IBMT UK Newsletter Winter 2025

In this newsletter, read about …

• Intro Workshops 2026 – Early Bird Ending Soon.
• Looking towards Somatic Psychology 2026-27.
• Authentic Movement & Therapeutic Presense – Modules in London & Devon.
• Embodied Anatomy & Movement Repatterning – the module gets started.
• Featured Practitioner: Hannah Buckley

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Intro Workshops 2026

Early Bird Ending soon for Feb 2026 Workshop

Join us for an Intro Workshop on Sunday 8th February 2026 – Book before 13th Dec to get the discounted Early Bird rate.

These day workshops are open to all – no prior experience or knowledge needed, just an interest in moving and learning about the felt sense of the body. Have time to land and move; be guided to begin to connect with some of the structure of our bodies, as you breathe and take some time to settle your attention.

Did the workshop meet your expectations:

“brilliant. really well facilitated. great pace with good balance of pair/ group/ individual reflection. felt a really safe space where everyone was welcome. the time flew by.”

Gabi – Intro Workshop Participant, June 2025

The workshop will give you an experience of an IBMT training day and our approach to somatic movement work. We’ll draw on some elements of the diploma programme: Embodied Anatomy, Infant Movement, Authentic Movement. You’ll get the chance to move, share, draw and practice some simple hands-on techniques.

The introductory workshops are also a prerequisite for those interested in joining us for a future module. They give participants an experience of a training day with IBMT, and how we interweave embodied explorations and reflections, theoretical study and partner work.

Complete your booking now to ensure your place:

Please Click here for information and Booking.

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Somatic Psychology 2026

In October 2026 we begin our Somatic Psychology module – students already enrolled in the Diploma programme will continue with this module, but there are a few places available to those with at least 100 hours of somatic movement experience.

The module seeks to give language and meaning to the fluid and organic experiences of somatic process, enabling us to dialogue and interact meaningfully with material arising from the unconscious in bodywork and movement therapy practice.

Over 6 long weekends of study seminars look at:

• embryology and the roots of the sense of self and attachment patterns
• psychological models emerging out of somatic and pre and perinatal process, including both theory and practice.
• the role of the therapist and their embodied presence in relationship to the client, including somatic skills of listening, supporting, witnessing, containing and processing.
• setting up a somatic movement professional practice, the support of ISMETA’s Scope of Practice & Code of Ethics.

The module has been updated and extended to include Somatic approaches for Trauma:

• Drawing from the latest theories and practice for working with nervous system imprints and early developmental trauma.
• Specific bodywork practices for trauma. Including hyper and hypo activation as well as polyvagal theory and practice.
• Developing presence skills in practice from work of Merete Holm Brandberg.

Click Here for futher details about Somatic Psychology

Did the module meet your expectations?

It was incredible and surpassed my expectations. It was full of deep learning and all the joys and challenges that come with embodiment. It was held and paced with real skill with teachers and assistants bringing so much steadiness, compassion and knowledge to the process. It has brought rich insights that will be unfolding for months if not years to come.

What did you particularly value about the module?

The sense of community and being alongside others who had various degrees of experience in both their professional fields and the IBMT material. I loved being able to learn from one another as well as the teachers and assistants.

Anon – Previous IBMT Student

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Authentic Movement & Therapeutic Presense

We’re now offering this module in London as well as Devon.

• London May – Dec 2026
• Devon Oct 2027 – April 2028

Full details here

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Embodied Anatomy & Movement Repatterning

We’ve begun our next module in the cycle of Diploma training with a group of continuing and new students. In this first 3 months we focus on skin, connective tissue and the skeletal system. We explore themes from the felt-sense, as we move, work with touch and dialogue to know more of these aspects of ourselves. We look at the anatomy and physiology of each tissue, it’s structure, form and function. And with the skeletal system, we gain an understanding of how our bones relate to each other and the skeleton as a whole. Fundamental principles of stability and mobility are investigated and bodywork techniques brought in to support awareness and resource. In the new year the module continues with further weekends on the organ and muscular systems.

Previous student, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, writes about her experience on the module:

 

“Discovering new language, new terminology, new ways into old practices. Finding new and anatomical language is helping me discover different methods of locating and articulating my own and others bodies.  

I am discovering a depth in my movement research which was hard to always have access to before starting the course. Now I have ongoing material through the course that is feeding my practice and research, taking me to new movement articulations, curiosities and desires.”

Read Fernanda’s article here

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Featured Practitioner: Hannah Buckley

Recent IBMT Diploma Graduate Hannah Buckley shares her personal experience of the training. She heartfully describes how it deepened her commitment to the wisdom of the body through a challenging period in her life. She shares how it has influenced her artistic practice and developing therapeutic work.

Read Hannah’s full article and other Student writing here.