IBMT UK Newsletter Autumn 2025
In this newsletter, read about …
- Embodied Anatomy & Movement Repatterning – Last few places.
- Summer Celebrations
- Students Complete Modules & Recent Graduates
- The First IBMT Summer Gathering – reflections and Photos
- 2025 / 26 Intro Workshops – Book ahead to get Early Bird Discounts.
- Mary Savva – IBMT student shares her experience.
- ISMETA UK/Ireland Regional Roundtable Conversation – 15th Sept 2025.
- Other ISMETA Offerings
Embodied Anatomy & Movement Repatterning
Please get in touch asap if you would like to join us or have any questions.
This course covers all the major body systems from a somatic perspective. Be part of a small, closed group and explore through movement, mark making, touch and dialogue. Begin your training towards registration as a Somatic Movement Therapist or Educator with the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association.
Summer Celebrations
The end of the Academic Year
Late spring/early summer saw us come to the end of our weekend seminars for 2024 – 25. The Authentic Movment & Therapeutic Presense module completed its 12 days of study and Infant Movement Development came to the end of 20 days of work together. The end of the study year is often celebratory, as we reflect on all that we’ve done.
The end of the course year included presentations from those completing all modules, who will now go on to their case study for the award of their Diploma. As always these are so diverse and rich as students share an aspect of the work that they are developing. The aim is to demonstrate their ability to apply in practice some aspect of what they have learnt in the training; they give us a glimpse into one way that they are applying IBMT principles, or an application that they are developing and hope to offer in the future. We experienced sessions on belonging and resilience, inner landscapes, connecting with plants and working with movers as environment. We were guided through somatic awareness practices, performance and ritual. It is deeply touching to appreciate how students’ work impacts on them, their practice and how it is shared in their communities, now and in the future.
Recent Graduates
We’d like to congratulate those who have recently been awarded their Diploma in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy. In the UK this includes Hannah Buckley, Harriet Quinn, Emma Flint and Hayley Nettle. And from the Lithuanian and Russian Programmes: Anna Kharina, Anna Khasina, Mariia Podolskaia, Ruta Strikuliene, Dalia Eigeliene and Anna Korneevskaya.
The First IBMT Summer Gathering 2025
July saw the first IBMT Summer Gathering for past and present IBMT students, organised by Ali Rose (Diploma Graduate) and Laurence Yeoman (working towards completion of his case study).
12 participants gathered and spent the weekend as a community, exploring practice, cooking and eating together. The event included a number of peer led sessions. Some were participatory themes of relational enquiry, the seasons and elements, the embryonic journey, knowledge and research as well as Authentic Movement Practice.
“I had the privilege to attend the IBMT summer gathering this year. We gathered around our shared appreciation for the IBMT approach and strengthened our bonds as a community. We supported each other to develop our professional practice and visions of how we would like to share this approach within the wider web of life. There was laughter, tears (it is IBMT afterall!), singing around the fire and, of course, practice sessions that included material from the IBMT modules. My IBMT cup has been filled and I recommend peer led community gatherings such as these so we can continue to support each other as practitioners and as people”
It was a delight that 2 Lithuanian students joined the gathering, Birute and Raima, who brought along beautiful embryonic illustrations that were included in Linda’s book, Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth
See lots more images here to get a flavour of the gathering, which we hope to be an annual event:
Intro Workshops 2026
Book ahead to get Early Bird Discounts
We continue to take bookings for our introductory workshops over this next academic year. 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.
It was a great intro to the Diploma course with lots of space to ask questions as necessary. Also a helpful introduction to somatic movement & space to personally experience this.
Helen Venn – Intro Workshop, Bristol June 2024
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.
A very informative day and it felt a very held and compassionate space. It felt a good balance of theory & embodiment…The day covered all that I expected for an intro day.
The day offered a chance to be and experience with others the many and varied ways of weaving in more somatic practice to our work and lives. I was delighted to have the time and space to simply be and enjoyed feelings of cross-pollination of practice and possibility among us.
Jess – Introduction to Infant Movement Development – Feb 2024
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.
Mary Savva: A Journey of Deepening Somatic Understanding and Social Transformation
Mary Savva an IBMT Student who is currently working to complete her diploma shares her reflections.
“Embarking on the IBMT three-year Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy training has been a deep, challenging and meaningful continuation of my 10-year engagement with somatic practice. As an experienced practitioner in community dance and somatic movement, this training has enriched my understanding on a deeper biological and relational level, allowing me to further develop how I support others in their healing, embodiment and creative journeys.”
“The training encouraged me to remain curious, to listen beyond words, and to attune to what’s happening biologically and emotionally — in myself and in those I support. It enriched my somatic vocabulary and reinforced me to slowly feel sensation again and to trust in my body as a primary source of insight and healing.”
Read Mary’s full article and other Student writing here.
ISMETA Regional Roundtable Conversation:
Connecting as Our Somatic Movement Community in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Hosted by Trustee Members of the ISMETA Global Membership Committee
Other Offerings from ISMETA
Cultivating Connections In Person Conference: Somatic Movement with Ourselves, Others, and the Earth
September 26 – 28, 2025 Benicàssim, Spain https://ismeta.org/2025-ismeta-conference
GLOBAL SOMATIC MOVEMENT DAY Saturday, October 4, 2025. https://ismeta.org/events#!event/2025/10/4/global-somatic-movement-day
Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@ISMETA-org
IBMT on Social Media
Please link up with us on our new accounts to connect with IBMT and the wider somatic field. Get advanced notice and reminders of workshops, details of events and other items of interest for somatic practitioners. Follow the hashtag #ibmtuk
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