Wisdom of the Body Moving: An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering

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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.

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"Wisdom of the Body Moving is beautifully written, poetic and concrete, and in tune with the essential nature of the intuitive process underlying this path of embodiment. Thank you, Linda."
-Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Founder and Educational Director, The School for Body-Mind Centering

About the Author

Linda Hartley is a physical therapist specializing in mind-body movement, alignment, and awareness. A former dancer and choreographer, Hartley combined her previous experience and knowledge to develop the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. She has taught courses world-wide, including in Germany and Russia. Her published works include Wisdom of the Body Moving: An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering and Somatic Psychology: Body, Mind and Meaning.

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4.6 out of 5

91.67% of customers are satisfied

5.0 out of 5 stars Very happy

D. · 23 July 2024

The right book for me. I'm doing my studies in mind and body and is very informative and easy to read and study.

5.0 out of 5 stars good read

P. · 19 February 2015

A good read and very informative on Body-Mind Centering. Has nice pictures and diagrams to inform the reader.

5.0 out of 5 stars Efficient, product as advertised

A.C. · 3 February 2022

Efficient service, book as advertised

4.0 out of 5 stars Great excercises!

A.S. · 1 December 2013

The writing style starts a bit woolly. Keep reading. It gets better. Take ample time do the practice, to experience the validity of the information for yourself. I experienced it in a two-day class led by Lisa Loustaunau (Core Energetics). Wonderful teaching!

5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting book

O.a.E. · 11 June 2019

I like this book

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Body - Best Brain !

S. · 7 April 2011

This is more than just 'a book', it is on a par with Descartes's, Darwin's, and Dawkins's breakthroughs; and it ccnfirms with both objective scientific and subjective body-experiential good sense both Gurdjieff's "Many I's" and the holistic body-mind-spirit work of leading researchers such as Mabel Todd, Rudolf Laban, Carl Jung, David Boadella, Beata Jencks, Ronald Shone, and Ramachandran & Blakelee.In brief, Linda Hartley takes us deeply and safely into our very own life-experience and potential, simply but very expertly by showing how our evolution and human-development is a sequential-process between the actual movement-capabilities of every part of our body and the reach-out capability of the Brain-Mind (reviewer's term) into as it were custom-made little minds located within each organ, limb, or body-part: a kind of 'trans-substantiation' of the appropriate part of the one central Brain-Mind.In this quite reasonable sense, successive parts of your body have a mind-of-their-own, coordinated by the Brain-Mind; and they developed in movement-ability as we grew.Remembering that the first essential process of any living-thing is Movement, Linda leads us through a series of friendly natural body-positions and movements, helping us to track and if need be 'catch up' with our innate 'design' potential; and this is called 'Body-Mind Centering'.Where David Boadella showed that the first and bottom-most energy-base, chakra, or sacramental-centre, of our body, has the function of 'grounding' us, which means not simply 'having our feet on the external ground' but 'being fully conscious of and in touch with all of our inner-sensations', Linda Hartley goes further and having explained and provided diagrammatic help for our minds to comprehend what is going on, shows us with the help of actual photographs how we can re-visit and check through every stage of our body-mind development.Early in my twenties I was disabled partly in body and partly in brain and mind: but since I found "Wisdom of the Body Moving" I have been 'healing' myself; and now I am a healthy, thriving, octogenarian, looking forward to my ninetieth birthday, and as my GP says "fit as a flea" !I heartily recommend "Wisdom of the Body Moving" as both an immediately interesting and practically health-ful book, and as a long-term classical reference work.

3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars

I.J. · 27 March 2015

Add to your library!

S. · 12 July 2017

Accessible, and helpful BMC primer. If you study movement, it should be in your collection.

Was ist Body-Mind Centering

p. · 28 July 2019

Wir benutzen täglich unseren Körper. Die Bewegungsabläufe scheinen zu flutschen und alles passt. Wenn wir aber an irgend einem Punkt in unserem Leben anscheinend nicht mehr korrekt funktionieren, kommt Body-Mind Centering ins Spiel. Der Körper muss wieder wahrgenommen werden. Wie laufen meine Bewegungen ab, was muss ich ändern, damit es mir wieder gut geht. Das Buch ist jenen Menschen zu empfehlen, welche das Innere Gleichgewicht verloren haben und an sich arbeiten wollen, um wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu kommen.

es un libro base para cualquier terapeuta corporal

C.A. · 12 January 2016

Es la base del body mind centering , donde explican su filosofia y su forma de abordar el cuerpo con mucha claridad , con muy buenas explicaciones, con mucho material didáctico, muy buenos ejercicios .Recomendable para cualquier interesado en el yoga y los profesionales de tratamiento corporal.

One of THE wisest books on Body Wisdom!

C.B. · 17 March 2005

If you are interested in a somatic approach to learning more about yourself, or learning how to help others, this book is one of THE very best books on the intelligence of the body, that I have ever read. I work as a somatic practitioner myself and I find this book to be invaluable. Not only as a basic primer, but also as a reference book, and a book that has helped me in creating various exercises for myself and my clients.This book is well thought out and well sequenced. It does not get much better than this!(And believe me, I am NOT getting paid for this review! )

but not an easy read. There were times where it was hard ...

a. · 6 October 2015

Informational, but not an easy read. There were times where it was hard to follow, but there are things I have learned from this book that I have not read anywhere else. It gets 5 stars because the book was what I thought it was, came in great shape for a great price, and it taught me things I had never known before. Just know that it is not an easy read, it will make you think.

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Wisdom of the Body Moving: An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering

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