- Embryology
Module 1
The Origins of Experience
Scientific research increasingly affirms what somatic and therapeutic traditions have long intuited: our earliest experiences — even before birth — leave an imprint. This module is an invitation to re-inhabit that early story — to feel how the body unfolded in time, to witness the intelligence with which we were formed. Through theoretical insight and embodied practice, this module guides us into the somatic memory of our own beginnings. Embryology reveals how the body forms not in isolation, but through a constant dialogue between genetic potential and environmental influence.
It offers new possibilities for healing, for supporting pregnant women, nurturing infants and children, and holding space for the inner child that lives in each of us. When we connect to the wisdom of our embryological origins, we touch a place of original wholeness, of undivided potential.
Before our first breath, conscious memory, or language, we are already in relationship — with gravity, with rhythm, with the pulse of another. In the warm, fluid world of the womb, our bodies begin to write the story of our becoming. This is the place of embryology — not merely a biological process, but the earliest choreography of connection.
Every cell listen, responds, and remembers. Our organs, muscles, and especially our nervous system are shaped by the relational field in our surrounding environment.
Patterns of stress or safety, disconnection or attunement, can be registered in the developing body systems. This imprint becomes the blueprint from which our capacity for attachment, regulation, and resilience emerges. With this focus embryology becomes a relevant topic for caregivers, therapists, educators, and for anyone who has ever been a child. Understanding the embryological journey allows us not only to understand how our tissues, senses, and selves were shaped in relationship from the very beginning but also to repattern this very early shaping.
To know this is not only to understand ourselves more deeply — it is to open a more compassionate, grounded, and attuned way of being with others. This is why we begin here: with the mystery and science of our first unfolding.
Key Topics of the module:
- Early imprints
- Embodied exploration
- Genetic–environment interaction
- Somatic memory
- Pre-birth connection
- Cellular consciousness
- Nervous system development
- Attachment
- Universal relevance
- Embryological development of the organs, muscles, nervoussystem, urogenital system
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
200 UE / 6 modules / 4 somatic methods / 3 instructors
Curriculum
The C.A.R.E training consists of 6 modules and each module can be booked individually. You can join the ongoing modular training at any time.
Some of the modules are recognized as educational leave in Berlin.
Curriculum
Module 1 | tba 2026 | Embryology
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Module 2 | tba 2027 | Infant movement development
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Module 3 | tba 2027 | Becoming Self
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Module 4 | tba 2027 | Embodied Pathways
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Module 5 | Jan 31 - Feb 04, 2026 | Motivation, Engagement & Vitality
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Module 6 | Mar 30 - Apr 03, 2026 | Embodying Creation
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For whom is C.A.R.E?
- Teachers, social workers, youth workers and parents who are looking for new ways to help children and young people grow and develop through physical experience and body awareness.
- Parents who want to better understand how they can promote their children's emotional and physical well-being through movement and mindfulness.
- Anyone who wants to learn how to find and support their own emotional and physical balance.
What are the key educational aspects of the C.A.R.E. program?
- Developmental foundations: C.A.R.E. begins with the observation of how humans develop from the earliest stages (prenatal, infancy, early childhood) and how movement and attachment influence learning. The neurobiological foundations of learning, such as the function of the nervous system and the development of trauma, form the educational cornerstones of the training.
- Learning through experience: Participants learn through embodied experience. Movement-based activities provide a deep understanding of developmental processes, while theoretical information accompanies their own learning and reflection process.
- Learning as a lifelong process: C.A.R.E. is aimed at those who wish to deepen their understanding of learning as an ongoing developmental process - be it in their work with children, adults or for their own personal growth.
Research-based and practice-oriented
Our C.A.R.E. program is based on years of practical experience and integrates proven approaches from various disciplines, such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), Body-Mind Centering®, Neuromotor Development Promotion INPP®, NARM, Feldenkrais and others. These methods are integrated with each other to promote a deep understanding of the connections between body, mind and development. They are based on the latest research and help to regulate the nervous system and understand the effects of trauma and early childhood development without focusing on the traumatic event itself.
Applied somatic methods of training
- IBMT (Integrative Bodywork- and Movement Therapy)
- Neurophysiological Psychology
- Feldenkrais
- Contact Improvisation
- Ideokinesis
- Body-Mind Centering®
- Dance
Graduation Requirements:
- Proof of 10 hours observation.
- One class presentation
- Case study or practical research, documented in an essay of maximum 3,000
General content:
Embryology- Tone
- Development of the vestibular system
- Reflexes
- Primitive reflexes
- Postural reflexes
- Human Movement Development
- Brain development
- development of the nervous system
- information processing
- physiological learning processes
- new versus re-learning
- creating a supportive space for learning
- dealing with resistance
- achievement evaluation
- age-appropriate mediation
- teenagers
- 8-11 (development of sexuality)
- 3-7/8 (Postural reflexes should be integrated)
- 0-3
- Games: Movement activities / Support / Touch
- Touch: as support not as correction /alternatives to touch
Subjects:
- Experiential Anatomy
- A variety of Somatic methods
- Context / practical application / practice fields
- Integration
- Hands on
- Case study discussions
Seminarleiter*innen
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
Adalisa Menghini
Teacher, choreographer, performer
Adalisa studied at the S.N.D.O in Amsterdam, after which she completed her M.A. in Neurophysiological Psychology. She is a teacher of the Feldenkrais Method. She works with professional and non-professional dancers, children and seniors. She was nominated twice as best choreographer of the "Giocabriga". In collaboration with K. Wickenhäuser, she has brought performances with school children to museums. Twice they have won the "Kinder zum Olymp!" award. She teaches at the Tanzfabrik, the Somatic Academy Berlin and at the Berlin University of the Arts.
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
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 690.00 EUR
This module is part of the professional training c.a.r.e and seperatly bookable as well:
Embryology
DE+EN | 5-day workshop c.a.r.e
tba 2026
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