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  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…

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…

Body-Mind Centering® is an experiential approach to embodiment, movement, voice and consciousness. This class is open to people of all backgrounds curious about deepening their embodied experience, including but not limited to mothers, educators, dancers, performers, bodyworkers, educators, therapists, yogis, meditation practitioners and athletes. 22.08 PELVIS In this workshop we will explore our pelvis, its embryological story, through touch and movement of bones, organs, muscles, connective tissue and endocrine glands. 31.10 NERVOUS SYSTEM Understanding our nervous system through a somatic lens is important for maintaining and regulating energy, emotional balance, and safety by understanding the perceptual base from which we…

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…

The Body-Mind Centering® Association conference Ecology: Time, Place, and Relationship takes place 3-day online conference runs Friday-Sunday, October 2-4, 2026. There will be lots of wonderful sessions including presenters Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Tia Riehana, Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose. Olive Bieringa will present Into the Symbioscene at 2pm  CET on Friday October 2nd.  We will engage with a dynamic approach to living and learning which invites us through embodied practice into deeper relations with the world in which we live. Together we will practice breathing, sensing and moving to help us perceive more of our living and the whole scale…