Laura Hames Franklin
Laura Hames is a dancer, Certified Franklin Method Instructor, BodyTalk Practitioner, BodyTalk Access Trainer and founder and director of BodyTalk Space at Union Square in New York City. She is married to Eric Franklin.
She works with private clients and travels across the country to teach classes and workshops in both Franklin Method and BodyTalk. Laura holds a BA in dance and performance and is also a certified Pilates Instructor. She has taught at many dance schools in the UK, and US and has founded and run her own summer school in the UK for 4 years.
She has been studying with Eric Franklin since 2001, and continues her training with him at many classes, conference and workshops across the world.
Laura’s passion for combining movement, imagery and internal connections provides a class that is dynamic and engaging. By inspiring students to realize their health and movement potential and providing the tools for change, we can embrace the power of the body and mind.
Eric Franklin
Eric Franklin is a dancer, movement educator, university lecturer and successful author. He earned his BS form the University of Zurich and his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Eric has studied and trained with some of the top movement imagery and conditioning specialists around the world and has used this training as a professional dancer in New York. He has shared his imaging techniques in his teaching since 1986. Eric teaches at universities and arts educational schools throughout the world including New York University School of the Arts, the Royal Ballet School and the Laban Center in London. In 1998 he introduced the first dance conditioning methodology to mainland China. Recently Eric Franklin has taught at the Juilliard School in New York and the Royal Danish Ballet. Eric Franklin is author of Dynamic Alignment through Imagery (1996), Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (1996), Relax your Neck – Liberate your Shoulders (2002), Pelvic Power (2003) and Inner Focus, Outer Strength, (2006). Eric Franklin’s books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Tcheck, Chinese and Korean. As founder of the Franklin-Method Institute in Switzerland, Eric Franklin regularly offers workshops and Teacher Training courses on the topics covered in his books. Eric’s most recent book Beautiful Mind, Beautiful Body (2009).
