Our Faculty
Aliki Fields | Director & Lead Instructor
Alison “Aliki” Fields (MA, LMT) is the Director, Lead Instructor, and an Alumna of the Pacific Center for Awareness & Bodywork (PCAB), where she helps steward the vision, curriculum, and culture of PCAB’s trauma-informed, relationally based bodywork program. Her ethos is guided by the belief that bodywork is a form of essential healthcare, supporting the health and function of the body as a whole, interconnected constellation of physiology, history, emotion, thought, and lived experience.
Aliki brings a diverse academic background in anthropology, somatic psychology, integrative manual therapy, holistic health sciences, and herbal medicine to her teaching. She draws from her trainings in Somatic Experiencing®, Hakomi Mindfulness-Based Somatic Psychotherapy, Authentic Relating, Ayurveda & Elemental Medicine, Manual Osteopathy, Connective Tissue Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Mayan Abdominal Therapy, & Hawaiian Lomi Lomi—bringing these modalities together into a presence-oriented, integrative approach to bodywork education.
As an instructor, Aliki is devoted to creating a heart-centered learning environment where students feel welcome, nurtured, and empowered. As lead instructor, she teaches somatics, trauma-informed care, relational skills, embodied anatomy, pathology, and integrative bodywork modalities, including relaxation massage, listening techniques, lymphatic drainage, and traditions of abdominal and reproductive manual therapy. She is committed to supporting students in cultivating the qualities at the heart of PCAB’s approach—loving presence, embodied awareness, and the ability to meet each client with compassion and attunement.
Before entering this field, Aliki trained and worked as an archaeologist and anthropologist, living and working in Greece and contributing to significant excavations, including the discovery of the Grave of the Griffin Warrior—one of the most significant Mycenaean burials in recent history. This early immersion in the study of human history, ritual, and embodied patterning continues to inform her reverence for the body as a living archive of experience.
Our Instructors
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DeAnna Batdorff
Instructor
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Brockell Briddle, LMT, RYT-500
Instructor
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Michael Hamm, LMT, CCST
Instructor
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Ryan Mulnick, LMHC, LMT
Instructor
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Jeana Iwalani Naluai, PT, LMT
Instructor
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Mark Olson, Ph.D.
Instructor
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Michael Polon, Advanced Rolfer™
Instructor
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Cherokee Rova, MS, MPAS, PA-C, LMT
Medical Consultant & Instructor
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Benjamin Smith, LMT
Instructor