Robert L. Bozeman, DMA, is a specialist in movement and embodied performance, helping musicians, preachers, speakers, and other performers use their bodies with greater awareness, efficiency, and ease.** His work focuses on the relationship between movement and performance, helping people prevent injury, work with greater freedom when pain or movement limitations are present, and discover how the body can become an ally rather than an obstacle in their work.

Dr. Bozeman's interest in movement began with his doctoral research, *Gesture, Movement, and the Keyboard Performer*, a multimedia project exploring how movement affects musical performance and how more efficient movement can help musicians avoid injury. He received a grant from the University of Cincinnati Graduate School to conduct the research, and portions of the project were published in *The American Organist* in April and May 2017. He has also written about lifelong learning for musicians.

His continuing study of somatics led him to become a Bones for Life® Teacher and Trainer through the Foundation for Movement Intelligence. In 2022, he became a Mind Body Studies (MBS) Practitioner, studying with Feldenkrais practitioners in Germany and Italy. He incorporates this training into his work with musicians, helping them explore movement, posture, coordination, breathing, and the ways they use their bodies in performance. He teaches Bones for Life® Immersions online through Future Life Now® and is part of the faculty of Vitality Cincinnati, which will begin offering Bones for Life® Teacher Training in 2027.

Through **MovementByRobert**, an online community of movers, Robert works with musicians and performers through online teaching, in-person classes, workshops, and residencies at schools of music and universities. He also works with **preachers and speakers**, helping them explore embodied communication: how posture, gesture, breath, movement, and physical presence can support authentic and effective communication. His work with speakers grows out of the same principle that guides his work with musicians—the body is not separate from communication and expression; it is part of how we communicate.

Robert holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where he also received a grant for his doctoral research. He holds master's and bachelor's degrees in music performance from the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory and the University of Oklahoma.

Alongside his work as a musician and movement specialist, Robert is Minister of Music at Anchorage Presbyterian Church in Kentucky, where he directs the Chancel Choir, plays for worship, and participates in planning and leading worship. He holds the Certificate in Proclamation (preaching) from the Omaha Presbyterian Seminary Foundation and regularly preaches at Anchorage Presbyterian. He is also a certified Spiritual Director through the Retreat Center at the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and a certified Labyrinth Facilitator through Veriditas.

Robert brings together decades of musical performance, movement study, teaching, preaching, and spiritual formation in his work with people who want to communicate and perform with greater freedom, presence, and authenticity.