Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, PhD, RSMT, RSME

Teaches at New York Open Center

Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, PhD, RSMT, RSME, is executive director of Continuum Movement®, founded by Emilie Conrad-Da’oud and also chair of the ECD Initiative for research in the somatic movement arts. She is the founder and owner of Cobalt Moon Center, a center for integrative health in Neptune Beach, Florida, and is a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (2002) and Registered Somatic Movement Educator (2002), an authorized Continuum Movement teacher (1998), and a Tai Chi Instructor (1990). She is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing where she served as senior faculty, as Dean of the third-year class in the US and Europe. She is on the faculty of Esalen Institute, Hollyhock Educational Institute and teaches workshops nationally and internationally in Continuum, Tai Chi, and healing arts. She has a PhD in Somatic Clinical Psychology and is currently involved in a research project for veterans for reducing stress at the University of North Florida.