21st Annual Somatic Movement Training Program in AMSTERDAM
November 2013 - June 2014

Vocal Dance
& Voice Movement Integration

with PATRICIA BARDI

PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION UPDATE:

  • VMI Somatic Practice Certification Program is delighted to announce we are professionally accredited by the KTNO as a full HBO college level training as natural health practitioner licensed by the BATC for health insurance coverage.
  • We continue to be accredited by ISMETA – International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association as registered somatic movement therapist/educators.
  • The program has been audited & approved by the CRKBO as a European professional educational program & continues to be BTW free.

NEXT INTRODUCTION DAY – Early Spring 27 April, 2012. AMSTERDAM

THE PROGRAM > Application form

This somatic movement training program develops skills connecting dance, movement, active breath, voice, improvisation, physical repatterning and hands-on practice.

‘...highly professional, convincing...’
(Jaana Klevering, choreographer)

• Applying voice, movement and experiential anatomy in dance and theater improvisation.

• Integrating bodywork techniques (Organ Rebalancing, Craniosacral Therapy & Body-Mind Centering®) with vocal and movement expression.

• VMI Somatic Practice Certification Program accredited by KTNO as licensed natural health practitioner through BATC for health insurance coverage and as Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator by ISMETA.

‘Participating in a Vocal Dance & VMI training was moving, inspiring and a great learning experience.’
Zeynep Bulut (musicologist, singer & sound artist, Berlin)

The training incorporates Patricia Bardi’s innovative work involving:

VOCAL DANCE – a creative practice that frees the voice to be fully alive and reflected in one's expressive vitality and movement.

VOICE MOVEMENT INTEGRATION (VMI) Somatic Practice – an integrative somatic practice actively combining voice and movement with the deepening process of bodywork to stimulate and organize the body’s physical-perceptual-emotional awareness.

VOICE MOVEMENT INTEGRATION (VMI) Bodywork – a gentle, precise hands-on integrative approach to health and healing. It connects body, mind and emotions bringing a renewed sense of equilibrium and well being through the entire body.

‘Your work truly inspires me.’
Elizna Odendaal (Executive Coaching Director, UK)

This course is intended for people working professionally, studying or showing interest in the fields of movement therapy & education, the performing arts, body oriented therapy (physical and psychological), speech therapy, child education and health and wellness. People who enjoy a genuine curiosity and passion for learning will find it of great interest.

Participants have applied this work successfully to dance, music and voice, theater, child development, movement therapy & education, natural health practice, physical therapy, speech therapy, body-oriented psychotherapy, yoga, pilates and health & wellness.

‘It is absolutely gorgeous how much the experience has opened up my awareness of my postural habits and holding. I feel significantly more open (physically and emotionally) ever since. It really is remarkable.’
Mary Jo Gilligan (VMI Somatic Certification Program participant, artist, Ireland)

The Curriculum consists of somatic studies in:

Vocal Dance
• using practical explorations with sound combined with moving in space to deepen the experience of physical integration.
• using improvisation to enliven and broaden our understanding of the material as it applies to moving actively, individually and in a larger group process.

Voice Movement Integration (VMI) Somatic Practice
• acquiring an experiential understanding of the major anatomical systems of the body through touch, perception, sound & movement.
• researching the body systems (muscular, skeletal, organ, endocrine, fluid and nervous systems) as a source for  identifying and qualifying sensation in sound & movement.

Developmental Movement
• using developmental movement sequences to explore the basic neurological patterns and underlying reflexes that co-ordinate our sensory motor development.

Vital Movement Integration (VMI) Bodywork – principles and practices
• observing the structural balance of the body in relationship to the underlying organic, energetic & fluid support.
• practicing partnerwork & physical repatterning to refine quality of touch and precisely contact different levels of tissue – muscle, bone, organ, endocrine, fluid and nerve in guiding a person towards a renewed sense of equilibrium and well being through the entire body.

 N.B. Further details about the curriculum are available on request

‘It has been a big joy to learn with you and the group.  It has given me new energy and input that I can fill in my every day life.’
Edwige Lanois (VMI Certification Program participant, psychotherapist, Belgium)

Organization of Meetings

  • The course will take place in Amsterdam from November 2013 to June 2014.

  • The group will meet five times over this period for a total of 25 days.

  • Each participant is given an optional individual session with Patricia during the training.

  • Classes will be taught in English for five hours per day in two sessions led by Patricia. Guest teachers may be invited to present related material.

  • Suggestions for individual and small group study will be given for the time between each section of the course.

  • Group discussion on a regular and continuous basis will aid participants to assimilate their experiences and gain further insight.

  • On the fourth day of each section of the course there will be an evening session for group discussion.

  • Further educational material will be provided.

Introduction Days

  • Saturday 27 April, 2013

  • Saturday 28 September, 2013

  • Saturday 5 October, 2013

Course Dates:
Friday 1 November 2013 (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 2 November  – Tuesday 5 November (10:00 – 17:30)
 
Friday 10 January 2014 (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 11 January  – Tuesday 14 January (10:00 – 17:30)
 
Friday 7 March 2014 (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 8 March – Tuesday 11 March (10:00 – 17:30)
 
Friday 2 May 2014 (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 3 May – Tuesday 6 May (10:00 – 17:30)
 
Friday 6 June 2014 (12:00 – 18:00)
Saturday 7 June – Tuesday 10 June (10:00 – 17:30)

Application

This training program consists of 25 days over 5 long weekends from Friday to Tuesday in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We can assist in finding accommodation for out of town participants.

Enrollment is limited. Early registration is advisable.

Course Fee: 1 x EUR 2150

For information and individual appointment to discuss joining the course, please contact us by
Telephone: +31 (0)6 120 38733
or email: info@patriciabardi.com
We are available to answer any of your questions and give an overview of the format and content of the training.

To apply for the course, please fill in and send the application form below:

APPLICATION FORM

Vocal Dance & Voice Movement Integration
with Patricia Bardi

Somatic Movement Training Program
November 2013 – June 2014
Enrollment is Open

Certification Program

Patricia offers the VMI Somatic Practice Certification Program combining Vocal Dance, Voice Movement Integration (VMI) Somatic Practice & Vital Movement Integration (VMI) Bodywork. The entire curriculum consists of six modules. Upon completion of this foundation course of 25 days subsequent modules can be taken in a sequence or at flexible times.

The program is professionally accredited by the KTNO as a full HBO college level training as Licensed Natural Health Practitioner through the BATC for health insurance coverage & ISMETA– International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association as Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator.

It has been audited & approved by the CRKBO as a European professional educational program & continues to be BTW free.

Patricia Bardi

Patricia Bardi is a dance-voice artist, bodywork specialist, licensed natural health practitioner (BATC) and registered somatic movement therapist (ISMETA) originally from New York currently based in Amsterdam. She teaches and performs throughout Europe and USA and maintains a private practice working with children and adults in Amsterdam.

Bardi has toured extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities and theatre schools throughout Europe, North America and India. She has received a London Arts Choreographer Award and conducted research on North Indian vocal music in India. She is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering (USA) and London’s Chisenhale Dance Space.

For 35 years, Bardi has developed her approach to experiential composition in live performance combining movement, extended voice & language. She has collaborated with many outstanding improvisers, dancers, actors, musicians and poets including Alex Maguire, Arthur Brooks, Makoto Matsushima, Sebo Bakker, Felicity Provan & Monica Akihary..

She has developed and teaches Organ Rebalancing – a bodywork training program for professional health practitioners at Rudolf Merkel, M.D.’s Schule fur Craniosacrale Osteopathie, Zurich among other institutes.

In 1987, Bardi founded the Rocca Project, an annual summer program for interdisciplinary performance arts and healing practice in Tuscany, Italy. She has been on the faculty of New York University’s Department of Experimental Theater, the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam and has presented her work on Vocal Dance at the Centre for Performance Research’s ‘Giving Voice Festival’ in Wales.

Recently she presented her research on voice & movement at London’s Central School of Speech & Drama in dialogue with Jane Boston, the director of the International Centre for Voice.

For more information please contact:
Patricia Bardi Courses
VMI Center
De Roos van Dekaweg 3
1061 HR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (0)6 120 38733

E-mail: info@patriciabardi.com
Web page: www.patriciabardi.com

'...I liked very much the disciplined, organized, creative and developmental approach Patricia took which helped us all flourish.'
(Maggie Pittard, dance and theater teacher)

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