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Introduction to Body-Mind Centering®

Welcome to the website for Embody Move, the License holder for the delivery of Body-Mind Centering training programs in the UK, Poland and Ireland.

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.

Our Programs

IDME (Infant Developmental Movement Education)

This program is a highly sophisticated and subtle approach to the observation and facilitation of normal movement patterns in infants. The approach incorporates the child’s curiosity, interest and individuality into the relationship with the educator.

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SME (Somatic Movement Education)

This program explores the richness of the inter-relationships between body, mind, movement and touch in an experiential study of all the body systems and human developmental movement processes.

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The Practitioner Program

The Practitioner program is open for graduates of the Somatic Movement Education program. It is a further two years of BMC® study deepening and integrating the work for application to somatic movement therapy contexts.

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SME Poland

This program explores the richness of the inter-relationships between body, mind, movement and touch in an experiential study of all the body systems and human developmental movement processes.

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Upcoming Courses

Muscular System 2026
£890.00

SME

27th May - 5th Jun 2026

London School of Capoeira Unit 1 and 2, Leeds Place, London N4 3RF

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SME Competency and Professional Development 1 2026
£295.00

SME

6th Jun - 8th Jun 2026

London School of Capoeira Unit 1 and 2, Leeds Place, London N4 3RF

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Sense and Perception 1 2026 (Ireland)
£410.00

BMC in Ireland

25th Jun - 28th Jun 2026

4 days

Sligo, Ireland

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Skeletal System 2026 (Poland)
£920.00 £874.00
Early Bird Offer Applied

SME Poland

22nd Aug - 31st Aug 2026

Gdansk Poland

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IDME 2A 2026
£520.00 £494.00
Early Bird Offer Applied

IDME

11th Oct - 15th Oct 2026

5 Days

London School of Capoeira Unit 1 and 2, Leeds Place, London N4 3RF

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Sense and Perception 1 2026
£410.00 £389.50
Early Bird Offer Applied

SME

27th Oct - 30th Oct 2026

Skylight Centre, 49 Corsica St, London N51JT

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Skeletal System 2027
£920.00 £874.00
Early Bird Offer Applied

SME

4th Jan - 13th Jan 2027

Skylight Centre, 49 Corsica St, London N51JT

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Organ System 2027 (Poland)
£720.00 £684.00
Early Bird Offer Applied

SME Poland

14th Feb - 21st Feb 2027

Gdansk Poland

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IDME 2B
£520.00 £494.00
Early Bird Offer Applied

IDME

11th Mar - 15th Mar 2027

5 Days

Natural Theatre Inst Bath

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Testimonials

Incredibly enlightening. I feel even more connected with my natural environment. Relating nature and the natural forms within my being. My insides feel ‘touched’, ‘felt’ , ‘deepened’ ,. I felt much warmth and care from the group. Joy and support! I felt safe and free to explore and allow my personal expressions to illuminate. I certainly feel empowered by my explorations and gained knowledge of the organs. I feel strong and very positive. There were many tender moments, memories, images that I encountered but feel strengthened by them.

Organs course

I am inspired to go deeper with this material and can really see how it might support client work in a more therapeutic direction. I felt a clear connection between my thoughts, emotions and movements.

Practitioner program

Finding a calm, stable place in myself, that’s full of life force. I found a source of vitality that is outside my nervous system: the bone marrow.

Feedback

Enlivening, awakening, engaging, disorienting, painful, inspiring. Identifying an ancient injury as a held flexion was very clear for me and gives me an understanding of how to work with it using my whole body, in the future so having support in moments of physical difficulty was helpful.

Students feedback

So much fun! Very playful and a sense of re-experiencing the world from a younger place. Complex material that seemed daunting at first but seemed to then fall into place throughout each day. Teachers were wonderful as always!

Students feedback

I look forward to the next module! Thank you for taking me to these reflexes – places that I can now be more aware of Thank you all for your responsiveness and feedback during the course!

Students feedback

As often it came at a perfect time and I became quickly nourished and stimulated (overstimulated on 2 occasions too and that was very well held) I was initially not interested in working with this material so have enjoyed being nicely surprised.

Students feedback

This has been a very grounding module for me, I am feeling more connected within myself. The group has been lovely, respectful, intelligent, receptive, and giving, a great balance. I am constantly gaining in confidence in the material. Just looking forward to more and more. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to learn and explore and know and feel.

Students feedback

Meet Our Teachers

All our courses are taught by certified teachers in Body-Mind Centering®. We may have other BMC® teachers to those below delivering the courses, as we are a growing profession and many of us have specialisms. We welcome BMC® graduates as class room assistants (SME/Practitioner) and teaching assistants who undertaking the teacher training.
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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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FAQ

Do I have to start with the first course?
It is possible to start with any course at any point in the cycle.

Can I take one course and not the whole program?
All the body systems and developmental movement courses in years 1 and 2 may be taken as individual courses. They can also be taken in any order in the cycle.

The integration of BMC somatic movement education in Touchdown Dance projects

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