
April 2020
Online BF Classes with Karen Studd
Karen Studd, WholeMovement co-founder, is diving into the world of online sharing/teaching/moving through offering 3 short workshop classes. Three 1 -hour experiences will be offered to share her perspective and how she approaches aspects of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. These sessions are for free and will be offered to a select group of participants currently studying the LBMS material in international training programs. The classes will include: 1) A WholeMovement approach to BFs traditional Heel Rocks, starting from the basics and…
Find out more »Intro to the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (MD)
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…
Find out more »May 2020
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System through a WholeMovement Approach
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…
Find out more »A Wholemovement Approach to Moving the Anatomy of Innersphere
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…
Find out more »Intro to The Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (VA)
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 dates and locations! 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…
Find out more »June 2020
Complex Movement in Small Spaces
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…
Find out more »September 2020
A WholeMovement approach to meeting the realities of online teaching and interactions
WholeMovement presenters will focus on how the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) can identify both positive and problematic patterns of working online, and model ways to address and adapt to these patterns.
Find out more »September 2021
WholeMovement Continuing Education Workshop in Space Harmony
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…
Find out more »January 2022
Exploring the Dynamism of Human Movement: An introduction into the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) exploring its capacity to unpack the complex patterns of human movement
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…
Find out more »April 2022
International Symposium LBMS 2022
Inspirees Institute and its partners are pleased to announce the International Symposium of LBMS (ISLBMS 2022), which will take place online April 1-3, 2022. This symposium is dedicated to Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff, who established what is now identified as the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS). The symposium will include other pioneers and practitioners who have continued to contribute and develop the work of its founders. As LBMS is spreading out worldwide and has reached many fields to support the…
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