Martina Otte studied tanztherapie at the Langen Institut und Modern Dance at the Martha Graham School and Erick Hawkins School in New York. Apart from her dance therapy work she also worked as a dancer and choreographer. At the moment Martina Otte was head of the education departement at the Langen-Institut - School for Dance Therapy, Akademie Monheim on rhein and teaches dance therapy, Laban movement analysis and Modern Dance.