Arawana Hayashi

Arawana’s work as a choreographer, performer, and educator is deeply sourced in awareness-based collaborative creative process. She is a co-founder and senior faculty of the Presencing Institute where she heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater. She brings her background in performance artmaking and meditation to this embodied presence practice that cultivates healthy and compassionate relationships in organizations, schools, and communities.

Since 1980 Arawana has taught meditation and creative process. She is the author of Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move published by PI Press. For more information: https://arawanahayashi.com/ and https://www.u-school.org/spt