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The program is professionally recognized by ISMETA Ð the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association. Upon completion of the whole curriculum which consists of six modules participants have acquired the knowledge and experience to become certified practitioners of VMI & Bodywork Practice.
With this professional accreditation graduates are eligible to join ISMETA and become Registered Movement Therapists (RSMT) and/or Somatic Movement Educators (RSME).
AIMS: This somatic movement training program offers an intensive physical training in techniques which develop skills connecting dance, movement, improvisation, breath, voice, physical repatterning and hands-on bodywork practice. The aim of the program is to train people to work professionally as complimentary health practitioners, somatic movement therapists, somatic movement educators, performing artists or researchers. Given ones chosen field of interest each person becomes fully adept at working with the body using movement, touch, breath and voice.
VOCAL DANCE is a physical practice that frees the voice to be fully alive and reflected in one«s expressive behavior and movement.
VOICE MOVEMENT INTEGRATION is a practice combining voice with movement to stimulate and organize the bodyÕs physical-perceptual-emotional awareness.
Vital Movement Integration (VMI) Bodywork is a gentle, precise hands-on bodywork practice integrating touch, movement & sound to improve imbalances in the nervous system as it interacts with the neuromuscular, skeletal, organ and endocrine systems. It restores vitality, balance and calmness through the entire body.
Article (in Dutch): Ge•ntegreerd Lichaamswerk met Patricia Bardi
 1st MODULE
Module I consisting of 175 hours is the foundation course where participants gain an active, experiential knowledge of the somatic principles and techniques involved in the practice of Vocal Dance and VMI & Bodywork Practice. After the completion of the first module participants continue to work more deeply on their integration, and learn in more refined detail the principles and practices of Vocal Dance and VMI & Bodywork Practice.
At least one of the following modules is presented each year and can be taken in any order towards completion of the whole curriculum.
2nd MODULE
Fluids and Glandular Systems
Hands-on Physical Repatterning Practice
Vocal Dance and Improvisation
Total: 125 hours
3rd MODULE
The Neurological Reflexes & Movement Sequencing & Repatterning
The Nervous System
The Craniosacral System
Combining Body Systems with Postural Integration & Vocal Alignment
Vocal Dance & Improvisation
TOTAL: 125 hours
4th MODULE
Advanced Anatomy of the Voice & Vocal Alignment
Understanding of the Eye and Ear in Perception
Skeletal-Muscular System
Vocal Dance & Improvisation
Total: 120 hours
5th MODULE
Counseling approaches & techniques applied to Bodywork Practices & Somatic Movement Education
Total: 42 hours
6th MODULE
Combining Body Systems with Postural Integration & Vocal Alignment
Hands-on & Physical Repatterning Practice
Final Creative Project
Total: 75 hours
REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLETION OF TRAINING PROGRAM
A - INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS Ð 10 Hours
- each participant must complete at least 5 individual sessions with Patricia over the course of the training.
B - CASE STUDIESÐ when participating in Module 2, 3 & 4 each student must work with 3 individual clients for a total of 5 sessions with each individual and write an evaluation of each session.
C - PROFESSIONAL PROFILE AND AIMS Ð defining the aims of their professional application of the training by writing a description of the ways they plan to implement the training in their professional life.
D - CREATIVE PROJECT Ð each person evaluates and presents a fully developed creative work concerning their experiences generated by the training program.
TOTAL PROGRAM HOURS Ð 672 hours
Certification Program 2010 Ð 2011
Module II
FRI 15 OCTOBER Ð MON 18 OCTOBER 2010
- FOCUS 1: THE FLUID SYSTEM
FRI 21 JANUARY Ð MON 24 JANUARY 2011
- FOCUS 2: THE FLUID SYSTEM
FRI 18 MARCH Ð TUES 22 MARCH 2011
- FOCUS 3: THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS
- FOCUS 4: VOICE, SOUND, IMAGE & LANGUAGE
SAT 21 MAY Ð TUES 24 MAY 2011
- FOCUS 5: THE ENDOCRINE GLANDS
TIME: 10:00 -17:00 each day
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