Past Events

Intro to The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for Somatic Therapists & Practitioners with Laura Cox & Karen Studd POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 Please check back for new date and location! For those engaged in somatic practices – learn how the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) can enhance your own experience and support your practice. LBMS is a comprehensive system used in understanding multiple aspects of human movement patterns. Using the LBMS framework, this workshop will focus on awareness of movement in the…

A Three-Day LBMS Workshop May 2-4 with Karen Studd (Participate through ZOOM or in Shanghai)   Content of Workshop System Overview – Patterns - making sense of the world and ourselves in it -humans as pattern makers and pattern perceivers - all humans are already movement analysts – Identifying 3 large overall patterns as linked to our perception and experience Observation – through seeing, sensing, feeling and interpreting – how our awareness and language to support this process. Experience – What do you…

Led by Laura Cox & Hosted by Cat Maguire Cat will be hosting a limited enrollment two episode movement exploration of the anatomy of the Innersphere (the space within the container of the body), led by Laura via Zoom, with the goal of:  promoting enhanced awareness of the connection between and among parts of our anatomy to other parts; the connection of parts to the whole body; the connection of the whole body (as individual) to the wholeness of the space beyond…

Mentoring a WholeMovement Approach in applying the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System to teaching movement through the practice of Bartenieff Fundamentals Led by WholeMovement member Cat Maguire This limited enrollment  class is designed as a way to workshop the mentoring of recently graduated  Certified Movement Analysts, Yun Cheng, Sissi Peng   and Katee Shen, who wish to eventually teach the LBMS material and to simultaneously provide a rich embodied movement experience (rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals) for participants. Enrollment will be kept to small…

WholeMovement in collaboration with Inspirees Institute: Continuing Education Workshop in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System: The Wholeness of Duality as seen and experienced through Space Harmony Master teachers and movement analysis training faculty Karen Studd and Cat Maguire in conjunction with Inspirees are pleased to offer an opportunity to deepen foundational knowledge of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System.  As teachers of WholeMovement, Karen and Cat have developed LBMS course work which seeks to blend theory and practice and to link personal development to professional…

Participants will be introduced to how LBMS offers: a comprehensive practice for ongoing development of the body/mind a language of movement and taxonomy for describing action a tool for movement analysis in multiple applications including all forms of dance The workshop is also valuable for those seeking to update their knowledge of developments and expansion in the theories and practices of LBMS (LMA/BF) The workshop will include an overview of LBMS connecting and integrating our abilities of sensing, feeling, and…