April Nunes Tucker (PhD)

SEnior Associate

April is passionate about cultivating spaces where her clients feel supported in diving deep into challenging adaptive and developmental work. She does this through a commitment to bringing awareness to the physical body to help highlight underlying beliefs and patterns with an aim to create conditions for choice and change. 

Dedicated to the growth of others as well as to personal growth, April spent 13 years lecturing in UK universities in movement analysis, improvisation, choreography and somatics. Her PhD tried to find ways that performers and audience members could share a more authentic relationship by untangling the performance persona from the person. With over a decade of research into this area, April has a commitment to building trust in client work to foster breakthroughs on dealing with systemic challenges. Her personal learning edge is to soften her tendency toward stoicism.  

April’s work is further informed by a four-year residency undertaken in the mid-90s with a silent monk where she learned meditation and yogic practices which she still maintains and greatly values. These practices serve to provide support for staying grounded, which she offers freely in her interface with clients. She has been teaching yoga, somatic movement and meditation since 1996. 

April now resides in the British Virgin Islands with her family and is currently enrolled in a somatic coaching program with the Strozzi Institute. She deeply enjoys coaching from this embodied stance and facilitating clients in tapping into the wisdom inherent in their own bodies.