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Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (born December 31,1941) is an American movement artist and therapist. She is the developer of Body-Mind Centering philosophy and the founder and educational director of The School for Body-Mind Centering in El Sobrante, CA Biography Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen has extensive training in dance, martial arts, katsugen endo (Life-force Movement), yoga, voice, bodywork, and dance therapy . She began to research movement therapy and anatomy in 1958 . Her philosophy is described as an “embodied and integrated approach to movement, touch and repatterning, experiential anatomy, developmental principles, perceptions and psychophysical processes.”. The method aims to utilize all senses to increase self-awareness and self-exploration through the study of how the body and mind work together to produce patterns. These patterns will aid in the isolation of various limbs which will produce unique and defined movement. <ref name="bodymindcentering_a" /> Works Books Cohen is the author of Sensing, Feeling and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering (1993). DVDs Cohen has made five DVDs: The Nervous System, The Lower Limbs, The Upper Limbs, The Axial Skeleton, and Four Special Children <ref name="bodymindcentering_a" />. She is featured in two other DVDs: The Origins of Movement: The Embodiment of Early Embryological Development and Dance and Body Mind Centering <ref name="bodymindcentering_a" />. End Notes <references/>. See Also
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