BMCA News & Upcoming Events
Upcoming events
REGATHERING 2026: Let’s Regather Online on May 29!
As with last year, BMCA is offering a one-day event to build on ideas and experiences from the 2025 online gathering, while introducing the upcoming event this October.
The Regathering program for Friday, May 29, 2026 has been shaped into short sessions that include experiential workshops and community circles, to discuss specific topics, provide a forum for feedback, and help shape the future online encounter.
We are embracing this year’s Regathering as an opportunity to engage with the theme of Ecology, which is the theme of our upcoming 3-day online event from October 2-4, 2026. Ecology is a reliably fertile framework for considering questions of sustainability and how we relate to each other and our environment, equally relevant at the micro and macro levels, and in the biological, psychophysical, and metaphorical realms.
Regathering is a free online event for BMCA Explorer and Professional members. Additionally, a selected number of live sessions and pre-recorded interviews will be free and open to the public (BMCA Community members).
We very much look forward to sharing the day with you!
The Regathering space on our community platform is now open and free to join.
CONFIRMED SESSIONS INCLUDE:
free to the public: an experiential session with brooke smiley, an artist and somatic movement educator living in California, U.S., and working from indigenous, land-based, social justice, and Body-Mind Centering® perspectives;
free to the public: a session on relational boundaries with Karin Spitfire, poet, artist, feminist activist, and BMC® teacher;
our annual members meeting(s);
a presentation and discussion of our 2025 Annual Report;
a report from the program directors on upcoming changes for the School for Body-Mind Centering®.
PRE-RECORDED INTERVIEWS:
free to the public: an interview with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Leonard P. Cohen on the roots of BMC® pedagogy;
free to the public: a recently recorded interview with Donna Farhi, leading yoga teacher, post-lineage pioneer, and writer where she describes how BMC® has influenced her yoga practice and teaching.
free to the public: a spontaneously recorded conversation between Karin Spitfire and Carol Swann on how embodiment can be used to understand decolonization, anti-racism, and re-matriation.
Stay tuned for further program details!
Past event recording packages
SLIDING SCALE PRICING
ACCESS DOES NOT EXPIRE
We’ve lowered prices and extended access for the recording packages for our three-day online events in 2024 and 2025. Our pricing structure is a self-selecting sliding scale: choose a level that feels sustainable and meaningful to you. Access to the recordings is unlimited and does not expire.
Browse below or use the quick links:
Liaisons (2025)
Celebrating BMC®: 50 years of somatic movement education (2024)
Special bundle with both recording packages, Celebrating BMC® and Liaisons.
LIAISONS 2025
LIAISONS
VINCOLI
KONTAKTE
CONTRIBUCIONES
INTERSECTIONS
繋がり
CONEXÕES
Preview the Liaisons program.
Body-Mind Centering® is described as an approach and its experiential study as a creative process.
As both an approach and a process (rather than a defined technique), BMC® readily intersects with, layers upon, and engages in generative dialogue with related disciplines, diverse fields, and applications.
Liaisons was a three-day online event held in November 2025 that spotlighted some of the many ways in which Body-Mind Centering® has been applied to a range of disciplines and has helped shape cross-exchanges between BMC® and other approaches and disciplines, organized within the following topics:
BMC® & contemplative practices
BMC® & creative process
BMC® & dance / performing arts education
BMC® & developmental movement education and therapy
BMC®-informed psychotherapeutic and trauma approaches
The gathering featured Body-Mind Centering® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and more than 40 other teachers, practitioners, and explorers of BMC® from over 15 countries.
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For program details, including sessions details and presenter biographies:
Preview the Liaisons program on our community platform. Login is required and it’s free to join.
download a PDF of the program.
To purchase on your phone, you must use a browser. The Mighty Networks mobile app does not support purchases.
Sliding Scale Pricing
CELEBRATING BMC® 2024
50 years of
somatic movement education
The BMCA Board of Directors welcomed Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and a rich line-up of BMC® teachers and program directors from around the world to share from their unique experiences and journeys, and their current explorations and questions.
The three-day online event was a celebration of our shared history, an opportunity to experience teachers who helped develop and spread BMC®-infused pedagogy, and an invitation to consider BMC®’s place in the development of somatic movement education.
All sessions and interviews feature BMCA Professional members who are certified BMC®Teachers, have taught in the early SBMC programs, and/or have directed BMC®-based somatic movement education programs in different regions around the world.
The gathering featured Body-Mind Centering® founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and almost 40 other BMC® teachers and program directors.
NOTES
For program details, including session details, preview the Celebrating BMC® program on our community platform. Login is required and it’s free to join.
To purchase on your phone, you must use a browser. The Mighty Networks mobile app does not support purchases.
Sliding Scale Pricing
CELEBRATING BMC® + LIAISONS
BUNDLE
Sliding Scale Pricing
Past offerings
Relational Boundaries with Karin Spitfire
a Body-Mind Centering®-informed course
7 sessions, February 2 - April 27, 2026
The study, practice, and teaching of Body-Mind Centering® often involves a group setting, and includes invitations to explore material in partnerships and small groups using movement, touch, and other relational modalities.
This course with Karin Spitfire draws on BMC® principles and concepts to explore questions about relational boundaries that can arise in the studio, classroom, treatment room, and all aspects of life.
This series is eligible for Continuing Education credit for BMCA Professional members.
Themes for each session
group consent and agreements
boundaries: physical and emotional
boundaries in hands-on practice
power: transference, dynamics, roles
trust and safety, revisit group consent and emotional boundaries
sex and sexual boundaries
processing and feedback
Stay tuned for a follow-up offering.
About Karin Spitfire
Karin Spitfire is a poet, artist, and feminist activist. Spitfire created and performed nationally a piece titled “Incest: It’s All Relative,” from 1982-1990. Utilizing what she learned from her own process, dance, and theater training, she began doing workshops for trauma survivors. In 1987, she began her BMC training, and learned to identify and begin to release trauma in all the tissues of her bodies, as well as recognizing embodiment and expression as fundamental sources of power. She has worked with hundreds of individuals and groups over the years.
Karin taught at the first SBMC-approved satellite program in Amsterdam with Jacques Van Eijden from ‘96-’99 and at SBMC in Amherst from ‘02-’08. She was one of the first to teach psycho-physical integration and she taught counseling skills courses that fulfilled the SBMC requirement for practitioner certification.
Spitfire has a BA and MA in Women’s Studies, is a certified practitioner and teacher of BMC®, registered counselor, and OT. Spitfire is the author of two poetry books Standing with Trees(2006) and The Body in Late Stage Capitalism (2021).
karinspitfire.com
Recordings of past BMCA meetings
BMCA Community Platform Tour
Participants brought questions to this interactive tour of the BMCA Community Platform. Topics included: * How do I access and use the new forum? * What is the difference between all of the spaces? * Who has access and can see posts? * How do I access the Liaisons event space? How do I change my settings to receive email updates? and more… Want to get oriented to our community platform? Click here to access the recording.
Intro to BMCA and Membership
View the recording for an overview on what the Body-Mind Centering® Association (BMCA) offers our international community. We cover BMCA mission, membership types, current member benefits, and instructions on member sign-up, followed by an open Q&A. Access the recording now.
Volunteering with the BMCA
Long and short-term projects are waiting for you.
Please let us know of your interest,
and we will be happy to connect.