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Olive offers bodywork and mentoring sessions designed to support your health, creativity, self-discovery, and overall well-being. Whether you’re navigating stress, pain, transition, artistic process, or simply seeking a deeper connection to yourself, these sessions invite you into a space of curiosity, clarity, and embodied transformation. Sessions are available in person or online, and may include touch, movement, vocal exploration, or reflective conversation, always guided by your needs. Together we follow what arises, expanding your capacity to meet and be met, to feel and be felt all the way to the cellular level. This is a collaborative process that honors the…

What if babies and adults of all ages were able to get the touch, support and movement they need to thrive?   I offer a child and relationship-centered approach to observing and facilitating infants, and educating parents and caregivers about touch, movement and handling in the first year of life. I bring an approach which is gentle, non-intrusive, and playful rather than demanding. This approach is direct and highly specific to each individual child. My goal is to support a babies agency, comfort, curiosity and movement working together with the family in an interactive process. My intention is to meet…

The second round of the Somatic Movement Educator program began in February 2025. Courses can be taken individually for personal & professional development, or as part of the full 500+ hours Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator certification. The four starred courses below are also part of the Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) Program which will take place in 2028-2029. Module 3: Fluid System 10-16 February 2026 (6 days, day off 13/2) Nervous System 19-26 February 2026 (7 days, day off 23/2) Module 4: Ligamentous and Fascial System 4-11 September 2026 (7 days, day off 8/9) Endocrine System 14-18 September 2026 (5…

2026 Winter MELT with Olive Bieringa 11:30am-1:30pm EST Register: Virtual Ecosomatic practices for living and dying with a damaged earth This workshop is an opportunity to slow down, center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you. Together we will practice living, breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. We will hone our skills, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to be receptive,…

Morning class with Olive Bieringa Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9.30-11.30 Over three mornings we will focus on how our cellular structures and vitality support our whole body awareness, physical capacity and dancing together. Dancers and movers of all energetic capacities welcome. Body-Mind Centering® is an experiential approach to embodiment, movement and consciousness. It uses anatomical information, guided movement, intentional touch, voice, expression and the developing awareness of the play of conscious attention, or mind.