The Center for Bodymind Education
A pioneering resource for professional and personal development through education in Somatic Psychology, Mind-Body Therapies, and Holistic Studies
Needed by those who work with the body or are seeking to understand the nature of Embodied Consciousness
Who We Are
The Center for Bodymind Education (CBE) is an educational company dedicated to the multi-purpose mission of serving holistic healthcare and traditional healthcare professionals by expanding their knowledge base with the insights and perspective of Somatic Psychology as well as practical applications of mind-body intervention methods and holistic philosophy.
We monitor the scientific databases in search of the latest developments regarding the mind-body in neuroscience; social science; scientific psychology; complimentary, alternative, integrative medicine (CAIM), and philosophy of mind.
We then develop books and courses on various subject matter including Somatic Psychology, Neurophilosophy, CAIM methods, Holistic Studies, Holistic Living, and Somatic Philosophy for your edification, enjoyment, and advancement.
You’ve studied the psychology of the mind. Now learn the rest of the story.
What is Somatic Psychology?
The goals of Somatic Psychology are to describe, explain, and understand the nature of embodied consciousness.
Many people may be familiar with professional works based on mind-body approaches to psychotherapy. These are Clinical Somatic Psychotherapies, but they are not Somatic Psychology.
Somatic Psychology is akin to the General Psychology we all learned as undergraduate freshmen, but that subject is focused almost exclusively on the mind… not on body consciousness. The goals of Somatic Psychology are to describe, explain, and understand the nature of embodied consciousness. Its many sub-topics include:
- 28 propositional axioms of knowledge that support its foundations;
- Neurophilosophy of the bodymind
- Correcting Descartes’ separation of the mind from the body
- The form of the body and how it affects thinking, perception, feeling, reasoning, and deciding
- The dynamics of the Body Schema/Image and how it changes over time and by variations in culture/ethnicity, athletic use, and sexual orientation
- Physical appearance and attractiveness
- Sexuality
- Emotional body experience
- Personality functioning in relation to the form of the body, neurobiology, temperament, and behavioral genetics
- Pathological conditions of body experience
- Mind-body treatment methods
- and the issues of aging and death
An extensive discussion of these topics may be had in Principles of Somatic Psychology: An Evidence-Based, Transdisciplinary Approach for the Healthcare Professions. Visit the CBE Bookstore for more info.
Other Related Subject Areas
Mind-Body-Spirit Treatments
One essential principle of Somatic Psychology is that the form of the body affects psychological functioning. The validity of this axiom is confirmed every day in the mind-body and the holistic healthcare professions. From an everyday massage therapy session to body scan meditations to movement techniques like yoga and Tai Chi Ch’uan—all bring opportunities for personal transformation and enhanced well-being. These are very hot areas of research in the scientific journals.
Neurophilosophy
The neurosciences are advancing like a wildfire with new and dramatic findings regarding the brain and its relationship to consciousness and the body almost every day. All of this is changing the philosophical stance from which we see the world and ourselves. Neurophilosophy is one of the most exciting areas of science today and interprets neuroscientific findings through a philosophical perspective.
Holistic Studies and Living
The dramatic philosophical vision that all things in the world are inter-connected and inter-dependent. The effects of Descartes’ sundering the body from the mind created a general cultural belief that over the centuries has alienated us from our bodies and from Nature. Holism, as a cornerstone of Somatic Psychology, seeks to heal the rifts in our broken selves and world.
WHO Will BENEFIT FROM OUR EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS?
Anyone who works with the body for a living will find our books and curricula of value.
- Massage Therapists
- Healthcare Professionals
- Bodywork Practitioners
- Clinical Somatic Psychotherapists
- Bioenergy Field Healers
- Mental Health Professionals
- Personal Trainers
- Physical Therapists
- Yoga Teachers
- Movement Teachers