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About Embody Move

Introduction to Body-Mind Centering®

The School for Body-Mind Centering® was founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in 1976 in New York City USA. In the past ten years there has been an expansion in program delivery and training programs are now licensed in Europe, Canada, Eastern Europe and South America.

Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®), integrates two key aspects in its approach to human development; movement re-education and hands-on touch and re-patterning methods. The approach is an experiential study of the body systems including embodied anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology within the context of human development.

There are many underlying principles to cover as we explore each body system and the application of this understanding to embodied movement practice. Experiential anatomy involves a wide range of dynamic approaches and physical activities as well as more quiet meditative practices.

The underlying premise is that we learn from our personal process and that this becomes an informed and insightful starting point for our work with others. The journey we take leads to greater awareness and deeper understanding of ourselves as human beings. It helps us to understand how the mind is expressed through the body, and the body through the mind.

Embody Move operates under Touchdown Dance to bring movement education based in human developmental principles to diverse and deprived communities. This accessible training program addresses the whole person in a unique embodied process, exploring lived experience and enhancing capacity and self development.

Meet our Teachers

Dr Katy Dymoke

Program Director and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and Infant Developmental Movement Educator

Dr Katy Dymoke has been teaching BMC in the UK since 2007 and on other European programs. She integrated BMC into her practice as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist in the NHS where she was a specialist in touch and non-verbal methods in adult learning disability services for 9 years, currently she works with children and adults in education, health settings and in private […]

Karin Fisher Potisk

Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Infant Developmental Movement Educator

Karin was born in Austria and studied Music at the Mozarteum Academy, where she gained a Teaching Diploma in Clarinet. She subsequently graduated from the London Contemporary Dance School, and also trained in the Scaravelli Method of Yoga. Karin co-founded and directed Ricochet Dance Company, an acclaimed dancer led contemporary company that toured and taught […]

Mark Rietema

Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®

Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, Integrative Psychotherapist (UKCP) & Community Artist/Workshop Facilitator Mark has been moving, dancing and exploring the body through martial arts, contact improvisation and other dance forms for most of his life. He teaches BMC®, Psychotherapy and Contact Improvisation in London and abroad, and offers workshops, lectures and group facilitation around embodiment, dance and […]

Anne-Marie Zulkahari

Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Graduate of Embody-Move, Infant Developmental Movement Educator

I was drawn to Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) with the desire to learn more about developmental movement due to my personal experiences with my own children. On a professional level, I was looking for pedagogic alternatives when teaching Pilates and Yoga students anatomy and physiology.  In 2010 I started the SME program with Embody Move, I […]

Aki Omori

Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Graduate of Embody-Move

Aki was born in Tokyo, Japan, moved to UK in 1987, has background in music and physical theatre in her youth, then practiced and taught yoga for over a couple of decades, during which she discovered somatic movement practices, including Body-Mind Centering®. She completed a 3 year diploma with Linda Hartley (Integrative Bodywork and Movement […]

Marina Tsartsara

Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Graduate of Embody-Move, Infant Developmental Movement Educator

Certified BMC Somatic Movement Educator, Practitioner, Teacher & IDME. I am the administrative director of the Greek BMC Program, Istos, and the co-director of the MA course ‘Trauma, Art & Embodiment’ in Barcelona offered by Poiesis Institute. I am developing a Somatic Art Practice®: a transdisciplinary practice & education that interlaces somatics and artmaking via the […]

Satu Palokangas

Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Graduate of Embody-Move, Infant Developmental Movement Educator

Satu first came across Body-Mind Centering® while studying contemporary dance and improvisation in the UK and Netherlands in early 1990’s. This initiated her long journey of studying somatic methods and being greatly influenced by the pioneering curriculum of Moving On Center in Berkeley, California, that applies somatic methods and participatory arts with social justice work. […]

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