Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – Embodied Anatomy and the Nervous System

Experience first occurs on the cellular level. The nervous system records the experience and organizes it into patterns. It can then call forth the experience and modify the pattern by integrating it with the patterns of other experiences. The nervous system is the last to know, but once knowing, becomes a primary controlling system of the body.

This video presents key Body-Mind Centering® principles that bring ease, flexibility, and strength by embodying the nervous system through movement and consciousness.

These principles can be applied to yoga, dance, bodywork, somatic psychology, and other somatic movement practices.

Embodying the nervous system with sections on: the somatic nervous system; the autonomic nervous system; sitting in the synapse, nerve reversal and healing; front, middle, and back bodies; releasing the brachial plexus and lumbosacral plexes; and embryology of the nervous system.

DVD Set • Three discs; 4 hours 46 minutes
Streaming Video • 4 Hours 46 minutes; English subtitles

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

Disc 1: Embryology of the Nervous System

Embryology of the Nervous System
Primitive Streak and Notochord
Three Embryonic Germ Layers
Yolk Sac and Amniotic Cavity
Development of the Neural Plate
Embodying the Front, Middle and Back Bodies
Embodying the Neural Tube and Crest, Surface Ectoderm
Zipping (Fusion) of the Neural Tube
Neuroenteric Canal and Autonomic Fluid Rhythm
Embodying Autonomic Fluid Rhythm
Cloacal and Oropharyngeal Membranes
Notochord as a Centralizing Unit

Disc 2: Nervous System Part 1

Three Ways to Organize the Nervous System
Somatic Nervous System
Sitting in the Synapse
Motor and Internuncial Nerves
Nerve Reversal and Healing
Autonomic Nervous System
Somatic Nervous System Revisited
Sympathetic Nervous System
Sympathetic Ganglionic Chains
Parasympathetic Ganglia
Bonnie Helps a Student Find Her Front Body, Middle Body and Back Body

Disc 3: Nervous System Part 2

Somatization of Being through the Nervous System
Release of the Brachial and Lumbosacral Plexus
Integration of Nerves
CNS Membranes
Hindbrain, Midbrain, Forebrain
Credits
Illustrations