School for Body-Mind Centering

03/09/2025

✨Become a Somatic Movement Educator!✨

The School for Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Education Program explores the richness of the relationship between body, mind, movement and touch in the context of our dynamic Embodied Anatomy and Embodied Developmental Movement approach to Somatic Movement Education.

Students are introduced to the foundations and fundamentals of embodiment in working with themselves and others.

School for Body-Mind Centering® programs offer an experiential approach to movement, the body, and consciousness.

People who study the Body-Mind Centering® approach come from a variety of backgrounds but they all share a common interest in the body-mind relationship and want to learn an in-depth, experiential and embodied approach.

Whether you are involved with a movement practice (yoga, dance, athletics, martial arts, etc.), work in a therapeutic setting (occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychotherapy, child development, etc.), or are engaged in other expressive arts (visual arts, music, etc.), our programs offer an opportunity for professional development and/or personal growth.

Most courses in this program may be taken individually or in combination for personal growth or professional enrichment without commitment to the entire program.

This program is currently offered in 15 countries and in 8 languages.

This program explores the richness of the relationship between body, mind, movement and touch in the context of our dynamic Embodied Anatomy and Embodied Developmental Movement approach to Somatic Movement Education.

25/08/2025

Study Body-Mind Centering® in Spain!

Movimiento Atlas offers School for Body-Mind Centering® Programs and courses in Spain. All courses are taught in Spanish and English with consecutive translation.

Their 2026 course offerings include:
⭐Fluid System: January 4 - 10
⭐ Organ System: March 38 - April 4
⭐ Endocrine System: July 1 - 6

These courses are part of the Somatic Movement Education Program and can be taken individually or in combination with no further commitment to the program.

Learn more! https://www.movimientoatlas.com/

https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/movimiento-atlas/

LOCATION Spain ABOUT Movimiento Atlas is a Cultural Association created in 2010 to provide a responsive framework to support, sustain and stimulate the dissemination of somatic based movement and dance practice in Spain. We offer opportunities to learn, deepen inquiry, share practice and exchange id...

22/08/2025

Registration is open for Bonnie's live online series of classes!

Bonnie invites you to explore breath as a living dialogue between body, mind, and spirit. Guided through anatomy, movement, touch, and voice, you’ll practice deepening your embodied awareness and discover ways of cultivating a renewed connection to your breath.

Registration for this series is officially open—reserve your place today! Pay From the Heart scholarships and payment plans are available: https://bonniebainbridgecohen.com/products/2025-fall-series-live?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=2025_fall_series&utm_term=02&utm_content=bmc

21/08/2025

Join Bonnie and the wider Body-Mind Centering® community in November for Liaisons, an online event hosted by the Body-Mind Centering Association!

Early registration discount has been extended to September 15!

Liaisons is a three-day online event that spotlights some of the many ways in which Body-Mind Centering® has been applied to a range of disciplines and helped shape cross-exchanges between BMC® and other (somatic, creative, educational, and therapeutic) approaches and disciplines.

REGISTRATION INFO FOR LIAISONS: https://www.bmcassociation.org/news

Liaisons - Link in bio

18/08/2025

Become an Infant Developmental Movement Educator!

The School for Body-Mind Centering® Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME) Program is a highly sophisticated and subtle approach to the observation and facilitation of normal movement patterns in infants.

The approach incorporates the child’s curiosity, interest and individuality into the relationship with the educator. It is child centered and relationship centered, and child oriented rather than task oriented.

It trains people to recognize early movement patterns and to interact effectively with infants in gentle, enticing ways that will have a positive effect on their growth and development.

The goal in movement education with infants is to help set a foundation that supports pathways of ease, strength, agility and adaptability and to help avoid restrictive patterns of movement that inhibit the development of the full potential of the child.

This program is currently offered in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States.

This program is a highly sophisticated and subtle approach to the observation and facilitation of normal movement patterns in infants.

11/08/2025

Join Bonnie and the wider Body-Mind Centering® community in November for Liaisons, an online event hosted by the Body-Mind Centering Association!

Early registration discount through August 17.

Liaisons is a three-day online event that spotlights some of the many ways in which Body-Mind Centering® has been applied to a range of disciplines and helped shape cross-exchanges between BMC® and other (somatic, creative, educational, and therapeutic) approaches and disciplines.

REGISTRATION INFO FOR LIAISONS: https://www.bmcassociation.org/news

Early Bird Registration is open through AUGUST 17th!

Join now to enjoy...
* A $50 discount on registration
* First access to bonus recordings FROM THE BMCA ARCHIVE
* Time to settle into the online event space on Mighty Networks
* Meet and chat with other attendees, ask questions and more
* Three days of live online BMC® sessions November 7-9

Liaisons is a three-day online event that spotlights some of the many ways in which BMC® has been applied to a range of disciplines and helped shape cross-exchanges between BMC® and other (somatic, creative, educational, and therapeutic) approaches and disciplines.

Featuring Body-Mind Centering® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and a selection of other teachers, practitioners, and explorers of BMC®. More info about presenters and sessions coming soon!

All pricing is a self-selecting sliding scale.
Professional and Explorer Members receive a additional member’s discount.

Not a member yet? Become an Explorer member and register with a Bundle, and receive year-round access to the online community and other benefits.

REGISTRATION INFO FOR LIAISONS: https://www.bmcassociation.org/news, or check our link in our bio.

04/08/2025

Explore muscles this October in New York, USA with Sonder Movement Project!

This Muscular System course includes:

⭐ Innovative muscle principles (proximal and distal initiation, muscle coupling and currenting, A and B muscles, four stages of a muscle action, eight functions of a muscle).
⭐ Embodying muscles and initiating movement at the molecular level (actin and myosin).
⭐ The embodied functions of proprioceptors (muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs).
⭐ Analyzing the actions of individual muscles and of groups of muscles from the perspective of one’s position in relation to gravity.
⭐and as they pass through different fascial planes.
⭐ Techniques of muscle reeducation and training.

Sonder Movement Project offers School for Body-Mind Centering® programs and courses in New York. This course can be taken independently without commitment to an entire program.

Learn more: https://www.sondermoves.com/

https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/sonder-movement-project/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=bmc

19/07/2025

There is still time to register for two upcoming courses in Melbourne, Australia with Somatic Education Australasia!

These courses can be taken individually without commitment to an entire program.

✦︎ Organ System: August 29 – 5 September
✦︎ Basic Neurocellular Patterns: September 8-15

Learn more: https://seasomaticeducation.com/
https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/somatic-education-australasia/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=bmc

16/07/2025

Congratulations to Tessura on their launch of the Somatic Movement Education Program in Belgium!

They are several more courses this year—all of which can be taken individually without commitment to the entire program.

✦︎ Basic Neurocellular Patterns: July 20-27
✦︎ Organ System: July 30-August 6
✦︎ Primitive Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses: October 25-31
✦︎ Ontogenetic Development: November 2-7

All courses are taught in English with translation of individual terms or sentences into French and Dutch.

Learn more: https://www.tessura.org/
https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/tessura/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=bmc

In 1993, Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson, the dancing editors/editing dancers of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's 'Sensing, Feeling, Action' wrote in their preface to that book: ' Fastidious in its detail and encompassing in its scope, BMC provides a frame for studying the complexity of the living, moving body in all aspects of life.'

As the Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Education program, organized by Tessura has started, we notice the richness ánd intensity of that study. After the Senses and Perception-course, and the first three days of Skeletal System-course, we all, including our physioballs, can enjoy a day off!!!
Thanks to all who supported this beautiful 'launch' into the vast journey of learning together....

14/07/2025

There is still time to register for the Primitive Reflexes, Righting Reactions, and Equilibrium Responses (RRR) course in Bratislava with Babyfit This course starts July 23 and will be taught in English with translation into Slovak if needed.

Offering licensed School for Body-Mind Centering® programs and courses in Slovakia since 2008.

07/07/2025

School for Body-Mind Centering® courses and programs in Germany with moveus GbR!

02/07/2025

Study Body-Mind Centering® in Greece!

Body-Mind Centering in Greece with ISTOS is offering Senses and Perception 1 September 7 - 10, 2025 in Athens.

It will be taught in Greek and English with consecutive translation.

This course can be taken independently without commitment to an entire program.

Our senses begin as potential and develop in response to stimulation and experience. The senses of touch and movement are located throughout the body — in every cell. The senses of vision, hearing, taste and smell are located in the head. It is through our senses that we receive information from our internal environment (ourselves) and the external environment (others and the world).

How we filter, modify, distort, accept, reject, and use that information is part of the act of perceiving. Perception is a global experience. It is the psychophysical process of interpreting information based on past experience, present circumstances and future expectations. When we choose to absorb information, we bond to that aspect of our environment. When we block out information, we defend against that aspect. Learning is the process by which we vary our responses to information based on the context of each situation.

Learn more: https://bmcgr.weebly.com/senses--perception-1.html

https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/istos/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=bmc

LOCATION Greece & Greek Cyprus ABOUT ISTOS is the official School for Body-Mind Centering® in Greece. We are pleased to offer both the Somatic Movement Education (SME) Program as well as the Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME) Program. DIRECTORS Educational Director: Janet Amato Administ...