CMA Study Guide 2026
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📋 CMA Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CMA Topics to Study (38)
✍️ Sample CMA Questions & Answers
1. Which Effort state combines Strong Weight and Direct Space qualities?
The Awake State combines the sensing and thinking motion factors—Weight and Space—in an alert, engaged quality.
2. 'Core-distal' connectivity in Bartenieff Fundamentals describes:
Core-distal connectivity is the simultaneous, integrated activation linking the body's center (core) with its extremities (distal), like a starfish pattern.
3. In Laban Movement Analysis, the term 'kinesphere' refers to which concept?
The kinesphere is the sphere of personal space that surrounds the mover and extends to the furthest reach of the limbs.
4. The Rolfing Structural Integration approach, developed by Ida Rolf, primarily works with which tissue to reorganize the body in gravity?
Rolfing manipulates the myofascial network — the fascial web surrounding muscles and organs — to release restrictions and realign the body in the gravitational field.
5. Which Shape mode is most self-referential and least related to the external environment?
Shape Flow is the most self-referential mode — the body grows and shrinks in relation to its own center rather than in relationship with the environment.
6. In Space Harmony, what term describes the geometric spatial forms that connect points in the kinesphere?
Crystalline forms are the geometric structures in Space Harmony that connect points within the kinesphere, forming scales and pathways.
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- labaninstitute.org — Passing score · verified Oct 2026
- lbms-community.labaninstitute.org — Test delivery, eligibility, fees, registration, registration deadline · verified Oct 2026