David Thomas France

David is a Movement Therapist, researcher, and senior yoga instructor with over 25 years experience. He is a Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®. David specializes in facilitating discovery of the finer aspects of bodily experience through attention to anatomical and developmental processes. He aims to empower students' independent process. He is known for playful, inquisitive manner, and creative lessons that engage the body’s innate process’, incorporate organic movement and careful listening to propel the yogic process. David has studied yoga with masters throughout the world, particularly influenced by Rodney Yee, Donna Farhi, and Erich Schiffmann, and now focuses on personal research and deep listening to his guide practice. In tandem with his movement studies he has studied the Taoist and Osteopathic traditions of healing and bodywork. Uncompromisingly eclectic and interdisciplinary, he brings to his lessons a broad range of experiences from athletics, martial arts, contemplative arts, dance, healing arts, and somatic psychology. David has lived in Japan since 2006 where he was Director of Freestyle Move Studio in Osaka and pursued studies in Zen, Butoh, Judo, and Katsugen Undo. He recently resettled to the US.

ERYT-590, SME, SMT, CMT

I’ve been a yoga, somatics, and natural movement teacher, and manual therapist in San Francisco, Kyoto, Osaka and now the Dallas area for 25 years.

• Antioch College • Rodney Yee & Donna Farhi Teacher Trainings • The School for Body Mind Centering • Shiatsu Institute of San Francisco