Where To Start

Below is a list of recommended starting points based on your interests. These suggestions can help guide your choice, but all of Bonnie’s courses and books are versatile with a wide range of applications — so feel free to begin with anything that resonates with you.

SENSING, FEELING, AND ACTION

If you’re new to Bonnie’s work and Body-Mind Centering®, a great place to start is with her first book, Sensing, Feeling, and Action. It’s a collection of her essays, interviews, and articles, and covers the wide scope of her work and its many applications, including her article on An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering®.

YOGA

All of Bonnie’s Embodied Anatomy Series courses are directly applied to yoga. You can start with any course in this series – no course is more advanced than others. Many people with a yoga background find it helpful to start with the three courses on the skeletal system, as the skeletal system provides us with our basic supporting structure:

Embodied Anatomy and the Lower Limbs

Embodied Anatomy and the Axial Skeleton

BODYWORK, TOUCH, AND MASSAGE

These two courses are a great place to start for those who do hands-on work or incorporate touch in their practice.

Embodied Touch as Transformative Practice

Embodying the Embryological Foundations of Movement

DANCE

These two courses are wonderful places to start for those interested in movement and dance.


Embodying Authenticity, Organicity, and Expression: Organs and Glands as a Foundation for Movement, Touch, and Voice	Dance and Body-Mind Centering®

PSYCHOPHYSICAL

These three course offer solid foundations for Bonnie's work as applied to the psychophysical aspects of Body-Mind Centering®.


Engaging Self and Other through Embodiment	Perception as a Key to Embodying and Repatterning the Nervous System Part 1 and 2 (2023 Spring Series and The Role of the Brain)	Transforming Stress into Calm and Confusion into Clarity by Embodying Key Embryological and Neural Pathways (2024 Winter Series)

BREATH AND MEDITATION

For those working with and interested in the breath and meditation, these courses and book are wonderful places to start.


Cultivating Breath – Illuminating Mind	Embodied Anatomy and the Dynamics of Breathing

DEVELOPMENTAL MOVEMENT

This book and video offer a solid foundation for the developmental movement patterns Bonnie named the Basic Neurocellular Patterns. These patterns underlie all movement.


Basic Neurocellular Patterns: Exploring Developmental Movement	Practicing the Basic Neurocellular Patterns

MUSIC AND VOICE

For those working with and interested in music making and the voice, these courses and book are great places to start.


Embodiment and Expression for Musicians and Singers	Embodied Anatomy and the Dynamics of Vocalization	The Mechanics of Vocalization

COURSES OFFERING CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS THROUGH NCBTMB

The following courses are approved for CEs through NCBTMB:

* We can also provide letters verifying completion of our online courses that include the number of course hours