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Olive offers one-on-one bodywork and coaching 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 is also available to work with children from neonates to toddlers and their caregivers. She offers a Body-Mind Centering® approach which is gentle, non-intrusive, and enticing rather than demanding. It is direct and highly specific to the needs of the individual child. These sessions seek to engage the child’s inherent curiosity and interest within their wholeness and the constellation of their family. Each session includes educational opportunities for families and caregivers in this interactive process.

Olive Bieringa has over 26 year of experience working with individuals and groups in Oslo, San Francisco and Minneapolis. She is a Certified Practitioner, Teachers and Program Director of Body-Mind Centering® (3000+ hours), Infant Developmental Movement Educator® (April 2025). certified DanceAbility teacher, working with performers of all abilities, and Shiatsu practitioner (500+ hours) having studied Zen Shiatsu, Barefoot Shiatsu, Thai massage, Tui Na and Cranial Sacral in San Francisco and Berkeley.  She holds a BA in Dance from European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and completed her MFA in Performance and New Media at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY.  She is a Registered ISMETA Somatic Movement Therapist, Somatic Movement Educator, Somatic Movement Dance Educator. She is the Program Director for Somatic Education Australasia’s Body-Mind Centering® program in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Dance at UniArts, Helsinki. She teaches internationally for many universities, dance companies, festivals, and professional Body-Mind Centering® trainings.

Body-Mind Centering® is a study of the vital materiality of the body. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, BMC® is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. Its uniqueness lies in the specificity with which each of the body systems can be personally embodied and integrated, the fundamental groundwork of developmental repatterning, and the utilization of a body-based language to describe movement and body-mind relationships. It has an unlimited number of applications for dance, bodywork, art, music, athletics, child development, and other therapeutic applications.

In person or online sessions are 75 minutes and are offered at a pay what you can afford sliding scale of 800-1400 NOK.

Infant sessions are available in person or online for 60 minutes and are offered at a pay what you can afford sliding scale of 500-800 NOK.

Sessions can take place at your home or PRAXIS Oslo, Hausmania, enter from behind Vega at Vestre Elvebakke 10, 0182 Oslo, Norway.

Email olive@bodycartography.org or call +47 466 422 67 to schedule.