MariaChiara Purcaro is a pre- and post-natal educator. In 1999 she founded Spazio Nascita, a Cultural Association where she leads maternity courses through movement and bodywork for women and couples and offers post partum assistance and support.

Her formal education includes bodywork, contemporary dance, and psychomotor practice according to the method developed by Prof. B. Aucouturier at the I.F.R.A. in Bologna.

Through training and personal search she has developed a particular methodology, which has been further influenced by contact with F. Leboyer, M. Odent, North American medicine women, and empirical obstetricians.

Since Spring of 2003 MariaChiara has undergone intensive training with James Tomarelli in Gurdjieff Dance and Attention-Body-Mind practices. Since 2012 she has given physiotherapy and bodywork group sessions during Gurdjieff Dance workshops.

Currently, MariaChiara assists James at seminars, using her knowledge and experience of body structure to help participants develop their full potential.