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Olive offers one-on-one bodywork and mentoring sessions to support your health, self-discovery, well-being, art-making, dancing and excitement about life. These sessions can take place online or in person. Sessions can include touch, movement, vocal exploration or discussion based on your needs. Do you have stress, pain or discomfort in your mental, physical, social, behavioral, or spiritual self? Sessions are a collaborative process that recognize the uniqueness of each client. Through a session we  can expand our capacity to meet and be met, to feel and be felt at a cellular level.  Olive Bieringa has over 26 year of experience working with individuals and…

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…

presented by Reality Research Center and University of the Arts Helsinki Mustavuori forest, Helsinki Friday October 10 at 16.00 (rain date Saturday October 11 at 11.00) Saturday October 11 at 16.00 (rain date Sunday October 12 at 11.00) Sunday October 12 at 16.00 (no rain date) Book tickets here Performance duration 2.5-3 hours. Accessibility information to follow Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged Earth. Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis.  We must hone our skills, to…

with Certified Body-Mind Centering® Teachers Otto Ramstad and Olive Bieringa October 14- December 16, 2025 Join us for a new ten-week series exploring our developmental movement patterns, discover how they support us to be, breathe, move, express, relate, and regenerate. The Basic Neurocellular Patterns form the “words” of our movement, building blocks for the phrases and sentences of our daily activities. They also provide the foundation for perception, relationship, learning, and communication. These patterns, which emerge in human development, parallel the evolutionary progression of movement across the animal kingdom. Body-Mind Centering® is an embodied approach to movement and consciousness that…