Thank you for your interest in the Body-Mind Centering® licensed training program in Montreal. We offered the 500-hour certificate training to become a Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator.
After completing the 500 hours Somatic Movement Educator Training, we will not be continuing this program for the time being. Please, click here to find more about the many other BMCsm licensed training programs around the world.
A Message from Esprit en Mouvement Program Director Mariko Tanabe:
The path of preparing and launching Esprit en Mouvement’s Licensed Program in Montreal has been the one of most exhilarating and exciting experiences of my life. What a wonderful ride!
I acknowledge my family and the countless others who have supported and guided me throughout this pursuit. And a special thanks to my teacher, mentor and friend, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the founder of Body-Mind Centering® who has followed the path that has created this beautiful work and vibrant community, and has offered us inspiring and fulfilling ways for being in this world.
In the wake of the end of a full cycle, I have made the challenging decision to pause Esprit en Mouvement’s Somatic Movement Education Program for the rest of this year, which was scheduled to begin this July. The effects of the pandemic have impacted our resources in many ways and there has been much change in our lives. I am called away from the demands of directing the BMCsm program, to tend to family and personal matters that need my attention. I also wish to honour the need for integration and some time to regenerate my body and soul. Esprit en Mouvement will not offer any courses in 2023 and will re-evaluate the situation later this fall for the possibility of offering BMCsm SME Program courses in the years to come. In the meantime, I hope that all our students will benefit from continuing their BMCsm training in the many other licensed training programs around the world.
I plan to continue with my private practice, mentoring, ongoing research and teaching this year, while I explore the possibility of finding a qualified successor who can assist in directing this program in the future. Please check back with us this fall for further news. And feel free to contact us at info@marikotanabe.com.
I wish to express appreciation to all the students who have participated in the courses of EEM throughout the cycle. Without you, there would be no program. And gratitude to teachers who have brought their expertise, commitment, and hearts to the program: Erik Bendix, Janet Amato, Anne Garrigues, Walburga Glatz, Bob Lehnberg, Lulla Chourlin, and Assistants Cynthia Stevens, Natasha Martina, Janet Kwantes, Margery Segal, Basha Cohen, Vanessa Gagnon, and Nisha Kewalramani (Teacher and Assistant).
Many thanks to our Translators Vanessa Gagnon and Sarah Bild, Administrators Geneviève Robitaille and Reena Almoneda Chang, and Program Supervisor Thomas Greil.
Congratulations to the first graduates of the SME Program: Meryem Alaoui, Florence Poulin and Elissa Weinzimmer, and to the many others who will be graduating soon.
Wishing you all the best,
Mariko Tanabe – Program Director
Body-Mind Centering® is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind. Its uniqueness lies in the specificity with which each of the body systems can be personally embodied and integrated, the fundamental groundwork of developmental repatterning, and the utilization of a body-based language to describe movement and body-mind relationships.
The study of Body-Mind Centering® 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.
Programs and Courses
Body-Mind Centering® programs present detailed and specific approaches to the personal embodiment of our cells, our body systems and our developmental patterns and the ways in which all of these interact with our awareness, perception and consciousness. The principles and techniques learned in courses can be used for personal development and for professional enhancement.
The School for Body-Mind Centering®
Since 1973, the School has been dedicated to sharing this dynamic approach to embodiment studies with the world. There are graduates in 32 countries and on five continents. Programs are now offered by licensed organizations in the United States, Europe and South America. Graduates of these programs receive a certificate from the School for Body-Mind Centering®.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is the developer of Body-Mind Centering® and the founder and Educational Director of the School. For over fifty years, she has been a movement artist, researcher, educator and therapist. An innovator and leader, her work has influenced the fields of bodywork, movement, dance, yoga, body psychotherapy, childhood education and many other body-mind disciplines. She is the author of the book, Sensing, Feeling and Action.
Bonnie is a Registered Occupational Therapist, a Registered Movement Therapist and a Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT). She is also certified in Neurodevelopmental Therapy, Laban Movement Analysis, and Kestenberg Movement Profiling. She has practiced occupational therapy and taught in university hospitals, helped to establish a school for occupational and physical therapy for the Tokyo government, practiced bodywork and movement in psychiatric settings, taught in the masters program in Dance Therapy at Antioch New England College, taught dance at Hunter College and at the Erick Hawkins School of Dance in New York, and presented workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia.