Upcoming Workshops

“Your voice is a living resonance moving actively through your entire body”

Active Breath Somatic Practice

 A live-stream, dynamic and interactive training program

  with Patricia Bardi

Founder of Voice Movement Integration (VMI), a Somatic Practice Certification Program accredited by ISMETA, based on 40 years of research and development, interfacing creative practice and integrative somatic movement and bodywork

Module Four: The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

The Nervous System – detects and responds to all subtle and profound changes inside and outside of the body. Stimulation of the nervous system creates an immediate response to the effort and modulation of stress and relaxation in the body that effects our physical, emotional and cognitive. responses. 

Overall program: Ten modules of five weekly 1.5 hour class.

Each module focusing on a different body system. 

Plus additional weekly small group tutorial to deepen understanding.

Module 4: Begins Monday 19 April – 24 May ’21 at 10 am CET

Subscribers unable to attend live class can access the uploaded version

“Patricia Bardi was a major person in the early development of BMC from 1973 – 1986. She took the seeds and grew her own forest”           Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – founder of Body-Mind Centering

 Active Breath is an innovative somatic practice focused on integrating our awareness of the intrinsic connection between body, mind, and emotions through our physical experience of breath, voice, and movement.

It is a practical approach for cultivating and deepening your embodiment skills, building resilience, and developing conscious attention in your daily-lived experience.

Living in a time of whirlwind change and flux, we want to feel energized and healthy. There is a genuine need to cultivate self-care, reduce stress to build up your immune system, find joy in your active and interactive expression, and feel more grounded, calm, and aware in your body, mind, and emotional states.

Active Breath Somatic Practice is a tool for opening your potential and develops and shapes your embodiment skills to have a clearer sense of self and to make a positive contribution in your world.

Active Breath is a series of guided movement sequences using whole-body breathing & sound directly with physical awareness & movement. The practice builds progressively from refined, slow; attentive movement patterns aligned with breath, spine & eye movements and evolve sequentially into more whole-body breath and rhythm moving actively in space.

Benefits of Active Breath Somatic Practice

Active Breath is an in-depth somatic practice that provides more insight and refined skills to:

• perceive your physical awareness and body presence in more detail.
• influence and positively affect your postural tone, balance, and coordination.
• develop your whole-body breathing with more ease.
• embody the physical support for the resonance of your voice.
• align your feeling for rhythm and flow by actively engaging sound in your movement.
• bring a richer, more attentive dialogue into your understanding and sense of self.

Active Breath Program Overview

Each individual module of the Active Breath program consists of five live-stream consecutive weekly classes of 1.5 hours plus a bonus of one tutorial for a small group. Each module of the Active Breath Program focuses on a different, specific body system together with aspects of integration, perception, and expression.

Each weekly class includes experiential, integrative practice of breath, voice, and movement, together with an exploration of the relevant anatomy and physiology and involves group discussion.

Each module can be taken independently

The training program is of particular relevance to somatic practitioners, educators, movement therapists, holistic health and wellness coaches, dance artists, voice practitioners, interdisciplinary performers, public speakers and is open to all levels of experience.

The Active Breath Program consists of 10 modules.

Each module consists of 5 consecutive weekly classes and a group tutorial:

• Module 1: The Skeletal System
• Module 2: Organ System and the 7 Domes
• Module 3: Fluid Rhythm and Flow
• Module 4: Nervous System – Central and Peripheral Nervous System
• Module 5: Autonomic Nervous System and Vagus Nerve
• Module 6: Energetic Endocrine System and Chakras
• Module 7: Eyes and Ears in Relation to Brain Function
• Module 8: Neurological Reflexes and Postural Balance in Action
• Module 9: Anatomy of the Voice – Embodying the Voice through Movement
• Module 10: Combining Body Systems in an Integrative Practice

Overview of each individual module:

• The 5 consecutive weekly classes are live-streamed via Zoom.
• Each module focuses on a specific body system.
• Each module of 5 weekly classes can be taken independently.
• You will be invited to sign up for one scheduled tutorial within each module, for group discussion, guidance and supervision.
• Patricia will try and accommodate different time zones when scheduling.
• The live-stream class will be posted afterward on Patricia’s YouTube channel..
• A Certificate of Attendance will be given upon completion of the entire program.

The Tutorial Provides the Opportunity to:

• Cultivate your skills by receiving more attention in a small group setting.
• Ask direct questions concerning your personal and professional practice.
• Share and exchange new insights with colleagues from different backgrounds.
• Focus in on the details you are investigating and researching in your practice.

 Fee: One Module of 5 weekly classes is: Total €135. euros

 Package includes:

• 5 weekly classes of 1.5 hours
• One bonus small group tutorial
• 15% discount on the first module you subscribe to for €115. euros.

Registration:

Please contact Patricia at [email protected] to receive further information about registering and paying for a module and be forwarded the online link to participate in the classes.

The Active Breath Practice is one of the aspects of the VMI Somatic Practice Certification Program that is accredited by ISMETA, KTNO, and BATC. Currently, the VMI Certification Program is being restructured and will combine in-person and online coursework. Patricia is looking at the potential to include the Active Breath Somatic Practice Program as an introductory training and part of the VMI Somatic Practice Certification Program. This will depend on the overall restructuring process being approved for accreditation

The voice is a physical instrument engaging with all of our senses. Moving the breath, feeling the vibration of the sound as a living pulse guiding, informing, and exchanging actively with our movement flow opens gateways of inspiration and creativity. This workshop is an integrative process combining Active Breath, movement flow, deep body resonance, and ensemble voice/movement improvisation.

Time & Location

Sat 31 October & Sun 1 November

VMI Center, Amsterdam

10:00 – 17:00

We are following all of the regulations for Covid – 19 to offer a safe and clean environment for a small group to join this in-person workshop. 

VMI Somatic Practice combines vocal expression with physical movement to deepen awareness and awaken perception in ways that foster personal change and empower transformation. Developing our body presence through actively using breath and movement informs our sense of awareness in how and what we want to communicate.

Each workshop in the series focuses on different aspects of VMI Somatic Practice that incorporate principles of Active Breath, embodied anatomy, sensory awareness, movement in space, hands-on bodywork, and guided physical re-patterning. Improvisation structures are introduced, combining vocal, physical, visual, temporal, and rhythmic elements to amplify creativity in an ensemble experience.

The two-day workshops awaken a fuller expression of voice through the entire body and stimulate fresh approaches to performance. The practice is effective in developing in the participant an engaged and concentrated whole-body experience of their breath and voice combined with active movement.

The workshops are for anyone interested in improving their health and vitality while becoming more confident in embodying their voice, enhancing their physical and emotional awareness, and creatively feeling a sense of aliveness in a moving and flowing body. 

They are of particular interest for movement practitioners, bodyworkers, educators, therapists, dancers, singers, actors, coaches, facilitators, and public speakers.

Course Fee: €200.- euro – Early Bird Discount €150.- with payment made by 20 October

For further information and registration please contact:

Email: [email protected]

Cultivating a sense of fluidity and spaciousness within the skeletal joint structures gives the entire body a feeling of effortlessness and stability in action. The skeletal joints are essential in providing balance and clarity of initiation in our movement sequences. This workshop combines Active Breath, integrative movement, hands-on bodywork practice and guided physical repatterning skills for facilitating another person’s perceptual awareness in actively aligning their skeletal structure in their body presence.

Time & Location
Saturday 9 May & Sunday 10 May
VMI Center, Amsterdam
10:00 – 17:00

VMI Somatic Practice combines vocal expression with physical movement to deepen awareness and awaken perception in ways that foster personal change and empower transformation. Developing our body presence through actively using breath and movement informs our sense of awareness in how and what we want to communicate.

Each workshop in the series focuses on different aspects of VMI Somatic Practice that incorporate principles of Active Breath, embodied anatomy, sensory awareness, movement in space, hands-on bodywork and guided physical re-patterning. Improvisation structures are introduced, combining vocal, physical, visual, temporal and rhythmic elements to amplify creativity in an ensemble experience.

The two-day workshops awaken a fuller expression of voice through the entire body and stimulate fresh approaches to performance. The practice is effective in developing in the participant an engaged and concentrated whole-body experience of their breath and voice combined with active movement.

The workshops are for anyone interested in improving their health and vitality while becoming more confident in embodying their voice, enhancing their physical and emotional awareness and creatively feeling a sense of aliveness in a moving and flowing body. 

They are of particular interest for movement practitioners, bodyworkers, educators, therapists, dancers, singers, actors, coaches, facilitators, and public speakers.

VMI Somatic Practice is an innovative interdisciplinary somatic approach combining Vocal Dance,Voice Movement Integration and Vital Movement Integration Bodywork. For more than 25 years, the VMI Somatic Practice Educational Program, founded and directed by Patricia Bardi, has been centered in Amsterdam.

Course Fee:

Each workshop can be taken independently.

1 Workshop –   € 200,-

2 Workshops –  €170,- per workshop: € 340,-

3 workshops – €150,-  per workshop: € 450,-

For further information and registration please contact:

Email: [email protected]

Looking specifically at the organs’ system’s relationship to the vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system to help refine and clarify the interaction of intention and attention in our awareness and perceptual-motor coordination. The practice aims to have a calming effect on the nervous system and cultivates a fluid dynamic between inner and outer focus through active listening in our movement, breath, vocal presence, quality of touch and interactive expressive sense of play.

Date: Sat 29 February & Sun 1 March 2020

Time: 10:00 – 17:00

Location: VMI Center, Amsterdam

VMI Somatic Practice combines vocal expression with physical movement to deepen awareness and awaken perception in ways that foster personal change and empower transformation. Developing our body presence through actively using breath and movement informs our sense of awareness in how and what we want to communicate.

Each workshop in the series focuses on different aspects of VMI Somatic Practice that incorporate principles of Active Breath, embodied anatomy, sensory awareness, movement in space, hands-on bodywork and guided physical re-patterning. Improvisation structures are introduced, combining vocal, physical, visual, temporal and rhythmic elements to amplify creativity in an ensemble experience.

The two-day workshops awaken a fuller expression of voice through the entire body and stimulate fresh approaches to performance. The practice is effective in developing in the participant an engaged and concentrated whole-body experience of their breath and voice combined with active movement.

The workshops are for anyone interested in improving their health and vitality while becoming more confident in embodying their voice, enhancing their physical and emotional awareness and creatively feeling a sense of aliveness in a moving and flowing body. 

They are of particular interest for movement practitioners, bodyworkers, educators, therapists, dancers, singers, actors, coaches, facilitators, and public speakers.

VMI Somatic Practice is an innovative interdisciplinary somatic approach combining Vocal Dance, Voice Movement Integration and Vital Movement Integration Bodywork. For more than 25 years, the VMI Somatic Practice Educational Program, founded and directed by Patricia Bardi, has been centered in Amsterdam.

Course Fee:

Each workshop can be taken independently.

1 Workshop –   € 200,-

2 Workshops –  €170,- per workshop: € 340,-

3 workshops – €150,-  per workshop: € 450,-

For further information and registration please contact:

Email: [email protected]

Somantic Rebus is an event dedicated to the somatic disciplines and is articulated into meetings, workshops and performances. The proposed work focuses on some particular exploratory approaches on the body / psyche, and in particular on how these bodily practices and actions relate to dance, performance or everyday life.

“EMBODYING THE VOICE WHILE MOVING”
WORKSHOP with PATRICIA BARDI
Patricia Bardi’s work combines vocal expression with physical movement to deepen awareness and awaken perception in ways that foster transformation. Participants will use vocal and physical practices to explore the skeletal, organ and fluid systems as a source for discovering resonance of sound in the body. We will work with connecting our breath to physical sensation while actively moving in space. We will engage with sound and language through improvisation opening up the space inside ourselves, in partners and in a shared circle of sound & rhythm. From this sense of physical connection, we will move into interacting with sounds coming from physical gesture and fluctuating rhythms.
Bringing the body into a felt sense of awareness provides fertile ground for bringing our awareness & vocal presence into a whole body experience that supports our capacity to communicate and enhance our performance skills. Our expression begins to converge & navigate through uncharted territory refreshing our relationship to our creativity and aliveness.

TO PARTICIPATE

The WORKSHOP is open to those who want to improve their dance experience and to those who want to get closer to listening to the body, expanding the pleasure of being present in moment.

link workshop: http://www.companyblu.it/workshop/workshop.htm

To participate  send an email to [email protected] with the subject “SOMANTIC REBUS BODYWORK”. We will reply within a few days with the details.

This series of one day workshops incorporates Bardi’s innovative work, Vocal Dance, a performance practice that frees the voice to be fully alive and reflected in one’s expressive vitality and movement. It also includes Voice Movement Integration (VMI) Practice an integrative somatic practice actively combining voice with movement with the deepening process of bodywork to stimulate and organize the body’s physical-perceptual-emotional awareness.

Using vocal and physical practices, participants explore the skeletal, organ and fluid systems as a source for discovering resonance and vibration of sound in the body. Combining these systems affects the overall quality of sensation, tonal color, effort and energy flow in embodying the voice. We will focus on active breath, experiential anatomy, sensory awareness and movement in space. Vocal Dance Improvisation structures are introduced combining vocal, physical, visual, temporal and rhythmic elements to amplify ensemble interaction & communication. This workshop is effective in developing in the actor, singer and dancer an engaged and concentrated whole body experience of their voice combined with movement. These workshops are open to all levels of experience.

[email protected]