M.S. - Dance/Movement Therapy
ACE Certified Group Exercise Instructor
Personal Trainer, ACE Certified; back/neck pain, posture, stress exercise
Faculty Consultant, American Back Society, 1987-93
Choreographer/Artist: “Say Goodbye to Wrist Pain” Video,
“Bye Bye Back Pain” Video, “Relax Your Back” Video, and “Pain-free Back Exercise” Video
Public Speaker, Healthy Life Styles and Healthy Backs
Founder, Bodyformula Speakers Bureau

Ms. Bergman spent one year in Jerusalem, Israel studying at the Reuben Academy of Dance and Music. She was awarded a license from the Jacques Dalcroze School of Eurythmics (music and dance) from Brussels, Belgium. She completed her studies with a Masters of Science Degree in Dance/Movement Therapy from Hunter College, New York City, in 1983.

Ms. Bergman choreographed the Pain-free Back Exercise Video at the request of Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine and Employee Health Services, to help relieve employee back pain. She volunteered at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Dept. of Geriatrics and Medicine; she conducted therapeutic exercise for the medically ill. She joined the March of Dimes in the Corporate “Babies n’ You” Campaign. She researched and developed a Public Seminar entitled “Pregnancy, Posture, Back Pain and Exercise”. Roberta’s expertise lies in healing back and neck pain, fantastic posture, and stress reduction through medically safe exercise and relaxation techniques. It is just this focus, along with Ms. Bergman’s unique energetic, enthusiastic and motivating style of educating people, that enables her to present seminars and develop programs about health and fitness issues in the workplace to employee groups. She has helped organizations such as Johnson & Johnson Health Management, IBM, Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals, Salomon Brothers, MTV, HBO, Viacom, TimeWarner/AOL, and Universal, among many others.

CNN, Lifetime Television, Channel 11 and many other stations have interviewed Ms. Bergman as their featured health and fitness guest. Her specialty exercise programs are so appealing to so many different age groups and market segments since her focus is on medically-safe exercise and family fitness. Ms. Bergman helps people harness both physical and mental energies through healthy life styles. She choreographs and develops health and fitness programs for people from ages 2-92. She has been lauded by Shape magazine as one of the ten most successful women in the exercise business. Due to her international reputation in health and fitness, Ms. Bergman is a frequent radio and TV show guest. She is telegenic and communicates her health and fitness expertise with enthusiasm, effervescence, and contagious ENERGY!