Babette Lightner, RSME


Babette Lightner, RSME (She/her) from the Mississippi River Watershed near Rush Creek.

My work, Wholeness in Motion, is an on-going synthesis of 40 years exploring movement, somatic work, nature, mythology, and culture. I am part of the faculty at the VoiceCare Network and  co-creative director of the Center for Sound Music Education.  I am a Certified Alexander Technique teacher and Registered Somatic Movement Educator, (30 years),and a LearningMethods™ teacher (20 years). I taught in the Professional Actor Training Program and Music Department at the University of Minnesota and have lectured and taught for many universities, institutions and organizations including the Guthrie Theater, Sister Kenny Institute, Balk Opera Music Institute, Taipei National University of Arts in Taiwan, Western University in Ontario and many more.

My explorations into human movement have taken me around the world, from dancing with a folk dance troupe in the villages of South India to performing with a post-modern physical theatre company in the warehouses of Boston. These explorations in being of the earth are life long and endless. My garden and studio are on 47 acres in Spring Valley, Wisconsin.  I maintain an active residency, workshop and lecture schedule - (pre-covid 19). I work extensively with on-line courses and trainings.

I have created many video resources and am the author of Your Inner Compass, Pedagogy of Empowerment, Coordination of Being for Conductors and other articles that elucidate how your magnificent system can work for you rather than against you.  The Language of Wholeness text is in draft form.  I wake up grateful each morning because seeing people awed by their own capability is like witnessing a miracle every day.

My writing, teaching and video work centers on co-creatively exploring what it is to thrive and how to counter the dominant hierarchical cultural framework that is embedded in our bodies and our strategies. The work is one voice in the global movement to embody Life-Giving paradigms on a personal level for global change.


For a fuller story see the Gratitude page.

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Dancing roots - Karagam in Madurai Tamilnadu India in the 80's.