Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen Outline

Early life and education (katie)

- Family Influences
-Ringling Bros., Parents influence, Schooling

- Teaching Certifications
- Locations/School where she taught
The Science behind Body Mind Centering (BMC) (Emily)

- Definition of Body Mind Centering

- Touch and movement
- Role of organs in movement
- Applications/fetal development
- Applications of the technique

Applications of Body Mind Centering (BMC) (Erin)

- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Dance therapy
- evaluating and treating through touch, movement and perception, because as she says in the
quote we started with the mind facilitated how the body is functioning
based on a comprehensive body-systems approach;

- a subtle and encompassing approach to movement; which helps find the kinks and fix them
- maybe things that other wouldn't catch because its so all encompassing
- it can find developmental movement aspects of a knee problem, and organ imbalance
influencing an inability to relate to others;

- as you can see its a psychophysical processes through movement, touch, breath and voice
Psychotherapy

accessing similarly like dance therapy the mind by working with the body through
movement, touch, breath, voice and perception;

the psychophysical processes underlying emotional and cognitive problems;

tracing preverbal experience through movement and touch; grounding the past and future in
one's present awareness and movement.

- Child Development
mind body centering show the patterns from early infancy, movement and perceptual
problems that influence learning, and physical, mental and emotional development;

facilitating normal development in a uniquely individualized way for each child;

establishing rapport through movement,

- Yoga
finding the organ, endocrine and developmental basis of the asanas;
supporting the asanas through the balance of the nervous and fluid systems;

deepening awareness and

perception; embodying breath and voice.

now let me show you how we can apply mind and body centering to our work as artists

- i wish i could show she you how its used physical therapy put I am not a physical therapist
- thinking about the spinal body system sand Bonnies idea of head tail connection lets try to rid
some of her back pain

- help Katie
- now you see how boon helped Katie in her modern dance class but we could apply those same
principles to the plastiques. so how far can you laterally reach before you are pulled out of
equilibrium

Body mind centering in movement (Eaton)

- Definitions of basic neurological patterns

- Types
Naval radiation
Spinal
Heart and mouth
- Purposes of Usage
- Behaviors
- Repatterining old behaviors
- Expanding ranges of movements