Podcast appearances and mentions of bonnie bainbridge cohen

SYNOPSIS:This is a recording of one of our free, live Eventbrite sessions, where Ali Mezey was joined by Jane Peterson, PhD - and you, our audience - for a live, honest, body-centered conversation about the real work of being in relationship.(Yes, this episode includes live audience questions!)Together, we explore how our bodies carry old relational patterns - what Jane calls the "social soma" - and how these hidden imprints can shape the way we love, fight, and stay (or don't stay) connected.We talk about why love alone isn't always enough to align two people's lives, and why asking deeper, more honest questions early on matters so much.Jane shares practical ways to stay close even when life pulls you in different directions: evolving agreements, repairing after hurt, setting shared goals, and building intimacy that grows with you.We touch on marriage, infidelity, and non-traditional relationships with honesty and warmth, offering grounded advice for navigating real-world love.Whether you're partnered, single, or somewhere in between, this conversation will leave you with new ways to understand yourself, your relationships, and the deep intelligence of your body in all of it.To be an angel to the podcast, click hereTo read more about the podcast, click hereMORE ALI MEZEY:Website:  www.alimezey.comPersonal Geometry® and the Magic of Mat Work Course information:www.alimezey.com/personal-geometry-foundationsTransgenerational Healing Films: www.constellationarts.comMORE JANE PETERSON:Website: www.human-systems-institute.comContact: humansystemsinstitute@gmail.comBIO:Jane Peterson, PhD, is the co-founder and executive director of the Human Systems Institute, Inc. She is the originator of Somatic Imaging and the somatic-resonance approach to constellation work. Her work is internationally respected for being tailored to meet the high learning demands of adult professionals. She was a faculty member at the International Intensive Workshop on Systemic Resolutions in Bernreid, Germany for 9 years. Jane is an INFOSYON certified Master Trainer and has served as an advisor and author for the Knowing Field journal. She has taught systemic constellation work in Asia, South America, South Africa, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and the U.S.In 2005, she organized the first U.S. Conference in constellation work. Her Institute offers trainings in Somatic Imaging and systemic constellation work, including training in organizational constellations. The institute is currently offering it's seventeenth year of training programs.Jane started her professional career as an engineer and manager in a high tech firm (the first woman engineer hired into her department) and knows first-hand the demands placed on leaders in the corporate environment. In the course of becoming a constellation facilitator, she has also been a professional ceramic sculptor and ran her own fine arts studio, Laughing Bones, Inc.Jane is a master practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Certified Professional Behavioral Coach and a member of the American Counseling Association, VOIS, OHA, and ODN. She has studied Process Oriented Psychology with Arny Mindell and Max Schupbach, Group Dynamics with Michael Grinder, Peruvian energy healing with Don Amèrico Yàbar, Attachment and Trauma work with Dan Siegel and Diane Poole Heller, a Psycho-biological Approach to Couples Therapy with Stan Tatkin (Level 2), Coordinated Management of Meaning with Barnett Pearce, and continues to learn with other research-driven leaders in the fields of personal and social evolution. She holds a doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University, and has been a post-doctoral fellow of the Institute for Social Innovation.OTHER RESOURCES, LINKS AND INSPIRATIONS:Essential Skills for CouplesAdapting Systemic Constellations to OrganizationsHuman-Systems-InstituteBurt Hellinger: “caring for desire”Elaine Debutant: compatibility is actually an achievement of love, not a precondition.”SOCIAL SOMA - our body is shaped by our social relationshipsLALAGE SNOW:  We Are the Not Dead - photographerStan Tatkin - safety in relationship = taking care of each other. The Social BiomeTerry Real - The Social EcosystemEsther Perel: Mating in CaptivityArny Mindell, Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict  and DiversityScience of TouchingEllyn Bader, the Initiator/Inquirer processStan Tatkin, In Each Other's Care: A Guide to the Most Common Relationship Conflicts and How to Work Through ThemTerry Real,

In this minisode, Ali guides you on a mini mapping experience to explore your heart/sexuality split - or un-split!Using her method, Personal Geometry® (explored in Episode 31 with Lauren Gleason) in mere minutes you will gain insights into what your present stance is in relation to your romantic heart and your sexuality - in relation to anyone or anything that is currently an issue for you.Find out what your body knows about it!In minutes, you'll see-feel what could help you understand, and live, a more harmonious relationship between these essential aspects of being - whether in relationship to someone else and/or yourself.MORE ALI MEZEY:Website:  https://www.alimezey.comPersonal Geometry® and the Magic of Mat Work Course information:https://www.alimezey.com/personal-geometry-foundationsTo book a session, email Ali at ali@alimezey.com

NEXT COHORT STARTS TOMORROW February 8th - Jump In!Personal Geometry® is a somatic and spatial practice that taps into the body's innate, felt-sense understanding of spatial relationships. This work can do so much so quickly. It's an amazing way to get you, your clients, your partner, other participants, to see and feel the body-truth of things in minutes. We are excited to share Personal Geometry Foundations with you as a practitioner discover how you can best tailor it to the disciplines you are already, or will be, practicing. This non-verbal, embodied approach provides a clear and immediate visual and visceral representation of a person's inner world, making it an invaluable tool for therapists, facilitators, and anyone seeking profound transformation.  A seven-week online class - perfect for therapists, sexologists, coaches, and healing practitioners. Foundations is the prerequisite for advanced classes on Sexuality and Addiction, and individuals seeking personal healing are welcome too!  PERSONAL GEOMETRY TRAININGSJoin the Next Personal Geometry® Foundations Class  (online over Zoom)Now enrolling - click here for more details. Next cohort starts February 8th, 2025.Our audience gets $250 off - just mention the show when contacting Ali. MORE ALI MEZEY:Website:  https://www.alimezey.comPersonal Geometry® and the Magic of Mat Work Course information:https://www.alimezey.com/personal-geometry-foundationsTransgenerational Healing Films: https://constellationarts.com/If you have any questions, email Ali at: ali@alimezey.com

“If I don't feel like I fit in to these linear and binary systems, it's because I don't. It's because they're not actually reflective of my true nature.” In our lives, each of us will have experienced some challenges within our bodies, whether related to injury, stress, the pressure of expected ‘norms', disability, illness, pain, or simply aging. Our relationships to our bodies often reflect internalized oppressive systems that keep us disconnected. Abigail Rose Clarke, a somatic facilitator, tells us the ways she's come to view our connection to nature and relationship to our bodies as prime ways to push back against systems that were not built for us. In this episode we discuss: navigating disability in an ableist world healing after a car accident and navigating the medical industrial complex practices for grounding and remembering you are part of nature the fallacy of hierarchy dealing with emotional resistance healing an eating disorder the book writing process Abigail Rose Clarke is a somatic facilitator who currently lives in Western Massachusetts. Using somatics and mindfulness, Clarke teaches people to use the inherent wisdom of their bodies to be in direct conversation with creativity and aliveness, as a way to dismantle oppressive systems and build generative and deeply relational futures. Clarke has worked with people ranging from CEOs and board directors to schoolteachers and parents. She holds a weekly somatic learning space called Anchor Community, and is also the creator of The Somatic Tarot, a method of engaging with the archetype Tarot in ways that are rooted in liberatory practices. Her work is enormously influenced by her study and practice of Embodyoga®, of which she is a senior teacher, as well as her background in kinesiology and psychology. Links: Abigail's website: abigailroseclarke.com Abigail's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abigail.rose.clarke/ Returning Home to Our Bodies (book) https://www.abigailroseclarke.com/books People Mentioned: Patty Townsend https://www.embodyoga.com/ Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen https://www.bodymindcentering.com/about/bonnie-bainbridge-cohen/ Nothing to see here (netflix show) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/nothing_to_see_here Andrea Gibson https://andreagibson.org/ Sessions & Information about the host: ⁠⁠JazmineRussell.com⁠⁠ Disclaimer: The DEPTH Work Podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Any information on this podcast in no way to be construed or substituted as psychological counseling, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, or any other type of therapy or medical advice.

Hi my dear listeners! I am thrilled to introduce my next guest because we talk about the starkly opposing ideologies between Western and Eastern medicine, in the context of infant movement development and beyond.  Cara Angela Liguori is a Somatic Practitioner, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and Dream Guide whose creative healing journey began with dance and music. She is currently earning a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.  In her one-on-one practice, Cara uses integrative touch, somatics, and guided meditations to support her clients' body-mind-spirit integration. For infants and their caregivers, Cara provides education and skill-building for cultivating secure attachment skills and resilient movement and nervous system development through embodied observation, co-regulation, and handling techniques. In all her work, she facilitates connections with the underlying pathways of support that lead people to deepened relationships with themselves and others.  Cara's practice is client-centered, trauma-informed, and process-oriented. She is a certified practitioner of Zero Balancing, Esalen Massage, Somatic Movement Education for Adults and Infants via the School for Body-Mind Centering®, and Pilates. Please tune into this fascinating episode. I'd love to hear what you thought in the comments! Cara would like to acknowledge her Body-Mind Centering® teachers who include Amy Matthews, Sarah Barnaby, Satu Palokangas, her IDME cohort, and the founder, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. Connect with Cara via: Website + newsletter: www.caraliguoriwellbeing.com Email cara.liguori@gmail.com Follow on instagram Embodiment and Integration: The Well of my Being Blog

This week we are unpacking Dopamine! This is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days and this episode is devoted to the continued exploration of understanding how our brains and bodies work in conscious and unconscious ways. Inside, we learn about what dopamine is, where it is, what it does, and how that might play out in our lives. Part of the shadow work experience is first learning to be aware of ourselves and our many systems, before we can take further steps. Once we are more cognizant of ourselves, next comes learning to show ourselves compassion for our humanness and starting on the path of making necessary shifts.  Please like, subscribed, leave a review, and SHARE! I hope you enjoy the episode and look forward to being with you in there. Till next time...To connect with Chloe Lionheart:Email: chloe@downwithmydemons.comResources:Adrenal Glands: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23005-adrenal-glandBody-Mind Centering: https://www.bodymindcentering.com/-Great book on Body-Mind Centering by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen"Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering"https://bonniebainbridgecohen.com/collections/booksChakras: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/7-chakras-for-beginnersKundalini Energy: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/the-science-of-kundalini#:~:text=Kundalini%20is%20a%20potential%20power,species'%20evolution%20toward%20greater%20consciousness.Dan Siegel: "Dopamine and Teenage Logic" Articlehttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/dopamine-and-teenage-logic/282895/More info:Scientific Article:"The relationship between childhood trauma, dopamine release and dexamphetamine-induced positive psychotic  symptoms" -  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6848217/Poem by Khalil Gibran "On Pleasure" from his book "The Prophet"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148570/on-pleasureThe Prophet (Free E-Book): https://www.kahlilgibran.com/images/The%20Prophet%20Ebook%20by%20Kahlil%20Gibran.pdfExercise Questions:...When feeling the pull of dopamine...1. What do I want right now?2. What do I need right now?3. What is going to make me feel my best in hours or days from now?4. What happened throughout my day that's playing a role in how I feel right now?5. Will I be able to show myself kindness after I feed this desire?Support the show

Tara Judelle has taught yoga around the world for over 20 years. With asana as a gateway, Tara steeped herself in the non-dual philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism or Tantra.  In 2014 she co-created the school of Embodied Flow with Dr. Scott Lyons; an integrative blend of hatha yoga, somatics, meditation, and transpersonal psychology that elicits the experience of meditation in action. In this reflective episode we discuss how asana can be used skilfully to support our awakening process. Tara shares the philosophy of tantra and how it informs her practice as well as the influence of her own teachers Sally Kempton and Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. She explains the concept of 'embodied anatomy' and what it really means to have freedom. Tara shares how in order to fully inhabit the body, healing must first take place, and how tapping into healing energy happens naturally when coming into a place of stillness within or by touching the "ground of being". We discuss the importance of getting in touch with the memory and resonance of early embryological aspects of our bodies, and how macrocosmic, universal energy flows are reflected in the movements of our physical body. Tara's classes focus on the discovery of embodied anatomy, bringing to the yogic tradition a scientific yet playful study of the movement vocabulary of the body and the ever-expanding perceptual awareness of the human mind. Following an initial move from Los Angeles to direct a yoga program and retreat center in Bali for several years, Tara now teaches workshops, retreats and teacher trainings worldwide; her dynamic style bringing ease and authenticity into a new yoga culture.www.tarajudelle.comwww.embodiedflow.comLiked what you heard? Help us reach more people! Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts Start Energy Healing Today!Unlock your healing potential with our informative and fun introductory 10 hour LIVE online class in energy healing Our Flagship Training is Setting the Standard in Energy HealingThe next 100 hour EHT-100 Energy Healing Training is open for enrollment! LIVE & online - 10th February - 21st July 2024. Join us in Bali in 2024 - Our Retreat AND first in-person EHT-100 Training are now booking! Contact Field Dynamics Email us at info@fielddynamicshealing.com fielddynamicshealing.com Thanks for listening!

Nick grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan, where he is currently raising two young children of his own. He started practicing yoga in 2000 as an antidote to the head-centrism of college. He found it to be a beautiful combination of spiritual practice and exercise, a way to contemplate cosmic ideas as they manifest in the particular pleasures and pains of human life. When not teaching, running his studio Grateful Yoga, or parenting, Nick likes to contemplate the fruitful intersections of yoga, Buddhism and science. He explores these ideas weekly in his newsletter Within Us and Without Us on Substack. His weekly classes aspire to this integration, mixing science and yoga philosophy with inquiry-oriented yoga practices. Nick has extensive experience working with beginners, men, couples, emerging adults, traumatic brain injury, the chronically stressed, and those seeking to make yoga and meditation part of their daily routine. He is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) through the International Association of Yoga Therapy. View his full resume here.  In spring 2022, Nick trained at the Kripalu School of Outdoor Leadership and now leads weekly outdoor experiences of communion with the lakeside lands around Evanston. Nick has a degree in Computer Science from Brown University, where he also studied the theory and practice of Buddhist meditation. Other influences include the Chinese arts of tai chi and qigong, running, the somatics of Lisa Clark and Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, improvisational theater, West African dance, artmaking, communing with nature, and cooking. Reverence for Impulse is an unscripted, unplanned and (hopefully) unedited podcast with me, Weena Pauly-Tarr. Together with my guests, we're asking what is alive in this moment?We start each episode with a few minutes of meeting each other head-to-toe, through the language of our bodies, before we press record and bring it to a conversation. We start where we are. This is not a hard hitting agenda or getting to the bottom of things, it's about being in the bottoms of things. Finding each other in the not-knowing. I'm here for the spaciousness, the awkwardness, the silliness, the silence — From the dark insides of our bodies to the brightness of our minds, I'm excited to welcome people who's impulses I'd like to get to know. www.weenapauly.com

Hi my dear listeners! I am thrilled to introduce my next guest because we talk about the starkly opposing ideologies between Western and Eastern medicine, in the context of infant movement development and beyond. Cara Angela Liguori is a Somatic Practitioner, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and Dream Guide whose creative healing journey began with dance and music. She is currently earning a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. In her one-on-one practice, Cara uses integrative touch, somatics, and guided meditations to support her clients' body-mind-spirit integration. For infants and their caregivers, Cara provides education and skill-building for cultivating secure attachment skills and resilient movement and nervous system development through embodied observation, co-regulation, and handling techniques. In all her work, she facilitates connections with the underlying pathways of support that lead people to deepened relationships with themselves and others. Cara's practice is client-centered, trauma-informed, and process-oriented. She is a certified practitioner of Zero Balancing, Esalen Massage, Somatic Movement Education for Adults and Infants via the School for Body-Mind Centering®, and Pilates. Please tune into this fascinating episode. I'd love to hear what you thought in the comments! Cara would like to acknowledge her Body-Mind Centering® teachers who include Amy Matthews, Sarah Barnaby, Satu Palokangas, her IDME cohort, and the founder, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. Connect with Cara via: Website + newsletter: www.caraliguoriwellbeing.com Email cara.liguori@gmail.com Follow on instagram Embodiment and Integration: The Well of my Being Blog Quote: “Science is always catching up to practices born from sensory experience + internal knowing.” Visit https://marinabuksov.com for more holistic content. Music from https://www.purple-planet.com. Disclaimer: Statements herein have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products listed are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases.

As a student of art, yoga and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen's Body-Mind Centering® work since the 1980's, Lisa Clark describes the how the creative process aligns with embodiment as a practice that begins in subtle movement, incubated with patient curiosity, and expands to engage the myriad relationships within and beyond the body. She describes how this lemniscape of self, other, and the broader world apply both within and beyond the studio. Lisa offers both online and in person learning opportunities to bring fresh persepective and depth to your movement practices. https://www.lisaclarkyoga.com/

From 'Best of the Embodiment Conference'.  A conversation with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Don Hanlon Johnson - not to be missed.  Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) is an integrated approach to transformative experience through movement re-education and hands-on repatterning. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles, and utilizes movement, touch, voice, and consciousness. This study leads to an understanding of how the mind is expressed through the body and the body through the mind. Body-Mind Centering® has an almost unlimited number wide areas of application. It is currently being used by people in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, physical and occupational therapy, psychotherapy, child development, education, voice, music, art, meditation, athletics, and other body-mind disciplines. Please visit the Body-Mind Centering® website for more information. Bonnie's Bio  Bonnie is a movement artist, researcher, educator, and therapist, and the developer of the Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) approach to movement, the body, and consciousness. For over 50 years, I've been exploring the anatomical, embryological, and developmental foundations of movement and how they relate to our psychophysical processes and wellbeing. Don's Bio I have spent nearly half a century studying how transformative body practices can enhance personal and social change, and how they can impair it. I came to these practices out of a study of philosophy, which luminously articulates the disastrous social and personal results of the mind/body split enbedded in mainstream thinking and institution-building. I have tried to find methods for healing these splits in the academic world of writing, pedagogy, and research; in the personal realm of self-cultivation; and in the larger world of social change. At the deepest level, I look to these practices as a source of a spirituality grounded in the flesh of human yearning. My work is centered in the graduate degree programs in Somatics at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.  

Jamie McHugh who is a somatic movement and meditation teacher joins me to talk Californian greats, nature connection, virtual teaching, Guru detection, lateralisation, active meditation, the “art of lively stillness”, creativity and meditation, and US vs European embodiment. A good one if you want to think more deeply about meditation. Jamie McHugh, MA, RSMT is an interdisciplinary artist, somatic movement specialist and the creator of Somatic Expression® - Body Wisdom for Modern Times. His somatic-expressive practices for re-wilding the body, mending the mind and restoring the spirit have been inspired by his relationships with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Emilie Conrad, Anna Halprin, Thich Nhat Hanh and the wild places of the planet, and through working with diverse groups of people internationally for over 40 years.  Websites:  http://www.somaticexpression.com/  http://www.naturebeingart.org/   If you are interested in our latest course 'embodied meditation' - click on the link below.   https://embodimentunlimited.com/embodied-meditation/   https://embodimentunlimited.com/   Jamie's work: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JamieMcHughSomaticArt Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/naturebeingart Articles: http://somaticexpression.com/articles.html  

Diane Elliot was born in Chicago and grew up in the north suburbs. Trained in dance from an early age, she received extensive training in dance and theatre at New Trier High School in Winnetka and in 1971 graduated summa cum laude, phi beta kappa from the University of Michigan, with a major in American Arts. For the next 25 years, Diane enjoyed a varied career in dance and theatre, studying with Alwin Nikolais and Murry Louis, Nancy Meehan and Finis Jung in New York City; performing and touring from 1972-77 with New York-based Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company; and producing her own work in New York in such venues as The Dance Gallery, the Theatre of Riverside Church, and Dance Theatre Workshop, as well as across the country.  From 1979-82 she taught at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France, and performed with La Manivelle throughout Alsace. In 1981 Diane relocated to Minneapolis, where she taught at the University of Minnesota as a guest artist and then joined MICA (the Minnesota Independent Choreographer's Alliance, later the Minnesota DanceAlliance). For a number of years, she edited MICA's newsletter and worked in the office. During her time in New York and Minnesota, Diane created over 30 dances, including commissions for the Ft. Wayne Dance Collective, The Yard, Dance Caravan, the Carolina Dancers, Zenon Dance Company, the New Dance Ensemble, and the Jerome Foundation, as well serving as choreographer for several productions at the Illusion Theatre and the Guthrie Lab production of Cymbeline. Her work was recognized with grants from the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, Artslink, and the Jerome Foundation. Beginning in 1983, Diane trained in the somatic modality Body-Mind Centering® with its founder, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and for some 30 years maintained a private practice in somatic therapy and taught in the School for Body-Mind Centering's training programs. In 1990 she co-founded the Women's PerformanceProject, which explored the healing potential of movement-based performance in a series of five evening-length performances, including Bloodroot and Labyrinth. In 1998 Diane relocated to California and in 2000 matriculated at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, in Los Angeles. Ordained as a rabbi in 2006, Diane has served communities in the Bay Area. As a Program Director for the ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal, she created and directed the Embodying Spirit, En-spiriting Body training, a residential retreat program in embodied Jewish spiritual leadership. She currently teaches independently; serves as a spiritual director; is on the faculty of Taproot, a spiritual training program for Jewish activists, artists, and, and changemakers; and is a founding member and on the advisory council of the Embodied Jewish Wisdom Network. Diane is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Voice isMovement (Hakodesh Press, 2020). You can learn more about her work atwww.whollypresent.org.

BRADFORD C. BENNETT, PHDDr. Bennett's  formal somatic education began in 1985 when he began studying Tai Chi with Hubert H. Lui. For the next ten years Mr. Lui helped Dr. Bennett become both more relaxed and more biomechanically sound in movement.  He continued to explore methodologies to improve neuromuscular control and studied with several teachers including; Yochanon Rywerant, Ruthy Alon, Llana Rubenfeld, Charlotte Selver, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Dean Juhan, Gaby Yaron, and Giora Pinkas. Following a knee injury a Feldenkrais teacher referred him to Thomas Hanna. One session with Dr. Hanna convinced Dr. Bennett that Dr. Hanna was doing something quite unique and in 1990 he participated in Dr. Hanna's first and only training in what he called Hanna Somatic Education. Dr. Bennett later became a Charter Member of the Association for Hanna Somatic Education®. In 1993 Dr. Bennett left his position at as a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center to focus on somatic education. He was soon recruited to teach at Sonoma State University and then San Francisco State University in the Dept. of Kinesiology. During these studies Dr. Bennett continued studying with H. H. Lui, combining his insights from the Western “somatic education” with his Tai Chi practice. In this episode we discuss:His background in SomaticsMeeting Thomas HannaHanna Somatic Training CourseSimilarities of Somatics & Tai chi ChuanIf you'd like to find out more about Brad's work and read his article "The Somatic Work of of Thomas Hanna, Tai Chi & Kinesiology" https://www.westeastsomatics.com

我們是由自身思想念相的能量組成的。任何一個念頭被我們意識捕捉到的當下，便點亮某種顯化的可能性，它會和類似的意念互相串連增長、共同創造。 你曾做過飛行的夢嗎？如果飛得夠高，高到無法分別個體的形貌，你看見的只會是光點、光流、光影～以鷹之眼，尋找那與你相應的光點，相應的心念使光點串連成光線，然而無論再高遠的念，也需要透過個體，以有韻律有組織的行動，才得以落實、擴展到物質實相。 今天，留意自己的心，留意自己的念，留意自己的呼吸，留意自己的身體，留意自己的規律。 想起這句話 “心念如風，身體如沙；如果你想知道風如何吹，請觀察沙的形成。” （出自Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, BMC身心平衡技法創發人） 你相信什麼，便活出什麼。

Geraldine Balcazar is a generous dancer with a background in contemporary dance, performance art, yoga and other dance forms. She refers to movement, rather than dance as part of her practise and is interested in making dance available to a wider audience. More recently she has studied and worked with concepts from body mind centering by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and has been looking after her one year old son Max after moving to the North Coast of NSW. In this interview she talks about how she got into dance, why she chooses to frame her practise around movement, her influences and what she's more focused on in her dance at present. Hope you enjoy listening to this interview with this lovely human being. 

In 1990, Bob Lehnberg received his certification as Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® (BMCsm) and in 2002 Teacher of Body-Mind Centering. Since then Bob has received teacher certifications for BMC Yoga, Integral Yoga and Supreme Science of Qigong. He has been teaching in schools of massage therapy and programs of somatic training since 1990 and has had the good fortune to teach BMC and somatic practices throughout the US and internationally in Europe, Canada, China, and Taiwan.Bob is a co-founder of Kinesthetic Learning Center in Durham, NC and has been on faculty teaching and coordinating the BMC Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Practitioner certification programs since 2007. He is coordinator of SME courses for Esprit en Mouvement in Montreal, Canada and is Co-director of the SME program in Taitung, Taiwan.He is offering courses that bring together qigong and embryology, a time in healing earliest experiences that can be very fruitful. I wrote about this saying, Sometimes You Gotta Go Back To Go Forward, a saying that Bob shared with me from his teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The embryological movement sequences he teaches allow us to go back before the trauma and fully embody our whole selves. His healing work that combines energy, movement, ancient tradition and embryology is a wonderful mix that is healing and stimulating. 

    In this episode, Carl speaks with Mark Walsh, Brooke McNamara,   Roma Pijlman, and Philip Shepherd about the upcoming free online Embodiment Conference, and the necessity of embodiment in these times.  The Embodiment Conference runs from October 14-25, 2020, and features many guests we have had on this podcast, including Charles Eisenstein, Bayo Akomolafe, Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi, Loch Kelly, David Abram, Russell Delman, Philip Shepherd, Brooke McNamara, along with many other luminaries of the embodiment world, Gabor Mate, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, Tara Brach, Peter Levine and many more.    In this conversation, we speak about the Conference, and the many different channels and opportunities for learning the conference offers. We also explore why embodiment is so essential for these particular times. We speak about embodiment in relation to integration, conflict and healing. The call begins with a short guided practice with Philip and a poem from Brooke.    You can sign up for the conference here: https://bit.ly/3mX0arL     Philip Shepherd is a writer and teacher, author of New Self, New World, and Radical Wholeness.  Brooke McNamara is a poet, dancer, teacher and author of Feed Your Vow and Bury the Seed.   Roma Pijlman is an embodiment teacher, coach and  karate sensai.  Mark Walsh is an author and teacher, he wrote The Embodiment Book, runs the Embodied Facilitator program, and is the organizer of the Embodiment Conference. 

A short interview where we touch on movement intelligence, remembering magic, somatics, Alanis Morissette, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Tom Myers... and the wonder of you

Today's Conversation is with Roxlyn Moret.Roxlyn Moret has been exploring, practicing, and teaching movement and the healing arts for 40 years. She has an active private practice in NYC teaching group yoga classes and conducting workshops for professionals. Her background includes dance, studying Tai Chi Chuan with Maggie Newman, Shiatsu, Cranial Sacral therapy, and touch for healing. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen {founder of BMC℠} has been a mentor for 26 years. Roxlyn Moret currently co-coordinates Bonnie Cohen's Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga program {EDMY} with Amy Matthews in NYC. Among her certifications Roxlyn is a Body Mind Centering ® Teacher {BMC ℠}, Certified Laban /Bartenieff Movement Analyst {CMA}, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher {ERYT-500} with Yoga Alliance, Registered Somatic Movement Educator {RSME} with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association {ISMETA}.In today's conversation we talk with Roxlyn about her working with embodiment, finding yoga, Body-Mind-Centering, embryology and the interrelation of all beings as shown from COVID  and more...You can find out more about Roxlyn at http://www.embodiedbreathyoga.com/As always, we hope you enjoy the show. If you like what we are putting out, please share positive reviews at wherever you listen to us from. And feel free to share with friends. We’d greatly appreciate it as we are doing these podcasts for your enjoyment and education.You can find more about Andrew at andrewrosenstock.comAnd more about Nikki at nikkiolsen.comMany thanks to Explorers Society for use of their song " All In" from their majestic album 'Spheres' Please check them out here https://open.spotify.com/album/1plT1lAPWEQ1oTRbWOiXm3?si=eAL08OJdT5-sJ6FwwZD50g

Meditation 10 Minutes An adaptation of a somatic meditation by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, designed specifically to aid restful sleep. In this practice, we focus on the physical heart, holding it with attention and embodied awareness. Click the link above to find the original meditation from Bonnie herself.   Donations to Meditista. Your generosity helps support these offerings.

Yoga teacher Tara joins me to discuss mind vs brain, Anusara Yoga, John Friend, BodyMind Centring, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Tantra, kashmir shaivism, sensing vs feeling, Embodied Flow, why be embodied, “humaning”, the business of yoga, yoga photography and Instagram, the yoga lifestyle, to have kids or not, the future of yoga, and ethics. A rich and pleasant one. http://www.tarajudelle.com https://www.embodiedflow.com/

Author of The Embodied Teen Susan joins me to talk experiential anatomy, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and BMC, Janet Adler, Mary Whitehouse and authentic movement, Bali, how she started working with teens, adaptions to this and other groups, misperceptions of the body, teaching principles, balancing sensory and motor in embodiment, eco-somatics, teen stereotypes, cultural differences and technology. A useful one for any teacher, though especially anyone working with young people. https://susanbauer.com/ https://susanbauer.com/trainings-for-educators/ https://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Teen-Curriculum-Kinesthetic-Intelligence/dp/1623171881

Today we’re joined by Ben Cheney who is a professional researcher of movement. In this episode, we will talk about dance and the many varieties that Ben has explored. I really love Ben’s perspective of movement and how he has cultivated a mind-body relationship that allows him to express himself through dance. In this episode, Ben and I dive into the concept of Life Art and how we can bring awareness to our body through movement. Note from Ben Cheney: I often forget to mention names when talking about ideas. I wanted to make sure that the names that I didn’t formally mention were recognized here as they are all very important in the story of my moving life. The gifts that they gave me are what has allowed for me to grow and find the window within myself that I may share with others. The founders of Concord Academy Petoskey were Kim and Steve Overton. My dance teacher while i attended school there were: Jodi Adgate, Sylvia Jania, and Gary Schulz. My ballet teacher and the director of the Crooked Tree Dance Department is Heather Raue. The male teacher, whom is mention, is the Artistic Director of Deeply Rooted in Chicago, is Iega. The founder of BMC is Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The teacher that facillitated the sphenoid/occipital relationship in my BMC module was Janet Amato. Links mentioned in the episode.. Buoyant Feet Video Sphenoid Bone Contact Ben Facebook Instagram Email benjamin.b.cheney@gmail.com After recording this episode Ben and I danced in the park. Check out the video HERE --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/humannature/message

Idag är Moa i Stockholm hos Marie och vi pratar en hel del om BMC - Body Mind Centering, skapad av den fantastiska Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, och modeordet somatiska rörelser. Såklart kommer vi i vanlig ordning även in på relaterade sidospår som hur BMC har påverkat vår egen yogapraktik, synen på barnuppfostran, skärmtid, vikten av trygghet och RÖRELSE (otippat va) och medveten närvaro; Hur känns det att vara jag? Body Mind Centering är ett sätt att fördjupa oss själva in i den intuitiva visdom som kroppen besitter, och den medfödda kapaciteten att läka genom medvetenhet och beröring. Hur fantastiskt är inte det? Bok för inspiration; The wisdom of the body moving – Linda Heartley Följ Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen på Youtube. #BMC #Yoga #somatisk #rörelse #kroppochsinne #Podcast #svenska #Yogawife

Free coaching sessions for women: https://www.lessstressmorejoy.com/product/coffee-with-kasia-free-coaching-for-women/The full transcription is available here: https://www.kasiamay.com/blog/emotional-recovery-through-bodywork/KM: Hey, it’s Kasia May. Today I am here with Kasia Kaminska to talk about emotional recovery through bodywork. Kasia is a very experienced yoga teacher who connects a lot of approaches in her work, including straightly therapeutical ones like Aleksander Lowen’s bioenergetics, Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine or Body-Mind Centering by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. We met last Sunday at a workshop dedicated to the pelvis. Kasia, working with you there was a great experience for me and I am honored to have you here. KK: Hello, I’m also happy to be here and to be able to talk about my work with you.KM: I have in my head that talking therapy is still the most popular when we feel we need some help to change something in ourselves, in our lives. You are not a therapist, but the things you offer to people during workshops and classes can support them in self-growth and emotional recovery a lot. How does it work that movement and exercises can help us in healing our emotions? Do you think it is good to do something like that additionally when we are in talking therapy? KK: Well, answering the first question it is very important to talk about our body being able to contain emotions. Everything we experience from the very beginning of our lives, even before we were born, is contained by our bodies, and it occurs as different types of tensions in different areas. And what is very important is the work that we do in a very conscious way to release the tension. And through that tension, we are able to detect some emotions stuck in our body. Sometimes it’s pleasure, sometimes it’s pain, sometimes it’s fear. And then to do some other work. So everything we experienced is already written in our bodies, and that’s why it’s good to combine these two approaches, the verbal one and the non-verbal one - the bodywork, because it gives us the ability to first, be conscious in our mind about what we are going through, about the mechanisms that guide us, about our patterns, and then it gives the body the possibility to feel it, to experience it once again. It is very important to know that we don’t give ourselves permission to express ourselves, to react in a way that we need to react. And it is necessary for the body to react not to create this tension. And first, in our childhood, we are being forbidden by our parents to scream, to shout, to kick, to jump, so it’s not only about these hard emotions but also the good emotions - joy, some spontaneous reactions, and then also anger, and fear and all of that. So as adults also we are not really used to express that. And through that bodywork, we are able to experience that once again, so first it’s kind of come back to that time, but we are able to have a perspective of an adult person seeing ourselves what we’ve been not able to do as kids. KM: So how to work with our bodies to release emotions? What kind of classes, activities we can choose to reach this goal? The full transcription is available here: https://www.kasiamay.com/blog/emotional-recovery-through-bodywork/Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=Vm6i9wbh7V9vawDhSAOtnc2T5Uj105Mpbj42skkem_uUGrVJxIDSyk4TRfTXRSSy9i8wmm&country.x=US&locale.x=EN_US )

Dancer and somatic movement therapist Dr Martha Eddy joins us to discuss her background growing up in inner city New York with social activist parents, modern dance, Rudolf Laban, Bartenieff, Isodora Duncan, theatre, Bodymind Centring and Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, health and physical therapy, developmental movement, her Dynamic Embodiment system, health, middle-class embodiment, “practical” vs exploratory practice, Warren Lamb, working with children, somatic “detective work”, support and social equity, addiction and social somatics, and the economics of access. http://drmarthaeddy.com

There may be words somewhere, at some point, but I'm not quite sure what they are. James and I, along with two of our most beloved colleagues, Claudia Moose and Louise Johns, recently spent 4 days in Berkeley, CA with the soulful Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The topic of our time with her: Engaging Self and Other Through Embodiment. Phew. Yes. What? Shaking. My. Head. Head in hands. Tears. Knowing. Not knowing. This is one of our many "download", WTF just happened/is happening, could this be any more strange and amazing, conversations. This...is what happens when you find yourself in the right place at the right time being drawn into yourself, into others, and into the force that is your life NOT separate from everything and everyone else. Listen. Period. Then get your ass in a seat in front of this woman. xo"I don't know. I don't have the answer. Fortunately, I don't need to know." -- March 2019"One of the things I think is essential with sensing, is that we reach a point where we become conscious and then we let it go, so that the sensing itself is not a motivation; that our motivation is action, based on perception." CQ, Winter 1981"Cellular embodiment and awareness is a state in which all cells have equal opportunity for expression and receptivity. The structure is one of an open forum, in which all cells share the power of the group collective (tissue, organ, body) by embodying their present state of being. This does not mean that all cells are the same. It means they are each totally free to state their mind and to support and respond to the experiences and expressions of all the other cells within their present community of cells." 1988Be drawn into...yourself. Rest. Allow. Listen. Be...still. Smile.More About Bonnie Bainbridge CohenThere's just too much to say. So, here ya go:About BonnieAbout BMCBody-Mind CenteringBooks and VideosConnect with UsChantill - chantill@skillfulteaching.com + (707) 738-7951James - j.crader@evolvedbodystudio.comEmail us at thinkingpilatespodcast@gmail.com or use the form below.Like us on Facebook at The Thinking Pilates PodcastLeave us a review on iTunes.What We're Up ToCome learn with Chantill in 2019:March - Village Pilates, Chicago (Mentoring Salon and workshops)April - Humani Pilates, Sacramento, CA April 6th 12 - 6 pm, A New Path to Shoulder Health Kalijo Pilates, Sunshine Coast, BC (4-day retreat with Debora Kolwey)Pilates Beyond Boundaries, April 26-29May - Virginia/DC studio crawlMichigan - Details TBDJoin Chantill and James at Momentum Fest this coming June.Learn more and get your tickets HEREOur Episode SponsorThe Science + Psychology of Teaching Master's ProgramExplore A Whole New Universe of Teaching (NEW Cohort #2 2019 Begins in May)Dive in to critical areas of teaching NEVER before directly addressed in a full-length certification program: brain science + education, humanistic psychology, motivation science, Polyvagal Theory + more.FINALLY! Bring Something BIG to LifeAs a project-based program we’ll help you create the curriculum, workshop or research project you’ve been dreaming of; take the larger stage, make a bigger impact + experience a more rewarding and lucrative career. This is not just another teacher training! Intimate, Interactive, Challenging + RewardingThe Master’s Program is a HIGHLY INTERACTIVE process of learning + implementation that supports you every step of the way to immediately integrate what you learn. Get 1:1 coaching, LIVE group discussions, daily feedback and guidance + fantastic LIVE EVENT in California! Learn more HERE and get signed up for an upcoming Q + A Call and be eligible for tuition discounts not available any other time.Momentum FestDenver, CO June 21-23Momentum Fest™ is a three day Pilates and movement celebration. Feed your body, mind and soul with empowering fitness classes, motivating conversations and uplifting connections. Momentum Fest 2019 will be held June 21-23 in Denver, CO. Join us as we laugh, breathe and move together.FOR ANYONE WANTING TO FIND THEIR TRUE STRENGTHStudents, teachers, young, old, beginners, professionals – Momentum Fest is holding a place for you. All you need is a love of movement and a desire to live inspired.momentumfest.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Academic and ex dancer Kelly joins the shadow to discuss her beginnings as a dancer., a definition of somatics, the history of the field, oration, Leo Kofler, Gindler, Shelver, Delsarte, the western influence on yoga, Ling gymnastics, Stebbins, FM Alexander, Feldenkrais, Laban, Mabel Todd and ideokinesis, Martha Eddy and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. A really good history lesson form someone who's done their homework! https://somafit.com/teachers/kelly/

Amy Matthews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a movement therapist and yoga teacher. Amy leads the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga and the Embodied Anatomy and Yoga BMC℠ programs in the United States. She co-taught with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Berkeley, CA for five years and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for ten years. She has taught embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in New York, Philadelphia, Berkeley, and Nebraska, and internationally in Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, England, Israel, Slovakia and Japan. Amy co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling book Yoga Anatomy, and together Amy and Leslie teach The Breathing Project's Advanced Studies courses. Amy also works privately as a movement therapist and yoga teacher, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering® and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF). Amy is certified as a yoga teacher by Yoga Union and Heart of Yoga, and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner. She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher). Amy has studied with a range of inspiring teachers: dissection workshops with Gil Hedley, neuro-muscular reeducation with Irene Dowd, Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, full-contact karate with Michelle Gay, and yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner.

Introduction for Coach Andrew Alana Ruben Free works internationally as a playwright, director and educator developing The Eden Plays and other theatre work. Theatre critic, LB Syke wrote of Alana’s solo play Beginner at Life: “It’s the sort of revelatory, energetic writing and performance for which a critic, or other enthusiast, hankers, lives and breathes…” Beginner at Life has been performed in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East and was anthologized in Bowery Women.   Alana’s work has also been published by Smith&Kraus in The Best Women Stage Monologues of 2013 and The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2013. Alana was one of the founding editors of the literary journal, The Mom Egg, and was the executive producer of the narrative documentary The Last Stand. Alana began her career performing monologues and poetry in downtown New York at the C Note, Cornelia Street Café, The Bowery Poetry Club, and later uptown at the Museum of Motherhood as well as at universities, festivals and conferences. Alana was a Rhodes Scholar finalist at The University of Western Ontario where she graduated from the Ivey School of Business and holds a masters degree in Jewish Studies from Touro College.  Alana studied performance poetry at The Bowery Poetry Club and has pursued her passion for developing theatre by studying with several master teachers throughout New York City and with Marion Woodman of Canada. Alana is certified in Early Developmental Movement and Yoga from the School of Body-Mind Centering© founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.  Alana is currently planning to create the first women’s international theatre festival in Israel.