Our program maintains the high standards of an Approved Training Program of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA). Our graduates meet all requirements to become Registered Somatic Movement Educators (RSME) and Therapist (RSMT).
IS A 500-HOUR, KINESTHETIC STUDY OF THE BASIC DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS AS THEY ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH THE CELLULAR TISSUES, BODY SYSTEMS, AND THEIR CORRESPONDING RELATIONAL INTERACTIONS.
STUDENTS WILL BE GUIDED THROUGH THEIR OWN EMBODIMENT OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES AND LEARN KINESTHETICALLY & THROUGH OBSERVATION AND MOVEMENT REPATTERNING, AS WELL AS THROUGH CREATIVE EXPRESSION IN DANCE, PERFORMANCE, WRITING, AND TEACHING.
Students learn bodywork techniques in every module - Here activation spirals through the connective tissue
The principles and techniques learned in this course can be used for personal development and for professional enhancement. We recommended it for anyone interested in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, somatic studies, education, meditation, and other body-mind disciplines.
Christine Cole
Kinesthetic knowledge of body systems (nervous, skeletal, circulatory, etc.) and developmental movement stages
lead the practitioner to embodied presence and spatial awareness.
Students will learn observational and other assessment skills to identify the clients developmental patterns, tonal quality, and body systems, and techniques to address and heal physical injury, trauma, and transformation.
touch and movement approaches such as play, artistic expression, and moving in nature
dance and movement improvisation skills to invite personal expression, invoke intuitive knowing and embrace the unpredictable path of healing
teaching skills, build class curricula
relational verbal and non-verbal skills for effective communication with students, clients, and colleagues
address current topics in somatic movement education and therapy to enter into a professional discourse in the somatic field
Embryology, Prevertebral Patterns
Nov 29 - Dec 3 (2022)
Skeletal System, Spine & Intro to Land patterns
Jan 24 - 28 (2023)
Organs / Homologous / Ribs, Pelvis
April 9 - 15 (2023) TBC
Tensegrity / Ligaments / Joints
July 4 - 8 (2023)
Muscles & Kinesthetic Integration
October 1 - 7 (2023)
Senses and Perception
Nov 28 - Dec 2 (2023)
Fluids-Dance-Breath
Jan 23 - 27 (2024)
Neuro-Glial, the Nervous System
7 days in April (2024) TBA
Endocrine Glands, Chakras
June 11 - June 15 (2024)
All in Flow, Developmental Patterns, Teaching
Oct 16 - Oct 23 (2024)
Vocalization & Neck, Clients
Jan 21 - Jan 25 (2025)
Graduation & Research Projects
April 15 - 20 (2025) or March 25 - 29 (2025) TBC
Read the application for MUCH more detail!
Student Goals
Somatic Body trains students to become professional facilitators of embodiment, movement, perceptual and relational development. Students build a toolbag of somatic approaches that can be applied in groups or one-on-one teaching, counseling or training practices in areas of dance, movement, therapy, yoga, bodywork, business, and community action. The training provides the opportunity for students to personally discover their own developmental path, experience the embodiment of all their tissues, and engage in the collective process.
Christine Cole, RSMT, the founder and director of Somatic Body Training Program, is an expert in the embodiment of human development. On the leading edge of research about somatic movement education and therapy, she displays a radical trust in embodied experience as the primary way for groups to co-create knowledge. A teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Practitioner of Integrative Acupressure and Infinity Healing, she has taught at the School for Body-Mind Centering® and brought her teaching worldwide. In addition, Christine has lifelong practices in Contact Improvisation, Post-Modern and Improvisational Dance, Authentic movement, Improvisational Theater, Authentic Movement, and writing and vocal training.
As an experienced master teacher, Christine
creates safe spaces to explore personal material
authentically connects each student to the learning process
teaches with unabashed directness, compassion, and presence.
models Somatic Body principles in her teaching and interactions
stakes out new territory in the material of Body-Mind Centering® and SomaticBODY
Christine Cole
Main Teacher (USA)
The Founder and Director of Somatic BODY Training Program
Christine is an expert in the embodiment of human development on the leading edge of research about somatic movement education and therapy.
Nitzan Lederman
Teacher in Training (Israel)
Somatic therapist and practitioner.
He was trained in somatics on the Somatic BODY program (2016-2021).
Contact Improvisation Instructor, Axis Syllabus, Dancer and Performer
Anna Titova
Teacher in Training (Russia)
Certified Integrated Body Work and Motor Therapy Specialist.
She was trained in somatics on the IBMT (2013-2016) and Somatic BODY (2019-2021) programs. Member of the international association ISMETA. Mother of three children
Artem Markov
Teacher in Training (Russia)
Somatic therapist and practitioner.
He was trained in somatics on the IBMT (2013-2020) and Somatic BODY (2019-2021) programs.
Contact improvisation teacher, dancer and performer
Michal Yarkoni
Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, she also completed the Embodied Anatomy and Yoga (EAY), Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga (EDMY), and Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME) programs with The School for Body-Mind Centering® Michal is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, living and practicing in Israel.
It is possible to complete missing modules and still graduate with this group!
Take any of the first year modules as a workshop as space allows! contact us
Nitzan tel./ WhatsApp:(972) 54-5663996
Christine WhatsApp: 1-413 320 7556
