This course explores the process of Infant Movement Development from the perspective of Body-Mind Centering®, following and embodying through touch and movement the miraculous journey from conception, through embryological and fetal development, the great transition of birth, and the first year of infant life. Study includes both theoretical and experiential aspects, with a strong focus on the embodiment of each stage of development.

Infant Movement Development

Training Programmes

Four weekends of study in the discipline of Authentic Movement and its relationship to therapeutic and educational practice. Authentic Movement is taught as a support for practice in these fields, helping to cultivate clear presence in our work with others. The course offers an opportunity for immersion in your own movement process, teaches witnessing skills, and explores the application of this work to your own professional practice.

Authentic Movement and Therapeutic Presence

This course offers an embodied exploration of the Skin, Skeletal, Organ, Muscle and Fluid systems of the body through touch, movement, voice and dialogue. Study will include both theoretical and experiential aspects with a strong focus on the embodiment of each system. The art of Touch and Repatterning through each system will be taught and the personal meaning and psychological expression embodied within the different tissues explored.

Embodying Self through the Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® - Part 1: Skin, Skeletal, Organ, Muscle, Fluid Systems

Linda is the founding director and programme director of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy which has been offering training programmes in England and Germany since 1990.  The current programme offers flexibility for those wishing to integrate into their practice new approaches to somatic movement therapy, bodywork and body-mind awareness. It also offers the possibility to train over a period of three years towards a Diploma in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy. Completion of the whole programme will enable students to apply for registration as a Somatic Movement Therapist or Educator with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association). For further information see www.ibmt.co.uk or email info@ibmt.co.uk

This course provides a thorough grounding in Anatomy and Physiology within a context that embraces both a practical and holistic understanding of the human body. Beginning from the premise that the body and all its constituent systems not only take form and function physically but also act as repositories for the stories and life experiences of the individual, the course material will examine the concept of a "psychosomatic unity" (Reich) in conjunction with clinical theory and major pathologies. Each session will include, theory, hands-on work and movement practice as a means to embodied learning.

Holistic Anatomy & Physiology

This course offers an embodied exploration of the Endocrine, Immune, Somatic and Autonomic Nervous systems of the body through touch, movement, voice and dialogue. Study will include both theoretical and experiential aspects with a strong focus on the embodiment of each system. The art of Touch and Repatterning through each system will be taught, the personal meaning and psychological expression embodied within the different tissues explored, and the field of Psychoneuroimmunology introduced.

Embodying Self through the Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® - Part 2: Nervous, Endocrine, Immune Systems; Psychoneuroimmunology

In our work with the body we experience the deep interrelationship between soma, psyche and spirit. Somatic Psychology seeks to give language and meaning to the fluid and organic experiences of somatic process, enabling us to dialogue and interact meaningfully with material arising from the unconscious in  bodywork and movement therapy practice. This course will explore some psychological models emerging out of somatic and perinatal process, including both theory and practice; and address the role of the therapist and their embodied presence in relationship to the client, including basic skills of listening, supporting, witnessing, containing, processing and integrating.

Somatic Psychology