Dr. Hanna Poikonen

Hanna's movement background is in dance (street dance, contemporary, butoh), martial arts (kung fu shaolin, tai chi) and somatic methods (feldenkrais, chi kung) which she has studied in New York City (Movement Research, Gibney Dance), Berlin (Marameo), Tokyo (with Yoshito Ohno) and Barcelona (Institut del Teatre, La Caldera) among other cities. She pursued her doctoral degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki on neuroscience of creative movement and music. Currently, she continues brain research on embodied cognition and education at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland and on mental health at the Örebro University Hospital in Sweden. Hanna has developed a method called WiseMotion (www.wisemotionco.com) which combines neuroscience, movement and meditation. The WiseMotion workshops consist of embodied practice and neuroscientific presentation covering topics such as embodied collaboration, memory and concentration, creative process, and good sleep. She has taught WiseMotion internationally in institutions such as Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA), Double Tree by Hilton (Montreal, Canada), Neuro Association (Finland), Alive Wellness (Hong Kong) and Sanitas Mayores (Barcelona and Madrid, Spain).