
Support The Embodied Teen Project
This year, you can help support the well-being of our youth.
Join the Embodiment in Education mission to create a more embodied and compassionate world.
Embodiment in Education programs empower educators and students through ground-breaking curricula bridging the fields of somatics, mindfulness, and social-emotional learning to cultivate lifelong well-being.
Based on the curriculum in the Embodied Teen, the professional development programs and youth classes inspire personal and collective transformation.
Some of our accomplishments to date:
- Over 3,000 copies of The Embodied Teen sold!
- The Embodied Teen (English version) has sold 2,522 copies (2,066 print copies and 456 Ebooks)
- The Embodied Teen (Korean version, published in March 2023) has sold 407 copies + additional copies in 2024, exact sales numbers not yet available.)
- Embodied Essentials online course has been attended by 43 professionals from 15 different US States and from 11 additional countries, with over a dozen partial scholarships given!
- Embodiment Essentials participants have come from 15 US States:
- California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah, Virginia
- Embodiment Essentials participants have come from 11 countries outside the US:
- Australia, Chile, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Jordan, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey
- Embodiment Essentials participants have come from 15 US States:
- These professionals working with adolescents and young adults have collectively reached thousands of students, growing our community of embodiment educators and inspiring young people around the world!
Join The Embodiment in Education community to support our youth!
Help us reach our Giving Tuesday goal of $5000 this year to help fund our operating expenses, further outreach efforts, and participant scholarship fund. Your gesture of kindness and support will truly make a difference.
Thank you!
Through the generous sponsorship of our umbrella organization, The Center for Movement Education and Research (501 C-3), your donations are now fully tax-deductible, with 100% of each donation going to The Embodied Teen Project.
SEE DONATION DETAILS BELOW
To Donate: Please make checks payable to Center for Movement Education and Research, and note on the check “for The Embodied Teen Project.” Checks can be mailed to:
Susan Bauer, 1000 Cordova Pl. PMB 8, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Please include your email address to receive your receipt for your tax-deductible donation.
(If you prefer to pay by Zelle directly to the CMER account, please contact us using the contact form on the website for account details). Thank you.
“Susan Bauer offers educators a dynamic curriculum with clear guidelines for helping adolescents discover ways to enliven their sense of self, recognize and accept the diversity of others, and establish a base of lifelong habits for well-being.”
— Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, developer of Body-Mind Centering®
The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills is a groundbreaking curriculum for teaching teens how to integrate body and mind, enhance kinesthetic intelligence, and develop the inner resilience they need to thrive, now and into adulthood. Lessons are based in somatic movement education, and are adapted specifically for teens and young adults based on decades of teaching in the US and abroad.

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- SusanBauerProfessional Member
Susan Bauer (MFA, MSME/T, RSDE) is a teacher, dancer, author, Fulbright Scholar, and somatic educator and practitioner. Susan offers classes and workshops in Authentic Movement, experiential anatomy, and meditation. She is also the founder of Embodiment in Education(TM) and offers workshops and teacher trainings internationally.
In her thirty-year career, Susan has taught in college and community settings, informed by her extensive background in dance, Authentic Movement, and Body-Mind Centering®. She began her study of Body-Mind Centering® with founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in 1984 and is a Registered Master Somatic Movement Educator / Therapist and Registered Somatic Dance Educator through ISMETA. Other somatic disciplines in her background include study of Ideokinesis with Irene Dowd and Experiential Anatomy with Caryn McHose and Andrea Olsen, along with Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals and the Feldenkrais Method. Susan served on the Board of Directors of ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association) from 2012 to 2015 and has a private practice in the San Francisco Bay area. Her unique approach integrates Authentic Movement, somatic movement education, and meditation as a basis for in-depth, conscious personal transformation. Her Practitioner Overview Statement can be seen on the ISMTEA website.