Exploring Body-Mind Centering (Paperback)

Paperback. With writings that cover a wide variety of topics related to healing, expression, and creativity, Exploring Body-Mind Centering provides a valuable resource for readers from diverse fields who can easily apply the information in their professional and personal lives.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 theSchool for Body-Mind Centering, and a history of BMC. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.