Embryologically, the heart begins as two tubes that join together in front of the mouth, which is above the brain at this point in development.

Experience happens first in our cells and tissues. The nervous system, including the brain, records this experience after it happens.

Free class with Bonnie from her preentation at the Somatic Movement Summit in April.

When I first began to feel this slow brain wave, I felt it initiate in my pericardium a moment before my brain — like a pause before we take a breath.

Ever since I collapsed in 1996, sleep has been a major area of challenge and, therefore, research for me. I did not unconsciously consciously feel or know about this slow brain wave.

The cells provide local experience and information. The nervous system records that information and organizes it with other cellular experiences into patterns that form habits.

A phenomenon I have experienced and witnessed that is not traditionally recognized is, while information from one side of the brain travels to the opposite side of the body, information from the cells on one side of the body travel to the brain half on the same side of the body.

A key distinction is to differentiate between collapsing to diminish effort and discovering how to yield and rebound as the foundation for ease, articulability, and strength.

What comes first, perception or change of movement pattern?

To release the aspects of the nervous system that direct our patterns of response, we open cell to brain pathways.