SPECIAL EVENTS
UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS
ISMETA OPEN HOUSES
Join us for live, interactive sessions to "tour" ISMETA's various resources for individual and organizational members. You will learn which membership track best serves your needs, and various ways in which you can participate in our professional community. These events are designed specifically for students and practitioners of Somatic Movement who are looking to become members of ISMETA. They are hosted by ISMETA’s Board of Directors and offered twice on the same day to cater to the many regions of practitioners globally. Welcome to the professional home for Somatic Movement Educators and Therapists! Watch the introductory video and stay tuned for our next sessions.
PAST SPECIAL EVENTS
Online Celebration of Life for Glenna Batson
Saturday, October 25, 2025 • 1:45-3pm ET
For more than five decades, Glenna Batson dedicated her life to drawing from multiple disciplines as catalysts for teaching, research, mentoring, advocacy, and artistic and personal growth. She brought a trans-disciplinary perspective to embodied learning, weaving together dance, Somatics, embodied cognitive neuroscience, and neuro-rehabilitation medicine in ways that profoundly influenced her students, colleagues, and the wider field. Join us in celebrating the life and work of Glenna Batson. Watch the video below.
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Neuroqueering Somatics: A conversation at the intersection of neurodivergence and somatic practice
with Dr. Nick Walker and Katy Higgins Lee, Thursday, June 26th, 12-1:30pm ET
Join us for a 90-minute conversation and Q&A, as Katy Higgins Lee interviews Dr. Nick Walker, a leading thinker on the neurodiversity paradigm, to discuss the creative possibilities that emerge when we practice neuroqueering somatics. The concept of neuroqueering was coined by Dr. Walker and refers to a practice of intentionally subverting normativity and embracing neurocognitive diversity.
Please visit the ISMETA YouTube Special Events Playlist for other past offerings, including HONORING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY: A SOMATIC MOVEMENT EXPLORATION with Dr. Amber E. Gray.
EARTH MATTERS: ECOSOMATICS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE with Jamie McHugh, MSMT
Conversations to inspire embodied action in the face of planetary dysregulation
Sponsored by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)
It goes without saying: Earth matters! Without a viable planet, there is no living soma. This fundamental truth in the face of Earth disruptions is the ground for our conversations. These interactive roundtables are designed to connect the ISMETA community with artists, activists, scientists, agriculturalists, philosophers, and many others dedicated to the preservation of life on Earth.
Please visit the ISMETA YouTube Earth Matters Playlist to see all the episodes, or watch below!
BOOK LAUNCHES
Please visit the ISMETA YouTube Book Launches Playlist for past offerings, including
INTELIGENCIA CORPORAL/BODY INTELLIGENCE with author Bibiana Badenes (bilingual)
GEOGRAPHIES OF US: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages with editors Sondra Fraleigh
and Shannon Rose Riley, and EMBODIED ACTIVISM with Rae Johnson, or watch them all below!