Upcoming

Tuesdays 18.00-20.00 5 week series January 14 – February 11, 2025 with Certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioners Otto Ramstad, Gry Kipperberg and Olive Bieringa “Our organs are vital and alive. They provide us with our sense of self, full-bodiedness, and organic authenticity. Organs are the contents within the skeletal-flesh container and carry on the functions of our internal survival — breathing, nourishment and elimination. Organs are the primary habitats or natural environments of our emotions, aspirations, and the memories of our inner reactions to our personal and social histories. They support our postural tone and our feelings, and give volume to…

Material For the Spine concentrates accumulated knowledges from Paxton’s study of walking, Contact Improvisation and Aikido practice to explore the movement possibilities in the spine and the connections between the head, pelvis, and vertebrae. “With Material For the Spine, I was interested in alloying a technical approach to improvisational results. It is a system for exploring the interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring the light of consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations to the mind for consideration.” Steve Paxton Note: the class series…

a 2-day workshop with Olive Bieringa February 1 +2 10:00-16:00 at Dancehouse Lefkosia, Cyprus Ecosomatics is a dynamic approach to living and learning which engages us in embodied practices to bring us into deeper relations with the world in which we live. We will work with tools from somatics, dance and improvisation. In this workshop we will engage with practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged earth. 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 with…

Somatic Education Australasia will run its next training beginning in March 2025.  The entire 500+ hour SME program can be completed in just under 3 years with two modules a year, for approximately 2 weeks each module in Sep/Oct and Feb/March. Courses can also be taken individually, or combined with courses at other SME program locations worldwide to complete certification. For more information on the SME program, including descriptions of each course, please visit the Body-Mind Centering website. To learn more about SEA click here

with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad Friday 18-21 Saturday & Sunday 10-17 PRAXIS Oslo in Hausmania, 34 Hausmansgate Entrance through then back gate behind Vega Scene Connectivity, fluid elasticity and tensegrity! Come and explore through touch and movement the connective tissue matrix from fascia, which provides the tensegrity matrix of our whole body, to the specialized attachments of the ligaments around our joints, which set the boundaries of movement between our bones. When all of the ligaments of a joint are actively engaged, the movement of that joint becomes highly specific and is carried effortlessly to surrounding and successive joints.…