UPCOMING EVENTS
Embodied Developmental Movement: Tools for Life and Love
A collaboration between Mark Taylor and Bettina Shultz-Jobe of Natural Lifemanship
explore the foundational motor patterns and reflexes that shape how we live, love, and heal through somatic movement in relationship to horses
Presented at Natural Lifemanship Headquarters, Brenham, TX:
Jul 9–12, 2025 The Origins of Life (Ocean Patterns)
Sep 10–13, 2025 Life on Land (Vertebral Patterns)
Feb 18–21, 2026 Fluid Communication (Nervous System)
Apr 29–May 2, 2026 Moving In and Out of Relationship (Primitive Reflexes)
Our beings are shaped by our anatomy and how we move. Somatic movement supports transformation on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels: it is defined as motion that focuses on internal subjective experience—attuning to sensation and satisfaction—rather than the external appearance or result of the movement.
Founded in 2006, the Center for BodyMindMovement is directed by Mark C. Taylor. As an Approved Training of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association, it provides 500-hour certification trainings in somatic movement education. Initially founded in Pittsburgh, PA, the training has expanded to sites in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. His educational collaborators have included Mary Lou Seereiter, Ray Elliot Schwartz, Lou Sturm, Ivana Sejenovich, and Diana Sánchez. Lucas George and Fabiana dos Reis Marchiori co-direct BodyMindMovement Brasil, Julia Menendez directs BodyMindMovement México, Leslie Apablaza directs BodyMindMovement Chile, and Felipe Garnica and Emilia Larraondo co-direct BodyMindMovement Colombia.
Each class is an invitation to research the uncharted territory of internal sensory experience whether the class material is based in developmental movement, a particular body system, regional anatomy, cellular awareness or a specific application such as dance or yoga. Most classes will have a cognitive structure, an experiential arc and several layers of information presented, and will take into account both the simplicity of direct experience and the infinite complexity of the human organism.
