Books and DVDs

NEW EDITION Sensing, Feeling, and Action, by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Third edition, 2012. This exciting book explores Bonnie's innovative approach to how mind expresses itself through the body in movement. It contains essays, interviews and exercises covering a broad range of topics, including Sensing, Feeling and Action; Perceiving and Action; The Action of Perceiving; The Alphabet of Movement; The Training Problems of the Dance; The Dancer's Warmup; The Mechanics of Vocal Expression; The Fluid System; The Organ System; Embryology; and the Nervous System.

New in the third edition: chapters on Mapping Transformation, and Dancing through the Fluids. Also new: an Index and a List of Explorations.

BOOK • Paperback; 219 pages, Publisher: Contact Editions, 155 photos/illustrations

NEW The Endocrine System, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Embodying the endocrine system with material on: initiating breath, voice, movement and touch from the glands; relationship of the glands to the skeletal structures, reflex points and spinal energy centers; and techniques for integrating and balancing the gland. Covers the perineal body, coccygeal body, gonads, adrenals, pancreas, thoracobody, heart body, thymus, thyroid, parathyroids, carotid bodies, pineal, mamillary bodies and pituitary.

DVD SET • Seven discs; 10 hours, 8 min.
 

The Lower Limbs, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Embodying the bones and joints of the lower limbs from the feet to the pelvic halves, including sections on the foot, ankle, foreleg, knee, femur, hip, pelvic half and the embryological development of the lower limbs.

DVD SET • Three discs; 4 hours.
 

The Upper Limbs, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Embodying the bones and joints of the upper limbs from the hands to the shoulder girdle and ribs, including sections on the bones of the hands, ulnar disk, radius and ulna, elbow, humerus, windmill action of the scapula, freeing the rubs, finger relationships to shoulder girdle and ribs and working with the layers of bone.

DVD SET • Three discs; 4 hours 54 min.
 

The Axial Skeleton, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Embodying the bones and joints of the axial skeleton (central core): the spine and skull, including sections on the six curves of the spine, the skull, hyoid bone, thoracic and pelvic diaphragms, relationship of the pelvic halves and legs, the embryological development of the axial skeleton and a bonus disc of axial skeleton guided somatizations.

DVD SET • Four discs; 7 hours, 12 min.
 

The Nervous System, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Experience first occurs on the cellular level. The nervous system records the experience and organizes it into patterns. It can then call forth the experience and modify the pattern by integrating it with the patterns of other experiences. The nervous system is the last to know, but once knowing, becomes a primary controlling system of the body.

DVD SET • Three discs; 4 hours, 46 min.
 

The Organ System, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Embodying the organ system with sections on: explorations of the organs; releasing adhesions between organs; initiating breath, voice, movement and touch from the organs; analyzing imbalances in individual organs; techniques to balance the organs; and the embryological development of the organs.

DVD SET • Five discs; 7 hours, 50 min.
 

Four Special Children, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Chris, Chelsea, Oliver and Amanda

A DVD of Bonnie working with four children with developmental difficulties. "I have chosen these four as they demonstrate in different ways how our perception and expression are functions of our mind and how easy it is to become aware and to change our mind and claim its power. They also manifest the reality of intelligence and its dependency upon desire, motivation and relationship." These sessions were filmed between 1983 - 1987.

DVD • One disc; 2 hours.
 

Origins of Movement

The exploration of the transformation that occurs during the first eight weeks of development gives great insights into human anatomy and physiology and how we relate to ourselves and our environment. This is a DVD of Bonnie's two-day workshop on Embryological Development given in Cologne, Germany in 2007.

DVD • One disc; 3 hours.
 

Dance & Body-Mind Centering, with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

This is a DVD of Bonnie's workshop on Weight, Space and Time at the Dance & Body-Mind Centering^® conference in Brussels, 2004. It includes a question and answer session.

DVD • One disc; 2 hours, 45 min.