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Offering programs and courses in Body-Mind Centering® for over fifty years. There are graduates in 32 countries and on five continents.

Body-Mind Centering® (BMCˢᵐ) is an experiential approach to movement re-education and hands-on repatterning developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Using movement, touch, voice and mind, BMCˢᵐ is an exploration of the personal embodiment of our cells, our body systems and our developmental patterns. It has an almost unlimited number of areas of application and is currently being used by people in mo

vement, dance, yoga, bodywork, physical and occupational therapy, psychotherapy, child development, education, voice, music, art, meditation, athletics and other body-mind disciplines. Since 1973, the School for Body-Mind Centering® has been dedicated to sharing this dynamic approach to embodiment studies with the world. Programs and immersion series are now offered by licensed training organizations in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Asia. Graduates of programs receive a certificate from the School for Body-Mind Centering®. Body-Mind Centering® programs, immersion series, and courses present detailed and specific approaches to the personal embodiment of our cells, our body systems, and our developmental patterns. The principles and techniques learned can be used for personal growth, for professional enhancement, or to begin a career in the field of somatic movement and/or infant developmental movement education and therapy.

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...

24/06/2025

Study Body-Mind Centering® in Melbourne, Australia!

Somatic Education Australasia has two upcoming courses:

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

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

Learn more: https://seasomaticeducation.com/

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

Offering the first licensed School for Body-Mind Centering® program in Australia.

12/06/2025

Join Embody Move for the Ligamentous and Fascial course in North Wales, UK in October!

Fascia provides the tensegrity matrix of the whole body. It wraps around all other structures as one continuous spiraling, multilayered, and multidimensional network of expansive sheaths, enclosed containers and specialized attachments. These specialized attachments are the ligaments.

The ligaments set the boundaries of movement between the bones. They coordinate and guide muscular responses by directing the path of movement between the bones and provide specificity, clarity, and efficiency for the alignment and movement of the bones.

When all of the ligaments of a joint are actively engaged, the movement of that joint becomes highly specific and is carried effortlessly to surrounding and successive joints.

Learn more: https://embody-move.co.uk/program/somatic-movement-educator/

https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/embody-move/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=upcoming_ligamentous_course&utm_content=bmc

Offering School for Body-Mind Centering® Programs and courses in the United Kingdom and Poland.

09/06/2025

Study Body-Mind Centering® in Slovakia!

Join Babyfit for the Primitive Reflexes, Righting Reactions, and Equilibrium Responses (RRR) course this July. It will be taught in English with translation into Slovak if needed.

This course is part of the Somatic Movement Education and Infant Developmental Movement Education programs but can be taken independently without commitment to an entire program.

Learn more: https://babyfit.sk/babyfit-ponuka/vzdelavanie/vzdelavacie-programy-bmc-idme-sme/

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

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

02/06/2025

Join Movimiento Atlas for the Ontogenetic Development course in Spain this July!

The course is offered in Spanish and English with consecutive translation. It can be taken independently without commitment to an entire program.

The period from intrauterine life through approximately 12 months of age is an extraordinarily formative time for humans. Our basic movement patterns emerge in utero, are present at birth, and develop through the first year of life. It is during this time that we build the groundwork for our movement and perceptual skills and pass through the milestones by which we mark our development.

Learn more: https://movimientoatlas.com/programa-idme/desarrollo-ontogenetico/

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

27/05/2025

Join Embodiyoga with Lisa Clark for the next module in the ONLINE School for Body-Mind Centering® Yoga Immersion Series!

Embodied Movement and the Organ System: Vitality, Flow, and Form in the Lower Body and Central Axis: JUNE 8, 22, and 29 2025.

Exploring the Organ System, we find new internal pathways of movement, support, and connectivity. We learn to move more naturally, with greater technical skill and consciousness. Asana and sequencing become a balance of organic flow, form, activity, and rest.

Through this module, you will gain an understanding of the organs and their relationship to movement, breath, and touch. We’ll experience how they contribute to alignment, and vitality, helping you experience a deeper sense of presence and flow.

Exploring the Organ System, we find new internal pathways of movement, support, and connectivity. We learn to move more naturally, with greater technical skill and consciousness. Asana and sequencing become a balance of organic flow, form, activity, and rest.

23/05/2025

Study Body-Mind Centering® in Oregon, USA!

Moving Within offers the School for Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Education program.

Nestled among fir and ferns in the valley of Lorane, Oregon, this is a residential program that offers the opportunity to fully immerse oneself in the Body-Mind Centering® material. Participation is limited to 15, creating an intimate community.

Many courses can be taken without commitment to the entire program. Upcoming courses include:

Senses and Perception 1 – July 2025
Skeletal System – July 2025
Ontogenetic Development – March 2026
Muscular System – June 2026

Learn more: https://movingwithin.com/

https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/moving-within/

Offering the School for Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Education Program and courses in Oregon, USA.

20/05/2025

Study Body-Mind Centering® in Taiwan!

A new cycle of our Somatic Movement Education Program is starting in Taiwan in August 2026 through 臺灣身心教育學會 Somatic Education Society of Taiwan.

All courses are taught in English and Mandarin with consecutive translation.

Many courses in this program can be taken individually without commitment to the entire program.

Learn more:
https://www.somatics.tw/body-mind-centering-sm-%E8%BA%AB%E5%BF%83%E5%B9%B3%E8%A1%A1/

https://www.bodymindcentering.com/locations/organization/somatic-education-society-of-taiwan/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=taiwan_lo&utm_content=bmc

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Body-Mind Centering®

Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) is an experiential approach to movement re-education and hands-on repatterning developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Using movement, touch, voice and mind, BMC® is an exploration of the personal embodiment of our cells, our body systems and our developmental patterns. It has an almost unlimited number of areas of application and is currently being used by people in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, physical and occupational therapy, psychotherapy, child development, education, voice, music, art, meditation, athletics and other body-mind disciplines.

Body-Mind Centering® programs, immersion series, and courses present detailed and specific approaches to the personal embodiment of our cells, our body systems, and our developmental patterns. The principles and techniques learned can be used for personal growth, for professional enhancement, or to begin a career in the field of somatic movement and/or infant developmental movement education and therapy. Since 1973, the School for Body-Mind Centering® has been dedicated to sharing this dynamic approach to embodiment studies with the world. There are graduates in 32 countries and on five continents. Programs and immersion series are now offered by licensed training organizations in Europe, North America, and South America. Graduates of programs receive a certificate from the School for Body-Mind Centering®.