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M a l i k a   L u m

 

Dancer, choreographer, somatic movement therapist, craniosacral osteopath and embodiment coach. She is an interdisciplinary educator with over three decades of professional experience in the performing arts, somatic movement and embodied practice.

 

From earliest childhood, she envisioned a life working on and with the stage — immersed in music, dance, playwriting and the creative process. Alongside this artistic calling, she developed a deep passion for literature and for storytelling in the realms of the human body and psychology, particularly in the context of self-development, personal transformation, postural alignment and authentic expression.

 

This dual inquiry — artistic and scientific — continues to shape her work today.

 

Malika works with corporate leaders, professionals in the performing and therapeutic arts, teachers, therapists and private coaching clients, supporting them in both the expansion of potential and the resolution of physical, psychological and emotional challenges.

 

Her work addresses performance, presence, leadership, creativity, nervous system regulation, trauma and recovery — not as separate domains but as interrelated dimensions of the human experience.

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Malika’s methodology draws equally from creative practice and scientific inquiry. Her work supports both high-level performance and holistic human development, offering practical tools alongside profound shifts in perception, presence and self-awareness.

 

Professional training includes classical ballet with the Royal Academy of Dance in London, contemporary dance and choreography at the Zurich School of Dance Theater (Z.T.T.S.) and and extensive education in somatic movement education and therapy shaped informed by a wide range of influential lineages and some of the most influential pioneers in the field. 

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Key influences include ideokinesis, functional and experiential anatomy, embryology and morphology, Jungian psychology, Continuum Movement, Body–Mind Centering and somatic meditation traditions.

 

Her integrative approach is further shaped by yoga, breathwork, restorative practices, self-inquiry meditation, Vajrayana Buddhist somatic meditation and Sufi studies.

 

At the core of her work lies a lifelong inquiry into how movement, perception, breath, imagination and awareness shape the human experience — where art meets science and personal development becomes a lived, embodied practice.

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b a c k g r o u n d

Classical Ballet

Royal Academy of Dance, London

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Contemporary Dance & Choreography

Zurich School of Dance Theater (Z.T.T.S.)

 

Somatic Movement Education & Therapy 

Institute for Ideokinesis and Franklin Method

 

Craniosacral Therapy

Upledger Institute

 

Yoga Teachertrainer & Coach

Yoga Alliance

 

Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) Certified Trainer

Marie Walton Mahon

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Current mentoring program:

Continuum Movement Teaching

Robin Becker

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t e a c h e r s
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Embryology and Morphology

Dr. Jaap Van der Waal

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Anatomy

Erik Franklin, Erich Walker, Dr. Jaap Van der Waal

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Ideokinesis

Erik Franklin

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Jungian Psychology

Jung Institute Switzerland

 

Continuum Movement

Emilie Conrad, Robin Becker and Susan Harper​

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Yoga, Integrative Breathwork 

& Restorative Practise 

Stephen Thomas, Yogeswari, Richard Freeman,

Max Strom, Devadi Yoga and Michael Hamilton

 

Body Mind Centering

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

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Somatic Meditation

in the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism

Dr. Reginald Ray

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Self-Inquiry Meditation

in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi

Dr. Bagwan Awatramani

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Sufi Studies

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and other sufi teachers

 

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“The primary characteristic of any fluid system is its ability to keep transforming itself.”
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— Emilie Conrad

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"For every thought that is supported by feeling, there is a muscle change.
Our whole body records our emotional thinking."
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— Mabel Ellsworth Todd

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