Bernhard Wosien

Bernhard Wosien (19 September 1908, in Passenheim, Masuren – 29 April 1986, Munich) was a German Ballet master, choreographer and professor of expression education and dance.

[1] Wosien's professional and artistic development included working as a dancer, assistant director, ballet master, dance educator, choreographer, dance scholar and draftsman.

Wosien ended his career as a Professor without a doctorate at the University of Marburg/Lahn (teaching expression education and dance) and staff at the Friedrich Meinertz Institute (Special needs teacher training) at the Heckscher Clinic in Munich (Empirical research curative education procedures with behaviorally and cerebrally damaged children, development of motion - and expression therapy methods).

[2] From 1976, Wosien introduced circle dance at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland.

[3] Wosien's approach was taken up by Anna Barton, both at Findhorn and across Europe in the 1980s, and this style of sacred dance spread around the world.