Patricia Bardi is the founder/director of the accredited certification program Voice Movement Integration (VMI) Somatic Practice, which combines vocal dance, voice movement integration, and vital movement integration bodywork. Centered in Amsterdam, it is an accredited program in somatic movement education and natural health practice. She is a dance/voice artist, researcher, educator, bodywork specialist, registered somatic movement therapist (ISMETA), and licensed natural health practitioner (BATC).

Patricia Bardi is the originator of Organ Rebalancing, an accredited advanced bodywork training program. She has received a London Arts Choreographer Award and an Arts Council England bursary to research North Indian vocal music in India. Bardi continues to tour extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities, and theater schools throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. She is a founding member of the School for Body-Mind Centering in the United States and London’s Chisenhale Dance Space.

She has presented her research and somatic approach to voice and movement integration at international conferences, including the Royal College of Speech and Drama, London; the National Centre for Performing Arts, Netherlands; the first Brain, Body, Cognition Conference at Oxford University; and the Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond Symposium, London. She contributed the chapter “Awakening Resonance in the Moving Body” to Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond, published by Routledge in 2021.