Cohen states the “center to peripheral part of the body is known as the motor nerve.” Finding these nerves and extending them, one does not employ more effort to stretch tissues or muscles in the body. Cohen encourages the participants to play and explore the integration of what one is doing while moving.
As the individual explores fluidity in the forearm while moving the whole matrix of the arm, he or she can feel the joint and the connection in the arm. Cohen emphasizes that the arm is a unit, and the forearm is not a separate part. It is in the fluid in one’s bones that the blood circulation starts. There is fluid in the legs too. Explore this by bending and stretching the knees through the fluids instead of executing the movement through the bones. The fluid in the body can take the movement into the space making it smooth and continuous. The dancer can experience the energy moving through the body while exploring this movement experience. The fascia is the same unit as the bones.
As a dancer, I focus more on using my muscles and joints in my arms and legs to execute the movement. Cohen’s exploration in this video has opened my mind with moving together with the fluids within that body. Sensing the fluid in the arm for example, creates a continuous and energizes movement of the arm, instead of striking an arm position. This changes the state of one’s mentality and the tone of the movement quality while dancing. Finding the nerves in one's dancing would enable the dancer to use less effort, lengthening the extension of the movement, arising from the nerves of the particular body part.
Reference:
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2013) Integration of Nerves with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv4SSNnQOCc&index=34&list=WL [Accessed 29 April 2015].
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2014) Exploring the Immune System through the Fluids with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLcXpgBpM4&list=WL&index=33 [Accessed 29 April 2015].
As a dancer, I focus more on using my muscles and joints in my arms and legs to execute the movement. Cohen’s exploration in this video has opened my mind with moving together with the fluids within that body. Sensing the fluid in the arm for example, creates a continuous and energizes movement of the arm, instead of striking an arm position. This changes the state of one’s mentality and the tone of the movement quality while dancing. Finding the nerves in one's dancing would enable the dancer to use less effort, lengthening the extension of the movement, arising from the nerves of the particular body part.
Reference:
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2013) Integration of Nerves with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv4SSNnQOCc&index=34&list=WL [Accessed 29 April 2015].
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (2014) Exploring the Immune System through the Fluids with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZLcXpgBpM4&list=WL&index=33 [Accessed 29 April 2015].