Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – Embodied Anatomy and the Axial Skeleton

Our skeletal system gives our body the basic form through which we locomote through space, act on the environment, and sculpt and create the energy forms in space that we call movement. Through embodying the skeletal system, the mind becomes structurally organized, providing the supporting ground for our thoughts, the leverage for ideas, and the fulcrums or spaces between our ideas for the articulation and understanding of their relationships.

Embodiment of the skeletal system provides the foundation for the psychophysical qualities of clarity, effortlessness, and form.

This video is one of a series of three videos on the Skeletal System including Lower Limbs, Upper Limbs, and Axial Skeleton. It presents key Body-Mind Centering® principles that bring ease, flexibility, and strength by embodying the bones and joints of the upper limbs from the hands to the shoulder girdle and ribs through movement and consciousness.

Embodying the bones and joints of the upper limbs from the hands to the shoulder girdle and ribs, including sections on the bones of the hands, ulnar disk, radius and ulna, elbow, humerus, windmill action of the scapula, freeing the rubs, finger relationships to shoulder girdle and ribs and working with the layers of bone.

DVD Set • Three discs; 4 hours 54 minutes
Streaming Video • 4 hours 54 minutes; English subtitles

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

Disc 1

Bones of the Hand
Pulsation of the Palm of the Hand
Ulnar Disk
Radius and Ulna
Elbow
Bonnie Working with a Student’s Elbow

Disc 2

Humerus
Windmill (of Wheel) Action of the Scapula
Relationship of Individual Fingers with the Shoulder Girdle
Relationship of the Sternum with the Ribs
Sterno-Clavicular Disk

Disc 3

Freeing the Ribs Part 1
Differentiating the Clavicle and Ribs
Freeing the Ribs Part 2
Demonstrating the Articulation of the Floating Ribs in Support of the Spine
Relationship of the Individual Fingers with the Shoulder Girdle and Ribs
Fingers to Ribs Exploration
Working with the Layers of Bone
Working with the Hands to Support Circulation
Excerpts on the Philosophy of Embodiment
Credits
Illustrations