About the Author
Margot Biestman has great enthusiasm and is inspired by the practice of breathexperience in her personal and professional life. Having come to breathexperience some twenty years ago because of debilitating back pain, she has dedicated herself to learning, practicing, and teaching this healing art with devotion. Today, at age seventy-seven, she credits this practice for allowing her to live her life with vitality and passion, less ego, and more Self. Margot is internationally recognized as a certified practitioner of Middendorf Breathexperience, senior teacher/trainer on the staff of the Middendorf Institute for Breathexperience, and Director of the Marin-Sonoma Center of the Institute. She has a private practice in Sausalito and Sonoma where she offers classes, workshops, and individual sessions.She is the author of several books, including ,Travel for Two: The Art of Compromise, and ,Spontaneous Language, and many articles. In addition, she is a breath dancer, who was a soloist in the première performance of "Odem: Breath Moves Body, Soul, and Spirit," presented at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, in April 2007. She has been a presenter at a national conference of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy and has participated in a research study on the effectiveness of breathexperience at the Osher Clinic for Integrative Medicine at University of California San Francisco for patients with chronic low-back pain. She has appeared in interviews on ,KRON, and CBS, TV national news programs, and local ,NBC, and San Francisco Access TV stations. Margot's fifty-year career includes extensive experience in education with people from ages three to ninety-five. She is also an artist in several media. She was formerly a metalsmith and jeweler, and is currently painting watercolors, drawings, and creating collages. Her work has been shown in the San Francisco Bay Area and the American Crafts Museum in New York. She has recently completed a book, Breath Art,
