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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.

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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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Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is a movement artist, researcher, educator and therapist and the developer of the Body-Mind Centering approach to movement and consciousness. An innovator and leader, her work has influenced the fields of bodywork, movement, dance, yoga, body psychotherapy, childhood education and many other body-mind disciplines. In 1973, she founded The School for Body-Mind Centering.Licensed organisations for the BMC approach can be found in sixteen countries including Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, North America, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, and Taiwan.

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