Relational Boundaries with Karin Spitfire
a Body-Mind Centering® workshop series
7 sessions, alternating Mondays
February 2 through April 27, 2026
3-4:30pm UTC
online
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.
In this workshop series with Karin Spitfire, we will draw 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.
NOTE: this is a pilot round of the workshop with specific requirements for participation. The number of participants will be limited. Stay tuned for a follow-up offering.
Themes for each session (subject to change)
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
Dates
Mondays 3-4:30pm UTC (check your local time)
February 2, February 16, March 2, March 16, March 30, April 13, April 27
Note the timing of your local standard/daylight time zone change if it applies!
Requirements for pilot
Participants must be BMC® Practitioners and BMCA Professional members.*
Participants must commit to the full 7 sessions.
The series will require a time commitment in addition to the online sessions. This may include engaging in audio-based explorations in preparation for sessions, and practice assignments between sessions.
This workshop involves explorations and hands-on work with a partner in the same physical space. Optimally, participants can be with a partner for the online sessions. An alternative is that participants practice outside of session times with partner(s).
If partners are together in the same space for the online sessions, only one of the partners needs to meet the BMC® Practitioner/BMCA Professional member requirement.
This series will be taught in English. While we cannot provide simultaneous translation, translated captions will be available during the Zoom sessions. We welcome non-fluent English speakers if they join with an English-speaking partner who can translate within the partnership.
Pricing information
We are offering self-selecting sliding scale pricing for this workshop series.
Fees are per person; if there are partners in the online sessions, each must register and pay separately.
low: $100 (about $14/session)
medium: $200 (about $29/session)
high: $350 ($50/session)
Note that income will be shared between BMCA and Karin Spitfire.
Next steps
Please complete our form to express your interest in participating in the pilot series. We will be in touch with you, and registration will officially open soon. Questions? Email us.
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 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