Energetic Development: Pathways of Life and Pathways of Movement “Th E\EROY OF LEIS FLOWING THROUGH US Development does i THE TIME. THIS PROCESS BOTH MOVES AND not occur ina linear —sHApeS ALL ORGANISMS. WHEN INTERACTING progression bul as WITK ADUNTS, (T EASY TO SEE HOW THEY overlapping waves HAVE BEEN SHAPED BY THEIR LIVES, THIS CHAP teith each pattomn TER SXAMINES THE SPECINC WAYS IN WHICH boing intograted — ®NEROY SHAPES OUR DEVELOPMENT. TO HELP and modified by the USNDERSTAND THEPATICNAS ALONG WHICH emergence of new WEANE SHAPED, WE CAN OBSERVE THE CRCL LATION OF ENERGY THROUGH THE ENDPOINTS pattorns, Eventually all pattems are OF THE BODY AS DISCUSSED WV CHAPTER 2, "THESE ARE THE HANDS, FEET, HEAD, AND PER- contained in cach of the oth INBUM (IDENTIFIED HERE AS THE PELVIC FLOOR). a “THE MAIN PORTALS THROUGH WHICH ENERGY expronsina olornent Lo ‘COMES AND GOES IN THE BODY, THE ENDPOINTS: DEMARCATE THE MAJOR PATHWAYS OF MOVE support MENT SEQUENCES THROUGH THE BODY. Bonnie Bain eee While trafic flow along these pathways vates fom moment to moment, each individual has basic pattems and preferences that peesist overtime. Some people's hands are naturally more active in circulating energy, while other people may be more fect-oriented. These diferences can be ether innate and Teamed. One can observe major differences in enewy flow even between rnewboms, Beyond our innate patterns, we are strongly influenced by our mother’ energy dow in utero, and ater by that of our faly and our culture. Particular experiences, sich as our htth experience, physical acidents, or ‘emotional trauma, may greatly affect these pattems as wel ‘Underlying our individual pattems of energy flow both leamed and in- nate, are universal patterns. Thee are many systems which study energy flow through the hody. The meridian systems of oriental medicine and the systems underiying various epes of bodywork that focus on our energy feds uch as polarity therapy, ace two major examples. Al these systems are related be- ‘cae the bol basa basic truth. The approach taken here is based primarily ‘on studies of early motor development and the study ofthe evolutionary oi- ins of movement. While these motor patterns have been studed by many diferent physieal therapists and biologists, much of the specife approach here is based on Body. Mind Centering, the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Co- hhen. To that have added a more in-depth look at the psychological aspects of these movements Pathways connecting each ofthe endpintsbe e‘nur urypeas uoey pur yo Bsa as0ja pavog Asrrp yp on Unop soHk “keme ysnd on y>uga wy} preogsuade se sone ayo pry ey cau yon moos Apps am usar jam Jo apo wa uot Ba Ss pu o1ain uy "ppow op cy dusuonYay 2199 ano soqLIpUM HUAN, ;pusy snot yBnonp Reakanbos ‘sxou9 ou 5214p ‘aiop sss5} 40 ssa voy "wMOAEUORTAK Byp yp 19E2 ‘uypperk yo wo} opgas 21P 51 SRLL uonesqys uano ‘uoptod pus adeys inAUBH x} eouunsse suey wrotp SupjaqyUH ueys soYped sox FeULOQUL oD PIM UED SUD *fp0q satnoue Aq poysnd Buyaa jo 29205 243 40 ‘enoge se “hynes8 se ypns “nots ashy om pars oto -Buprojo shen uaz oe se, "yt 4 up eine oy poem 00, “sin sapsnu amok s9e1309 pur dn pus Bupyjo ono poounon oud oso © ang pro on fag ok pn Seed “eos non smube mB ALpIp4A SHON WR Joo yo ame a ay a yosmonago.sea] ax "SUI, SuOIPY [PMOUMpURy aany Wes 2wos 1 Soop pusy nok aN pH oF pur 8 na—acdpus ano yaa sue BULA AUER I, eq a}qede> pu aigeauna ye azou se sruodpus up Woy 30 02 ssouanboe ey EDUIIAON 2s J99j URE OUIDROW oMp peD| 3130] puE“mogIE TOK [99} SLU 5 raractag nvm ay suvaoaiN NC 20g PRION IRENE ”