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

by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

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 3rd edition includes sixteen additional pages with new articles on inspiration, expiration, and dancing through the transitional fluid, a subject Index and List of Explorations.
“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 level 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," Chair, Somatics Graduate Program, Calif. Institute of Integral Studies

Genres: Health, Psychology, Bodies, Nonfiction, Philosophy

232 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1993

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792.8 C6782 2008

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