We are excited to share with you the Somatics Festival 2019 archival website!
Engaging the Crura of the Thoracic Diaphragm
What is your experience when you engage the crura of your thoracic diaphragm to support your core, rather than just engaging your muscles?
Holding a Baby in a Moving Way
“What does it look like to hold a baby in a moving way” is a powerful question. Here are some explorations I can offer that may help to clarify your experience of what this means.
Coming to the Place from Which All Senses are From
Bonnie, what do you mean by, “For me, pratyahara isn’t withdrawing from the senses, it’s coming to the place from which all senses are born”?
The Consciousness of Space
One fun way to experience space is to move in whatever manner is possible for you. I will, for the sake of words, offer the suggestion to begin by walking through space.
Are You Comfortable?
Bonnie, could you please expand on this quote?
Meeting Challenges with Love and Acceptance
We MUST always start by loving and accepting them exactly as they are.
Question of Presence
How do you know when you are in your body and when you are not, if you have never had the experience?
A Nontraditional Approach to Spasticity
One of the ways cellular consciousness can be applied is in regards to spasticity due to CNS injury.
Comfort and Effortlessness as a Basis for Learning
A key distinction is to differentiate between collapsing to diminish effort and discovering how to yield and rebound as the foundation for ease, articulability, and strength. This process requires opening awareness to what we are actually doing.
Perception and Change
What comes first, perception or change of movement pattern?
The Seeds of My Explorations
The seeds of my explorations lie in both dance and therapy. As a lifelong dancer, from the womb to my now seventies, I have sought how to fully know and express the vibrant spirit that enlivens this body in which I live.
Relationship of the Center of the Scapula and the Center of the Wrist Part 2
A wonderful comment came in about Bonnie’s post on a exploration of the Relationship between the Center of the Scapula and the Center of the Wrist.
Receiving Breath as a Foundation for Activity
In this quote, I was referring to the aspects of the nervous system that directs our patterns of response – our brain to cell pathways. To release these pathways, we open cell to brain pathways. We enter the path of somatic inquiry – a field of infinite possibilities.
New Body-Mind Centering® Programs in Australia and New York City
We are excited to announce new Body-Mind Centering® programs in Melbourne, Australia and New York City, United States!