Nicki Miller
Interdisciplinary Art & Movement Medicine
Movement missing links, LLC
Trauma Wise Neuroscience for Moving Bodies
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I have been a movement coach since 2008.
Starting with personal training and group fitness, my coaching evolved to specialize in aerial silks and rope technique.
In recent years, my personal movement practice and coaching has expanded beyond the skeleto-muscular and into the neuro-somatic. I now coach private mobility clients and aerial students seeking injury-rehabilitation and longevity of practice through my Movement Missing Links business, and I work with actors and performance artists as a movement director for theatre and film.
In my over 15-year career in the performing arts with scoliosis and other congenital physical limitations, I have acutely experienced the harm and imbalance that arises from pushing through pain and discomfort for the sake of performance needs more than the embodied experience of presence in physically challenging contexts.
Through connecting the holistic bodymind experience of ourselves in a practical attentional process, we can access both the poetic and the athletic with more integrity, joy, and capacity.
Movement Missing Links teaches skills of attending to our own experience in ways that empowers us to negotiate the performance goals of a coach, choreographer, or movement class with the preferences and needs of our unique nervous systems to reduce pain, build coordination, and reclaim joy in our physical health as movement artists of all levels.
I invite you to join me in a movement approach that meets you where you are and enables you to build a more joyful and loving relationship with your unique body.
Movement Missing Links
is for folks who love to move, but who experience ongoing pain, injury history, hypermobility, and/or neurodivergence.
Combining the science of nervous system regulation, a mind/body approach to mobility training, and trauma-sensitive coaching and support, MML can help you learn how to both how to respond to the sensations that arise in your body and how to cooperate with them so that you find freedom and confidence in your physicality.
MML is a trauma-informed, gender, body, and neurodivergence affirming practice that deepens the bodymind connection for a more playful and confident experience of physicality.
MML expands physical capacities of embodied attention, joint stability, motor control, and integrated coordination that goes beyond training and into everyday life as well!
Qualifications:
Certifications:
Integrated Kinetic Neurology (Levels 1 & 2, Performance)
Functional Range Systems (Functional Range Conditioning, Kinstretch)
NASM Personal Trainer
Additional Movement Education:
Feldenkrais (3 month course Antonio Ramos; Sarah Lawrence College and self-study)
Body Mind Centering: Perception as Key to Embodying the Nervous System 8 week course with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Z-Health (Essentials of Elite Performance, Z-Health The Breathing Gym)
Stop Chasing Pain (Vagus Nerve Masterclass)
Postural Restoration Institute (Myokinematic Restoration, Postural Respiration)
Power Within Healing: Awakening Bodies Trauma Informed Somatics Mentorship
Wild Soul Healing (Inner Voice, Tarot for the Wild Soul, Heart of Service)
ARTIC ORG (Anti-Racist Trauma Informed Care): How to Be Less Harmful course
Gaga Movement Language (uncertified, 6 years of practice)
Aerial Arts ( 15 years)
Nita Little's Relational Intelligence Practice and 1:1 Mentorship
Imagery Classes with Bonnie Buckner (Body I, II, and III)
Medical Disclaimer: Please note that I am not a doctor. I am not a licensed medical care provider, and I have no expertise in diagnosing, examining, or treating medical conditions of any kind, or in determining the effect of any specific exercise on a medical condition. The information I offer and teach is based on my personal experience/embodied research, the qualifications listed above, other continuing education, and 14 years as a Personal Trainer. I recommend that you consult with your physician before beginning any exercise program to ensure that participation is safe for your unique circumstances.
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