Alison Waldman (she/her) is an architect of wellness initiatives in healthcare spaces, designing onsite and virtual patient- and provider-facing programs based in dance, mindfulness and community building.
A Movement Artist-in-Residence at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital since 2016, Alison co-developed the award-winning Movement for Multiple Sclerosis program with the GU Medical Center Department of Neurology; helps leads the virtual and onsite Ready to Move staff wellness offerings; and directs the annual Day of Dance – the first site specific dance performance of its kind in a healthcare clinic.
She is a classically trained dancer, a longtime choreographer and dance-theater maker specializing in nontraditional spaces and bodies with diverse mobilities, and a trauma-informed yoga instructor (RYT-200®) with additional certifications in Accessible Yoga and Oncology Yoga.
Recently Alison has consulted with multiple healthcare institutions on arts programs for staff care including as advisor and founding provider for Mili Health, a wellness telehealth platform for cancer patients; and the co-direction of workshops with Tara Rynders, RN and The Clinic. She leads private and for-hire wellness offerings through Available Wellness.
Currently Alison also serves as a visiting artist and consultant at the Smith Center’s AIR program at Inova Schar Cancer Institute and a member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Arts for Resilience in Clinicians working group. Alison delivered her TEDx talk, “Why we should be dancing with our doctors,” in 2020.
A Movement Artist-in-Residence at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital since 2016, Alison co-developed the award-winning Movement for Multiple Sclerosis program with the GU Medical Center Department of Neurology; helps leads the virtual and onsite Ready to Move staff wellness offerings; and directs the annual Day of Dance – the first site specific dance performance of its kind in a healthcare clinic.
She is a classically trained dancer, a longtime choreographer and dance-theater maker specializing in nontraditional spaces and bodies with diverse mobilities, and a trauma-informed yoga instructor (RYT-200®) with additional certifications in Accessible Yoga and Oncology Yoga.
Recently Alison has consulted with multiple healthcare institutions on arts programs for staff care including as advisor and founding provider for Mili Health, a wellness telehealth platform for cancer patients; and the co-direction of workshops with Tara Rynders, RN and The Clinic. She leads private and for-hire wellness offerings through Available Wellness.
Currently Alison also serves as a visiting artist and consultant at the Smith Center’s AIR program at Inova Schar Cancer Institute and a member of the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) Arts for Resilience in Clinicians working group. Alison delivered her TEDx talk, “Why we should be dancing with our doctors,” in 2020.