Spinning the Body-Mind Centering® Web

Online Symposium 1-5. October, 2020

Experience new research and guided explorations of BMC in relation to a wide range of topics, including: immune response, compassion, contact improvisation, somatic writing, the whole child, embryology of the heart and hands, racialized trauma, breath, navigating space, performance-making, somatic psychology, embodied anatomy…. And more!

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Friday 2. October

9am EST/ 3pm CEST

Going Under’ Dominant Narratives and Faulty Norms

Inspired by the BMC℠ principle of ‘going under’ as well as queer theory, the disability rights movement, decolonization, and the history of scientific paradigm shifts, this presentation will turn a critical lens to the study of anatomy and physiology. Our starting point will be cells: how might appreciating the wild diversity of cellular manifestations disrupt the artificial categories of a body system approach to anatomy and free us from the arbitrary reference point of a standard cell? We want to argue for the relevance and generativity of ‘going under’ in the practice of teaching and learning, which can be an ongoing, radical exercise in questioning and dismantling dominant narratives, allowing alternate stories and new potentials to emerge.

Sarah Barnaby (US) and Satu Palokangas (FIN) are certified Body-Mind Centering® Teachers and Practitioners. Inspired by the relationship between individuality and interdependency, this co-presentation is part of their ongoing research with cells, babies and emergent communities, funded by the Kone Foundation.