"Lael Katharine Keen is an Advanced Level Teacher for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, a direct student of Dr. Peter Levine and is a founding member of the Brazilian Trauma Association (ABT). She has been teaching Somatic Experiencing® in Brazil, the USA and all around the world, since 1998. In addition to teaching for the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute, Lael has taught Rolfing® Structural Integration for the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute since 1995. She teaches Rolfing® at the basic and Advanced levels and is also an instructor of the Rolf Movement Program. She is a founding member of the Brazilian Rolfing® Association (ABR) Lael holds a 6th degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and has studied many different disciplines that focus on the body-mind connection. She is a Trainer of Matrixworks Living Systems, an approach to working with groups. She uses both her Ki-Aikido training and the study of Matrixworks in all the groups that she leads. She lives in the south of Brazil where she and her husband (also a Somatic Experiencing® teacher) own and operate a training center in the Atlantic Rain Forest on the Island of Santa Catarina. She continues to study and learn about what it is to be a human being and how we can heal at all levels, body, mind, soul and spirit. She has been studying Anthroposophy since 2003 and holds certification as an Anthroposophic Art Therapist and an Anthroposophic Biographical Counselor. She is also an Educator for the Bates Method of Vision. "