Originally dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance therapist, trained in several psycho-corporal techniques, in Esalen Institute (USA), in African dance in Douala (Cameroon), in contemporary dance in France, Amiyo Devienne studied Gurdjieff movements with Avrom Altmann, direct student of John G. Bennett, and with Deborah Rose and James Tomarelli, also students from the "Bennett-lineage".
Amiyo lived many years in India, in the international commune of Osho, where she created a unique synthesis between the eastern and western visions of dance, and where she learned the stillness of meditation.
Since 1989, Amiyo dedicates her life to this path, under the guidance of Selim Aissel.
For 30 years now,
she travels worldwide, sharing her experiences on movement, as a science, as an
art, as a tool for inner –development, for both, amateurs and professionals and
in
2002 she taught at Carolyn Carlson Institute “Accademia Isola Danza”.
Amiyo is actually
leading several seminars internationally: in London, in Madrid, in Rome, and
Sicily, in Munich and Nurnberg, in New Delhi and Dharamsala in India, in Moscow
and St Petersburg in Russia.
Choreographer, she created and directed more than 50 performances, whose 30 were of Gurdjieff movements. She has also opened her school in Alsace, France, where she offers initiation and training in Gurdjieff movements, as well as dance –therapy-expression seminars.