Body-Mind Centering
Body-Mind Centering® (www.bmcassociation.org) is a study of the experienced body in contrast to the objectified body. It is a transformative approach offering access to deeper awareness and embodiment, enhanced imagination and integration of the bodymind through movement re-education, touch and experiential anatomy. Through this approach we gather insight into our expression of self in the world and we can invite change that is an integration of our physical, psychological and intellectual life.
Body-Mind Centering® is used by dance artists, yoga practitioners, body-workers, educators, psychologists and theatre artists. It is valued for its rigorous and inspirational approach to our dynamic bodymind. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the originator of this approach and in concert with a group of colleagues, began this research in New York in the 1970’s.
Body-Mind Centering® is currently contributing to psychosomatic, human movement and dance therapy research and is being recognized as a valuable wholistic approach to assessing and providing methods for sensory integration and education.
Body-Mind Centering® and Authentic Movement are practices based on a philosophy and understanding of mindful embodiment – the integration of conceptual and cellular knowing which understands and allows for intelligence to emerge from multiple sources in the bodymind and is not reliant or insistent upon a dominant rational knowing. It requires a listening to the whole body that does not exclude intuition and feeling but employs them to deepen and enrich understanding.