BMCA

The Body-Mind Centering® Association (BMCA) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the practice, education, and development of Body-Mind Centering®, a somatic movement education and therapy approach developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.

Our History

BMCA began in 1985 from an initiative by Ellen Barlow and Sara Vogeler. It has grown into a professional organization providing standards and support for professional members as well as being a conduit for communication and dialogue for the community of people interested in Body-Mind Centering®.

BMCA:

provides support and services to its members,
promotes professional development and somatic conferences worldwide,
publishes the annual journal Currents, and a quarterly newsletter ConCurrents.
provides fiscal agency for somatic research grants for members, and
is the conduit for communciation and dialogue about Body-Mind Centering®.

BMCA Values

The following values, grounded in principles of Body-Mind Centering®, help guide all aspects of our organization:

Responsiveness with the current world, acknowledging our history;
Consensus building and collective decision-making;
Staying in relationship - meeting each person where they are and remembering each others’ aliveness and humanity;
Collaboration and competence - sharing work and resources;
Sustainability and self-care;
Participation in the circle/community - remembering the concentric and converging circles, past and present, local and global, that support us and which we support in return;
Supporting each others’ visibility, voice, and right to belong;
Self-awareness, ability and willingness to reflect, to give and receive feedback - utilizing the perceptual-response cycle;
Clear and responsive boundaries;
Transparency and accountability;
Service to and stewardship of the whole.