Upcoming

  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 each baby and family where they are.   "Olive is a really warm and playful human, who is really easy to…

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…

A Two-Day immersion in Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering®Hosted by Oslo Kontaktimpro in collaboration with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad Through embodied exploration of bones, fascia, organs and developmental movement we will discover partnering that is effortless, intentional, and alive. Day One: Inner Architectures We will begin by awakening anatomical and physiological precision, embodying our structural support of skeleton and fascia, and dropping into the dimensionality and metabolic power of our organs. Through guided movement, touch, and attention, we will identify, articulate, and integrate the body’s tissues, discovering the distinct movement qualities they offer. Day Two: Developmental and Evolutionary Beings…

Morning class from 9.30-11.30 Tuesday- to Thursday Material For the Spine concentrates accumulated knowledges from Steve 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. This solo practice is a meditative study of a series of exercises, body puzzles and ideokinetic imagery. Each class will evolve into dancing together. “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…

July 6-10 10-17:00 every day Østmarka, Oslo This workshop is an opportunity to center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you.  Together we will practice breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of our living and the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. Together, we will deepen our skills to listen, improvise, play, experiment,  grieve, dwell in the unknown, and trust the deep resources of our bodies to navigate challenge,…