For Elif Gökçe, movement is the poetry of the nervous system, the architecture of the body, and the purest form of creative expression. Her professional journey is an interdisciplinary synthesis stretching from the clarity of numbers to the limitlessness of art, and into the somatic wisdom of the body.

Analytical Foundations: The Discipline of Finance, The Architecture of System 

The foundations of Elif's methodical intelligence were laid during her university years with her education in Finance and Accounting. Her experience of over 10 years in the sector endowed her with the ability to analyze complex structures, manage crises, and build sustainable systems. Today, the robust corporate structure of Yosomind LLC and the success of its digital platforms rise upon these analytical roots. She is a strategist who transforms chaos into order and vision into a functioning system.

The Eye of Art: From Viewfinder to Curatorship 

Transitioning from the world of numbers to the aesthetics of visual arts, Elif managed light and form as a professional photographer and Art Director. Working with iconic figures from athletes to performing artists, she examined the body as an aesthetic geography. As the recipient of the 2015 Young Artist Award, Gökçe treated the body as a human form independent of gender stereotypes in her Through Women's Eyes project, bringing these works to wide audiences through exhibitions in France (Nancy) and Turkey. She has united different disciplines in a common narrative by participating in international platforms such as The Beauties of the Aegean and Made By Artist in Thessaloniki.

Academic Depth and Somatic Education Line 

Elif Gökçe builds her movement pedagogy on evidence-based and internationally recognized schools. Her line of expertise rises on the following pillars:

• Somatic and Therapeutic Axis: Her educational journey continues within the scope of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA); she examines movement through the dimensions of psychological repair, effort, and space. She integrates art therapy and mindfulness practices into this foundation.
• Fascia and Anatomy: Through the When the Body Speaks program completed with Anatomy Trains (Thomas Myers) in New York, she views the body in the integrity of myofascial meridians. She deepens her expertise in functional movement analysis by completing Anatomy and Physiology trainings.
• Yoga and Pilates: She has completed Yoga Alliance-approved 500-hour advanced expertise programs. She diversifies her bodily stabilization and awareness tools through Pilates, face yoga, and breathwork educations.
• Psychology and Mental Health: She supports her ability to hold a safe space through clinical principles with educations from Yale University (Introduction to Psychology) and Johns Hopkins University (Psychological First Aid). She reflects her ongoing research in Schema Therapy and Polyvagal Theory into her practices.
• Energy and Holistic Healing: She blends energy work with somatic processes as a Kundalini and Usui Reiki Master.

A Somatic Nomad: A Network Opening to the World 

She views learning as an act beyond geographical borders and turns her route toward the world's somatic centers. By continuing her research and training on a global scale, she keeps her methodology current. She builds a bridge connecting local roots with universal knowledge.

R&D, Content Architecture, and Digital Academy Elif Gökçe is a productive content architect who shares knowledge through the limitless channels of the digital world. Through the Bedeniyat YouTube channel, she maintains awareness conversations regarding the body.

This accumulation becomes institutionalized with Yosomind Academy on the Udemy platform. Fatma Nur Bilgin’s academic foundation and Elif Gökçe’s ability to develop methods unite in the Contact with the Inner Child series. In this process, Elif takes on the role of a developer (R&D Partner) who experiences the methods directly on herself. Additionally, her Yoga Poses training set, detailing over 100 poses, offers a comprehensive digital archive.

While hosting expert guests in the Somatic Chats series on Spotify and YouTube, she makes the untold stories of the body visible with the Somatic Stories podcast series, which is entirely her own production from script to voiceover.

Current Focus and Deep Touch Mentorship® 

Today, Elif Gökçe offers a safe, transformative, and art-filled movement experience to her participants with her unique method blending fascia-oriented anatomy, the aesthetics of dance, and financial system intelligence.

Through the Deep Touch Mentorship® program, which is the synthesis of all this accumulation, she guides visionary individuals in bringing their ideas to life with technology and their visions with somatic compassion.

Fatma Nur Bilgin is a movement specialist with over 20 years of experience in body-focused practices. Working in both clinical and creative fields, she combines anatomical knowledge with emotional awareness, aiming to reorganize individuals' relationships with their bodies at functional, sensory, and expressive levels. Having begun her education at Celal Bayar University's Faculty of Education, Bilgin has integrated her pedagogical training with the field of body awareness, bringing a heightened sensitivity and methodological clarity to the teaching-learning process.

Since 2007, she has specialized in a multidisciplinary approach, including Pilates, the craniosacral approach, Gyrotonic®, the Dorn–Breuss approach, and fascia-focused studies. Since 2015, she has participated in UK-based fascia dissection and advanced anatomy programs, incorporating the three-dimensional continuity of tissues into her practice. She completed a three-year specialist training with Ariel Giarretto in Somatic Experiencing (SE); then, with Dr. Raja Selvam's Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) modules, she deepened her competence in the nervous system and emotion regulation axis. This process, supported by expertise in Gestalt training and regression, has brought a wide range of applications to the bridge between bodily experience and emotion.

Dance is an important area of ​​research in movement practice. Through contemporary dance techniques, improvisation, and composition, as well as approaches informed by Body-Mind Centering (BMC) and Feldenkrais, Bilgin develops a practice that emphasizes movement as not only a technical skill but also a tool for nervous system regulation and self-expression. Through groundwork and floorwork-focused research, she strengthens themes of confidence, rootedness, and spatial awareness, and expands the body's expressive capacity through the selective use of pole and contemporary movement elements.

Academic and International Education Line

• Pilates advanced training courses: Pilates Academy International (Comprehensive), Balanced Body and Stott Pilates advanced training lines.

• Working with master instructors: Michael King, Elizabeth Larkam, Alan Herdman, Anna Maria Vitali, Alexander Bohlander, Prof. Karen Clippinger, Nora St. John.

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  Fascia and anatomy: Anatomy Trains UK's introductory course "Anatomy in Three Dimensions™"; intensive training in cadaver dissections with a focus on fascia with Julian Baker; studies focusing on archetypal postures and functional biomechanics with Phillip Beach.

• Clinical/applied topics: Osteoporosis, scoliosis, post-amputation pilates programming; special conditions of the spine; pain management (concept studies under the umbrella of The British School of Osteopathy).

• Equipment and protocols: V2 Max Plus™ Reformer, Cadillac, Stability Barre™, Mini Stability Ball™, Athletic Conditioning series; Arcus (McEntire Pilates) and Orbit workouts; prenatal/postnatal programs.

• Craniosacral and Dorn–Breuss approaches: Complementary methods in spinal health and neurovegetative balance with advanced practitioner training.

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  Somatic axis: Somatic Experiencing (SE) introductory and intermediate modules; Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) modules; bodily integration of affect with nervous system-based approaches.

Nervous System and Fascia Perspective

Bilgin's work is grounded in fascial continuity. Experience in dissection laboratories has provided practical insights into the tissue's tension lines, shear layers, and sensory richness. This perspective allows for the simplification and application of parameters such as breathing, alignment, load transfer, joint centering, elastic recall, and proprioceptive awareness for participants of all levels. The nervous system focus developed through Somatic Experiencing and ISP structures the principles of safe progression through arousal regulation, threshold recognition, and resource augmentation.

Teaching Approach

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  Assessment and planning: Posture and movement analysis, breathing and core function evaluation, personalized scaling of movement repertoire.

• Progression: Stabilization-mobilization balance, strength-elasticity relationship, load dosing and continuity.

• Learning design: Pedagogical clarity; structured retention with clear cues, visual-tactile feedback, and homework assignments.

• Bridging: Bidirectional flow between clinical findings and creative movement; simultaneous development of expressive capacity with functional goals.

Training and Workshop Experience

Working with diverse needs, Bilgin has developed comprehensive curricula: exercise for vertigo, scoliosis, osteoporosis, and oncology; pregnancy and the postpartum period; post-amputation programming; adapted movement for visual and hearing impairments; and workshops focusing on balance, proprioception, breathing, and posture. In her work, she offers practical solutions that increase neuromuscular awareness using small equipment (mini balls, foam rollers, rings/circles, etc.). Between 2010 and 2016, she conducted a series of regular workshops, developing simple protocols that participants can implement in their daily lives.

Dance and Creative Practices

Her work, inspired by contemporary dance technique, improvisation, and composition; DS/DM methodology; and the BMC and Feldenkrais approaches, opens space for the expression of emotional flow through movement. Floorwork and ground-related research reinforce themes of trust and rootedness. Bilgin blends this knowledge with clinical principles to design hybrid course structures that support both nervous system regulation and aesthetic/expressive capacity.

Selected Educational Chronology (Summary)

• Somatic axis: Somatic Experiencing – Beginning/Intermediate modules (Ariel Giarretto); ISP – Beginning/Intermediate modules (Dr. Raja Selvam).

• Fascia and anatomy: “The Fascial Human” dissections with Julian Baker; Anatomy Trains UK; clinical anatomy-kinesiology-posture analysis studies.

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  Pilates specialization: Balanced Body, Stott Pilates symposia (osteoporosis, scoliosis, athletic conditioning, prenatal); special conditions of the spine with Alan Herdman; scoliosis programming with Anna Maria Vitali; contemporary pilates applications focusing on fascia with Elizabeth Larkam; method progressions with Michael King; advanced anatomy-practice sessions with Nora St. John and Prof. Karen Clippinger.

• Craniosacral and Dorn–Breuss: Multi-level practitioner training; protocols focusing on the spine and neurovegetative balance.

• Gyrotonic®: Foundation and level I modules; equipment-specific motion design.

Today's Focus

Fatma Nur Bilgin continues her academic work within the Dance-Movement master's program based in Heidelberg, establishing a learning environment that redefines the physical and emotional layers of movement through individual processes, small group programs, and workshops. Her work is based on the principles of safe progression, neurologically friendly dosing, sustainable practice, and measurable progress.