Since 2011 Mentor, Educator, Practitioner and Trainer of the Hakomi Method.  Assistant of Ron Kurtz, founder of the Hakomi Method, in Trainings and Individual sessions until his passing and group facilitator and mentor for Hakomi Practitioners from 2000 to present. Maru facilitates individual sessions, children and family sessions and Trainings to become Practitioner and Teacher of the Hakomi Method as well as Certification Trainings and Advanced Trainings for Practitioners and Teachers. She also enjoy developing curriculums to bring the Method to diverse institutions and businesses and somatic resources to teachers, psychotherapists and parents.  
 

Being drawn as a child to Movement Arts and Martial Arts she started, as a teenager, training as a Shiatsu practitioner, as part of her formal Soto Zen Practice. She continued her journey studying Chinese Medicine, Eutony, the Feldenkrais Method and becoming a Certified Somatic Counselor, a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and Teacher and studying Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, which gives her approach a trauma informed lens. She has a life long experience working with children and families being also a Certified Child Space Practitioner, a Method created by Chava Shelvah, with a developmental oriented approach based on the Feldenkrais method that works with children and families. She continues to depen her understanding of this work under the guidance of Larry Goldfarb, Feldenkrais Mentor and Trainer,  and Yehudit Silver, Feldenkrais Trainer from the lineage of Alon Talmi, who founded the Talmi Method, envisioning and systematizing the application of the Feldenkrais Method in the field of trauma and mental health.

Educational Director of Hakomi Education Center, a home and practice space for a diverse group of practitioners from Hong Kong to Europe, UK, USA and Canada, and with phisical residence in Cantabria, Spain. Hakomi Education Center is also home of Eco Somatika Somatic Education Center, a space to deepen into somatic resources and tools as well as an aid to the learning of the Hakomi Method through the lens of the Feldenkrais Method  learning through sensing, moving, feeling and acting. This space is held by our Educational director Maru Serrano and holds her private practice facilitated through individual or group sessions of  sensorimotor practices and developmental explorations and also Advanced Feldenkrais Trainings and Advanced Trainings integrating Feldenkrais and Hakomi Methods for Practitioners, Psychotherapists and Bodyworkers.

She holds immense gratitude to all her teachers, alive and passed, and their teachers, and to her students and their students to be, and in her own words "not one day goes by without me being moved by their vulnerability and courage and feeling honored to become part of their lineage."  

 

Her approach is held in a spirit that resonates with what feels to her like a sacred, wholly, rightful human way of being and becoming in the world and with the world in relation: a grounding in deep listening with an embodied knowing of the way we are whole and at the same time open and constantly impressing each other with our presence, spaciousness and basic kindness to hold experience, trust to follow the rhythms of life's unfolding and healing. 

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She brings an inclusive, non judgmental presence, a lifelong practice of mindfulness through zen Buddhism and embodies the lightness and sense of humor that a committed life and its journey through grief and loss can cultivate in us if we give room to it.

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Her passion for social change expresses in a  commitment to nurture an environment that brings to light the unconscious processes and embodied habits that limit us and hold us back in relating deeply and creating authentic intimacy.

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If you are interested you can contact her here.