Linda Lack Ph.D., is a widely respected educator, movement therapist, body-based researcher, and international lecturer. Lack has spent 50 years developing The Thinking Body—The Feeling Mind®, TBFM® has grown as a maintenance and body sustainability technique, recognized alongside Pilates, Feldenkrais, Bartenieff and Alexander Technique as a contemporary movement training and healing method. Today, TBFM is practiced and taught at Lack’s Studio in Los Angeles and in Malaysia, Europe, Mexico, Central America, Israel, Australia, and throughout the United States.
Lack is an expert in the analysis of movement problems for both untrained novices and highly trained clients. Her focus includes targeting injury resolution, resolving chronic pain, refinement of body mechanics, deterring the effects of aging, and using structured movement for transforming the outcomes of emotional and physical disease.
In addition to teaching, Linda Lack Ph.D. gives presentations to diverse medical communities on longevity, somatic well-being, pain management and preventative care. She has been a lecturer in wonderfully diverse communities: University Hospital Research Center for Health, in Bogota Colombia; American Association of Dance Therapy, Congress for Research in Dance, Loyola Marymount Faculty, International Association of Yoga Therapists, Symposiums on Yoga Therapy/Research, and SUNY Purchase Dance Department.
Lack has been funded and acknowledged by The Rockefeller Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The California Arts Council, Samadha International Healing Awards, The Los Angeles Area Dance Alliance Awards for Innovative Choreography, and a LACE award for her life’s work, elucidating the role of spirituality in Body Movement.
As a movement analyst, artist and scholar, Lack has dedicated her life and work to the study of the human body and the relationship of movement and breath to creativity, healing, and spirituality. She believes that the basic human impulses of movement and breath are profound pathways into healing, creativity, and spirit. She “lives” her belief daily.
