Faculty

Jana Singer, Co-Director & Instructor

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Jana Singer is a certified Core Energetics Practitioner through the New York Institute. She is a Co-Founder and Instructor at the Metamorphosis Core Energetics Institute with Angela Ai, a faculty member at the Montreal Core Energetics Institute, and has taught workshops in Toronto, LA and Austin on topics including sex and attraction, the shadow and relationships. In addition to her private practice, she facilitates ongoing weekly groups in Toronto, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Angela Ai, Co-Director & Instructor

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Angela Ai is a Certified Radical Aliveness Core Energetics Practitioner. She is Co-Founder and Instructor at the Metamorphosis Core Energetics Institute, facilitates workshops internationally and helps individuals and couples align with themselves and with each other. Her work is a synthesis of Core Energetics and Human Design. Angela lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Ferd, and their dog, Mobi.

Lisa Loustaunau, Instructor

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Lisa Loustaunau, MA, ACCEP, brings over 30 years of experience as a Core Energetics Somatic Psychotherapist. Having trained with Core Energetics founder Dr. John Pierrakos, she is the former Director of Education at the NY Institute of Core Energetics. Lisa is currently the Academic Consultant to the Next Generation Core program in DC, and a faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics. A highly regarded international teacher, workshop leader, process facilitator, and supervisor, Lisa has trained Trainees in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Holland, Mexico, Israel, and the USA over the course of her career.

Pablo Cortes, Instructor

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Pablo Cortes is a trained Core Energetics practitioner with a postgraduate degree in Core Energetics and Integrative Body Psychotherapy. He is also certified in Trauma Release through the CoreEvolution Institute and holds international certificates in various coaching fields. He collaborates with Corpore México leading supervision groups and teaching workshops and works with the Montreal Core Energetics Institute in several of its programs.

David Sutcliffe, Instructor

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David Sutcliffe is a certified Core Energetics Practitioner, coach, teacher, workshop facilitator, filmmaker, podcast host and former actor. He grew up in Canada, moved to Los Angeles where he lived for 20 years, moved to Mexico for 2 years and currently lives with his wife in Austin, Texas.

Brian Gleason, Instructor

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Brian Gleason is the co-founder, director, trainer and developer of Embodied Relationship Mentoring. Brian has over 40 years of experience in working with organization, groups, couples and individuals in a variety of mental health, corporate, wellness and educational settings.

Brian is a senior faculty member of the NY Institute of Core Energetics and Radical Aliveness Institute in Los Angeles, California. He teaches internationally and is author of a book on transpersonal psychology, “Mortal Spirit”, and his newest book “Relative to Everything” on how our intimate relationships are impacted by and can influence the environmental crisis. Brian also enjoys a thriving private practice for individuals, groups, and couples as well as providing supervision for therapists.

Ken Goldberg, Instructor

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Ken Goldberg is a preventative medicine specialist and somatic psychotherapist based in Portland, Oregon. He co-leads Northwest Pathwork & Core Energetics with his partner, Kathleen Goldberg, focusing on body-centered psychotherapy, energy medicine and spiritual growth.

Sanjay Evran, Instructor

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Sanjay is Armenian, born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and currently lives in the Hudson Valley, New York. He is a Somatic Therapist in private practice since 2016. Trained in Bioenergetics and Core Energetics, both body-based psychotherapy modalities. He also trained at the Radical Aliveness Institute, which specializes in systemic complexity and group work. He is currently an Associate Faculty member and serves on the Ethics Committee at the Institute of Core Energetics in New York.He teaches internationally as a Junior Faculty Member at the Netherlands Institute of Core Energetics.

Andrea Martin, Instructor

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Andrea Martin is an Advanced Certified Core Energetics Practitioner and somatic therapist based in New York City. She is a certified practitioner of Radical Aliveness and former faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics in New York.

Aimee Falchuk, Instructor

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Aimee is a graduate of Barnard College where she received a BA in Women’s Studies. She earned a Master of Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a Master of Education in Counseling and Psychology from Cambridge College. She is a post graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics and currently a Master of Divinity candidate at Naropa University. Aimee did her clinical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Lowell General Hospital. Aimee is in private practice and a faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics in NY.

Melissa Kaplan, Instructor

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Melissa Kaplan, MPA, AACEP, is a somatic practitioner and spiritual activist. She is a Senior Faculty member at the Institute of Core Energetics and Embodied Relationship Mentor based in New York City and Upstate New York. In her private practice with individuals, couples and groups, she believes that eros is the awakening force that transforms our defenses, our negative beliefs, distorted feelings, and disconnection from animism. Her group work is emergent, relational and emphasizes intimacy across difference. She works with trauma that is held in the body in order to increase our capacity for pleasure and ground in our true selves so that we may step into our most expansive and rooted emotional leadership. Melissa is an alumna of Harvard Business School with a focus on Executive Leadership and holds a master’s degree in Public Administration. Melissa was an international CEO for more than a decade and brings her extensive cross-cultural experience into her practice. She is an author and graduate of the Orphan Wisdom School.

Lauren Marciano, Assistant

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Lauren is a Core Energetics practitioner based in NYC. She works with individuals, couples and groups both in person and online. Lauren graduated from the New York Institute of Core Energetics in 2024 and is currently pursing her postgraduate studies in Montreal, deepening her capacity to bridge body, mind and spirit.