About
Suniti Dernovsek is a teacher of movement and meditation, a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and an artist. She has had a teaching practice for 30 years and is thankful to have found teachers early in her life, allowing for a lifetime of exploration into embodied presence.
Suniti creates an immersive environment that invites students into their own experience, into their body in relationship with the world. Through a cultivated, listening presence, she remains responsive to the immediate changes of the people she works with, whether in individual bodywork sessions, group classes, or collaborative dance practices. Skilled at meeting the moment, she honors what is needed and what unfolds next.
She has supported people at all stages of life, from children to end of life care, offering her listening hands and movement guidance with wonder and awe.
ABOUT SUNITI'S TEACHERS
My main studies include Vajrayana Buddhism and Dzogchen with Lama Padma Drimed Norbu, experiential anatomy/Body Mind Centering® with Wendy Hambidge, Continuum Movement with Susan Harper, yoga asana, biodynamic craniosacral and massage therapy with Todd Jackson. I have also completed a Body-Mind Mentorship with Deborah Merkle and a Vajrayana Spiritual Care course with Lama Justin Von Bujdoss. Additionally, I hold a BFA in Dance and have worked with amazing artists and teachers internationally.
I have also been deeply inspired by the teachings of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, Michael Stone, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Bayo Akomolafe, Saar Harari, Robyn Avalon and Melissa Berry Appleton alongside the profound support of family, friends, and the natural landscapes that continue to open my heart.
ABOUT SUNITI AS A MOVEMENT ARTIST:
I am a choreographer, performer and movement educator based in Portland, OR. For several years I collaborated with visual artist David Stein to make work under the name, bobbevy. Together we created 19 shorter works and seven evening-length shows: All Right, Now What (2017); Leading Light (2015); This is how we disappear (2013); Palace of Crystal (2011); ill-starred (2009); Lawn of the Limp (2008); Avian Fable (2007); and Marionette (2004). I received my BFA in dance from UWM in 2003, where I had the opportunity to work with many talented choreographers including Zvi Gotheiner, Janet Lily, Heidi Latsky, Simone Ferro and Long Zhao. While in the Midwest, I was a company member of both Foothold Dance Performance and Wild Space Dance Company. I have performed with Oslund+Co, Fever Theater and tEEth. I have been presented by PICA’s TBA festival, Conduit Dance, Reed College Arts Week, Danceworks, Velocity Dance Center, Northwest New Works at On the Boards, Danspace, Ten Tiny Dances’ South Waterfront Project, Foothold Dance Performance, Starling Gallery, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Danspace in NYC. I have received several grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Dance New Work Award from UWM in 2009 as well as two residencies at Caldera Arts and a residency in 2024 at Dekum Street Theater.