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About Body-Mind Centering®

Body-Mind Centering® is an integrated approach to transformative experience through movement re-education and hands-on repatterning.  Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind.  This study leads to an understanding of how the mind is expressed through the body and the body through the mind.

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

 

School for Body-Mind Centering

Infant Developmental Movement Education (IDME)

Lenore Grubinger will be offering training at BABYFIT in Brattislava, Slovakia (45 min from Vienna) in August 2009. For more information visit: http://www.babyfit.sk/

"This program is a highly sophisticated and subtle approach to the observation and facilitation of normal movement patterns in infants. The approach incorporates the child’s curiosity, interest and individuality into the relationship with the educator. It is child centered and relationship centered, and child oriented rather than task oriented. It trains people to recognize early movement patterns and to interact effectively with infants in gentle, enticing ways that will have a positive effect on their growth and development. The goal in movement education with infants is to help set a foundation that supports pathways of ease, strength, agility and adaptability and to help avoid restrictive patterns of movement that inhibit the development of the full potential of the child.
The approach is gentle, non-intrusive, and enticing rather than demanding. It is direct and highly specific to the individual child. It It does not force or impose, but focuses, engages, interacts, entices and seeks to engage the child’s inherent curiosity and interest. It always looks at the whole child and fully embraces each child and their parents and family. It includes and educates the family in the interactive process."

IDME training teaches students to...
• Observe how normal movement develops in infancy.
• Identify and analyze normal movement patterns.
• Facilitate normal movement development in a child.
• Facilitate basic perception in relation to movement.
• Work with infants developing within the normal range.
• Educate parents about ways to facilitate normal movement development in their child.
• Identify and analyze basic movement difficulties and to facilitate normal movement development.
• Recognize problems in infants at risk for developing physical problems, learning disabilities, and emotional limitations.
• Recognize indications for referral to an appropriate therapist.
This information taken from the website of the School for Body-Mind Centering. For more information go to: www.bodymindcentering.com

 

Body-Mind Centering Programs - U.S.

School for Body-Mind Centering, Western Massachusetts
The above information was taken from the website for the School for Body-Mind Centering. For more, please go to www.bodymindcentering.com.

North Carolina
Director: Maryska Bigos
maryska@nc.rr.com

Body-Mind Centering Programs - Europe

Bratislava
Director: Walburga Glatz
Administration: Babyfit (Anna Selakova & Angelika Kovaova)
Majernikova 10, 84105 Bratislava, Slovakia
babyfit@babyfit.sk
www.babyfit.sk

Italy
Director: Gloria Desideri
Strada del Solco s.n.c.
I-01017 Tuscania VT
lebenas@libero.it
www.lebensnetz.it

Germany
moveus GbR
Thomas Greil, Jens Johannsen, Friederike Troscher
Wahlenstr. 16
50823 Koln
49-221-56090666
info@moveus.de
sbmceurope@aol.com
www.bodymindcentering.eu

France
www.bodymindcentering.fr