Somatic Education Australasia

19/11/2025

Are you curious about your fluid system or nervous system? We welcome you in February for our upcoming Body-Mind Centering© certification courses in Melbourne. Curious to learn more? Now is the time to register.

19/11/2025

Curious what a Body-Mind Centering certification looks like? Register now for our upcoming courses Fluid System and Nervous System February in Melbourne.

07/11/2025

06/11/2025

Join the Body-Mind Centering® Association conference this weekend online.

Body-Mind Centering® is described as an approach and its experiential study as a creative process.

As both an approach and a process (rather than a defined technique), BMC® readily intersects with, layers upon, and engages in generative dialogue with related disciplines, diverse fields, and applications.

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 approaches and disciplines, organized within the following topics:

BMC® & contemplative practices

BMC® & creative process

BMC® & dance / performing arts education

BMC® & developmental movement education and therapy

BMC®-informed psychotherapeutic and trauma approaches

Featuring Body-Mind Centering® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and a selection of other teachers, practitioners, and explorers of BMC® from over 15 countries.

BMCA News & Upcoming Events LIAISONS VINCOLIKONTAKTECONTRIBUCIONESINTERSECTIONS繋がりCONEXÕES THREE -DAY ONLINE EVENT7-9 NOVEMBER 2025 A three-day online event that spotlights some of the many ways in which BMC® has shaped and been nurtured by related disciplines and cross-cultural exchanges. L...

29/09/2025

A big thank you to everyone who came to play with Organs and BNPs this month! It's a delight and privilege to spend time learning together through play, movement, touch, collaboration and generative conversations. Thank you to the Abbotsford Convent for hosting us in this beautiful space, to our teachers Olive Bieringa and Kim Sargent-Wishart, our fabulous assisting team Sally, Natalie, Durgananda, Fiona and Rivka. Also to Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and everyone who has contributed to the flourishing and refinement of Body-Mind Centering® over the last 50 years.

Our next courses are the Fluid System and Nervous System in February 2026. Registration information will be out soon! The best way to stay in touch is to sign up for our mailing list - link in comments.

25/08/2025

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!Our breath is both a survival process and a consciousness practice. It links us to ourselves, to those around us, and to the environment...

21/08/2025

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10/08/2025

A recent interview with SEA program director Olive Bieringa.

In the 17th episode of LIFE THAT SAID YES conversations Ivan is joined by Olive Bieringa in a lovely exchange about awakening the senses and opening the perc...

08/08/2025

Would you like to join our next cohort of Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educators or Infant Developmental Movement Educators in Melbourne?
Join us for our next Basic Neurocellular Patterns Course

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08/08/2025

Would you like to join our next cohort of Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educators or Infant Developmental Movement Educators in Melbourne?
Join us for our next Organ System Course next month!

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16/07/2025

"My body hears many voices, not one voice.
My body seeks comfort but not for long.
My body enjoys jokes, riddles, and games.
My body engages in work."
The timeless words of Deborah Hay - brought to us by our friends at Contact Quarterly (follow the link for more)

Excerpted from Deborah Hay’s “My Body, The Buddhist:”
“how I learned my body is a buddhist body
My body benefits in solitude.
My body finds energy in surrender.
My body hears many voices, not one voice.
My body seeks comfort but not for long.
My body enjoys jokes, riddles, and games.
My body engages in work.
My body is limited by physical presence.
My body commits to practice.
My body knowingly participates in its appearances.
My body learns through devotion.
My body likes rest.
My body is bored by answers.
My body seeks more than one view of itself.
My body trusts the unknown.
My body equates patience with renewal.
My body feels weightless in the presence of paradox.
My body delights in resourcefulness.
My body relaxes when thoughts abate.
My body is held in the present.”

Read more of Hay’s book in CQ Vol. 23 No. 2 (Summer/Fall 1998) which is available to purchase in PDF format: https://contactquarterly.com/cq/back-issues/index.php =vol-23-no-2

Image Description: A vertically narrow image of Deborah Hay’s profile in “Viola,” set on the right side of a white background. Image is in black and white. Photo by Todd Wolfson.