Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – Embodied Anatomy and the Lower Limbs

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 lower limbs from the feet to the pelvic halves through movement and consciousness.

These principles can be applied to yoga, dance, bodywork, somatic psychology, and other somatic movement practices.

Embodying the bones and joints of the lower limbs from the feet to the pelvic halves, including sections on the foot, ankle, foreleg, knee, femur, hip, pelvic half and the embryological development of the lower limbs.

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

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

Disc 1

Heel-Foot and Ankle Foot
Bones of the Foot: Phalanges
Bones of the Foot: Metatarsals and Tarsals
“The Little Worm” Exercise
Subtalar Joint and Ankle Joint
Bonnie Working with a Student's Subtalar Joint
Suggest Measures When Working with the Subtalar Joint
Two Diagonal Lines of the Foot
Tibia and Fibula
Rotation of the Tiba and Fibula to Create Space for the Talus
Possible Causes of Ankle Issues
Rotation of the Foreleg with Counter Spiral
Applying Rotation of the Foreleg

Disc 2

Knee Joint
Support and Counter Support in a Ball and Socket Joint
Exercise in Understanding the Function of Counter Support
Patella
Medial and Lateral Menisci of the Knee
Rotation of the Menisci with Flexion and Extension of the Knee
Bonnie Working with a Student's Menisci
Exercise to Align the Foreleg with the Femur
Moving the Body as One Continuous Unit – Initiating Rolling from the Feet
Embryology of the Limbs
Spiral of the Femur
Releasing the Knee through the Head of the Femur
Bonnie Working with a Student to Release the Head of the Femur
Finding the Ligament of the Head of the Femur and the Spiral of the Femur

Disc 3

Pelvic Halves and Pubic Symphysis
Initiating an Internal Spiral and External Twist from the Pubic Symphysis
Pelvic Relationship to the Individual Toes
Three Layers of Bone (Simplified)
Working from the Individual Layers of Bone
Initiating Movement in the Bones, Joints and Joint Fluid (Synovial Fluid)
Tool for Opening Up the Foot
Excerpts on the Philosophy of Embodiment
Credits
Illustrations

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