Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering

by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Overview

Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis and reeducation, Body-Mind Centering®, is the subject of this book of collected essays, interviews, and exercises written for Contact Quarterly dance journal between 1980 and 2009. Drawing from both Western and Eastern scientific knowledge, BMC™ is an experiential study of the body systems and the evolutionary developmental patterns that underlie human movement. Her unique viewpoint is made evident in twenty-one chapters addressing specific systems, including the organs, neuroendocrine system, fluids, developmental movement, reflexes, perceptual system, embryology, cellular, and autonomic nervous system.

Over the last thirty years, BMC™ has engaged the interest of a wide range of people involved in dance, performing arts, athletics, therapy, healthcare, child development, meditation, and other body/mind disciplines.

The third edition includes sixteen additional pages with new articles on inspiration, expiration, and dancing through the transitional fluid, a subject index and List of Explorations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780937645147
Publisher:	Contact Editions
Publication date:	03/01/2012
Edition description:	third edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN is the developer of Body-Mind Centering®, founding the School for Body-Mind Centering® in 1973. For over thirty-five years she has been an innovator and leader in developing this embodied and integrated approach to movement, touch and repatterning, experiential anatomy, developmental principles, perceptions, and psychophysical processes. She has an extensive background in movement, including various dance styles, dance therapy, bodywork, martial arts, voice, and yoga.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"For anyone involved In the practice of healing, meditation, or teaching movement, this book is a ground-breaker. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is one of the handful of people who are carrying work with touch and movement awareness to a significant new lave/ of understanding. She has managed to shape the most intuitive and imaginative experience into the clear and accessible forms of Western biological science."—Don Hanlon Johnson, author of The Protean Body

Editorial Reviews

"For anyone involved In the practice of healing, meditation, or teaching movement, this book is a ground-breaker. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is one of the handful of people who are carrying work with touch and movement awareness to a significant new lave/ of understanding. She has managed to shape the most intuitive and imaginative experience into the clear and accessible forms of Western biological science."—Don Hanlon Johnson, author of The Protean Body

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