Sharing our sorrow: Laura Cox has died

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Laura Cox

With deep sadness, we share the news of our colleague Laura Cox’s death (Feb 4, 2025). 

Laura was one of the original founders of WholeMovement.  A complex, multifaceted person interacting in the world in many capacities, Laura was a dancer, a movement educator, LBMS practitioner, Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist (ISMETA), animal lover and an avid Renaissance Festival fan.  Her favorite holiday was Halloween.

Students and colleagues will remember Laura for the joy and energy of her teaching and for her fierce devotion to the power of LBMS to transform people and the world we interact in. 

Laura’s international presence in the LBMS community included serving as a core faculty member in two Scotland training programs as well as helping to establish the first WholeMovement training program in Rome. She co-authored (with Karen Studd) EveryBody is a Body, a guide to human movement from an LBMS perspective, which is used in training programs worldwide.  

Laura was a bright and inspiring presence who has affected so many people in the movement community.

For sharing memories of Laura, the WholeMovement Facebook page is one place to visit.

It was one of Laura’s final wishes that those who might want to honor her memory could make a donation to WholeMovement. Such donations can be made through our fiscal sponsor, Dance Box Theatre.  

Mourning this sad loss to our teaching coterie and to the larger community,

Ali, Cat, Esther and Karen

For All donors:

  • Dance Box Theater is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as the fiscal sponsor for WholeMovement. Your contribution to Dance Box Theater is earmarked and dedicated to WholeMovement, and is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

 For donors by check:

  • To make a contribution to WholeMovement by check, please make your donation payable to “Dance Box Theater,” with “WholeMovement” clearly noted in the memo line. Send your check to: Whole Movement, 6502 Westmoreland Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912.

 For online donors:

  • To make an online contribution to WholeMovement, please visit https://danceboxtheater.org/wholemovement.html and click on the link to be directed to Dance Box Theater’s Network For Good donation page. Please enter your donation amount and enter the words “WholeMovement” in the Designation line.

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WholeMovement and ISMETA

Since 2024 WholeMovement programs internationally are ISMETA-Approved Training Programs!

WholeMovement programs in movement analysis and somatic studies are now recognised and approved training programs through ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Educator and Therapy Association. This means our students and graduates join an international community of practitioners adhering to the codes and standards collectively established by somatic movement therapists and educators.

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