Birthe Kaarsholm

Breema Center staff

Breema Clinic practitioner

Certified Breema Practitioner

Certified Self-Breema Instructor

Certified Breema Instructor

El Sobrante, CA 94803
United States

https://www.breemahealth.com/

Online Personal Self-Breema Classes via Zoom.

Birthe Kaarsholm RSMT, CMT is a staff instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland, California where she has taught and practiced Breema since year 2000. She is a Registered Somatic movement therapist and a certified Body-Mind Centering® practitioner and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst®. With a life-long interest in working with the body, including physical theater, Body-Mind Centering and movement therapy, Breema’s approach to seeing the body as a vehicle to raise our level of consciousness has become her main focus. Birthe organizes and instructs Breema workshops and intensives in the US and Europe.

Blogs by Birthe Kaarsholm

When Your Hand Touches, You Are Being Touched ~ September 1, 2020

Where Is Home ~ March 27, 2020

¿Dónde está mi hogar? (Where Is Home)

Your Relationship with Yourself
Hummingbird Valley
1690 Glen Canyon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States
Meeting Life as it Comes
Hummingbird Valley
1690 Glen Canyon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States
Connecting to Life - Bodywork, Exercises and Principles for Daily Life
Hummingbird Valley
1690 Glen Canyon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States
Finding Your Center - Breema Workshop
The Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States
Breema Workshop in Stockholm, Sweden
Hälsans Hus
Fjällgatan 23 B, Stockholm
11628 Stockholm
Sweden
In the Present, Everything Supports You - Introduction to the Nine Principles
The Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States
In the Present, Everything Supports You - Introduction to the Nine Principles
The Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States
Touching the Essence in This Moment - Discovering Our True Nature through the Nine Principles of Harmony
The Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States
Bringing Harmony to Life - Breema Bodywork
The Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States
Being with the Body, We Are Supported - The Practical Wisdom of Breema for Uncertain Times
The Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States
Birthe Kaarsholm
El Sobrante, CA 94803
United States

Upcoming events

Practicing Self-Breema with friends on the lawn

Tue 29 July 2025 9:00am–9:45am

In the Present, Everything Supports You - Introduction to the Nine Principles

Instructors: Birthe Kaarsholm and Alexis Mulhauser

The Breema Center

6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States

Self-Breema

Sat 2 August 2025 9:00am–9:45am

Touching the Essence in This Moment - Discovering Our True Nature through the Nine Principles of Harmony

Instructors: Birthe Kaarsholm and Janet Chann

The Breema Center

6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States

Breema Bodywork and Self-Breema

Fri 8 August 2025 9:00am–10:30am

Being with the Body, We Are Supported - The Practical Wisdom of Breema for Uncertain Times

Instructors: Birthe Kaarsholm and Angela Porter

The Breema Center

6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States

The Art of Nonjudgmental Touch

Sat 9 August 2025 9:30am–5:00pm

Finding Your Center - Breema Workshop

Instructors: Jon Schreiber, Angela Porter, Denise Berezonsky and Birthe Kaarsholm

The Breema Center

6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States

Practicing Self-Breema with friends on the lawn

Tue 12 August 2025 9:00am–9:45am

In the Present, Everything Supports You - Introduction to the Nine Principles

Instructors: Birthe Kaarsholm and Alexis Mulhauser

The Breema Center

6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States

The Art of Nonjudgmental Touch

Tue 12 August 2025 7:00pm–8:30pm

Bringing Harmony to Life - Breema Bodywork

Instructors: Birthe Kaarsholm and Denise Berezonsky

The Breema Center

6076 Claremont Ave.
Oakland, CA 94618
United States

Salena & Alexandra

Sat 6 September 2025 10:00am–Sun 7 September 2025 5:00pm

Breema Workshop in Stockholm, Sweden

Breema: The Art of Being Present

Instructors: Birthe Kaarsholm, Anna Holtenstam, Ulf Bräutigam, Minna Linnove-Pulakka and Peter Skoog

Fjällgatan 23 B, Stockholm
11628 Stockholm
Sweden

Alexandra Johnson doing Breema bodywork

Fri 26 September 2025 6:30pm–Sun 28 September 2025 5:00pm

Your Relationship with Yourself

Breema Bodywork, Self-Breema and the Nine Principles of Harmony

Instructors: Jon Schreiber, Alexandra Johnson, MD, Angela Porter, Ariadne Thompson, Denise Berezonsky, Roxanne Caswell, Birthe Kaarsholm, Kevin Johnson, Susan Mankowski, Arlie Mischeaux and Keter Chava Benchimol

Hummingbird Valley

1690 Glen Canyon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Matthew Tousignant demonstrating Mutual Support in Breema bodywork

Fri 14 November 2025 6:30pm–Sun 16 November 2025 5:00pm

Meeting Life as it Comes

Breema Bodywork, Self-Breema and the Nine Principles of Harmony

Instructors: Jon Schreiber, Alexandra Johnson, MD, Kevin Johnson, Roxanne Caswell, Denise Berezonsky, Laura Rawson, Birthe Kaarsholm and Arlie Mischeaux

Hummingbird Valley

1690 Glen Canyon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Alexandra Johnson doing Breema bodywork at Hummingbird Valley in Santa Cruz, CA

Sat 6 December 2025 10:00am–1:00pm

Connecting to Life - Bodywork, Exercises and Principles for Daily Life

Instructors: Jon Schreiber and Birthe Kaarsholm

Hummingbird Valley

1690 Glen Canyon Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Articles by Birthe Kaarsholm

Mutual Support: Cultivating a Relationship With Others by Relating to Yourself

Birthe Kaarsholm practicing Breema with a student

By Birthe Kaarsholm

Natural Awakenings Magazine — February 1, 2015

Recently I took a few days off, and was looking forward to having some time to myself, and time for introspection to balance the outer demands of everyday life in the city. I was standing in the kitchen.