Ma Anand Suresha
(Suresha Hill)
Suresha began singing in school choirs at the age of nine, in church choirs at the age of twelve, and continued classical choral singing until the early years of college. She graduated from Kent State University with B.S. degrees in Elementary and Special Education, an M.S. in School Psychology, and an Ed.S. in the Systems Intervention and Prevention specialty area of School Psychology. After moving to Atlanta in 1974, while working as a psychologist she continued in the modeling career she begun in Ohio, started a fashion production company, worked as the fashion and entertainement editor for the Atlanta Voice Newspaper, and began singing and acting in theatre and commericals. She landed bit parts in a few films, numerous print jobs, and began doing voice-overs for radio.
After moving to New York in 1977, she continued to work as a model, actress, and writer for a small PR firm, then went headlong into spiritual pursuits. 1979 she went to India and lived in Osho's commune the next seven years. During this time she sang in Sufi Dance and Music Group. She then toured with different bands throughout India and Europe, and also played regularly in night clubs on the West Coast. All received rave reviews. The musical styles ranged from hard rock to reggae, soul, pop, African, and devotional celebrative songs.
In 1986 she relocated to the Bay Area and began writing and developing her own style of New Age music. She composed, prodcued and performed two largely instrumental cassettes entitles Blissful Goddess and Peaceful Heart on her own label, One Sky Productions. While on a European tour with an international band in 1989, she was asked to do a maxi-single and two vocal albums on the Nightingale label.
Suresha has been involved in bodywork for over 30 years. She founded The Marin Center for Somatic Education in 1992 in order to help generate interest and awareness in the concept of prevention and the process of self-sensing as a door to maintaining health and well-being. Since its inception, the center has promoted and taught numerous movement classes and somatic education workshops, offered private sessions, mentoring to other bodyworkers, as well as client consultations.
Three volumes of Somatic Intelligence © were produced and distributed as a manual and guide to students of this work, and to help forward the integration of these principles into other forms of movement, therapeutic exercise, and hands-on practices. The Marin Center for Somatic Education is a vehicle to help solve the puzzle of chronic pain, to help reverse acute pain and dysfunction, and to help promote self-sensing and self-regulation in ways that prevent old issues from recurring and new ones from developing.
Contact Details
- address
- Shibui Gardens Outdoor Spa
- Marin Center for Somatic Education
- 19 Tamalpais Avenue
- San Anselmo, CA 94960
- PO Box 150954
- San Rafael, CA 94915
- USA
- phones
- Phone: +1 415 339-8196
- Phone: +1 415 457-0283 (bookings)
- Mobile:
- Skype:
- shibui
shibuigardens.com
- see also
- Suresha on facebook
