Sensing, feeling, and action : the experiential anatomy of body-mind centering® : the collected articles for 'Contact quarterly' dance journal 1980-2009 / Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen ; design [and editing], Lisa Nelson and Nancy Stark Smith.

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Cohen, Bonnie Bainbridge [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Third edition.
Published/​Created
  • Northampton, MA : Contact Editions, [2012]
  • ©2012
Description
xii, 219 pages : illustrations, charts ; 28 cm

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    How is the mind expressed through the body in movement? Exploring this question has been the life work of movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Her innovative approach to movement analysis and reeducation, body-mind centering, is the subject of this book of collected essays, interviews, and exercises. 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 book explains the impact and benefit of sensing, feeling and action on our body systems such as skeletal system, ligamentous system, muscular system, organs system, endocrine system, nervous system, fluid system, fascial connective tissue system, fat, skin, cellular (cells), perception, the art of touch, dance, occupational therapy, heart and lungs.
    Notes
    "The collected articles from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1980-2009."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction to body-mind centering
    • Moving from within
    • Conscious/unconscious dialogue
    • The dancer's warmup
    • The training problems of the dancer : letters to Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
    • Origins of expression : the organ system of the body
    • The neuroendocrine system
    • Sensing, feeling, and action
    • The dynamics of flow : the fluid system of the body
    • The mechanics of vocal expression
    • Perceiving in action : the developmental process
    • The action in perceiving
    • Living anatomy of vision
    • The alphabet of movement (part I) : primitive reflexes, righting reactions, and equilibrium responses
    • The alphabet of movement (part II)
    • The process of embodiment
    • Embodying cellular consciousness
    • The place of space : the embryological embodiment of space
    • The autonomic nervous system : an experiential perspective
    • Mapping transformation : talking about expiration and inspiration
    • Dancing through the transitional fluid.
    Other title(s)
    • Experiential anatomy of body-mind centering
    • Contact quarterly.
    ISBN
    • 0937645141 ((pbk.))
    • 9780937645147 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2012946120
    OCLC
    835373327
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