- Body-Mind Centering® Week Berlin
In Relation To - Self, Other and Everything In Between | 12 BMC® classes | individual sessions | 4 day tickets, day tickets and drop in classes
The Body-Mind Centering® Week in Berlin offers the opportunity to get to know various facilitators in one place and experience 12 BMC® classes plus one day especially focused on BMC® individual sessions. This year’s title “In Relation To – Self, Other & Everything In Between” captures the heart of Body-Mind Centering® - the interplay of inner and outer, self and other, always in motion. It speaks to how awareness unfolds through these shifting relationships, opening pathways for connection and transformation.
What is BMC®?
In BMC® we explore the dynamic connections between body, state of mind, consciousness, thoughts and feelings. By engaging with anatomical information, movement, touch and sensations the structures, tissues and spaces in the body are made tangible.
The Body-Mind Centering® approach strengthens self-awareness and resilience. It helps in recovering from stress and exhaustion and fosters trust in the body’s own intelligence.
Who is this course for?
• Classes are open to people of different ages and abilities, welcoming both beginners and those wishing to deepen their BMC® practice.
• Anyone who wants to get to know Body-Mind Centering® as an approach to explore body and mind as a source of movement, expression, connection and creativity.
• Anyone who likes to recover from stress and exhaustion, gain self-awareness and resilience and encourage trust in the body’s own intelligence.
• Dancers, performing artists, bodyworkers and therapists who want to explore the BMC® approach and enrich their own practices.
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
The Body-Mind Centering® Week will take place from February 23-27, 2026. The diverse workshop program invites you to explore the dynamic connections between body, state of mind, consciousness, thoughts and feelings. Each class is unique in its composition and style depending on its specific theme and facilitator.
| Monday Feb 23 , 2026 | Tuesday Feb 24, 2026 | Wednesday Feb 25, 2026 | Thursday Feb 26, 2026 | Friday Feb 27, 2026 | |
| 9:00-11:00 am | Nina Wehnert In Relation to Space | Julia Kleinknecht Fabric of Encounter | Heike Kuhlmann Connexion and Connectivity | Laura Gary Alignment – From Embryo to Present | Individual Sessions by request |
| 11:30am-1:30pm | Judith Wolff Taking and Giving, Yearning and Letting Go: Breath as Space of Experience | Odile Seitz The Cell Membrane, a Microstructure with Macro Properties | Susanne Taprogge Inside & Outside | Jens Johannsen Cells and Expanded Consciousness | Individual Sessions by request |
| 1:30-3:30pm | PAUSE | PAUSE | PAUSE | PAUSE | PAUSE |
| 3:30-5:30pm | Satu Palokangas Placenta: An Organ of Transition and Relationship | Vesna Hetzel The Kidneys - Presence, Flow, Vibration | Jennie Zimmermann & Nina Spiri In Relation to - 7pm: Potluck&Get Together | Ka Rustler Safety, Comfort, Bonding | Individual Sessions by request |
BMC® classes
Monday, 23 February 2026
09:00 - 11:00 Uhr | Nina Wehnert | In Relation to Space
11:30 - 13:30 Uhr | Judith Wolff | Taking and Giving, Yearning and Letting Go: Breath as
Space of Experience
15:30 - 17:30 Uhr | Satu Palokangas | Placenta: An Organ of Transition and Relationship
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
09:00 - 11:00 Uhr | Julia Kleinknecht | Fabric of Encounter
11:30 - 13:30 Uhr | Odile Seitz | The Cell Membrane, a Microstructure with Macro Properties
15:30 - 17:30 Uhr | Vesna Hetzel | The Kidneys - Presence, Flow, Vibration
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
09:00 - 11:00 Uhr | Heike Kuhlmann | Connexion and Connectivity
11:30 - 13:30 Uhr | Susanne Taprogge | Inside & Outside
15:30 - 17:30 Uhr | Jennie Zimmermann & Nina Spiri | In Relation to
19:00 - 21.30 Uhr | Potluck & Get Together
Thursday, 26 Februar 2026
09:00 - 11:00 Uhr | Laura Gary | Alignment – From Embryo to Present
11:30 - 13:30 Uhr | Jens Johannsen | Cells and Expanded Consciousness
15:30 - 17:30 Uhr | Ka Rustler | Safety, Comfort, Bonding
Friday, 27 February 2026
As part of the festival, there will be an opportunity to book an individual session with a BMC®
practitioner in Berlin at a special price.
Class descriptions
Nina Wehnert
In Relation to Space
We will explore our inner fluid movements in relation to our internal spaces and the environment
around us. Through the lens of embryology we will explore the movement of our bloodflow and the
subtle, light fluidity of the cerebral spinal fluid to deepen our physical understanding of our internal
dynamics in relation to the external world. At the core of this exploration is the principle of yield—
softening and letting go in order to receive—both within ourselves and in connection to the space
around us.
Judith Wolff
Taking and Giving, Yearning and Letting go: Breath as Space of Experience
Breathing is fundamental for sustaining and nourishing life. At the same time, it is always a
dynamic of giving and receiving in exchange. In this workshop, we explore different qualities of the
basic needs of taking in and giving out, starting from the biochemical and physical processes of our
breathing we discover fundamental patterns of our being.
Satu Palokangas
Placenta: An Organ of Transition and Relationship
In this class we will spend time meeting and greeting this often forgotten organ of placenta, which
we created as an embryo to essentially function as our early lungs, liver, gut, kidneys and
endocrine glands. How may their echo in our bodies still support our sense of connection,
belonging and transformation?
Julia Kleinknecht
Fabric of Encounter
All inner and outer surfaces of our body are covered or lined by highly specialised multilayered
structures, the so called epithelia. We’ll explore the quality of those places of permeability and
protection.
Odile Seitz
The Cell Membrane, a Microstructure with Macro Properties
Delving into the world of cells is like entering a boundless space, experiencing the origin of various
physiological processes, and encountering the potential to recognize and expand one's own
familiar paths.
Vesna Hetzel
The Kidneys - Presence, Flow, Vibration
We will explore different qualities of the kidneys as organs, and their relation to the endocrine
glands, vibration and breathing. How can our bodies kidneys support the presence, clarity and flow
of our movements?
Heike Kuhlmann
Connexion and Connectivity
Finding connexion within myself is the foundation for building connexions with others. The fascial
system and the tensegrity model reveal the hidden web of connectivity woven into our very being.
From these internal connexions we zoom out discovering other connexions and the world around
us, looking for an embodied connectivity.
Susanne Taprogge
Inside & Outside
How can I hold space for myself while being present and in relation to the environment? In this
class we explore the fluid dance between inside and outside from a cellular perspective.
Nina Spiri & Jennie Zimmermann
In Relation to
A space to sense into the co-existence of being at rest within oneself and being in contact with
others and an invitation to explore “In Relation To – Self, Other & Everything In Between”.
Laura Gary
Alignment – From Embryo to Present
We explore alignment between front and back, supported by embryological traces that have
shaped the body since the beginning. In movement and in the present body, new possibilities for
alignment, clarity, and support can emerge.
Jens Johannsen
Cells and Expanded Consciousness – How Inner Work is Connected to Everything
In BMC® it is always about relationship. In this class, we explore our possibilities of breathing,
vibration, mind, and movement as ways of living it.
Ka Rustler
Bonding, Safety and Comfort
Yield and Push are part of the first patterns through which we meet the world - yielding offers
support and connection, pushing creates space and direction. We explore how these forces shape
movment, perception and the ability to navigate boundaries with clarity and care.
Individual BMC® Session
Individual sessions take place in comfortable clothes on a bodywork-table or on the floor. Using
movement, various qualities of touch and verbal dialogue, different areas of the body can be
sensed and explored in a gentle and curious way and supported in their potential. Individual
sessions are the frame to bring your awareness to personal themes and questions.
As part of the festival, there will be an opportunity to book an individual session with a BMC®
practitioner in Berlin at a special price. These sessions are optional, are paid for separately, and
take place in the respective practice rooms of each practitioner. Sessions can be booked via email
beforehand or directly at the festival (first come first served).
Duration: 75 minutes | Price: 60 €
The practitioners who will offer sessions at the BMC® Berlin Week are Laura Gary, Johanna
Harbeck, Vesna Hetzel, Jens Johannsen, Odile Seitz-Walser, Nina Spiri, Nina Wehnert, Jennie
Zimmermann, Julia Kleinknecht, Susanne Taprogge.
Email us if you have questions or want to book a session: mail@jenniezimmermann.de /
spirinina@gmail.com
Seminarleiter*innen
Nina Wehnert
Dancer, BMC® Practitioner & Teacher
She teaches Body-Mind Centering® in workshops, at Contact Improvisation festivals worldwide, and in various dance and yoga teacher training courses. Since 2018, she has been offering her own BMC® training at the Somatic Academy, and since 2019, she has been part of the training team at moveus, the German licensed BMC® training program of the School for Body-Mind Centering®.
Heike Kuhlmann
www.heikekuhlmann.net
MSME, BMC®-Practitioner, dancer, -educator, choreographer, MA Performance Studies/Choreography
Heike is interested in the unfolding process of human beings. It is more than the individual unfolding, but in how people can meet each other at eye level through personal development and inclusion of structural conditions in her somatic facilitations. Being a condition to become Critical Somatics. She accompanies somatic processes in individual sessions, courses, workshops and trainings. Activism and somatics are interwoven in her artistic work. More information on: www.somatik-tanz-choreographie.de, www.heikekuhlmann.net
Odile Seitz-Walser
www.odile-seitz.de
dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and practitioner for Body-Mind Centering®
Odile works as dancer, healing practitioner for Craniosacral Therapy, Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering. She’s part of the teaching team of moveus, german Training Program of the School for Body-Mind Centering®. She teaches internationally in Dance schools and festivals, in Highschools for Dance and Choreography (HZT Berlin) and for social workers (Würzburg and Potsdam), also at the Dance teacher education programs (Seneca Berlin). She gives individual sessions and works individually and in groups with families, supporting developmental challenges and internal dynamics.
Ka Rustler
Ka Rustler has been performing, researching and analyzing somatic practices and their embodiment in movement, choreography and therapy for over 30 years. BMC® Teacher
Nina Spiri
spirinina@gmail.com
www.ninaspiri.com
BMC®-Practitioner, Workshop Facilitator & Coach
Nina is Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and innovation trainer. She is passionate about people and facilitating individual as well as group processes in various ways & contexts. She loves journeys that lead you into the different tissues of your body and open the possibility to sense and get to know yourself better. Next to her passion for BMC® and anatomy, Nina supports multidisciplinary teams with empathy, communication and creativity techniques to generate ideas and innovative solutions.
Johanna Harbeck
BMC® Practitioner, trained in Cranio-Sacral Therapy
She offers individual sessions and works with people with disabilities. In her work, she places the human being as a whole at the center. Her intention in individual sessions is to support and bring to life the potential of eachperson she accompanies.
Jennie Zimmermann
mail@jenniezimmermann.de
www.jenniezimmermann.de
Dancer, dance pedagogue, BMC® Somatic Movement Educator, Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analyst (Certificate "basic") and musician
Jennie practices and teaches contact improvisation and somatic bodywork. Her artistic work and teaching focus on the experience of activity and rest, regeneration, appreciation and self-care, individuality, communication and community.
Julia Kleinknecht
www.juliakleinknecht.de
Somatic Movement Educator and Practitioner of Body-Mind-Centering® (2018/2022)
Julia Kleinknecht is certified as Somatic Movement Educator and Practitioner of Body-Mind-Centering® (2018 / 2022)
She is a graduate in cinematography, dancer, theatre professional and dramatherapist (certified DGfT).
Intensive movement and bodywork practice since 2002 - Aikido, Shiatsu, Yoga, Contemporary dance and Contact Improvisation, discovering BMC® in 2005 and teaching it since 2018, e.g. at Tanzfabrik Berlin, fabrik Potsdam and Somatische Akademie Berlin.
Trained in „Nouveau Cirque“ at Espace Catastrophe in Brussels, in Acting and Physical Theatre at International Network Of Actors and MimeCentrum Berlin, and scholar of the Tanzfabrik Berlin from 2005-2009.
Currently Julia is engaged as dramatherapist in a primary school in Berlin Neukölln and in a project with children living in refugee shelters. She’s also regularly assisting in the BMC®training programs and offering private sessions.
Jens Johannsen
Susanne Taprogge
info@mahakaliyoga.com
WWW.mahakaliyoga.com
Yogateacher, BMC® Somatic Movement Educator, Bodywork (Thai Massage, Osteothai, Craniosacral Therapy)
I practice and teach Conscious movement, Breath awareness and Meditation.
Bodywork for me is a holistic dialogue primarily through the use of mindful presence, cellular touch and directly working with the different structures of body and mind.
The main focus of my work encompasses the direct experiences of well-being within activity and stillness. Exploration of new spaces and possibilities to deepen the relationships between Earth, Space, Myself and Others.
Laura Gary
laura.gary.berlin@gmail.com
www.lauragary.net
Somatic Movement Educator (Body-Mind Centering®) & Choreographer, Dancer
Laura Gary is a trained Somatic Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering®. As a choreographer and dancer, her focus is on the connection between body awareness and creative expression.
Her artistic background includes contemporary dance, somatic practice and improvisation. In her artistic work, she explores how personal stories, genealogical influences and inner emotions find expression in movement through improvisation and body awareness.
Her choreographic practice combines somatic techniques and improvisation, both on stage and in nature, inviting us to explore deeper layers of the self through dance.
Photo credit: Katarzyna Łukasiewicz
Vesna Hetzel
Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator, artist, art mediation
In Somatic Movement Practice, I am interested in exploring the experience of physicality, the profound connection to the body’s tissues, and the ability to sense and move with their unique qualities. It can bring a deep sense of letting go, joy and reciprocity, that I enjoy very much to facilitate and hold space for.My artistic practise researches the poetics and politics of body, space, and narration. I regularly share this work in various contexts with children, teenagers, adults, and people of all backgrounds.
Judith Wolff
Kosten
Bookable online in advance via the SAB:
4 day pass | all 12 classes | 23.- 26. february 2026 |
220€ full price| 275€ supportive price* | 180€ community price**
Only available on site:
Dayticket | 3 classes | this ticket can't be booked in advance, please arrive early in the day
55€ full price| 65€ supportive price* | 45€ community price**
Drop in | single class |this ticket can't be booked in adance, please arrive early in the day
20 full price | 25€ supportive price* | 15€ community price**
*supportive price (your contribution helps keep the festival accessible to everyone)
**community price for SAB, Glia and BMCA members
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 220.00 EUR
- Supporter Price: 275.00 EUR
- Member Price: 180.00 EUR