- Diversity and Balance
Four days with BMC® and IBMT
4 days, 12 classes, 13 teachers,
After a break of two years the "Diversity and Balance" days will finally take place again! We are looking forward to invite together with 13 Berlin BMC® and IBMT teachers* to 12 classes.
This year we would like to focus on the topic of resilience and resilience skills. Resilience means the ability to face challenges, to regulate oneself and to emerge stronger from challenges. After the various states of excitement and difficulties of the last years the different classes offer bodily experience of nourishing oneself, drawing strength and possibilities of encountering oneself.
In Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) and Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) we explore dynamic connections between body and mind, consciousness, thoughts and feelings. Through anatomical information, as well as through movement, touch and the finest sensing, structures in the body are made tangible and enable a deeper, more subtle experience of one's own body and our relation to our environment. Through early childhood developmental movement patterns we explore movement from single-celled organisms to walking beings. Individual stages of development intertwine and provide the ground for our actions today.
All classes are open to people with and without prior experience in BMC® or IBMT. It is possible to book classes individually.
Monday 28.2.22
9h-11h
Arrival – Bones with Heike Kuhlmann & Nina Wehnert
Bones form an inner framework. Their structures are in constant change - both inside and outside, in their surrounding fascial network. Their elasticity, stability, resilience, and inherent potential for change create important conditions for resilience.
11.30h-13.30h
Fluids with Jennie Zimmermann
The embodiment of fluids can support us to perceive mobility, but also stability within oneself. I invite you to exlore the fluids within yourself and the environment through touch, movement and improvisation.
15h-17h
Wings and Roots with Nina Wehnert
The sphenoid is a very central bone in our scull. It relates to our senses, is embryologically part of the spine and looks like wings. Exploring it’s position and place offers alignment to our presend and our interrelationship with ourselves and our environment.
Tuesday 28.2.22
9h-11h
Der Vagus Nerv with Lambrini Konstantinou
It is the longest cranial nerve in our body (from the brain stem to the intestine) and is a part of our parasympathetic nervous system. It is responsible for the innervation of many vital organs, and is involved in their functions.
It plays an important role in digestion, regeneration, rest and rehabilitation of our body.
11.30h-13.30h
Nourishing ourselves with Maren Hillert
Wake up your liveliness and give it space - through focused body-awareness, self-touch and initially slow movement as well as through playful exploration of your closer or optionally further environment - with all of your senses.
15h-17.30h
Communities with Julia Kleinknecht & Nina Spiri
We are exploring our immune system by diving into cellular communities and their interaction. Discovering our „swarm intelligence“, interacting and acting together. Through play we experience exchange and friction. It’s about making choices, again and again, overcoming the feeling of separation and finding connection.
Wednesday 1.3.22
9h-11h
Acting - via the hands with Christian Meier
Acting hands treat sensitive, living structures. Sensing hands sense their connections, their temporal, spatial and social context. Sensing action and acting sensing. This class is about our hands, their anatomical structure, their interplay within the reflexes, their connections to the internal organs.
11.30h-13.30h
Support precedes Movement with Heike Kuhlmann
`Yield, Push, Reach and Pull´ are the movement pattern, that support the developmental process till walking. They are one base for later movement and behaviour pattern. This class spends time to work with `Yield, Push, Reach and Pull´ as support for the personal and common resilience and agency.
15h-17h
Questions & Answers with Julia Kleinknecht & Nina Spiri
We will play and experiment with the Body-Mind Tarot - a BMC® inspired tarot deck. After traveling inwards and tuning in with ourselves to see what questions arise, we will use the cards to self-reflect, share (touch and words) and move with our questions and answers.
Thursday 2.3.22
9h-11h Where am I? with Odile Seitz-Walser
We have special sensores, that are telling us about our position in space and inform us about our relation to gravity. We explore propioception sensibility as foundation for all experiences.
11.30h-13.30h
Space with Ka Rustler
Exploring responsive boundaries and margins based on our cellular consciousness. We dive into full bodied experiences relating to our sense of safety and calmness in the world.
15h-17h
Closure// Resilience in daily life with Heike Kuhlmann, Nina Wehnert together with all Teachers
In this final class we pick up themes from previous classes and gather how we can nourish, regain and/ or build our own resilience capacity through Body-Mind Centering® and IBMT. In a very practical way, we put together approaches that can be helpful in everyday life.
IMPORTANT BOOKING NOTE:
You can only register in advance, registering for all 4 days in total. Here, we offer different price categories.
The Sliding Scale price allows you to decide how much you can pay - depending on your income and possibilities.
Please indicate by email if you book the week with one individual session. This will not be visible in the booking form.
The earlybird offers you a favorable opportunity to participate in the week.
Whole week without individual sessions: 195 - 275 €
Whole week with individual sessions: 220-300 €
!Attention: Individual classes will be paid on the spot -in cash- without prior booking!
It is also possible to book a single session spontaneously during the 4 days, if there are still free places.
You have booked individual session. A list with times and teachers will be available at the beginning of the week, there you can sign it for your session. It is not possible to plan your individual session date in advance.
Single class (Drop-in) 18-25€
Individual sessions 35-50 € (45 min)
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
Seminarleiter*innen
Nina Wehnert
www.ninawehnert.com
Dancer, BMC® Practitioner & Teacher
She teaches Body-Mind Centering® in workshops, at festivals and in various dance and yoga teacher trainings. Since 2018 she is offering her own BMC® training program at Somatische Akademie and since 2019 she is part of the teaching team of moveus, the german 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.
Lambrini Konstantinou
Diplomas in dance, dance pedagogy, choreograpy, BMC® Practitioner and Teacher, Laban Bartenieff movement analysis, Somatic Experiencing (Trauma Healing), Heilpraktikerin, Osteopathy, pediatric osteopathy
Maren Hillert
www.maren-hillert.de
ISMETA-registered somatic movement therapist; diploma in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy as well as in landscape planning; dance pedagogue/creative children dance with compassion for Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation, Humanity & Being there for each other.
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
Practitioner and Somatic Movement Educator of Body-Mind-Centering®, certified Dramatherapist (DGFT), graduate in cinematography, dancer and theatre professional.
Julia Kleinknecht is a graduate in cinematography, dancer and theatre professional. Certified as Somatic Movement Educator of Body-Mind-Centering®in 2018 and currently enrolled in the Practitioner Program.
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 the fabrik Potsdam and Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Various performance projects and member of a puppeteer street theatre company for many years, long term collaboration with aufBruch KunstGefängnisStadt and Constanza Macras / Dorkypark. As well as working for many years with people with special needs at Lebenshilfe Berlin and currently starting a career as a dramatherapist (certified DFGT)
Ulrike Dillo
Physiotherapist, BMC® teacher since 2012
She interrupted her professional career for 5 years, during which she lived in a Zen monastery and devoted herself entirely to monastic practice. The traditional forms of sitting and walking meditation, recitation and everyday practice have had a decisive influence on her work. In parallel, she began her study of Body-Mind Centering® 15 years ago and has been certified as a BMC teacher since 2012. In addition to one-on-one therapeutic work, she is currently developing a group teaching format in which she introduces patients to the principles of BMC. In partner and group work, participants learn to support each other and develop individual exercises for everyday life.
Ulrike Dillo is active in BMC® training and has a special interest in sharing with practitioners of any body-mind discipline, such as yoga, martial arts, chi gong, performing arts, and others.
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Kosten
Costs:
You can only register in advance, registering for all 4 days in total. Here, we offer different price categories.
The Sliding Scale price allows you to decide how much you can pay - depending on your income and possibilities.
Please indicate by email if you book the week with one individual session. This will not be visible in the booking form.
The earlybird offers you a favorable opportunity to participate in the week.
Whole week without individual sessions: 195 - 275 €
Whole week with individual sessions: 220-300 €
Attention: Individual classes will be paid on the spot -in cash- without prior booking!
It is also possible to book a single session spontaneously during the 4 days, if there are still free places.
You have booked individual session. A list with times and teachers will be available at the beginning of the week, there you can sign it for your session. It is not possible to plan your individual session date in advance.
Single class (Drop-in) 18-25€
Individual sessions 35-50 € (45 min)