Tom Goodwin

I am grateful for all the opportunities I have had to learn from a wide spectrum of teachers, instructors , facilitators and mentors.

Please find a list of formative individuals and organisations here:

2025-7 Laban/Bartenieff & Somatic Studies International, founded by Janet Kaylo, Certified Movement Analyst – Somatic Practitioner, 500-hour ISMETA-approved Certification

2024-26 Helen Poynor Walk of Life Foundation & Continuation – non-stylised & environmental movement training

2022&5 Lynx Vilden Living Wild immersions: Basic Skills & canoe skills (Dordogne, France), Taylor immersion (Blikberget, Norway)

2021/2 The Old Way Immersion: one year training exploring hunter-fisher-gatherer & and ancestral life ways in a modern context, with instructors including – Emily Fawcett, Charlie Loram, Robin Bowman, Jessie Watson Brown & Linda Lemieux

2018 Apnea Total Freediving School in Koh Tao, Thailand, Apnea Total Malta – Advanced Freediving

2016– Roger Linden Non-duality & sitting

2015 Ido Portal Method Movement Camp in Thailand, & online coaching program.

2010-18 Body Weather (Body Landscape, MB Lines, Manipulations, Bisoku) with Frank Van De Ven and Katerina Bataksaki (Itxassou, Amsterdam, Angoulême, Cairngorms, Cornwall)

2009-21 Energy Arts Inc. (Master B K Frantzis and Senior Instructors) Wu-style Tai Chi Long Form, Wu-style Tai Chi Short Form (Level 1 Instructor), Energy Gates Qi Gong (Level 1 Instructor), Marriage of Heaven and Earth Qi Gong (Level 1 Instructor).

2006 Zhengzhou Shi Xiao Long Wu Yuen, Gong Fu Training Centre, Henan,China (Wushu, Shaolin Gong Fu, Chen-style Tai-chi).

2004 ex.e.r.ce, Contemporary Dance, Improvisation and Devising Program (Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France) working with: Emanuelle Huynh, Wil Swanson, Lluis Ayet, Dominique Brun, Frédérique Wolf-Michaud, Jean-Michel Oliverès, Lisa Nelson, Mathilde Monnier, Bruno Meyssat, Odile Duboc, Bertrand Davy, Claude Espinassier, Anne Collod, Laurence Louppe, Mark Tompkins.

2001-2012 Butoh – workshops with Carlotta Ikeda, Yoshito Ohno, Atsushi Takenouchi, Masaki Iwana, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Ken Mai.

2000-3 BA (Hons) DANCE THEATRE – Laban, Contemporary Dance (Release, Graham, Cunningham, Limon-based), Classical Ballet, Choreography, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Contact Improvisation, Improvisation.

1999-2001 UNION DANCE youth group Union Too (Garry Benjamin, Marcia Pook, Michael Joseph)