EMOVE Institute

Invitations from Alexandra Baybutt, movement principles class last module.

A simple framework - notice, learn, sense, think - reflecting the meaning-making process at the heart of somatic practice. By bringing attention to sensation, awareness, and thought, we begin to organize our experience, shifting it from something we simply do into something we understand.

In this context, meaning isn’t prescribed; it emerges through embodied inquiry.

Summer Dance Retreat in southern Spain 6-12 July 2026
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"Surrounded by mountains, waterfalls, and starry skies, I experienced a profound transformation in southern Spain. For a week, we danced during the Summer Somatic Dance Retreat led by Professor Katharina Conradi, in the beautiful space of Baileenelaire, from the depths of our being; in contact with the earth, the air, the mountain water, and listening to our bodies in a state of presence.
I am very grateful to Professor Katharina Conradi of Emove Institute Amsterdam for her generous and inspiring guidance, which created space for each body to reveal itself in all honesty and freedom. We danced together, coming from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Israel, the United States, Poland, Spain… and me, from Brazil. A meeting of worlds and stories, united by deep listening to the body." Marcella

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From Action Drive to Transformation Drives: Vision – Spell – Passion

In the last module, we focused on the Transformation Drives, a less visible component of Effort.

Through practice, students develop the ability to observe, experience, and identify Effort - its momentary nature and how it progresses. Effort itself is not subjective; it is made up of identifiable components that occur together. Our experience of observing Effort, however, is subjective. What we notice, recognise, or prioritise can vary from person to person.

Through practice and discussion, we work to refine our observation; developing more clarity and alignment in how we see. We discuss, we share, and we return to watch again. The process continues throughout the education as we refine and develop our skills.

The LBMS Master Workshops were created to support ongoing professional development; offering a space to revisit foundational concepts, deepen embodied understanding, and engage in meaningful dialogue with master educators over time.

This series invites experienced practitioners to slow down, reflect, and re-enter the material with maturity, curiosity, and nuance. Over the coming months, we’ll be sharing more about each workshop and the master teachers guiding them.

Upcoming Workshop:
Embodied Knowing: Design Your Life Through Your Body
Led by Colleen Wahl
📅 April 28–30, 2026
More info through the link in our Bio

We had the honour of welcoming Susan Wiesner for an online class about Irmgard Bartenieff , followed by an online lecture by Karen Bradley exploring the history of Rudolf Laban’s life work.

Students engaged with a deeper look at the life and work of Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff; how their ideas developed within the historical context of their time, the communities around them, and the migrations that shaped the evolution of their work.

These sessions connect students to a historical perspective , offering our cohort a richer understanding of the foundations of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies.

Thank you to both Susan and Karen for sharing their knowledge and experience with our students.

The question often arises: What is the point of practicing the scales?

A key aspect of Laban’s spatial theory is the idea that each mover inhabits a personal sphere of reach, referred to in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis as the Kinesphere. This is the space we can access through the reach of our bodies.

The Space Harmony scales are studies of spatial progression, transformation, and pathway possibility within this personal space. They offer a structured framework, a container, through which we organise the body across different directional combinations.

Through practicing the scales, we begin to notice what feels familiar or habitual, and what feels novel. We explore multiple possibilities for organising our body’s reach and refine our capacity to move three-dimensionally, something that is often underdeveloped in our daily movement habits.

6-8 march 2026 Embodied Anatomy Workshop in Amsterdam - if you are interested let us know....

This Master Workshop by Colleen Wahl will be coming up in 28 - 30 April 2026 in Maastricht

If you are searching for more ways to help people make connections between what they feel in their bodies and what it means in their lives, then this workshop is for you!

This professional development workshop focuses on Embodied Knowing–how we work with what we feel and know in our bodies to make choices in our lives.

Find out more here: https://www.emoveinstitute.com/master-workshops/ or through the link in our bio,

Most educators working within LBMS emphasise the value of working with physical models of the Platonic solids.

Building the Icosahedron supports the practice of the Space Harmony scales because the scales depend on clear spatial relationships. Constructing the model clarifies endpoints, diagonals, and proportional relationships within the kinesphere.

Of course, the pulls in space are infinite — the Icosahedron does not contain space. It offers an abstraction of spatial relationships. By working with this abstraction, we sharpen our perception of the possibilities.

Do you have your own models of the platonic solids?

One of the Foundational ideas in LBMS are Flow and Weight Sensing, they inform our connectivity to and wholeness with our environment. Through the vibrations of everything that surrounds us, we connect and through gravity we ground. Both Space and Earth are holding us and allow us to ground, feel part of and enable us to come into action.

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If you are interested to explore your body, learn about your bones in an embodied way, check this workshop out. You can register here: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSddqvoyvnO.../viewform...