Skeletal System (9 days/52 CE hrs)
gives our body the basic form through which we locomote through space, act on the environment, and sculpt space with the energy forms we call movement.  Embodying the skeletal system structurally organizes the mind and offers a basic framework for the movement of our mind based on a foundation of clarity and form.  This course teaches how to re-pattern the three internal structures of bone and is taught in three sections: Lower Limbs, Upper Limbs, and Axial Skeletal to align the whole body for effortless posture and movement. 

Organ System (7 days/40 CE hrs)
provides us with a sense of personal self and organic authenticity. Organs are vital and alive and support our postural tone, our feelings, and give volume to our movement. 

Basic Neurocellular Patterns of Movement* (7 days/40 CE hrs)
are movement templates that first appear in the womb and continue emerging and integrating through infancy.  The BNP form the basis of our movement and psychophysical expression.  These patterns can become a deep and ongoing personal movement practice that strengthens your developmental foundation for movement, expression, posture, and communication.

Senses & Perception* (4 days/ 22 CE hrs)
are our organs of receiving information from ourselves and from the outer world.  Perception is the psychophysical process of interpreting sensory information.  This process begins as potential and develops in response to our experience.  The S&P course explores how we filter, modify, distort, accept, and reject to use sensory information to bond, defend and learn.

Primitive Reflexes, Righting Reactions & Equilibrium Responses* (6 days/34 CEhrs)
are present underneath ALL successful movement and are the fundamental elements that establish our basic internal state of being with gravity, space, and others. The RRR combine to build the Basic Neurological Patterns (BNP). 

Embryological & Ontogenetic Development* (5 days/28 CE hrs) 
offers an overall map for understanding the sequence of sensory and motor development during intrauterine life and through the first year. In BMC® the Primitive Reflexes, Righting Reactions and Equilibrium Responses (RRR) are considered the alphabet of movement. Together, the RRR and the Basic Neurological Patterns become the words and sentences that form the Ontogenetic milestones or paragraphs of infant development. 

*indicates a Level 1 DEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT EDUCATION required course
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Fluid System (6 days/34 CE hrs)
This transport system of the body supports presence and transformation while counter-balancing the dynamics of flow between activity and rest, tension and recuperation.

Ligamentous System  (7 days/40 CE hrs)
coordinates and guides muscular responses and increases specificity and efficiency for the alignment and movement of the bones.  When all of the ligaments of a joint are actively engaged, the movement of that joint becomes highly specific and is carried effortlessly to surrounding and successive joints. Participants are guided to experience ligaments as living, contractile tissues which are continuous with the fascial web that connects all systems, tissues, and cells of the body. 

Nervous System (7 days/40 CE hrs)
experience occurs first on the cellular level.  The nervous system records the experience and organizes it into patterns.  It can then call forth the experience and modify the pattern by integrating it with the patterns of other experiences.  The nervous system is the last to know, but once knowing, becomes a primary controlling system of the body which deepens a sense of inner calm and intention.

Muscular System (9 days/52 CE hrs)
establishes a tensile three-dimensional grid for the balanced support and movement of the skeletal system and provides the elastic forces that move the bones through space.  Through this system we embody our vitality, express our power and engage in the dialogue between resistance and resolution.

Endocrine System (5 days/28 CE hrs)
is an intricate web of structure and function that supports our central core. This core runs from the floor of the pelvis to the center of the cranium and integrates the musculoskeletal system, the diaphragms, the organs, and the nerves. With the felt impact of sacred poetry we will learn to embody the endocrine system, by exploring each individual gland; the glands in dynamic supportive relationship to each other; and how the glands and musculoskeletal system integrates movement into crystalline states of consciousness.

Professional Issues (3 days)
address some of the important issues facing professionals in the somatic field.

Competency (1 day)  
is a review of the BNP Series and body systems through touch and movement to fully support competence.

Licensed BMC® courses and certificate programs in Somatic Movement Education (SME) and Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME) are offered in the US, in North Carolina, and in Europe. For detailed program information please visit: www.bodymindcentering.com and www.bmcassociation.org  

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At left: Touch and Movement Repatterning class at the Freeman Center. 

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