CURRENTS

Currents - Journal of the
Body-Mind Centering^® Association

Currents, Journal of the Body-Mind Centering^® Association, Inc. publishes professional writing from the field of Somatics,  offering scholarly and creative texts unique to the body-mind experience. For more than two decades, the Journal has maintained a rich archive of the depth and breadth of Body-Mind Centering^®. We also welcome fresh research and embodied documentation from other expressive forms of somatic movement education and healing. Authors are encouraged to submit philosophical or physiological essays, practical applications, case studies, interviews, book reviews, or poems, written in English and in other languages. It is our distinctive editorial tradition to work closely with both beginning and advanced writers as they develop their submissions. Each year, two essays are chosen for peer review. Lastly, Currents’ commitment to “embodied design” is reflected in a beautiful layout of contributors’ original photos and artwork.

2022 Currents - INCITE’ / IN’SIGHT

INCITE’ / IN’SIGHT  These two words may move in opposite directions and with different stress on their syllables, but can, in fact, be used together. INCITE has motoric implications, an outward-directed focus intended to be activating and stimulating. To incite is a provocation to action. The word “cite” in Latin (‘citare’) means “to summon” or “to call,” thus, the “in” of “incite” invites “to call in” or “to call out”). INSIGHT, on the other hand, has perceptive implications, “to see” inwardly more clearly, to reflect. With the “calling out” of INCITE and the “seeing into” of INSIGHT, both words can serve separately as broad-stroke inspirations or else lead to each other, and together, be integrating

The 2022 digital and print issues are available in the BMCA store for purchase. 

2023 Currents Submissions Closed

Teaching (Taecan) and Transmission (Transmittere) 

We invited our 2023 contributors to tap the roots of these two etymologies to illuminate the process and the products of their teachings. We welcomed diversity in philosophy, pedagogy or practice, as well as the sharing of original systems, guided experiencing, or simply singular breakthroughs and life-altering enlightenments. Transmission sets the stage with good chemistry, safe environs, and being open to receiving; Teaching tackles the subject, the plan, and the method. The ancient connection between teaching and a metal coin reflects that knowledge, in its many forms, is shaped or stamped into us; we are the token (taecan/deik) in-hand, carried along, and then passed on to the next set of hands. Thus, the currency of the teacher is built around the magic of transmission. 

Lookout for the 2023 Publication by this June! 

2024 Currents Theme Announced!

Organicity/Organization

The yin and yang of embodied substance and the energy of organizing principle. How do we incorporate our ‘organic’ experience into our lives, as living organisms?  How is this reflected in our internal experience of ourselves and our external experiences of the world: our relationships, our work, our play, our understanding of our history and our memories? Many people say that BMC enabled them to find their organs for the first time, while some somatic modalities emphasize only skeletal system, nervous system, and muscles.  How do we integrate ourselves more fully? What does it mean to be organized, or self-organizing? We are living in contexts that have been organized by others, sometimes to our benefit and sometimes to our detriment.  How can we organize ourselves and how can we organize our external realities to re-organize when this is needed, both personally and societally?  How can the matrix of community be a form of fluid organization that modifies and supports our existence?  And how can we fit organically into the larger context of biological life on Earth?

General thought that connects us to archiving in community:

1. Definitions for organic, Organ work, Organ consciousness. The fulcrum, keystone, concentrate. 

2. Definitions for Organization. Organizational work and organizational consciousness. The matrix, web, map. 

What does it mean to be organized? What does it mean to be an organization? What happens when the organization grows a history and how can we steward that history within the community of the organization?

Submission details and deadlines coming soon! 

 

We welcome all Somatic Movement People who wish to contribute in words, photos, sketches, diagrams.  For more information, questions, or text delivery, contact our editor, Kate Tarlow Morgan at  currentsbmca@gmail.com.

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Past issues

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Index of issues from 1998 to 2021

ConCurrents

ConCurrents is a quarterly e-newsletter for members, the BMCA board and committees, and the BMC^® training programs to share news, photos, writing, and updates. It is a vehicle for keeping members in touch all around the world, and to celebrate our development and achievements as a community. Members may access and download all back issues of ConCurrents online.

    Journal E ditor, Kate   Tarlow Morgan, at pa    nel dis       cussion as part of the 2015 European BMCA Conference in Ghent, Belgium, photo credit: Dennis vanLith