Coming up:
Please note: The Being in Space March workshop has been postponed. We’re not sure yet if the April session will go ahead. – Kim
Being in Space: Body dimensions in movement
How are we spatially organized, and how does this affect our organization as we move through space?
Drawing on embryological and developmental movement patterns through the approach of Body-Mind Centering®, this workshop series explores the body’s dynamic spatial dimensions in alignment, movement and relationship.
Classes include an introduction to anatomy and embryology, guided movement exploration, hands-on and movement facilitation with partners, and time for discussion and applications to your current movement practice. All welcome.
Sundays 12-3pm at High Tide Yoga
73 The Esplanade, Ocean Grove
$60/$50 concession
Book online at www.trybooking.com/BJCKU
22 March: Early embryology (front, back, & middle body)
19 April: Fluid patterns (cellular breathing, sponging & pulsation)
17 May: Head to tail (gut tube, neural tube & spine)
14 June: Starfish (integrating the 6 limbs, center to periphery)
19 July: Wholeness and differentiation in action (supporting dynamic movement)
Stay tuned for monthly workshops in Melbourne, plus a 5-week contemplative photography series in Queenscliff this May.
Past Workshops & classes:
Anatomy Garden: Finding Your Feet
Sept 7, 2019 1-4pm
Kyo Yoga Garden Studio, 73 The Esplanade, Ocean Grove
$55/45 concession
Bookings here.
Points of exchange: Somatic explorations of transformation
A Circulation Project half-day immersion
July 28, 2019 1-5pm
Siteworks, 33 Saxon St, Brunswick
$75/60 concession
Bookings here.
27 April – Being and becoming: introduction to embodied embryology
Early embryology tells a story of our first organization from a cluster of cells into a becoming-body, differentiating into a complex organism. This workshop will introduce some of the milestones of early embryological development, weaving this history into current bodily experience. The narrative of our embryological development can reveal patterns of structure, function and relationship at play in our current psychophysical experience. The embodied study of our becoming supports being as fluid, generative, and ripe with possibility.
Saturday 27 April 2-5pm, $55/50
Bookings available at www.trybooking.com/ZNZK
Body-Mind Centering® Professional Development for Yoga Teachers: Aligning Contents and Container
One Heart Yoga & Meditation, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Wednesdays 12-3pm
Single workshop $55/50/45 concession (3 fee options for 24 April – pay what works for you)
Bookings at www.trybooking.com/ZWSY
The three-part series has finished, but a new session has been added April 24th, focusing on the kidneys and adrenals, in relation to the iliopsoas and diaphragm muscles, pelvis and legs.
This three-workshop series will explore the interrelationships of the organs, endocrine glands and skeletal system in supporting movement and expression. Based in Body-Mind Centering® embodied anatomy, the workshops are designed for yoga & movement teachers (and keen movers) who want to deepen their somatic experience of dynamic movements and postures.
The organs are the landscape of our innermost vitality. When fully inhabited, the organs can bring a deep, easy support to movement and presence, while expanding one’s range of expression. The endocrine glands underlie our internal responsiveness and hormonal fluidity, and can take us beyond individual movement experience to archetypal forms. When brought into alignment with the skeletal system pathways, the organs and glands can support, express, extend, exalt, and ground our movement practices.
Workshop time will include instruction in BMC embodied anatomy and physiology, guided movement explorations, hands-on exchange, and opportunities for participants to generate applications to their own teaching practice. This may include practice teaching in small groups, in order to share ideas and foster creative practice in a supportive environment.
Single workshops $55/$50/$45 concession
Anatomy Garden: meet the psoas, kidneys and adrenals
Kyo Yoga Garden Studio
73 The Esplanade, Ocean Grove
April 13, 12-3pm $55/50 concession
trybooking.com/BBSZG
6 April – Senses: perceiving inner and outer environments
How do we receive, perceive, and interpret sensory experience? How does this reception inform and affect who, what and where we are? This workshop introduces the perceptual-motor cycle as an ongoing process of sensing, interpreting and responding. We will explore the dialogue between the internal felt senses (proprioceptive and kinesthetic senses) and the senses of vision, hearing and touch through which we perceive the outer world.
Body-Mind Centering® Professional Development for Yoga Teachers: Aligning Contents and Container
One Heart Yoga & Meditation, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Wednesdays 12-3pm
Single workshop $55/50/45 concession (3 fee options for 24 April – pay what works for you)
Bookings at www.trybooking.com/ZWSY
This three-workshop series will explore the interrelationships of the organs, endocrine glands and skeletal system in supporting movement and expression. Based in Body-Mind Centering® embodied anatomy, the workshops are designed for yoga teachers who want to deepen their somatic experience of movements and postures.
The organs are the landscape of our innermost vitality. When fully inhabited, the organs can bring a deep, easy support to movement and presence, while expanding one’s range of expression. The endocrine glands underlie our internal responsiveness and hormonal fluidity, and can take us beyond individual movement experience to archetypal forms. When brought into alignment with the skeletal system pathways, the organs and glands can support, express, extend, exalt, and ground our movement practices.
Workshop time will include instruction in BMC embodied anatomy and physiology, guided movement explorations, hands-on exchange, and opportunities for participants to generate applications to their own teaching practice. This will include practice teaching in small groups, in order to share ideas and foster creative practice in a supportive environment.
Workshops can be taken individually or as a series. Each one will focus on a different body region and applications to yoga practice. These workshops are also open to teachers of other movement forms, such as dance and Pilates, and movement researchers wanting to explore embodied anatomy and teaching.
Single workshops $55/$50/$45 concession
16 March – Contents & Container: heart, lungs and upper limbs
Explore embodied anatomy and presence of the heart and lungs in relation to the surrounding structures: diaphragm, ribs, thoracic spine and shoulder girdle. Experience how embodying these organs can foster easier strength and support, along with greater mobility and expression through the arms and upper body.
BMC Teacher Christine Cole teaches a 2-day workshop in EmbryoFLOW, exploring how embryos develop in waves of movement, cellular migration and differentiation. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a Body-Mind Centering® approach to embryology with a highly experienced teacher. Read more here.
March 9 & 10, 2019
12:30 – 5:30pm
North Yoga, Brunswick
$250/200 concession if booked before 2 March
$300/250 concession after 2 March
Bookings at trybooking.com/BAMWN
Engaging organs, glands & bones in movement: A BMC professional development workshop for yoga, Pilates & dance teachers
Kyo Yoga Garden Studio
73 The Esplanade, Ocean Grove
March 2nd, 2-5pm $55/50 concession
trybooking.com/BAIYO
This 3-hour workshop is for movement teachers who want to bring more somatic attention and embodied anatomy into their teaching. We will focus on engaging specific organs and glands, and explore how they support alignment, strength and expression through the skeleton.
The organs are the landscape of our innermost vitality. When fully inhabited, the organs can bring a deep, easy support to movement and presence, while expanding one’s range of expression. The endocrine glands underlie our internal responsiveness and hormonal fluidity, and can take us beyond individual movement experience to archetypal forms. When brought into alignment with the skeletal system pathways, the organs and glands can support, express, extend, exalt, and ground our movement practices.
Workshop time will include instruction in BMC embodied anatomy and physiology, guided movement explorations, hands-on exchange, and opportunities for participants to generate applications to their own teaching practice. This will include practice teaching in small groups, in order to share ideas and foster creative practice in a supportive environment.
Following the workshop there will be time for tea and conversation in the beautiful Kyo garden; a chance to get to know your fellow local movement explorers!
23 February – The fluids: rhythm, coherence & adaptability
The fluids are about transformation – multi-expressions of one flow. When uninhibited, the basic fluid medium changes its specific qualities as it transforms from one energy state to another. – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Explore the dynamic adaptability of the fluid system and its support of expression and responsiveness. Accessing the blood, lymph, cerebrospinal, synovial, cellular, transitional and interstitial fluids supports a range of movement and feeling states and opens up options for presence, change, clarity, playfulness and connection.
2 February – Moving on the earth: yield, push, reach and pull
Yield is an active meeting and readiness to respond. In yielding we more fully meet earth, space and other beings, and this meeting gives us options: to remain, push, reach, or pull to new experience. Explore the developmental movement patterns through which we organize in relation to gravity, space and the surrounding environment: spinal, homologous, homolateral, and contralateral. This workshop will get you moving in ways that are integrative, creative and fun!
19 January 2019 – Prespinal patterns: Foundations of movement
The prevertebral developmental patterns are models of full-body organization that underlie and support all subsequent movement development. Explore patterns of vibration, cellular breathing, sponging, pulsation, navel radiation (starfish), mouthing and pre-spinal as a developmental sequence, emerging from space into form. These patterns develop a sense of multidimensional presence, inner/outer relationship, radial symmetry, and the beginnings of front/back and top/bottom organization. Sold out.
15 December 2018 – Balancing the Nervous System
Come and experience the nervous system as a responsive, dynamic network of communication, awareness and learning, through guided movement exploration, experiential anatomy and hands-on support. Based in Body-Mind Centering®, this workshop will introduce embodied approaches to exploring the nervous system, including the head, heart and belly ‘brains’, sensory/motor flows, and autonomic rhythms of rest and alertness. This work helps support the release of excess tension by calibrating states of rest, readiness and action. Support your nervous system with mindful attention – it’s a great way to finish the year! Sold out.
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I’m excited to announce two workshops with one of my teachers, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the founder of Body-Mind Centering
. She’ll be teaching in Sydney and Melbourne in March 2017 – her first time teaching in Australia! – and I’m helping to organize the workshops. You can find all the details here.
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Water photography workshops through the F Project, August 6 and 14, 2016 – see flyer for details.
Body-Mind Centering (BMCsm) is a highly experiential approach to inhabiting the lively and responsive territory of our body-minds. Based in embodied anatomy, physiology and embryology, BMC recognizes the interdependent, developmental and creative nature of being a human being in the world. For more about BMC please visit bodymindcentering.com
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