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Reclaim your calm & cultivate your expressive capabilities!

Reclaim the calm state you were born to embody and awaken your potential for greater expressive range vocally, physically and emotionally. Learn reliable and well-researched somatic methods to develop emotional fluency, physical freedom of movement, emotion regulation, and become more holistically resilient. Develop skills in personal agency by learning to identify accurately how you feel and express it to others, while managing your communication delivery through breath and embodiment techniques to improve message accuracy. Improve your health and overall wellness by attaining a balanced relationship with emotions in yourself and others. Learn how this knowledge can positively impact your personal and professional life forever!

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Meet Laura Bond

Laura Bond (Lead Instructor/Trainer) is the founder of the Emotional Body® method and is a somatic practitioner and scholar dedicated to providing safe and reliable techniques for physical emotion regulation for personal expression development for all individuals and promoting somatic wellness initiatives. She is a Faculty Emeritus with UNC Asheville where she taught courses on acting, directing, somatic practices for personal expression development, vocal production, and physical emotion regulation and resiliency for 27 years. In addition to over 20 years of teaching the Emotional Body method, she is a master trainer of Estill Voice Training®, and is a certified Trainer in Kinēsa®, a Feldenkrais®-Inspired Movement System for Pain Relief and Heightened Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Wellbeing. She is currently completing a year-long internationally accredited and certified Mindful Art and Meditation Teacher (MAT) training program, by the acclaimed International Mindfulness and Meditation Alliance (IMMA) and the global Mindful Art Alliance (MAA). In 2024, she also completed the Brown University's Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course, is certified in Mental Health First Aid for adults and minors, and has trained in over 50 hours of the consent-based and trauma-informed practice of Theatrical Intimacy Education. Laura was also awarded UNCA's Ruth Paddison Distinguished Professorship (2022-2025) for promoting interdisciplinary connections between fields where she creates and supports somatic wellness initiatives.She applies her experience and training of all these methods with care and consideration for consent practices and remains trauma-informed and aware of mental health needs within her unique interdisciplinary style of teaching and coaching. In addition to her expertise in acting, directing, and voice production, her primary research and teaching centers around the development of a physical emotion regulation method using somatic education philosophies with the evidence-based emotional effector patterns (EEP). After over 20 years of practice-research, teaching and writing in this area she developed new ways to teach the EEP and founded a new method for physical emotional regulation and somatic resiliency, called the Emotional Body® method. Her research included collaborating and co-teaching with Feldenkrais® method practitioners since 2007 and an intensive teacher-training sabbatical in Chile in 2006 with neuroscientist and research psychologist Susana Bloch, an original member of the team that discovered the EEP. Laura is a master teacher and practitioner of Alba Emoting™, a method for teaching the EEP developed in the 1970’s by Susana Bloch. Laura Bond teaches the Emotional Body method and related mindfulness practices in university courses, as well as workshops and intensive trainings nationally and internationally. She has presented on these methods in international summits, conferences and podcasts. She has also served as a professional consultant and workshop instructor for individuals and specialty groups from such diverse areas as city officials, prison inmates, cancer survivors, scuba divers, therapists/counselors, somatic practitioners, actors, artists, public speakers, performers, and first-responders. Laura develops specialty lessons to help each learner gain approachable and reliable methods for such needs as expanding expressive capabilities, developing public speaking skills, acquiring physical emotion regulation methods, and providing short and easily accessible somatic resiliency methods. She also offers private lessons, workshops and courses for national and international attendees using in-person and online delivery methods. She is the author of two books: TEAM for Actors: A Holistic Approach to Embodied Acting, and The Emotional Body: A Method for Physical Self-Regulation, which is the core text used in Emotional Body courses. She is a contributing author providing a chapter in the Routledge Press book, Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance. To learn more about the Emotional Body method and Laura Bond visit www.emotionalbody.co

Laura Bond

Lead Instructor/Trainer

Testimonials

“Laura Bond offered a good-humored and enthusiastic exploration of the Emotional Effector Patterns which, at first glance felt intimidating and complex. With expert ease, she managed to break down the learning process into easy-to-digest portions and had confident, detailed, patient answers at the ready as our curiosity grew with each new step. Speaking neither down to us nor over our heads, Laura matter-of-factly gave us the tools, information, and support we needed to do and explore the work. From providing a safe emotional space to neuro-scientific explanations and everything in-between, she had it all. I will be eagerly awaiting the next workshop in my area to deepen my understanding of this brilliant and under-utilized emotional method. If you’re working in any field that requires emotional labor or emotional management, you should attend this workshop and read Laura Bond’s book, Emotional Body.”

Actor/Director/Spoken Voice Coach

Margaret Hild,

“(Brian) This was an excellent introduction to a very rich and globally applicable set of material. I left with a great foundational experience that I could apply to myself and my work, without feeling overwhelmed, nor like I only got a superficial perspective. It was the perfect balance of what could be really digested at first pass. .... (Barbara) The exercises brought clarity to emotional states and offered a means of developing greater emotional fluidity that I trust will be of value to me both personally and professionally. The teachers used our time efficiently and respectfully, covering the material in ways that were challenging, fun, and memorable. This introduction opened up a world for further study!”

Feldenkrais Practitioners

Brian Beatty & Barbara Abramson

“During the summers of 2015 and 2016, I participated in two of her professional training workshops where I witnessed first-hand what an extraordinarily gifted and internationallyrenowned master teacher Professor Bond is. I marveled at her ability to instruct students with different levels of experience while also mentoring student teachers who served as her assistants during the workshops. Many of the attendees had traveled from various parts of the world to study specifically with her and learn her innovative methods. Several seasoned, New York Citybased professional acting teachers, who had taught at major conservatory programs in the United States, raved about the revolutionary nature of Professor Bond’s work. After studying with Professor Bond, I was able to immediately apply her techniques to my life and my teaching. This is a testament to her methods and her teaching. Her work changes people from the inside out.”