Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – THE DYNAMICS OF BREATHING, WITH BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN

This video presents unique and effective Body-Mind Centering^® principles for working with the breath. Your state of being is manifested through your breathing. Bringing kinesthetic awareness to the structures of your breathing allows you to better embody, articulate and balance them. This process opens pathways of expression between your unconscious and conscious mind and between yourself and others.

Material covers:

• Gaining awareness of your own breathing and facilitating repatterning in others
• Releasing holding patterns in the lobes of your lungs
• Engaging your pelvic, thoracic, vocal, oral and cranial diaphragms and other structures
• Journeying through somatizations of the diaphragms
• Exploring diaphragmatic, cellular and embryonic breathing
• Remembering your embryological development as it relates to breathing
• Recognizing the psychophysical aspects of breathing and vocalization

These principles can be applied to any discipline that makes use of breath, voice and body: yoga, dance, bodywork, body-psychotherapy and other somatic movement practices.

DVD SET • Five discs • 8 hours, 3 minutes

This DVD set contains the following chapters (click here for a printable list):

Disc 1

• Lungs

• Pelvic Diaphragm
• Pelvic and Oral Diaphragms
• Tongue
• Hyoid Bone and Cranial Diaphragm
• Thoracic Diaphragm

• Finding the Crura
• Somatization of the Diaphragms
• Reflections on the Somatization
• Vocal Diaphragm
• Somatization of the Vocal Diaphragm
• Reflections on the Somatization
• Exploration of the Vocal and Thoracic Diaphragms

• Cranial Diaphragm
• Three Meninges of the Spinal Cord and Brain
• Embryology: Neural Tube and Gut Tube

• Embryonic Breathing
• Cellular Breathing
• Breathing into the Mitochondria
• Questions Around Breathing
• Credits
• Illustrations