Meet Our Faculty

Kimberly Clark (she/her) graduated from the University of New England in 1992 with a Bachelors of Science in Occupational Therapy. While working as an OT at Brighton Medical Center, she completed a certified training program in Massage and Polarity Therapy in 1994. She began her private practice in Southern Maine to better address her patients’ needs for skilled manual therapies for pain relief and an improved quality of life.

Kimberly has received advanced training in manual techniques including Myofascial Release, Neuromuscular Re-education, and she is a certified Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist® as well as a MNRI® Core Specialist  and former Instructor with the Svetlana Masgutova Educational Institute.  Her AlchAlmt classes serve the Primary Reflex professional community.

Gisele Silva, LMT, BCST, is a teacher for Alchemical Alignment- Somatic Tools for Trauma
Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit and an adjunct instructor for the Lancaster School of
Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies. She incorporates her extensive training in
various bodywork modalities to bring healing and restoration to people who have suffered
physical, emotional, mental, energetic and relational injuries and imprints.
In addition to holding the credential of Licensed Massage Therapist, she is certified as a
Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist and an Alchemical Alignment practitioner and teacher
assistant for advanced levels and recently brought Alchemical Alignment to her native country of Brazil. She is also an advanced student in Somatic Experiencing. Her work focuses on creating capacity in the body and nervous system to process any traumatic memory (imprint),

metabolize and integrate traumatic shock on the system, restoring the alignment in the body’s anatomy and physiology, which helps regenerates the body’s original potential. After spending almost three decades training and studying healing arts in both her native
country of Brazil and the United States, she established her practice in Lancaster, Pa., in 2016. She has particularly worked with head trauma, including people who have suffered concussions, as well as those who have experienced pre-birth, birth, psychological and physical trauma.
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Among her offerings are 1-1 sessions (in person and online), and teaching online and in-person classes. Learn more about Gisele here.

Tele Darden (she/her) is a bodyworker, teacher and coach who guides visionary healers as they become more empowered and embodied forces for change in the world. In practice since 2007, she offers her wide range of skills and experience in somatic and intuitive healing to create deep and nourishing containers of transformation for her clients, both in the US and internationally. Tele is on sabbatical from M1-7 this year (‘24-'25), and will continue to participate in AlchAlmt, leading Integration Circles and a BIPOC Mentorship Circle.

Tele lives with her husband, teenager, and pets, including Pickle the ball python on traditional Susquehannock, Nentego (Nanticoke) & Piscataway lands in Maryland.

Tele Darden

Teacher, First Year
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Brigit Viksnins

 Founder, and Teacher, Second Year
MAT, SEP, RCST®, BCTMB, LMT 

Brigit (pronoun fluid), an advanced bodyworker, is the creator of the training program Alchemical Alignment. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, and Board Certified Massage Therapist. She has undergrad and graduate degrees from Georgetown University. Brigit has had a successful private bodywork/somatics practice in the Washington, DC/Piscataway/Nacotchtank area since 1996. She is a mother, stepmother, and grandmother as well.

Brigit (Brigita) is a first-generation Latvian American, from a lineage rich with healers, midwives, authors, and teachers.  Her parents and all childhood community adults fled their homeland during WWII, becoming refugee immigrant children under bombs and in Displaced Person's camps, on their way to the USA. She has regularly traveled to post-Soviet Latvia to relate to the land, eat traditional foods, steep in the wisdom, arts and crafts of her ancestors, and also share her skills. 

Brigit created a full body movement meditation -- latest video recorded in the forest in Latvia -- called The Alignment Sequence™, with permission based on movements from Aikido, Qi Gong, and bodywork stretching. It is helpful for people who want to move beyond old patterns into their Original and Potential Blueprints, and cultivate self-regulation, resilience, presence, and power.

Brigit taught Massage Therapy at PMTI in the 90's, is a few hours away from being an association-approved Biodynamic Craniosacral (BCST) teacher (well, tbh, it has been over a decade and hasn't reached the top of the list yet), has assisted Somatic Experiencing (SE) trainings, and Body Into Being. 

Since 2013, her devotion has been to Alchemical Alignment: Bodywork for Trauma Resolution and Embodiment of Spirit (see course feedback here). After facilitating fifteen cohorts of the First Year of the Alchemical Alignment program, Brigit now teaches the Second Year: the Death and Birth Modules. She is developing the Rebirth/Spirit Modules as well.

Brigit values continuing education highly, and not only teaches, but also participates regularly in short or in-depth training programs as a student or an assistant.​ Recently those include programs by Ray Castellino and Anna Chitty (Body Into Being: PPN/BCST/SE/Polarity), Katherine Ukleja (post-grad BCST), Kain and Terrell (TST), Barral and Crobier (Neuromeningeal 1-5 and Visceral Osteopathic), Boxhall (BCST), van der Wal (Embryology), Upledger (CST), Barnes (MFR), Wanveer (Glia), Degranges (PPN/BCST/SE), Taussig (Distance Osteopathic), Bosbach Largent (Family Constellations Foundation, Norse Vala, Ancestral Mediumship), Esterman (Shadow Constellations), Eini (Karmic Constellations), Blackwell (Cosmic, Dark and Light Constellations), Bergstrom (Depo, Curse Unraveling), as well as regular ASD morning class Aikido training starting in 1991. Here is a list of some classes that have influenced her worldview. Brigit's private practice calendar is closed for now as she teaches, or supports the school programs.