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approach

Both my yoga teaching style and my approach to body work have been greatly influenced by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and her school for Body Mind Centering, where I’ve studied for the last ten years.

BMC teaches an awareness and consciousness.  It is learning how to feel  the way your body moves in space and with touch.  It also teaches you to explore where your body may be holding  a specific pattern of tension—in your bones or muscles or connective tissue or organs. 

BMC can be applied to yoga, bodywork, breathwork, dance and all movement practices.  It often works with imagery that is based on the evolutionary processes –the movement in cellular life, animal life, and human embryology.   For example, BMC helps us understand how the arm can be extended, not just from the shoulder joint, but moving the arm from the center  of your being with the support of the heart and lungs.    

BMC changed my approach to bodywork.  It taught me to feel  into my own physical sense of calm and then bring that sensation to my client.  It has given me an enhanced sense of touch and remains  a profound way of connecting.   

The principles of Body Mind Centering are very deep and valuable and take years of study.  What I want to do is take this complex  body of knowledge and distill it into  layman’s terms, so that I can bring its unique perspective  to my yoga students and bodywork clients.

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