BAMIS International Symposium Body Work and Body-Mind Integration

BAMIS International Symposium

Body Work and Body-Mind Integration

Organized by:
・The promotion office of Body And Mind Integrated Science (BAMIS); The MEXT Budget “Innovative Sports Science Revitalizing Body and Mind”
・Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba
・Society of Body Culture Studies (B.C.S.)

Co-organized by:
・Ibaraki Chapter of Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sports Science
・Society of Body Awareness Education

○Date:May 13 (Sun.) 14:00～17:00, 2012

○Place:Special Conference Room in University Hall, University of Tsukuba

○Purpose:
Since the 1970’s, in Western Society, body work has developed as a clinical practice of Somatics (the field which studies body and mind from within). In this symposium, we invite Ms. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, the founder of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®), one of the significant forms of body work (including Feldenkrais, and the Alexander Technique), and Mr. Mark Taylor, as a Senior Somatic Educator, to discuss the perspectives of body-mind integration.

○Symposium:
・Bonnie Bainbridge COHEN
:Body-Mind Integration and BMC®: What is “Embodiment”?
The process of Embodiment: Visualization, Somatization and Embodiment” with sensing and comprehension from the body

・Mark TAYLOR
:Body Work: Its Technique and Practice
Practicing Somatic Education and Body-Mind Transformation: Individual Stories

・MURAKAWA Haruhiko
:Theory and Practice of Somatics: The possibility of first-person science
Theoretical Meaning of Practicing Body Work from the Perspective of First-Person Science

・HARADA Nanako
:Body Techniques and Body-Mind Integration
Body-Mind Transformation: its Dynamism and Features through Practicing Body Work

Facilitator: SHIMIZU Satoshi & ENDO Takuro
(Professor, Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba)

○Introductions:
・Bonnie Bainbridge COHEN:BMC® developer. For over fifty-years, she has developed an embodied and integrated approach to movement, touch and repatterning, based on experiential anatomy, developmental principles, perceptions and psychophysical processes. She is the author of the book, Sensing, Feeling, and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering®, Contact Editions, 2008.

・Mark TAYLOR:The Center for BodyMindMovement, director. He directs the certification programs in somatic movement education, programs that facilitate physical, mental and spiritual transformation. As a dancer and choreographer, he directs and has taught performing arts all over the world.

・MURAKAWA Haruhiko:Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Well-being, Kansai University. He is a board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology.

・HARADA Nanako:Professor, Faculty of Human Development and Education, Kyoto Women’s University.