BMCA News & Upcoming Events
Upcoming and recent events
ECOLOGY: Time, Place, and Relationship
BMCA online conference
Friday-Sunday, 2-4 October 2026
session recordings now available
unlimited access
keynote presenter:
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
featured presenters:
Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose
Tia Reihana
featured interview:
Jamie McHugh
additional presenters:
Aline Comignaghi
brooke smiley
Delia Spatareanu
Durgananda (Gabrielle Nolle)
Heilke Bruns and Heike Kuhlmann
Joanna Gruntkowska and Nieszka Bogusławska
Johanna Bienaise and Hanna Sybille Muller
Juliet Elena
Karin Spitfire and Wendy Hambidge
Kiran Alphonso
Lindsay Gilmour
Llewellyn Wishart
Lorena Quintas
Mandy Field and Michellie Charvat
Mariko Tanabe
Martha Eddy and Becky Dyer
monica de ioanni
Natalie Poole
Nina Spiri, Yuliya Dzichkouskaya, Laura Gary and Tomasz Krynicki
Nisha Kewalramani
Olive Bieringa
Paula Josa-Jones
Roberta Goeta and Roksana Niewadzisz
Toni Smith
additional resources:
brooke smiley (film)
Cynthia Stevens (film)
Erika Berland (guided meditation)
Lindsay Gilmour, Nathan Whitmont and Lillian Stamey (film)
Maren Waldman (film)
Marina Tsartsara (guided audio somatization)
Olive Bieringa (podcast episode)
Roksana Niewadzisz (film)
Susan Bauer (embodied meditation)
Wendy Hambidge, Jorge Samuel, Damaris Webb (film)
Presenters were invited to position their proposal in an ecological framework. How does their offering speak to the moment, and at the same time, open pathways to possible futures? How is it to consider ecology as a professional issue, applicable to all aspects of our practice?
The program included 30 live presentations, experiential workshops, facilitated discussions, and lecture-style formats. Additional offerings include performance videos, recorded audio explorations, and articles from the Currents archive.
We were delighted and inspired to facilitate these rich and diverse presentations, dialogues, and explorations that will continue to reverberate through our communities.
Preview the Ecology program:
Download a PDF of the Ecology conference program.
You can also preview the program on the BMCA Community Platform (login required), where the event took place. It’s free to create an account.
Pricing is self-selecting sliding scale.
Explorer and Professional members receive $50 off registration. Become an Explorer member for as low as $35/year.
All sessions have been recorded and are available for unlimited viewing.
Recordings are available
Explorer and Professional members receive $50 off of each sliding scale level.
Note that the first row of links will take you to a page within the Explorer members space that is accessible to Explorer and Professional members.
To take advantage of the $50 discount, become an Explorer member for as low as $35/year.
Not sure if you’re an Explorer or Professional member? Email us.
Recent events
REGATHERING 2026: Recordings are now available
BMCA’s second annual Regathering took place on May 29, 2026. The free event included experiential sessions with BMCA Professional members, a live Q&A with program directors from the School for Body-Mind Centering® about their emerging plans for the future of the school, and two Community Circle meetings for Explorer and Professional members for exchange, discussion, and feedback.
Recordings of live sessions and pre-recorded interviews are available for free on our community platform. (Our community platform (community.bmcassociation.org) is hosted by Mighty Networks and requires its own account, which is free to create.)
Join the Regathering space on our community platform — it’s free.
RECORDINGS OF LIVE SESSIONS
Karin Spitfire on Relational Boundaries
Maruma Rodríguez en Respira con todo el cuerpo
brooke smiley on Returning Resources: The Underlying Yield and Push
Visions for the Future with SBMC program directors Amy Matthews and Friederike Tröscher
PRE-RECORDED INTERVIEWS
Interview with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Leonard P. Cohen on the roots of BMC® pedagogy;
Interview with Donna Farhi, leading yoga teacher, post-lineage pioneer, and writer, describing how BMC® has influenced her yoga practice and teaching;
Conversation between Karin Spitfire and Carol Swann on how embodiment can be used to understand decolonization, anti-racism, and re-matriation.
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.
NOTES
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 to access and use the new forum, the difference between the spaces, who has access and can see posts, and how to change notification settings. 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.