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  Resume:  Educated at Mount Holyoke and Oberlin Colleges, Mercy Sidbury cultivated a passion for the study of somatics through her 25-year dance career in the Bay Area and New York. Besides her own personal movement investigations, other influences on her practice in movement education include Bartinieff Fundamentals, Feldenkrais principals, Body Mind Centering, therapeutic exercise, Reiki, Caritas energy work, yoga, tai chi, Authentic Movement in addition to 30 years in the field of Pilates. Since 1979, she has taught dance technique, choreography, pedagogy, experiential anatomy, kinesiology and somatics work in the California State University system and other professional and university settings in California and across the U.S. During that time, she worked as a Dancemedicine Specialist at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital’s Center for Sports Medicine for 12 years. Her approach to Pilates work was deeply influenced by this and the work of Eve Gentry. She teaches at Bodywise Pilates Studio in Sebastopol, CA.