Margherita Tisato
Photo: Sam Waxman
Margherita Tisato is a movement practitioner and a seeker of somatic wisdom and integration. She facilitates a range of movement experiences spanning from Trauma-Informed yoga and somatic movement to dance, Butoh, and body suspension; her educational offerings include experiential workshops in anatomy, pain science, embodiment, and trauma theory, and she currently teaches in vastly diverse environments, from colleges to prisons. Margherita draws from decades of studies in dance, Butoh, yoga, somatic and developmental movement, meditation, anatomy and kinesiology, shibari and flesh hook suspension, and her offerings are informed by all her practices and interests, including seemingly less embodied practices such as poetry, metaphors, neuroscience, and music.
Praxis Statement
Margherita's mission in sharing information and experiences with others is to soften the dichotomy between body and mind, individual and collective, past and present. To investigate visceral sensations in order to create emotional resilience, through the main mediums of embodiment, curiosity, and dialogue.
She is also a performer whose work aims at letting audiences into her process through shared intentions and vulnerability, often in intimate settings where the journey through emotions and heightened senses takes the foreground over mastery.
Research Interest
Margherita's interest in Trauma-informed practices brought her to work in prisons and recovery programs in NYC, and quickly turned into a main component of her teaching. Currently she is expanding the notion of integrating trauma and resilience through cathartic experiences, as well as designing educational curriculums aimed at centering the body in life processes like trauma, addiction recovery, and emotional challenges.
As a guest speaker at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, she started developing curriculums on "Embodied Pedagogy", focused on ways to involve the somatic experience to facilitate learning.