A Body-Mind Centering® Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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It is during our embryological development that our body begins creating its form. As tissues and structures develop, some remain with us, some are transformed into other structures, and some fade into the background, no longer existing or recognizable as the original structure. As with all development, though the original processes are no longer with us, they have left us with deep-rooted patterns and templates that affect our movement, body, and consciousness.
Using movement, touch and dialogue, this workshop will be a journey through our own embryological development from an experiential perspective. In exploring the development of our form, we can discover the primal roots of our structure, perception, respondability, and presence. Understanding and integrating these aspects of development gives us a doorway into:
- Being and doing
- Recognition of our uniqueness and our shared commonality with others
- Relationship with gravity in three-dimensional space
- Development of the front, middle, and back bodies
- Development of a calm, quiet, and contained central axis, with spirallic movement through our limbs
- Fluid/membrane balance through all our cells and tissues
- Constancy of change and impermanence through time
The workshop will draw from the following material:
- Female (egg) and male (sperm) qualities
- Wholeness and differentiation (morula)
- Inner and outer processes (self and other)
- Development of the embryonic disc and differentiation of the front body (endoderm), back body (ectoderm), and middle body (mesoderm)
- Self-nutrition (yolk sac) and self-protection (amniotic cavity)
- Vertical axis (notochord, gut tube, and neural tube)
- Center (vertebral column) and periphery (limbs)
- Organs and glands
- Fluid system
- Autonomic and somatic pathways of the nervous system
- Voice and expression (pharyngeal arches)
- The fluid ground for cellular unity and cellular breathing
- Embryonic fluid breathing underlying post-birth external respiration
This workshop is for movers, dancers, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, occupational and physical therapists, somatic psychotherapists, infant/child educators, and those from other body-mind disciplines interested in unraveling the mystery of embryological development as it relates to cellular consciousness, movement, and mindfulness. No prior experience with Body-Mind Centering® is necessary.