Our Nervous System and our senses: How do we orientate and relate to our self, others and world?

Principle Teacher: Rosalyn Maynard BMCA

Registration & inquiries: info@tsoel.org.uk

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In this workshop, we will take time to slow down opening our awareness to our patterns of perception; how we feel, sense and know our self in the world through our own unique sensory feedback of sight, sound, taste smell, touch and movement.

We will explore the embodiment of our anatomy and physiology, the development of our senses, and our patterns of perception; how we feel safe, pleasure, comfort, presence and reciprocity with other and world; how we listen, are touched and touch, how we feel our self, taste and smell our relationship with the earth.

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Through the deep internal study of Body-Mind Centering® we will explore embodying our primary sense organs through movement and hands-on touch upon our self and in partners complimented with reflective practice, somatics drawing and writing.

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses…our senses define the edge of consciousness and because we are born explorers after the unknown, we spend a lot of our lives pacing that windswept perimeter…our senses connect us intimately to the past, connect us in ways that most of our cherished ideas never could…when we describe ourselves as “sentient” beings we mean that we are conscious. The more literal and encompassing meaning is that we have sense perception.

Diane Ackerman 1990

The study of BMC® is a creative process in which embodiment of the material is explored in the context of self-discovery and openness. Each person is both the student and the subject matter and the underlying goal is to discover the ease that underlies transformation.

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The Body-Mind Centering® approach has an almost unlimited number of areas of application. It is currently being used by people in movement, dance, yoga, bodywork, somatic studies, physical and occupational therapy, psychotherapy, child development, education, voice, music, art, meditation, athletics and other body-mind disciplines.

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen: www.bodymindcentering.com