body-mind centering®
sTUDY gROUPS
The SOEL BMC® study groups are collaborative research labs exploring Rosalyn's ongoing inquiries and further study in the embodied anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® with invited guest teachers and colleagues in the field of BMC®.
The study groups are movement labs investigating the dynamic inner nature of the human organism through sensing, feeling and moving complimenting and along side our intellectual capacity to comprehend and understand our self and world through the field of science.
They offer the opportunity for experienced professionals and students of experiential anatomy to come together and explore our natural acumen to sense and feel our body-mind through moving, breathing, sounding and hands on touch and repatterning. Bringing greater awareness and an expanded consciousness to our biology body and the interrelationships of our inner and outer worlds.
“There is a difference between thinking about a thing and thinking the thing. Thinking about a thing is saying that a thing is “out there” and one then forms abstractions about ‘it’, ‘it’ becomes an object ...
To think the thing – which is essentially a feeling thinking imbued with an intuitive knowing - this is to go through a felt thought and let it emerge and produce whatever it’s going to do, which means to let it stand in the body and in consciousness without being suppressed and without being carried out. Suspend the activity in both directions, and just let if reveal itself, and see it."
On Dialogue. David Bohm. p77
"...a feeling thinking imbued with an intuitive knowing..."
"Thank you for holding such a rich and nourishing space."
(BMC study group 28th July 2023 - fat and our glia cells)
“I learned such a lot…the way you teach,
together with your individual way of mixing content with all your own skills makes learning a real pleasure.”
(BMC study group 18th November 2022 - Exploring the Animal Energies of the Skull)
Winter 2024
FREE Workshop - The SEED staff
an offering of thanks to the staff at our local community, organic, grocers shop; The Seed
Sunday 28th January 2024
2.30pm - 4.30pm
studio opens at 2.15pm for teas and arrivals
Caddaford Barns Studio, Nr Buckfastleigh Devon
open and accessible to all staff this workshop promises to be
restful and rejuvenating in body, mind and spirit.
WORKSHOP INFORMATION AND SCHEDULE click here
"Many aspects of our lives are becoming more homogeneous. We can shop at identical outlets, see the same brands, and buy into the same fashions around the world. The same is true of our diet. [...] This level of uniformity, from the genetics of the worlds most widely consumed crops [...] right through to the meals they become, has never been experienced before. The human diet has undergone more change in the last 150 years (roughly six generations) than in the entire previous one million years. (40,000 generations). [...] For most of our evolution as a species, as hunter-gathers and then as farmers, human diets were enormously varied. Our food was the product of a place, and crops were adapted to a particular environment, shaped by the knowledge and the preferences of the people who lived there, as well as the climate, soil, water and even altitude. This diversity was stored and passed on in the seeds farmers saved, in the flavours of the fruit and the vegetables people grew, the breeds of animals they reared, the bread they baked, the cheeses they produced and the drinks they made."
"Eating to Extinction" by Dan Saladino
Celebrating The Seed because they are committed to selling produce from local growers, local bakers, makers, artisans & producers.
THANK YOU TO THE SEED
Summer 2023
Body-Mind Centering® Study Group
The Language of Cells from an embodied perspective
cells their memory and their consciousness
A series of three study sessions exploring the language of cells through
resonance, attention and consciousness: including cellular reproduction, repair and healing.
Friday 26th May 2023 part I
Friday 23rd June 2023 part II
Friday 28th July 2023 part III
11am - 4pm
Fees: by donation
Open & accessible to anyone interested in BMC®, somatics & embodied practice in healing & research.
Caddaford Barn Studio, Devon UK
Teaching Rosalyn Maynard BMCA
For information & booking email: info@tsoel.org.uk
Winter 2023
Body-Mind Centering® Study Group
Our Gut-Mind Connection
Saturday 21st January 2023
2pm-4pm
Via zoom
Teaching Rosalyn Maynard
Assisting Daisy Martinez
Fee: by donation
For information, booking and zoom link email: info@tsoel.org.uk
The brain in our gut, the Enteric Nervous System (ENS) is a primitive, yet intricate network located in sheaths of tissue in the lining of our digestive tube.
Within the lumen of our digestive tube lives a vast ecosystem of animalcules; tiny single celled organisms housed in a seaweed, forest like environment of microscopic finger like projections called villi; aiding our digestion, immune system function and general sense of well being and comfort.
In this study session we will explore through mind, hands-on touch upon our self, movement and sound the relationship between our gut microbiota and ENS. How does it feel to bring our awareness to this sensory organ we call our gut? How does it feel to open our consciousness to the layers of tissues, the intricate network of neurons and the mystery of our microbiota; our gut flora.
“The enteric nervous system plays a primary role in our sense of ease and comfort and sense of stress and vulnerability…The ENS informs us of our basis state of being. Its activities can alert us to danger or bring us to a state of peaceful well being.”
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Autumn 2022
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
exploring the animal energies of the skull
from a Body-Mind Centering® perspective
Friday 18th November 2022
11am - 4.30pm
SOEL, The Summer House, Devon UK
Fees: by donation
Teaching: Rosalyn Maynard
Workshop assistant: Crystal Zillwood
Open and accessible to anyone interested in experiential anatomy, somatics and embodied practices.
An invitation to explore the human skull from a unique perspective through the embodied anatomy of Body-Mind Centering®.
For more information click here
or email Rosalyn info@tsoel.org.uk
Spring / Summer 2022
FEEL
(Friday Embodied Exchange Lab)
Friday 27th May 2022: 2pm-5pm
Friday 8th July 2022: 2pm-5pm
Friday 16th September 2022: 2pm-5pm
OPEN TO: teachers, assistants & graduates of SOEL & teachers/practitioners in somatics, experiential anatomy &/or BMC®
VENUE: SOEL, The Summer House, Devon
INFO: contact Rosalyn to join the group: info@tsoel.org.uk
FEES: by donation
Bimonthly research and exchange labs at SOEL led by Rosalyn Maynard sharing research and inquiry into embodied practice of human anatomy and biology. Interests including Immune System function, cellular awareness, embryology, developmental movement, and water consciousness. FEEL is a new project offering the opportunity to share research in practice exploring our innate relationship to self, other(s) and place through direct experience in the body.
Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission
Autumn / Winter 2021 - 2022
FEEL
(Friday Embodied Exchange Lab)
Friday 19th November 2021: 2pm-5pm with Rosalyn Maynard
Friday 28th January 2022: 2pm-5pm with Rosalyn Maynard
Friday 25th March 2022: 2pm-5pm with guest teacher and student of BMC®: Sarah Gray exploring the Nervous System and the embodiment of the Sympathetic Mantle from Body-Mind Centering®
OPEN TO: teachers, assistants & graduates of SOEL & teachers/practitioners in somatics, experiential anatomy &/or BMC®
VENUE: SOEL, The Summer House, Devon
INFO: contact Rosalyn to join the group: info@tsoel.org.uk
FEES: by donation
Bimonthly research and exchange labs at SOEL led by Rosalyn Maynard sharing research and inquiry into embodied practice of human anatomy and biology. Interests including Immune System function, cellular awareness, embryology, developmental movement, and water consciousness. FEEL is a new project offering the opportunity to share research in practice exploring our innate relationship to self, other(s) and place through direct experience in the body.
Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission
BMC® STUDY GROUP
The Unseeable Animal online
An experiential exploration of cranial Nerve 0 & orientation
Tuesday 1st February 2022
2.30pm-5.30pm GMT
Fees: by donation
Teaching: Rosalyn Maynard
Via remote video call: zoom
This workshop will explore our relationship with Cranial Nerve 0 and orientation through the process of embodiment from Body-Mind Centering®. We will be working indoors and outdoors over the three hours exploring our sense of orientation with our inner and outer environments.
For information, preparation and zoom link email Rosalyn
WINTER 2020
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
Exploring the landscape of the head, face & neck
with guest teacher Julie Rousseau
BY REMOTE VIDEO CALL: Zoom
Fee: by donation
STUDY GROUP 1: Friday 20th November 2020
STUDY GROUP 2: Friday 11th December 2020
STUDY GROUP 3: Friday 15th January 2021
2pm-4pm
(It is not necessary to attend all three)
This winter guest teacher Julie Rousseau will be sharing her ongoing research at SOEL on the face, head and neck through a series of three study groups.
This region of the body is highly specialised and supports our abilities of expression, communication, and nourishment. Through movement, hands-on-touch and dialogue Julie will guide us through this series exploring three different body systems and their relationship to our face: 1: muscles, 2: nerves & 3: lymph.
The first study group will explore our sense of our skin and facial muscles. The muscles of the face are unique to the rest of the muscle system in particular their movement and articulation, and the sensory feedback and proprioception. Study Group 2 will explore the cranial nerves of the face: the facial nerve and the trigeminal nerve and study group 3 will explore the lymphatic system of the face.
Bringing our understanding of our physiology and our experiential encounters to our own unique expressions and patterns of our face can support cellular regeneration and nervous system regulation enabling us to discover a nourishing and profound sense of self throughout our whole being.
With the understanding of our physiology, how can we develop healthy selfcare?
Julie Rousseau has studied with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Body-Mind Centering® for many years, has completed her educator cert. in BMC® and is an infant developmental movement educator. She has a one year old daughter and also holds qualifications as a Chinese medicine massage therapist and in Sculptural Face Lifting.
Open to: SOEL graduates, assistants, teachers and experienced students, teachers or practitioners of experiential anatomy & Body-Mind Centering®
Contact Rosalyn: directly to join the group or for more info
Body-Mind Centering® and BMC® are registered service marks of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission
AUGUST 2020
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
The Origins of the Face - from an embryological perspective
with guest teacher Julie Rousseau
Friday 14th August 2020
2pm-4pm
Fee: by donation
BY REMOTE VIDEO CALL: Zoom
The Face - a living interface through which we connect with our self and our world - is the primary place of reception and expression of our senses and perceptions. Using movement, touch and dialogue, this study group will be a journey through our own embryological development from an experiential perspective. Recognition of our uniqueness and our shared commonality with others through the embryology of the face, we will explore how we can support and nourish these connections with our genuine being and inner self.
Julie Rousseau has studied with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in Body-Mind Centering® for many years, has completed her educator cert. in BMC® and is an infant developmental movement educator. She has a one year old daughter and also holds qualifications as a Chinese medicine massage therapist and in Sculptural Face Lifting.
Open to: SOEL graduates, assistants, teachers and experienced students, teachers or practitioners of experiential anatomy & Body-Mind Centering®
Contact Rosalyn: directly to join the group or for more info
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
The Bong-Han System - a new field of research
Friday 21st August 2020
2pm-4pm
Fee: by donation
BY REMOTE VIDEO CALL: Zoom
First introduced to Rosalyn in a workshop in 2013 with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the Bong-Han System was discovered by South Korean, Bong-Han Kim in the 1960’s in his search for a physical structure for the acupuncture meridians (a complex network of channels through which our life energy or “qi” flows.) He discovered a micro circulatory system of vessels within vessels in the human body; a network of very fine thread like microtubules connecting to all cells through fine terminal ductules entering and leaving the cells.
More recent research* also hypothesises that this circulatory system could exits broadly in all levels of life including vertebrates, invertebrates and even plants and possibly precedes the development of blood vessels and nerves during our embryological origins.
During this study group we will begin with what’s already there in our thoughts, feelings, sensations, ideas, emotions and spirit and enter this system through the fluids, “going under the tone” into cellular consciousness through our ground substance. Cultivating an open awareness through gentle hands-on touch, movement and rest we will explore our own sense of the possibility of this system within each of us: it’s origins, it’s presence, its flow and spirit informing our inner sense of vitality and wellbeing.
“When activated, this system is an incredibly dynamic clearing, organising and centering system. It feels early embryologically related to the circulation of fluids and cellular communication before blood and lymphatic circulatory channels…” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Open to: SOEL graduates, assistants, teachers and experienced students, teachers or practitioners of experiential anatomy & Body-Mind Centering®
Contact Rosalyn: directly to join the group or for more info
* Kwang-Sup Soh et al 50 Years of Bong-Han Theory and 10 Years of Primo Vascular System. Hindawi Pub Corp. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Vol. 2013, Article ID 587827, 12 pages
“It's not like we have to work to get somewhere; it's that we just need to yield patterns that are holding back the life force ”
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
JULY 2020
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
Voice & Breathing - the moving body, the breathing body, the vocal body
The Larynx - the source of our voice
24th July 2020
2pm - 4pm
Fee: by donation, to book contact Rosalyn
BY REMOTE VIDEO CALL: Zoom
24th July: The Larynx – the source of our voice. A complex structure and the birthplace of the human voice. The Larynx rests above our wind pipe and in front of our gut tube, intimately involved in swallowing, breathing and the formation of voice. Through gentle sensitive hands-on-touch, movement, rest, sound and breath we will explore the nature of the source of voice; the larynx.
Breathing and vocalisation are a continuum of the same process and are reflected in each other. Breathing expresses internally who we are and vocalisation expresses externally who we are.
Open to: SOEL graduates, assistants, teachers and experienced students, teachers or practitioners of experiential anatomy and Body-Mind Centering®.
Contact Rosalyn: directly to join the group or for more information
JUNE 2020
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
Voice & Breathing - the moving body, the breathing body, the vocal body
26th June 2020
2pm - 4pm
Fee: by donation, to book contact Rosalyn
BY REMOTE VIDEO CALL: Zoom
Breathing and vocalisation are a continuum of the same process and are reflected in each other. Breathing expresses internally who we are and vocalisation expresses externally who we are.
The four diaphragms: We will begin with a brief overview of the four diaphragms: Pelvic, Thoracic, Vocal and Cranial and their relationship to our voice and breath. Through movement, mind and hands-on touch we will then explore mapping and meeting our own sense of these structures and our breathing process embodying the innate relationships between our breath and our voice.
“Our voice is an event... When we use our voice we involve our entire body. Our internal balance and our relationship to the outside world are reflected in our voice…” Blandine Calais-Germain
Open to: SOEL graduates, teachers & assistants
or experienced students, teachers or practitioners of Body-Mind Centering® and/or experiential anatomy.
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
The Immune System - toward an embodied view
Alternative Fridays: 2pm-4pm
29th May 2020
12th June 2020
Fee: by donation, to book contact Rosalyn
BY REMOTE VIDEO CALL: Zoom
The Immune system is a fluid, cellular system of our body structures and processes that functions to keep our body in a healthy balanced state. We usually only think about the immune system when we feel ill but the immune system is constantly present, maintaining our molecular identity. Over the course of these two BMC® study groups we will explore through the process of experiential anatomy our shared and individual sense of an embodied view of the immune system.
29th May: Innate Immunity: skin and Membranes. We will begin with a brief introduction and overview of the immune system leading into the embodiment of the innate immune system. Through movement, mind, and hands-on touch we will explore mapping and meeting our own sense of these innate structures and processes that have been present since birth.
12th June: Adaptive Immunity: Thymus, Heart & Circulation: We will begin with a reacquaintance with the immune system: followed by a brief overview of the adaptive immune system including: lymphatic vessels, tissues and organs leading into an embodied exploration of our Thymus, Heart, & circulation.
Open to SOEL graduates, assistants, and experienced students, teachers, and practitioners
of Body-Mind Centering® and/or experiential anatomy.
The Immune System – a fluid dance through space & time, an endlessly fascinating conversation where bodily health is expressed most fully at the fractal interpenetrating boundary between self and other.
Graham Jones. Holistic Science Journal vol1 issue4 JAN12
JANUARY 2020
Body-Mind Centering® STUDY GROUP
The Pelvis
the container of our most delicate sensibilities, passageways of elimination of waste and new life
Friday 31st January 2020
10am-1pm
The Summer House, Cholwell
Fee: by donation, suggested £20
(Open to graduates & staff in Holistic Studies in Human Anatomy only)
booking & enquiries: info@tsoel.org.uk
The boney support of the lower abdominal organs is contained in the pelvis.
Made up of four bones, arranged like a bony ring the pelvis is sculpted into a bowl shaped cavity suspended and balanced between the spine and the hips containing the lower organs of digestion, the organs of reproduction and urination.
Each of these organs has an opening that extends through the muscles of the pelvic floor, made up of contractile and elastic tissues facilitating the filling and emptying of vital life process contained in each and capable of the most powerful forces releasing fluids and solids, and the process of birth.
Great mobility is needed here to support the greatest changes in volume in these three organs. Through movement, mind and hands-on touch we will explore the anatomy and physiology of these pelvic organs, their relationship to each other and the body systems to which they belong, as well as the systems that support and anchor them in the pelvic bowl.
AUGUST 2019
Body-Mind Centering®
STUDY GROUP
mitochondria - our ancestral lineage
Wednesday 21st August 2019
10am-5pm
SOEL, The Summer House, Nr. Dartington
open & accessible to experienced practitioners &
students of BMC & experiential anatomy
details attached / booking essential
Exploring these subcelluar structures within our cells we will gradually bring our awareness to these sites of cellular respiration and energy. Through movement, hands-on-touch and mind we will be guided through experiential investigations to explore these microscopic aspects of ourself.