BODY-MIND CENTERING®
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen created Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) as an approach to movement exploration and embodiment. It is based on experiential learning and uses movement, touch, and voice to explore anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, embryology, and developmental movement.
The material includes the study of all body systems, breathing and vocalization, senses and perception, the art of hands-on touch and movement analysis. Some specific aspects make this approach unique: the fact that each of the body systems can be personally embodied and integrated; the fundamental groundwork of developmental repatterning; and the use of a body-based language to describe movement and body-mind relationships.
The study of Body-Mind Centering® is therefore a creative process in which the material is explored in the light of self-discovery and a sense of openness. It has an almost unlimited number of areas of application. Among those currently most practiced: education, movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, somatic studies, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, child development, school education, music, voice, art, meditation, martial arts, athletics and other disciplines involving the mind-body.
Bonnie founded the School for Body-Mind Centering® in 1973. School programs are now offered by more than fifteen Licensed Organizations in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Asia. These programs hold the history, breadth, and depth of the BMC® approach and offer a systematic study of the BMC® material.
Courses and programs may be taken for personal interest or professional development. Completion of a program leads to certification as a Somatic Movement Educator, Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, or an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, depending on the program taken.
Through her online series, Bonnie continues to share her ongoing explorations and new insights into movement, the body, the embryological development, and consciousness.
The Body-Mind Centering® Association (BMCA) is an international not-for-profit membership organization that supports the BMC® community through professional development, continued education, publications and events. Professional BMCA members are certified by one or more of the SBMC Licensed Organizations and are authorized to use the trademark.
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