based on evolving research and understanding of how relational trauma, as a neurophysiological response, affects our emotions, behaviors, and relationships across the life span.
As a body-centered practitioner, she grounds the somatic aspects of her work in a lifetime of movement and body-mind inquiry, from early training in ballet, to modern dance including Afro-Haitian, Contact Improvisation, yoga, gestalt bioenergetics, martial arts and Transcendental meditation, Authentic Movement, Pilates (certified), and a decades long practice of Zen meditation (just sitting).
Through slow, subtle movements, sensory and imaginal cues, she guides a process of repatterning posture and attitude for an experience of greater safety, ease, greater happiness and resilience.