Across the different modalities I practice and teach, one principle remains constant: that curious, compassionate listening to the details of ordinary experience generates remarkable insight and understanding.

Fascinated by human practices of worldbuilding, Steph McIsaac (any pronouns) brings fifteen years of training in cultural anthropology to bear on movement, somatics, performance, and the body. Steph received their PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019, and taught anthropology and embodiment studies as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis and Bowdoin College.

Steph’s research and writing explores how history lives in the body, and in the ways people and traditions access, express, and transform embodied history through healing practices. Steph’s teaching draws on body-centered and mindfulness-based pedagogies to explore questions of structural oppression, embodiment, community, care, and healing.

Steph is also a teacher/practitioner of Continuum Movement and yoga/asana (RYT-500), and is passionate about creating accessible spaces that celebrate the moving body as a powerful vehicle for connection, expression, and wisdom. Steph’s movement art focuses on improvisational and experimental forms of dance, shaped by a deep reverence for creative process and movement research, and supported by an endless curiosity for embodied anatomy. Finally, Steph is also completing their Mindfulness Meditation teacher certification through Sounds True/UC Berkeley.