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Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®)
“For new experiences to be obtained, release of the nervous system control is necessary, so that old habits are no longer directing the outcome and new cellular experience can come into being.”
-Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Body-Mind Centering® is the work shared by movement pioneer Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. It is a powerful yet very gentle method, using embodied touch, presence, movement and safety to opening up new pathways in the body.
Helping people overcome issues in, movement range, function and emotional patterns. It is founded on an embodied understanding of anatomy, embryology and the developmental process of how we grow, move and blend our movements, senses, and perception.
Embodiment is a felt experience of ourselves, our own truth,
Why is BMC® embodiment so revolutionary?
Because the work takes us to the root of any issue, into the body tissue at the cell level, where the missing relationships are, and brings that part of us back into the whole, remapping in the nervous system. It's like coming home again.
BMC® aims to identify and elevate the vibration frequency and resonance of tissue by directing focus to that specific area. The premise is to stimulate the tissue through vibration entrainment, much like an orchestra tuning up the vibration of a tuning fork. By utilizing this entrainment principle, the movement and mind connection in tissues and cells become less stressed and available to re-conditioning.
Movement pioneer Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen
Finding support -
because support
proceeds all movement
In life, the only way things grow and evolve into their next highest potential is through support.
A single cell needs the support of the membrane around it to function; a baby needs the support of the womb; People need the support of the Earth and community to thrive.
Simply put: Support proceeds all movement, This works by first registering recognizing, experiencing and then utilizing these levels of support in the nervous system
By way of embodied embryology, embodied developmental stages, and the body systems: cellular, fluid, bone, muscles, ligaments, tendons, nervous system, organs, and glands, BMC® offers a profound regrouping of ourselves to ourselves.
This is what I offer, through my Body-Mind Centering® training. I am one of very few Body-Mind Centering educators on the West coast of Canada
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen is the creator of Body-Mind Centering® and the founder and Educational Director of the School for Body-Mind Centering (SBMC). For over fifty years, she has been a movement artist, researcher, educator and therapist. An innovator and leader, her work has influenced the fields of bodywork, movement, dance, yoga, body psychotherapy, childhood education and many body-mind disciplines.
She is a Registered Occupational Therapist, a Registered Movement Therapist and a Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT), and is certified in Neurodevelopmental Therapy, Laban Movement Analysis, and Kestenberg Movement Profiling. She has practiced occupational therapy and taught in university hospitals, helped to establish a school for occupational and physical therapy for the Tokyo government, practiced bodywork and movement in psychiatric settings, taught in the masters program in Dance Therapy at Antioch New England College, taught dance at Hunter College and at the Erick Hawkins School of Dance in New York, and presented workshops throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. She is the author of the books Sensing, Feeling and Action, and Basic Neuro Cellular Patterns and has produced many BMC DVDs in addition to being featured in numerous others. She continues to teach workshops worldwide while completing other books and DVDs.
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