About

Both having received Ph.D. in Somatics Study at the Ohio State University, and finished her certification program of Body-Mind Centering®, Massachusetts in 1998, Mei-Chu Liu devoted herself to the somatic education in school and somatic practice for dancers and athletes. With the background in traditional Chinese dance, martial art, Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung and Yoga, she also studied western movement arts like modern dance, Jazz dance, and many western somatic practices like Alexander Technique, Awareness through Movement, Continuum, Ideokinesis, and Fundamentals.

Mei-Chu had finished her certification program of GYROTONIC® in 2005 and GYROKINESIS® in 2006, and became a pre-trainer of GYROTONIC® since 2012. Besides, she is also a certified studio instructor in POLESTAR PILATES® since 2006. Encouraged by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering®, Mei-Chu dived into the teacher training program of Body-Mind Centering® during 2012-2014, and also had completed her training in Infant Developmental Movement Education of BMC® in 2015. Finally, she had receive her teacher certificate of BMC® in June, 2019.

Going along with her profound study in BMC®, she also had organized GYROTONIC® program and taught pre-training courses in the National Taitung University every year since 2012. Now, she have become a GYROTONIC® Master Trainer, and is going on her training process of being a GYROKINESIS® Master. She found there are so many similarities between BMC® and GYROTONIC® method. Deeply influenced by BMC®, she had developed many teaching strategies for sharing GYROTONIC® with her students, which enriched her understanding in both of them.

Now, as a professor in the Dept. of Somatics & Sport Leisure Industry, National Taitung University, Taiwan, she focuses her research on the movement re-education and the integration of eastern and western somatic approaches for movement training and somatic fitness. She is also organizing and working on a certificate for the Somatic Wellness Training Program for the Somatic Education Society of Taiwan.