Exploring Body Mind Centering

Author : Gil Wright Miller
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556439687
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Body-Mind Centering written by Gil Wright Miller and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Body-Mind Centering features 35 essays on Body-Mind Centering (BMC), an experiential practice based on the application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles. Using the work of BMC founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen as a springboard, the book showcases diverse situations—from medical illness to blocked creativity—in which this discipline is applied with transformative results. Exploring Body-Mind Centering is divided into three sections, preceded by an introduction framing BMC as a pathway to becoming aware of relationships that exist throughout the body and mind and using that awareness to act. The first section lays the groundwork for this process, with real-life experiences and exercises that encourage readers to interact with the text. Section two contains valuable case stories describing the experiences of BMC students and practitioners as they work with clients. Section three shows how BMC can be integrated with other disciplines and practices that include the arts, medicine, and yoga. The book concludes with a biography of Cohen, a profile of the School for Body-Mind Centering, and a history of BMC.

Author : Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990833932
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basic Neurocellular Patterns written by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780937645031
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensing, Feeling, and Action written by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Hartley
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556431746
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom of the Body Moving written by Linda Hartley and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1995-10-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide introduces Body-Mind Centering, the internationally recognized field pioneered by dancer and occupational therapist Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Devoting thirty-five years to a systematic investigation of the relations between bodily experience and the anatomical maps of science, Bainbridge Cohen independently discovered many of the principles that underlie Feldenkrais work, cranial osteopathy, Rolfing, dance therapy, and Zero Balancing. Experienced BMC practitioner Linda Hartley demonstrates the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering. Drawing on animal and infant movements, she takes readers through the wondrous realms of Bainbridge Cohen’s pantheon—from the 'minds' of the skeletal and muscular systems to the quite different inner lives of digestive, lymphatic, urinary, respiratory, vocal, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive organs. Her choreography ultimately brings us into the states of consciousness of skins, cells, blood, fat, cerebrospinal fluid, nervous system, and brain. Hartley’s explorations of the images, feelings, sensations, and intuitions of the diverse organs and cells lead to exercises that gently guide students in ways of discovering and integrating their bodies’ multidimensional aspects.

Author : Andrea Olsen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579475
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body and Earth written by Andrea Olsen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and Earth considers the question of how we can best, most responsibly inhabit both our bodies and our planet. Olsen displays an easy command of fields as diverse as geology, biochemistry, ecology, and anatomy as she explores the ways in which our bodies are derived from and connected to the natural world. But Body and Earth is not just a lesson, it is also an investigation. Arranged as a 31-day program, the book offers not only a wealth of scientific information, but also exercises for both exploring the body and connecting with place; illustrations and works of art that illuminate each chapter's themes; and Olsen's own meditations and reflections, connecting the topics to her personal history and experience. Olsen insists that neither body nor landscape are separate from our fundamental selves, but in a culture which views the body as a mechanism to be trained and the landscape as a resource to be exploited, we need to learn to see again their fundamental wholeness and interconnection. Through hard data, reflection, exercises, and inspiration, Body and Earth offers a guide to responsible stewardship of both our planet and our persons.

Author : Susan Aposhyan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039371361X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications written by Susan Aposhyan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body-mind psychotherapy (BMP) takes the basic tools of mind-body integration and joins them with an awareness of emotional development. Working with techniques such as body awareness, touch, breath, and movement, BMP reintroduces the body and its innate wisdom to the theory and practice of psychotherapy. This alternative practice is one of the exciting frontiers of therapy and will enrich the work of therapists, medical practitioners, and bodyworkers.Body and mind are functionally inseparable. The cultural separation of body and mind, however, has confused our thinking and created obstacles for psychological health. This separation is itself firmly planted in the practices of standard psychotherapy. In the first part of the book, Aposhyan discusses this false division and goes on to articulate the theoretical basis for the unity of body and mind. Drawing on research in neuroscience and developmental conceptions of human attachment, bodily processes including nonverbal attunement, processing, and regulation are shown to be basic to what transpires in therapy. This account culminates in a chapter on the links between biology and consciousness that are critical for therapeutic that addresses the whole person.Part 2 provides an overview of the basic form of BMP. Beginning with the tasks of therapy, the chapters in this part describe the format of therapy in terms of a cycle of interaction between body and mind concluding with a consideration of the primary goal of BMP--i.e., a synchronization of body and mind founded in body awareness. The therapy professional is also offered methods to cultivate his or her own embodiment. For the psychotherapist, personal embodiment is the single most important key to integrating the body into psychotherapy practice.The body systems are reviewed in Part 3. Aposhyan takes the reader on a detailed tour of various important systems including the muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems as well as the skin, fluids, viscera, and endocrine systems. The result is an articulate picture of an integrated set of body functions all of which have their distinct roles and yet communicate with and have a bearing upon the functioning of each other. The specific techniques of BMP are grounded in this detailed picture of the various body systems. In Part 4 Aposhyan instructs readers in how to anchor in the body the change affected by BMP. Discussions here consider change at the cellular level and address specific clinical issues critical to BMP. Body-Mind Psychotherapy offers a simple, user-friendly, and safe approach to integrating the body into therapy and psychological exploration. The techniques involved are consistent with research from neuroscience, psychological development, and traumatology. As a result, the reader will find BMP both an effective and research-based therapeutic approach.

Author : Christina Garcia Lopez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537755
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calling the Soul Back written by Christina Garcia Lopez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirituality has consistently been present in the political and cultural counternarratives of Chicanx literature. Calling the Soul Back focuses on the embodied aspects of a spirituality integrating body, mind, and soul. Centering the relationship between embodiment and literary narrative, Christina Garcia Lopez shows narrative as healing work through which writers and readers ritually call back the soul—one’s unique immaterial essence—into union with the body, counteracting the wounding fragmentation that emerged out of colonization and imperialism. These readings feature both underanalyzed and more popular works by pivotal writers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros, and Rudolfo Anaya, in addition to works by less commonly acknowledged authors. Calling the Soul Back explores the spiritual and ancestral knowledge offered in narratives of bodies in trauma, bodies engaged in ritual, grieving bodies, bodies immersed in and becoming part of nature, and dreaming bodies. Reading across narrative nonfiction, performative monologue, short fiction, fables, illustrated children’s books, and a novel, Garcia Lopez asks how these narratives draw on the embodied intersections of ways of knowing and being to shift readers’ consciousness regarding relationships to space, time, and natural environments. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Calling the Soul Back draws on literary and Chicanx studies scholars as well as those in religious studies, feminist studies, sociology, environmental studies, philosophy, and Indigenous studies, to reveal narrative’s healing potential to bring the soul into balance with the body and mind.

Author : Theodore W. Sanders
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449728715
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Body, Mind, and Spirit written by Theodore W. Sanders and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Theodore W. Sanders Jr. wants to share with you the keys that will open doors to your internal creative power. There is an abundance of knowledge that has been collected from the wisdom, beliefs, and practices of others throughout the ages. These practices have not often been applied together in a congruent way. Doing this creates a powerful synergy that will significantly improve your ability to create the life you want now. These practices will allow you to combine the power of your body, mind, and spirit in a way that will unleash the power to live the life you want and the life you deserve. Now let The Power of the Body, Mind, and Spirit show you how to create your life.

Author : Sanders G. Laurie
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892814206
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centering written by Sanders G. Laurie and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1983-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to awakening your full potential, CENTERING offers techniques that help you take charge of your destiny. Through a process of consciousness expansion, this book shows how to enhance learning power; heighten awareness of the world around you; discover new talents and how to use them; relieve stress; increase career satisfaction and financial security; enjoy better health and more fulfilling relationships; and even more.

Author : Caryn McHose
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556436181
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Life Moves written by Caryn McHose and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive movement program uses the story of biological evolution as a tool to increase strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Readers learn to "unlearn" inherited bodily habits by embodying the many forms that life has expressed on Earth—from the single cell to the human being—and shifting their perception. Through this evolutionary movement, the body's native intelligence is revived and new movements can be learned, enabling the body to overcome chronic musculoskeletal complaints such as lower back, shoulder, and neck pain, and to meet whatever challenges it is faced with.