- Infant Movement Development
DE+EN | 5-day workshop c.a.r.e
The relevance for the human developmental process
This module invites you into the rich and intricate world of early movement in infancy — a time when the body begins to write its first language. Here, theory meets lived experience, as we explore how the movements of the first year quietly scaffold our later capacities: to think, to feel, to relate, to learn.
We trace the subtle threads of muscle tone, balance, and primitive reflexes, weaving them into a deeper understanding of how human beings grow, connect, and adapt. These early gestures — seemingly simple — are shaped by a living dialogue between inner impulses and outer surroundings. In this interplay lies the quiet poetry of development.
Through embodied exploration and attentive observation, participants begin to sense how movement reveals inner landscapes: needs seeking expression, capacities awakening, emotions stirring. These motions are not mechanical repetitions — they are relational acts, intimate negotiations with gravity, space, and the presence of others.
Participants are invited to witness and experience the emergence of foundational movement patterns — feeling how reflexes and postural adjustments guide the infant’s path toward interaction, learning, and autonomy. Through movement, we catch a glimpse of the architecture of becoming: a living mirror that reflects needs, potential, and the first steps toward coherence.
A central thread of the module is cultivating the art of observation — not only with trained precision, but with open, nonjudgmental awareness. This perceptual skill is vital for clinicians, educators, therapists — and for anyone seeking a deeper, more compassionate relationship with their own body and others.
This is not only a matter of observation — it is a quiet return: to the body’s wisdom, to the rhythms that shaped us, to the silent resilience seeded in our first movements.
In an age of distraction, disconnection, and growing developmental strain, these primal patterns offer a path back to wholeness — clear, grounded, and alive.
Key Topics of the module:
- Muscle tone and movement development in the first year
- Foundational movement sequences: Roll / Yield / Push / Reach / Pull
- Primitive reflexes and postural reflexes
- The balance system (vestibular system)
- Brain and visual development
- Movement observation and analysis
- Contextual applications, practical examples, and case studies
- Interaction and attunement with caregivers
Ausführliche Seminarinformationen
C.A.R.E. – Creativity, Attachment, Resilience, Education
c.a.r.e. stands for Creativity, Attachment, Resilience, and Education. Cultivating care for oneself and others forms a vital foundation for relationships—both with ourselves and those around us.
Our training program equips participants with key insights from neuroscience, pedagogy, psychology, and somatics, focusing on the core of human coexistence: human development. These principles are designed to support professionals in therapeutic, educational, and social fields, while also offering tools for personal growth.
The c.a.r.e. Approach
The c.a.r.e. Program is designed to deepen self-awareness and strengthen personal resilience—essential steps toward fostering supportive relationships with others. Rather than reliving retraumatizing memories, C.A.R.E. helps participants understand how past experiences shape the nervous system and self-perception.
Through targeted work on early childhood reflexes, embryonic development, and self-regulation, the program helps repattern dysfunctional survival strategies while building new resources for stability, flexibility and well-being. C.A.R.E. integrates innovative somatic practices with neuroscientific research, attachment theory, and developmental psychology.
Who Benefits from c.a.r.e.?
This program serves a dual purpose:
- Enhancing professional skills in resource-oriented, attachment-based support.
- Encouraging self-reflection to recognize and transform personal patterns.
By exploring the connections between movement and nonverbal interaction, C.A.R.E. empowers participants to apply these principles in both their personal and professional lives.
200 UE / 6 modules / 4 somatic methods / 3 instructors
This innovative training combines several somatic methods (IBMT; BMC®, INPP, Feldenkrais, Cranio-Sacral Osteopathy, Experiential Anatomy, Authentic Movement) with the latest theory and research on child development. A somatic approach can provide effective and simple support for babies, children and adolescents who are facing challenges in learning, development or emotional regulation, whether big or small. This programme will support you to integrate somatic approaches into your practice, providing a combination of body awareness and embodiment training with practical somatic exercises and approaches appropriate to specific client groups.
Who is this training suitable for?
The training offers a comprehensive professional development programme suitable for those working with babies, children and young people in a range of education and health care contexts. It is relevant to educators, social workers, midwives, doulas, physiotherapists , paediatric nurses, doctors , teachers, psychologists and no medical practitioners in the field of dance, music and theatre provision for children.
Training Goals
- Familiarity with the fundamentals of child development
- The ability to recognise the profound interconnections between the nonverbal and verbal dimensions of consciousness
- A somatic and theoretical understanding of the ongoing development and learning processes
- An understanding of the interpersonal emotional exchange of the development process and how to support it in relationship
- Knowledge of the psycho-physical processes of learning
- An understanding of Brain development
- The ability to recognise different developmental aspects of the different client groups
- The ability to integrate somatic approaches and methods into working with children
- An understanding of the Importance and fundamentals of communication with parents and carers
- Skills to recognise developmental and learning challenges within their client group.
Once qualified you will
- Be able to develop playful-somatic movement programs for different age groups, which support their development.
- Be familiar with"preverbal language” and able to playfully integrate childhood movement development and reflexes in a variety of contexts
- Be able to recognise and understand the presence of persistent primitive reflexes and be able to implement strategies to address this.
- Be able to recognise compensatory behaviours in your client group
- Be able to identify and develop support possibilities for development and learning difficulties / blockages
- Create an appreciative, appreciative and attentive atmosphere as a place of learning and playing
Curriculum
Module 1 | Jul 06 - Jul 11, 2026 | Embryology
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Module 2 | Jul 13 - Jul 17, 2026 | Infant movement development
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Module 3 | Sep 28 - Oct 02, 2026 | Becoming Self
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Module 4 | Jan 04 - Jan 08, 2027 | Embodied Pathways
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Module 5 | Mar 29 - Apr 02, 2027 | Motivation, Engagement & Vitality
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Module 6 | May 03 - May 08, 2027 | Embodying Creation
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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
Kosten
Costs
Single workshop
690€
That workshop is a module of the professional training c.a.r.e - Creativity, Attachment, Resilience, Education. >> more information
Complete professional training c.a.r.e
3680€ + Certification 200€
paying via installments is possible.
Dates
July 13-17, 2026 | Monday-Friday | 10:00am - 05:30pm
Anmeldeinformationen
BerlinSomatische Akademie Berlin
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 30
10999 Berlin | side building
1st backyard
4th floor
- Full Price: 690.00 EUR