Body-Mind Centering® Workshops
exploring the dynamic relationship between mind & body
Body-Mind Centering® workshops at SOEL, offer a holistic, creative teaching approach to multi dimensional waies of learning about our self and our relationship with our world.
Through the process of embodiment we creatively explore the wonders of our anatomy & physiology, infant developmental movement and embryology offering us a deeper understanding and conscious awareness of how the mind is expressed through movement and our movement expresses our mind.
Workshops include gentle, guided movement meditations and the study of traditional anatomy and physiology alongside different combinations of sounding and vocal expression, directed breathing, quiet contemplation, hands-on-touch upon our self and in partners, discussion & dialogue and, reflective writing, somatic drawing and movement integration and dance accompanied by music.
Spring / Summer Workshops 2026
Workshops are open to anyone who are interested in our courses and, who would like to visit the school, meet the teachers, alumni students and experience a class. Please contact us to arrange a visit.
Teaching: Rosalyn Maynard and Julie Rousseau
Practitioners and Somatics Movement Educators in Body-Mind Centering®
Rosalyn and Julie graduated together in their BMC® training. They have been studying and practicing together for over 12 years including workshops with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Belgium, France, UK and Estonia. They share a deep personal and professional interest in the wonderment and mysteries of the nature of life, consciousness and well being. Their practice in BMC® extends into Biodynamic farming, Chinese Medicine & energy arts, performing arts, Human Design and motherhood.
MAY 2026
Infant Developmental Movement
Module 11: SELF | course pre-requisite
Saturday 16th May at 2pm - Wednesday 20th May at 1.30pm
FEES: £295 / £260
INFORMATION click here
During this workshop will explore our early infant development in movement, touch and mind through a series of innate movement patterns that sequentially emerge in utero, birth and through our early infancy.
Based on the Basic Neurocellular Patterns from Body-Mind Centering® and, associate primitive reflexes we will explore our development through a progression of movement patterns including “the fluid patterns" that develop in utero and the "vertebrate patterns" that become established during and after our birth.
"The Basic Neurocellular Patterns have a global influence on our physical, perceptual, emotional, and cognitive functioning. They shape how we bond, defend, learn, organize, and sequence information; they inform how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. If any pattern becomes overly dominant, it may prevent other patterns from emerging."
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
JULY 2026
The Embryo in You
Module 12: SELF | course pre-requisite
Sunday 19th July at 2pm - Wednesday 22nd July at 1.30pm
FEES: £230 / £195
INFORMATION click here
Through a creative experiential learning including sensory movement, hands-on-touch, drawing and writing, we will explore the embodiment of our embryological origins.
In this workshop module we will meet the earliest cells and tissues that have become our mature body today including emergence of our three germ layers, supporting structures, organogenesis, face and limb development.
"Although these early processes are no longer present, they have left deep-rooted patterns and templates that affect the body, movement, perception, and relationship to self and to others.
Understanding and working with these early processes and relationships opens up new and deeper ways of addressing health and vitality, chronic and acute pain, mobility and ease of movement, and other expressions or qualities of our physical and psychophysical being."
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen 2018
The May and June summer workshops also form part of SELF (Somatics Experiential Learning Facilitator) course. For more information about courses at SOEL click here or for information and to register for a workshop or course click contact.
SEPTEMBER 2026
Breathing
An intimate exchange with the world through air
Monday 7th September: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Tuesday 8th September: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Wednesday 9th September: 10.30am - 4.30pm
FEES: £225 / £190
Community workshop: Open and accessible to anyone interested in somatics movement education, voice, breath work and mind-body integration. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to visit SOEL for anyone interested in our courses.
Over this three day workshop we will explore some of the unique Body-Mind Centering® principles and practices releasing holding patterns and discovering greater ease in our breathing including internal and external breathing, embryological breathing and cellular breathing.
Our state of wellbeing is manifested in our breathing. We are always as our breathing is and our breathing is always responding to how we are. Deepening our kinaesthetic awareness to the processes of our breathing allows us to better embody our inner sense of self, opening pathways of expression between our unconscious and conscious mind.
Through gentle, guided, facilitation from the experiential anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® we will take time to meet our breathing processes in movement meditations, mind, hands-on touch, conscious awareness and voice. There will also be time for somatics drawing, reflective writing and movement integration accompanied by music.
Information and registration: click here
The study of BMC® is a creative process in which embodiment of the material is explored in the context of self-discovery and openness. Each person is both the student and the subject matter and the underlying goal is to discover the ease that underlies transformation.
The Body-Mind Centering® approach has an almost unlimited number of areas of application. It is currently being used by people in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, somatic studies, physical and occupational therapy, psychotherapy, child development, education, voice, music, art, meditation, athletics and other body-mind disciplines.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen: www.bodymindcentering.com
Teachers & Assistants at SOEL:
Teachers & Assistants at SOEL have been teaching and researching somatics movement education together & independently within their own fields and professions for many years.
They share a rich history of working together informed by the experiential anatomy of Body-Mind Centering®, Elsa Gindler's Human Work, western science & anatomy, the arts, philosophy, human embryology, infant developmental movement patterns and the evolutionary history of life.
Many of the staff have been working together for more than 10 years and during that time they have explored and developed a unique approach to the application and the practice of somatics in many contexts. Workshops, courses and research projects have included the fields of: pedagogy, heath and well being, arts and ecology, community workshop practice, natural horsemanship, small mixed farming, mentoring practice, mythology, walking practice, pilgrimage and personal development.
At SOEL we are dedicated to knowing and learning about our self and the world as an interdependent, interconnected, creative, whole; giving equal weight to knowing and learning through experience, felt sensation, intuition, practice and mind.
I got a lot out of the workshop and it has provoked my increasing awareness of my internal environment. I feel so much more aware in a positive way which has lead me to be more consciously aware of the interconnectedness of us all - the essence of life which is in all living things. Just so simple yet so profound. A beautiful piece of work, literally.
Heather Griffith Retired OT
(Body-Mind Centering® Workshop: The Heart as an organ of perception FEB17)
Description of Body-Mind Centering®
Body Mind Centering® is an innovative approach to experiental anatomy and physiology, within the expanding field of somatics. BMC® offers a deep understanding of how the mind expresses itself through movement, touch, and perception. It fosters an embodied knowledge of the human body, with a special emphasis on the different body systems, the principles underlying the development of our movement patterns, and the study of embryology.
The method was founded 30 years ago by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, a pioneer in the arena of movement research, who has
never ceased to deepen its scope and expand its curriculum. The essence of the work lies in the subtle consciousness and inherent intelligence with which every cell, tissue, organ, and system is endowed with. This study leads to an understanding of how the mind is expressed through the body and the body through the mind.
Merging creatively the cognitive and experiential dimensions, BMC® opens a doorway that leads to an increasing awareness of the conscious body.
Body-Mind Centering® is a creative process in which we learn to meet and recognise ourselves and others through the exploration of embodiment: through feeling, sensing and action. Each person is both the student and the subject matter. Principles and techniques are taught in the context of self-discovery and openness. We learn to engage ourselves and others non-judgmentally starting at the place where we are and the place where others are. In this way we seek to find the ease that underlies transformation.
About BMCA Professional Members
BMCA Professional Members have completed a rigorous, hands-on training which ensures a safe and consistent experience of the work and are required to fulfil continuing education requirements on an ongoing basis. To locate a professional member of BMCA go to: bmcassociation.org
Further reading about BMC®
Body-mind Centering® by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen click here to download
Somatics: the experience from within by Thomas Hanna click here to download
To learn more about Body-Mind Centering® go to: bodymindcentering.com
Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission.