About Bobbie: For 36 years Bobbie has been deeply committed to exploring the territory of inquiry using the ​ wisdom of the body. In addition to being a Continuum Teacher and one of the founding members of the Continuum Teachers Association, she directs Soma Center, Resources for Embodied Living, a Global, Local and Virtual studio in Highland Park, NJ. As a yoga and movement guide, writer, and embodied meditation teacher, Bobbie Movement Meditation & Music with Bobbie Ellis & John Bianculli Nature Art by Andy Goldsworthy offers classes, workshops and one on one sessions in her studio and loves to travel teach in the tri-state area and more. She is also a ceremonial officiant performing weddings, eulogies and baby blessings. Bobbie has been a featured teacher in the online Embodied Yoga Summit, YogaU, has presented workshops at Kripalu Center in Lenox MA, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA and has been on facility in the Somatic Summit at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY. For Bobbie, the most important depth in teaching and writing has come from the unfolding discoveries in her own felt and fluid practices in the quiet of her own body. It is there that she has learned to trust, share, teach and explore. In her need for clarity in the passages of her own life, she has created workshops, teacher apprenticeships and training programs that offer a deep way of cultivating resources for living an embodied life. With her husband and pianist, John Bianculli, she has a CD in embodied meditation and has self published 2 poetry books. She is in the midst of writing a book currently titled “The Continuum of Yoga”. Bobbie is excited to return to Cornerstone Music Studios for an introduction and series workshop!

About John: John Bianculli is a lyrical and soulful pianist, composer and recording artist. John's dynamic ​ original music is a unique blend of , Latin, Brazilian, rhythm and blues, and world music. His original music can be heard on Telarc and Dream Box records. His song “Bittersweet” made the Contemporary Jazz Charts top-ten list. His music can also be heard on "Jazz Showcase," a major internationally released CD that is a compilation of Telarc's greatest jazz recordings. CBS recorded John’s original solo piano music with Executive Producer George Butler. He composed the score for the film "Lit'l Boy Grown." He was founder and director of the New Brunswick Jazz Collective and that spurned many concerts and festivals in the 80s and provided. Also concerts/workshops/lectures with jazz great Charlie Rouse of the famed Thelonius Monk Quartet. As pianist for international jazz recording artist Steve Nelson for over five years, and Jeanie Bryson for over 10 years, John has also worked with Cassandra Wilson, , Regina Belle, Christy Baron, , James Spaulding, Jimmy Ponder, Bill Hardman, Larry Ridley, Bill Fielder and Earl May. Pianist, Bandleader, composer, arranger for the band “Continuum” 1982-1986 performing all of John’s original music. Had one of the longest running gigs as pianist for 23 years at the New Brunswick, NJ Hyatt Hotel, then pianist at the New York Hilton hotel for many years. A self taught, accomplished and versatile musician, John was born and raised in New York City’s Greenwich Village across from the Village Vanguard. He got much of his training playing the jazz circuit from New York to Washington D.C. John's compositions have been performed by his quartet, quintet and sextet in New York City at the Blue Note, Jazzmania, Jazz Cultural-Theatre, Greene Street, the Rainbow Room and Jilly's; in Washington D.C. at the One Step Down and Blues Alley. John Bianculli has enjoyed a considerable following at the Hyatt Regency for 19 years and the New York Hilton for 2 years. John has played numerous other clubs, concerts and festivals in addition to a number of television and radio performances in the metropolitan area. About his music, the Home News and Tribune writes, “It invokes beauty and playful fancy, stirs the imagination, and goes straight to the heart. It is unique, lyrical, dynamic, rich, and uplifting. . .“ The Star Ledger says “It is music that will draw you in and make you listen. . .” John has been a music instructor of piano, technique, theory, harmony, composition, sight singing, ear training, improvisation skills, vocal coaching, songwriting to all ages and levels in many styles and genres since 1990. Also director and engineer of his own private recording studio. He has developed excellent strategies and techniques for teaching online now using various software. He has provided live music, concerts, technical support and co-facilitated movement workshops with his wife, Bobbie Ellis at Esalen Institute-Big Sur, CA, Kripalu CenterLenox MA, Omega Institute-Rhinebeck NY, Soma Center-Highland Park, NJ and for numerous other venues and communities. From 2012-2020 he created “gap year” music curriculums for high school students going into college. From 2017-2019 performed concerts at the United Nations to honor Judy Woodruff PBS and Lionel Richie. In 2020 Opened for Celine Dion at Prudential Center Newark, NJ.