How Do You Embody Your Skin?

Our skin is our outer embracing membrane. It defines our form and is an intimate bridge between our feltsense of self and other.
Explore along in this free class as we open our awareness to how we embody each of our three layers of skin: the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.
We also explore how these three interconnecting layers relate to the autonomic nervous system and to our feltsense of who we are, the environment, and who is other.
This class is from the 2022 Body-Mind Centering® Association's 35th Annual Conference on Re-Joining the Circle: Somatic Agency and Social Justice.
The conference was held June 22 to 26, 2022 at Dennison University (Granville, Ohio) and online.
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The material in this video is presented for informational and educational purposes only. The examples demonstrated in this video are intended to be done with ease and without pain or force. However, as with any movement or exercise program, please consult your physician/health care provider as to whether the exercises and techniques in this video are suitable for you. This is especially important for people with specific concerns such as pregnant women, people with injuries, and those with other health or movement considerations.

[@chi1ryd]

THIS … is was needs to be taught in high school. And toHumanity ❣️

[@sudomeditate]

May You Be Happy! May You Be Healthy! May You Be Safe! May You Be at Peace! May You Be Loved!

[@myouyi379]

I've learnt to not skip a section of Bonnie's lecture, though I need to make pauses during the anatomy part to make sure I stay on focus. B/c when she makes her point, it all makes so much sense. The embodiment in return enlivens the anatomy info, which I get to experience from my perspective through explorations. I'm so grateful, Bonnie❤

[@tizianograndi]

The Skin-ego by Didier Anzieu: The skin-ego is a metaphor created by the French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu to describe the process by which the infant's emerging ego develops a container for psychic contents and achieves a secure feeling of well-being. The ego encloses the psychic apparatus as the skin encloses the body. The ego becomes able to fix barriers protecting the internal world and to screen exchanges with the id, the superego, and the outside world. The skin-ego is an envelope that contains thoughts and gives to thinking activity some limits, continuity, and a protection against the instincts. The functions of the skin-ego are to maintain thoughts, to contain ideas and affects, to provide a protective shield, to register traces of primary communication with the outside world, to manage inter-sensorial correspondences, to individuate, to support sexual excitation, and to recharge the libido. The skin-ego is the foundation of the container-contained relationship. An important part of psychoanalytic work with borderline patients is the reconstruction of the earliest phases of the skin-ego and their consequences for mental organization.

[@heyAPJ]

Please, do you have any advice for someone whose diaphragm was made paralyzed as a coping mechanism? My body makes my diaphragm contract and stay up when I breath in, and push down when I breathe out, in order to keep it always still in the same position, because the movement hurts (or maybe it hurts because it happens, the doctors have no idea). Of course it still moves a little so I’m in constant pain. The pain is not the worst part (anymore). Now the worst part is the lack of air. I am trying activate my diaphragm even going through the pain because I want to BREATHE. I wanna be able to continue my spiritual journey and I feel like my shallow chest breath is holding me back in meditation. Sometimes the feeling is pure despair. I’m doing breath exercises because I know the pain is just a sensation. But I still could not find a way to make the diaphragm stop making this strong abrupt movement (that you can see in my belly) when it’s going to “what it thinks is the wrong direction”.

[@incrediblectopus]

I have a similar thing! Can't get into it all right now but it sounds to me like you're moving in the right direction. When I found out about the correct movement of the diaphragm with my breathing it was a revelation. It's so hard to relearn how to breathe, but I think it will be worth it for your quality of life alone. I'm not finished yet but after a few months of trying to be conscious of the movement of my breathing when I can (you can't think about breathing all the time, thats just not possible) I think there is improvement. It's like a muscle that has atrophied after not moving for a very long time, I would guess it hurts because it needs exercise. Please don't think I'm an expert in any way, or trying to be pushy, but you're not alone in trying to do something like this, at least.

[@anavguima]

I love you so so so so... thank you.

[@梁崇林]

Hello 😊am so delighted to meet you

[@1984FarmDreams]

Wow….. your fascinating. Can’t wait to explore more videos here.

[@IntegratedWellness]

Agreeing with the science just means agreeing with the current standards. At one point many of these standards didn’t agree with the science of a previous time. So you may not agree with the current science, but that of the future. We need more leaders like you to help shift the norms and paradigms.

[@onenhere6458]

"Science" is not a person. Anthropomorphizing has limits. Disagreements can be practiced relative to commentaries and interpreatations, not hypothesis or vases of flowers. There are people who don't use the "meter" standard. They aren't "disagreeing" with the standard. They are using a different standard for measuring distance, such as "feet". Operationalization is about "mutual understanding", not about "leading shifts". That's politics. Moreover, citing an article and discussing its procedures and the interpretations of it's authors "is" current standard. Conflating one source and any sources indeed isn't. We need more citizens searching for understanding, truth and justice.

[@ntaracurry1918]

O this one is hella useful ❤

[@annaslawinska1445]

Also human garage tv...u shall link up...

[@starseeeds]

So informative, thank you.❤

[@TheK7aloha]

Aloha from Colorado!

[@jazminalicom]

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