Rachelle Tsachor is a member of the CMBM Supervision Team.
Rachelle is an Associate Professor of Movement at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At UIC, her artistic contributions as movement specialist serve to support kinesthetic empathy for diverse peoples and cultures through embodied understanding. Her research investigates body movement to bring a human, experiential understanding to how movement affects our lives. Rachelle analyzes patterns in moving bodies in diverse projects, researching movement’s effects on our brains, emotions, health, and learning. Rachelle co-authored “Emotion regulation through movement and “How do we recognize Emotions from Movement?” (Frontiers in Psychology), A somatic movement approach to fostering emotional resiliency (Frontiers in Neuroscience), and the chapter on movement in the forthcoming “Integrative Rehabilitation Practice: The Foundations of Whole-Person Care for Health Professionals.” She is co-PI on an NSF-Funded project STAGE and the UI Presidential Initiative for the Young People’s Science Theater: CPS and UIC Students Creating Performances for Social Change. Both initiatives bring mind-body methods into Chicago Public Schools, and support and empower students of color to view themselves as creative problem solvers.
Rachelle earned her BFA from The Juilliard School, her MA in Dance/Movement Research/Reconstruction from The City University of New York, and her CMA in Laban Movement Analysis from Université du Québec à Montréal. She is certified in Mind-Body Medicine through CMBM, Movement Analysis (CMA), and Somatic Movement Therapy (RSMT-ISMETA).
