Core Movement Center brings together a dynamic mix of practitioners and instructors from a variety of modalities.  The Center is grateful to be a gathering space for those with an appetite for expanding self power.  We welcome your unique contribution to this ongoing dynamic process.

Linda Burquez

Linda BurquezFounder of Core Movement Center. Linda's passion for transformation and movement inspire her. She offers group and private sessions in the movement arts including Pilates, Trance Dance, Yoga, Nia, and Medical Qigong. Her healing arts services are therapeutic massage, polarity therapy and medical qigong treatments. Also infused in her work are the intuitive arts of tarot and subtle body analysis.
The Core Movement Center Team:
Michele Appleby
Linda BurquezMichele brings a grounded calm presence and a precision attention to detail to her yoga and pilates mat classes. She is a certified massage therapist.
Airakah Bottelfson
Linda BurquezComing from the big island of Hawaii, Airakah's dynamic enthusiasm and roots style infuses her classes with laughter, primal energy and joy.
Deanna Darby
Linda BurquezDeanna is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in somatic
psychotherapy. She has trained in a variety of body-work modalities and has a master's degree in depth psychology. Deanna's work is based on the fundamental role of the body and movement in creating meaning, relationship, and thought.
Anya Devi
Linda BurquezAnya is a certified massage therapist and yoga instructor since 1990. Anya travelled to Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1994 and learned Traditional Thai Massage and continues to expand her knowledge of Eastern healing modalities and integrate the ancient wisdom with intuition and compassion. Anya Devi has spent several years in India studying Classical Dance. She is dedicated to facilitating healing through bodywork and inspire joy through movement and dance.
Kara Eby
Linda BurquezFor over 20 years, Kara Eby, has practiced and taught various systems of movement and spirituality from Continuum and Tensegrity, to Pilates and yoga, to A Course in Miracles and Woman's groups. She believes that movement is a powerful tool of transformation and that the body can be a doorway to the Divine. Kara's passion is to provide a space for people to explore themselves… Their inner worlds… their outer worlds… and the movement of the moment.
Rosemary Partridge
Linda BurquezWith over 30 years of experience in Tarot, Spiritual Counseling, Ritual and Healing Arts, Rosemary offers clarity and insight for the integration of the spiritual and emotional elements of being embodied.
Paul Rest Sensei
Linda BurquezPaul has been a student of Aikido for fourteen years. His is a 2nd degree black belt and has studied under Richard Strozzi-Heckler (6th Dan) and Betsy Hill (4th Dan). He also teaches classes in the Bay Area at Bay Club Marin and has a weapons class at Tenchi Aikido in Sebastopol.
Lore Ross
Lore brings her experience as a massage therapist and body talk therapist and new mom to her family support group work. Her passion and commitment to service inspire her class participants to embrace change and discover hidden resources.
Nancy Shanteau
Linda BurquezNancy helps people achieve their dreams. Both pragmatic and visionary, she offers support for creative expression, transformation from traumatic experiences, empowered relationships, and life transitions. She specializes in helping people write books. Nancy is a certified Somatic Coach and Bodyworker through Strozzi Institute, a certified Skills for Change Radical Therapist by Julia Kelliher, and studied Somatics and Trauma with Staci Haines through Generation Five.
Linda:
Airakah:
Deanna:
Nancy:
Paul:
JaiDev:
linda@coremovementcenter.com
airakahb@yahoo.com
deanna59@mac.com
nancy@nancyshanteau.com
poetry@sonic.net
jaidev_pk@yahoo.com