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\n\"IMG_0120\"<\/a><\/strong>Naomi Sparrow\u00a0is a somatic movement educator, counsellor, Qigong teacher, artist and healer.\u00a0She is a Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering\u00ae and an Infant Movement Developmental Educator certified through the\u00a0School for Body-Mind Centering<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

For over 20 years, Naomi has been helping people\u00a0heal and live more grounded and expressive lives. She\u00a0has pioneered a unique way of working with her clients based on her research into the anatomy and physiology of emotions, specifically on how trauma affects the body-mind and how healing occurs.<\/p>\n

As a lifelong student of the movement arts,\u00a0Naomi \u00a0has taught improvisation,\u00a0dance and creative process including sounding, speaking, moving, drawing and writing practices. She\u00a0has consulted on dance and mixed media performance arts projects. \u00a0As an Infant Development Movement Educator, she has also worked with pregnancy, prenatal and postpartum as well as facilitating infant movement in the first year of life.<\/p>\n

Naomi is a member of the\u00a0Body-Mind Centering Association<\/a>\u00a0and a registered therapist with the\u00a0International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association<\/a>. She has a B.A. in English literature and Anthropology from Concordia University, and studied Anthropology at the graduate level. She is a recent\u00a0graduate of Aylmer Qigong Teacher Training<\/a>, and began studying Qigong in 2003 with Kee Hong.<\/p>\n

At Concordia university,\u00a0Naomi\u00a0studied consciousness and perception through psychological, social, medical and legal anthropology – focusing on how different cultures create a sense of self, reality, community and transformation.<\/p>\n

In addition to being a teacher and therapist, Naomi Sparrow\u00a0is a mother, visual artist, writer, gardener and amateur herbalist living in a garden cottage by the Ottawa River.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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