BMC®
Body-Mind Centering® is a comprehensive somatic approach to embodying the living process that is your body.
Through experiential explorations of bodily systems (fluids, skeletal, organs, nervous, muscular, endocrine, ligamentous) and revisiting embryological and human developmental processes, BMC® reveals the cellular intelligence of your body and how it is always available to support you.
Awakening to yourself at a cellular level can enable a fuller expression of who you are: in your body; in the way you are both in and relate to the world; in your capacity to be present, regulated, responsive and adaptable in your environments, activities and relationships.
As a qualified BMC® Somatic Movement Educator I am motivated by how orienting awareness to the internal felt sense of our bodily experience enables transformation: within our perception, our movement, our physical tissues and our overall experience and expression of self.
I aim to facilitate somatic explorations of sensing, movement and touch that reveal something about your bodymind with which you might resource yourself; be that in movement, creativity, relational dynamics, the inevitability of discomfort or simply within your day to day.
Read my personal encounter with BMC® here.
BMC® in Classes & Workshops
Perhaps you’re looking to be in a new relationship with your body; a new relationship with yourself; want to feel more embodied; are wanting to support yourself and what you do, or inspire your creativity, with somatic awareness; are curious about your body-mind connection; are seeking a non-formal movement class; or have an interest in experiential anatomy… for these, or any other reason, BMC® is for you.
A BMC® class will generally involve experiential explorations of a bodily system through sensing into and moving with/from some aspect of that system. For example: the fluids system and the cerebro-spinal fluid, which is a part of it. Alternatively a class might centre around experientially revisiting processes of human embryological or infant development.
Workshops present an opportunity to go deeper into these explorations and they offer a chance to organise material thematically. This means developmental patterns, bodily systems, and relevant aspects and principles, can be combined to offer a selection of embodied perspectives on a chosen area or focus.
Some examples of themes I have worked with are: ‘Breathing & Gravity’, ‘Fluid Dynamics/Dynamic Fluids’, ‘Embodying Embryological Space’…
Explorations are approached through a combination of any of the following: anatomical information (images and spoken description), guided movement and somatisations*, touch, vocalisation, creative and integrative movement expression and the sharing of individual experiences.
As BMC® works with facilitation and guidance more than instruction, there is no issue of doing it ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. No matter what your subjective experience, it is valid.
Classes and workshops are grounded in curious enquiry, support and presence. No previous experience with a movement practise is necessary. All that’s required is to wear comfortable clothing, be prepared to move and to be with yourself and amongst others.
Encountering yourself at the level that BMC® facilitates can at times present challenges. If this is the case I will endeavour to support your process. As an approach however, BMC® is primarily restorative, playful and revelatory.
If you have any specific concerns or requirements please contact me in advance so I can address them.
I also offer individual bodywork and somatic education sessions.
*somatisation refers to engaging your kinaesthetic (movement), proprioceptive (position) and tactile (touch) sensory systems.