Christine Caldwell, PhD, is a pioneer in body centered psychotherapy and the founder of the Somatic Counseling Program at Naropa University, where she taught and mentored students for decades. Her work has played a foundational role in the development of somatic psychology, bringing attention to the ways the body holds experience, memory, and meaning, and how embodied awareness can support both personal healing and social transformation.

With more than forty years of experience spanning anthropology, dance therapy, bodywork, and Gestalt therapy, Christine’s work integrates multiple disciplines into a deeply relational and embodied approach to psychotherapy and education. She is the creator of the Moving Cycle, a framework that explores how body states shift over time and how cultivating awareness of these states can support lifelong personal and collective evolution. Through this model, she invites people to trust the intelligence of the body and to recognize movement, sensation, and presence as powerful pathways toward growth and change.

Christine teaches internationally and has authored several influential books, including Getting Our Bodies Back, The Body and Oppression, and Bodyfulness. Her writing and teaching continue to shape the field of somatic practice, offering a thoughtful exploration of embodiment, culture, and the relationship between individual healing and wider social systems.