CURRENTS

Currents is the annual journal of The Body-Mind Centering® Association, Inc. and offers professional writing in the field of somatics. The journal's content reflects the depth and breadth of the Body-Mind Centering work and includes articles and case studies about working with infants, children and adults and applications of BMC to yoga, dance, and teaching movement.  It also contains photos, artwork, and poetry expressing varying aspects of somatic states.

Equilibrium is defined as “the condition of a system in which all competing influences are balanced.”  The human physical sense of equilibrium relies on our senses -- visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive -- and our musculo-skeletal system working together, along with reflexes and brain processing. Dr. Adriana Pees says that inter-equilibrium “is defined as the potential space in which a dialogue can occur between one movement and another.  It is in this between place that gradations of movement are established and are able to reorganize for the next action or even the choice to rest.”  Balance is an interplay with gravity of all kinds.  Ultimately, effective balance accommodates physical asymmetry when necessary, but may assist “smooth sailing” of the psyche as well.  Currents Journal 2020 invites essays, writings, poems, artwork, case studies, and choreographic documents that invite a somatic dialogue with Equilibrium and Balance. This theme was chosen to work in tandem with this year’s BMCA Conference theme entitled “Self and Other,” another balancing act of great importance.