Body-Mind Centering® classes, workshops and private sessions with certified Body-Mind Centering® practitioners Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad and Gry Kipperberg.
We offer classes, workshops and private sessions at PRAXIS Oslo.
You can find current schedule here: https://bodycartography.org/upcoming/upcoming-workshops/
We are looking to build a 500 hour Somatic Movement Education professional certification program in Oslo for 2026-2027.
Body-Mind Centering® is an experiential approach to embodiment, movement and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen over the last several decades, Body-Mind Centering® works with the conscious embodiment of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, embryological and developmental principles. It uses anatomical information, guided movement, intentional touch, voice, expressive arts, and a developing awareness of the play of conscious attention, or mind. It can be useful for artists of all disciplines.
Somatic practice opens doors to radically inclusive movement potentials. Somatic practice is an integrated and embodied approach to movement and consciousness which can be practiced by anyone regardless of age, ability, disability, or gender. Somatic practice invites a slowing down to feel. We learn to sense and initiate movement from anywhere inside of ourselves. Together we will create a generative place for movement exploration, evolution and dancing.
These offerings are for movers, performers, dancers, performers, artists, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, occupational and physical therapists, somatic psychotherapists, infant/child educators, and those from other body-mind disciplines interested in development, cellular consciousness, movement, and mindfulness.
About us
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad collaborate as the BodyCartography Project making performances, films, installations, festivals and workshops internationally. As certified teachers of Body-Mind Centering® and movement therapists they run the Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Education certification in Melbourne at Somatic Education Australia. They teach internationally for Carte Blanche, Bergen, New Zealand School of Dance, Dansehallerne, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen, Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Tanzquartier, Vienna, Uniarts, Stockholm, Norwegian Theater Academy, Fredrikstad, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Praxis, Oslo, Impulstanz, Vienna, Movement Research, NYC, Independent Dance, London, Contradanse, Brussels amongst others.
Gry Kipperberg is a dance artist based in Oslo. She studied at Khio and Merce Cunningham Studio in New York and has worked with several companies, choreographers, and other dancers since 1990. In 1999 she established the company Wee together with Francesco Scavetta, with whom she has worked and toured extensively internationally. Throughout her career Gry has studied and practiced various somatic practices and was certified as a BMC Practitioner in 2022. As a dancer she has received several grants, was awarded the Rolf Gamlengprisen in 2012 and is employed by Skuespiller-og Danseralliansen since December 2012.
Body-Mind Centering® is a registered service mark of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
