Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) is an ongoing, experiential journey into the alive and changing territory of the body. The explorer is the mind – our thoughts, feeling, energy, soul and spirit…
Moving From Within
Well, it seems I’m very good at seeing patterns, and how they relate to the whole picture. I have also, through the years, had excellent teachers. But long before I could describe what I was doing, I was able to see and to help people help themselves…
Bonnie’s 2016 Asia Tour
Bonnie recently returned home from an incredible, seven-week teaching tour in Asia. A big thank you to everyone who made the trip possible…
On Suffering
The things that we think are the problems can be the gifts. One of the advantages I have is that my spine was paralyzed when I was a child…
Embodied Anatomy and the Ligamentous System
Actively engaged ligaments underlie specific and effortless movement of joints. Ligaments support the psychophysical quality of detailed specificity…
On Breathing and Breath
With all the techniques of breathing that I’ve explored over about 50 years, the one that works the best for me is to awaken my awareness and then to be effortlessly breathing rather than…
2013 Holiday Sale on Bonnie’s DVDs
The Embodied Anatomy DVDs were filmed at Bonnie’s workshops and are a wonderful opportunity to experience her teaching at home…
Three Integrating Centers of Transformation
Through the lungs we exchange breathing with the plants. We breath in the breath they breathe out, and they breathe in the breath we breathe out. In the process of breathing, the lungs rhythmically embrace gently the heart…
Fluidity of Movement in Health and Vitality
If fish are sick, we don’t inject the individual fish with anything. We release the barriers causing stagnation of the water, so that it can freely flow, we stop discharging toxins into the water supply, and we provide a natural environment…
What is a Good Day?
Sometimes it is with the spirit of my brain that I meet the day. Without the felt connection with my heart, the sense of effort and will can be daunting….
10 Reasons to Join BMCA
The Body-Mind Centering® Association (BMCA) promotes the somatic inquiry and dialogue started by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the 1970s…
The Role of the Organs in Movement
In 1976, after spending many years exploring movement from the perspective of the skeletal and muscular systems, I realized that…
Bonnie’s East Coast Summer Teaching Tour
Bonnie will be teaching three Body-Mind Centering® workshops on the East Coast in July….
Touch and Movement
“Touch is the other side of movement. Movement is the other side of touch. They are the shadow of each other” – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen…
Bonnie teaches at Taitung National University, Taiwan
Last month, Bonnie and Len went to Taitung, Taiwan where Bonnie taught at the 2012 International Somatic Movement Education Symposium at the National Taitung University…