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Hi everyone. Welcome to class one of Bonnie's 2025 fall series on cultivating breath, illuminating mind mind. Thank you for being here. It's wonderful to be together again for those of you who have been joining Bonnie for her past online series and it's a gift to be with everybody who is joining her for the first time here.
It does take a team to make Bonnie's online classes happen and we're going to take a moment to introduce everybody who is working behind the scenes um to make this possible. My name is Bosa. I'm the project manager for Bonnie's books, videos, and events. I'm also her daughter. We have Bonnie and Len. Uh Len is Bonnie's husband, my father, and Issa.
"Hi everyone. I'm Issa. I'm uh Bonnie and Len's son and Bossha's brother. Um, thank you for taking the time to be here with us and we're looking forward to sharing with you."
And Omar Deepep.
"Hi everybody. My name is Omar Deepep. Uh, I've been running IT support for Bonnie's remote events and classes uh, since 2020. So happy to be back in session."
Yes, Amardep has become part of the family as well. In addition to hosting this class on Zoom, we are simultaneously broadcasting it on YouTube live. If you experience any issues in Zoom or would prefer to use it uh to go to YouTube, um we will post the link to that in the chat in just a moment. You can also find the link to the class on YouTube live in the same email as your Zoom link.
If you haven't already introduced yourselves in the chat, please take a minute to do so. Bonnie and the whole team would love to know who's joining us today, where you're from, why you decided to join this series. Um, it's a wonderful way to to connect with you because we cannot see you. Um, only the Bonnie's team's videos can be seen in a webinar. And, uh, we do open each class 15 minutes early so that we can mingle a little bit in the chat if you'd like to join us.
Okay. So, for the class, if you have questions for Bonnie about the material she presents in class, please type those into the Q&A in Zoom. If you just type them into the chat, it's possible that we could miss them. The chat can move very quickly. We also recommend that you post your questions in the chat because there is a lot of experience um in the chat where people can respond to um your questions as well in there. And in you on YouTube, if you have questions for Bonnie about the material she presents, please type it into the chat there. If you have questions for Bonnie's team in Zoom, please also type those into the Q&A uh so we don't miss them in the chat. If there is time at the end of class, Bonnie will respond to as many questions as she can. if she doesn't get to yours or she doesn't get to any, she does read them after class and they do help her to prepare for the next um class.
In Zoom um in both of the Zoom and YouTube, we do have guidelines um for our chat and community. Please take a minute to read those on our 2025 fall series resources page if you haven't already. Um, I'm going to briefly go over them now here in the first class. Our chats are a social place for public discussion of the material Bonnie presents. Please treat discussions with the same respect you would if you are having them face toface. The chat and other spaces related to this series are shared community resources. And we have five guidelines. One, the chat is a place for you to share with Bonnie and other participants your experience with the material being presented in class. Advertising or promoting your classes, events or services, websites, books, videos, etc. in the chat is not permitted. We are a community of learners with a common interest in the body mind relationship through movement, touch, and consciousness. Please keep comments and discussions supportive and focused on helping each other in these explorations. It is not a forum for political, social or religious issues. This space is a sanctuary for all participants. Please treat everyone with respect and thank you for respecting and following our community and chat guidelines.
We do encourage you to communicate with each other and Bonnie in the chats. we aren't able to be, you know, with you in person or see you um through video. So, the chat, as I said before, is a wonderful way that we can connect with each other. And reading the full chats um all of your thoughts, questions, experiences after class brings Bonnie a lot of joy and they do help her to also plan for the next classes. The Zoom chat will be made available to all participants um as a downloadable PDF and we will add that to your account when the recording is ready.
And we want to acknowledge everyone all of you who has joined this series. If you can believe it, we have participants from uh registered from 73 countries. um that is spans six continents and um it's just incredible to continue to be connected in this way through these series and our pay from the heart scholarship has allowed more than 1,000 people to register for this course who otherwise may not have been able to. So we are all grateful for your presence here, whatever brought you here. And we do have a map um that we put together of what these 73 countries look like. Omar deep if you could put that on the screen. And here we are. This is what uh 73 countries looks like. We're all present here either live uh today in this class or through the class recordings. And um in the chat, please tell us where uh in the world you're from, what country, which of these 73 countries you're from. and feel how we're all connected. Focusing on what connects us in this world. It's wonderful to see all of these countries come in in the chat. Thank you everyone. Keep posting. Um, thank you Omar Deepep. And now here's around the world. We circle the earth. May we be as a string of pearls with each pearl extending the circle. A Taichi image of the spine as a string of pearls with to keep adding. May we keep adding pearls of peace of loving kindness and well-being. I'm crying. How to hold our place. Each one too much for one person. Maybe not for you, but for me. But I can hold my place. Each of us holding our place. Together we circle the earth. I trace with my finger on the map yesterday up and down and around. Each one of us is so important. No one more than anyone else equally in our place.
A number of years ago, many now because the pandemic was inserted into time, I saw a film. I don't know the source. Someone maybe can find it, but it was of the planet breathing. I don't remember how it did it, but it it was maybe something NASA created. Do you remember, Len, we were at Esen and it showed the Earth breathing how it went from I can't remember, but it was a quote a real something and how we are breathing each of us and together in a way breath is invisible. I guess if you have some special instrument, we can feel the breath. So this series is not learning how to breathe. It's a natural gift. And yes, it involves the whole planet, the plants, mycelium. I'm not sure how all of that works, but we're all in this together. And uh just sitting with you coming in was almost more than I could hold. How to be so receptive. Not responsible but receptive and offering. and sharing. Willing to share. willingness to receive. I'm speaking to myself as well as with you.
So in this sess each session we'll explore another experience of breathing again not howing to howing to breathe but the breathing as as it is so in this first session, the first class I would like to bring into our field, our practice from the perspective of membranes and how membranes open and close. And there's the membrane of the skin between the me and the you. the you and the me of each of us. the me and the you and how how our membranes in particular this outer skin membrane can balance between incoming and outgoing breath. Sometimes the membrane the skin becomes guarded and closed and it did so because it of protection which was a good choice. It we survived because we could close but maybe the times change and we could open again. And how do we open when we no longer have to stay closed? And sometimes we're too open and over sensitive. And how do we close? And there's a cycle between opening and closing through the skin. And this has been primary for me as someone who has had difficulty in the world because of over sensitivity and at times closing to protect that sensitivity. So how to cycle the incoming breath and the outflowing breath through the skin. We know there are pores in the skin. We sweat or if we leave our hands in water, they'll get kind of watery. Or if it's dry, the skin dries out. But how can our breath? Yes, we have through the lungs. Yes. But how do we breathe through our skin? Aging. I know about aging. Some of you do. When I see a baby, I just see that lusciousness of the fluidity of skin and how how I I am getting warm. I can take this how I I don't need to get dry just because I've gotten older. How to stay not to stay young. No. I'm not a baby any longer. I'm an old woman, but I'm breathing through my skin. Do you feel the breathing in your skin? Or are you like, "What is she talking about?" Start from there. Don't start from what is this? Start from being where you are. And if you're like, start there and then through there's no should. In other words, you are breathing through your skin. Whether you perceive it yet or not. It's nothing to learn. It's to become aware. And guess what? I need a tissue. I'll be back. My nose is starting to breathe through the mucous membranes. Eyes. Sometimes my eyes get dry. How to breathe through the membranes. You're back. your belly skins. So, another class will focus on breathing in the belly and the organs, the pit of the pelvis. But now again not trying to make something in our traditional science. We do things by doing them and then we get feedback. And what I'm suggesting is open your awareness so that your awareness creates the act. BMC we say awareness is a motor act. Just aware awareness that you are breathing So, we're on the outside. I think I'm going to stand here. So, we've explored the pit. Now, this is the surface. how our surface is breathing. So yes, there are muscles but this is the breathing opening and closing. how we're breathing through our skin. So, you play a little bit. I'm going to come and watch. For those of you who are new, I cannot see you, but I'm still watching. And if you look in the screen, I'm watching even though I can't see you. Enjoy. your skin. If you're still here trying to figure out, don't figure out. Release into the possibility that your skin is breathing. It has a different quality of music than something that's more muscular, but I could do it with my skin. My skin is opening and condensing. Um you'll have in your resources that Basha will give you the dermatomes of the skin which are different in every person but this is a a map of something from which to measure that what do I want to say that will give insight into the nervous system for those who are interested. So how your skin is breathing? Yeah, we're a whole cell. I just saw your question, Vanessa, about our skin teaching other parts of ourselves, our membranes. I think all the membranes for me are talking to each other. And we're going to go with your question too to the next uh meditation. So already if you'll show us the first slide please.
The sperm releases its tail as it enters the cytoplasm of the egg. The whipping tail sets the egg spinning, spiraling through the uterine tube to the womb. The sister polar bodies guide the path of the sperm. The brother sperm beat upon the outer membrane, strengthening the sacred chamber. The dance of creation is accompanied by the rhythmic vibrations of drumming.
So maybe I would like to close my eyes. You can keep yours open or closed. And somehow in our experience we have experienced the drumming on the membrane of our original cell. And the sperm with its membrane and tail enters and sends us spiraling into our life. is a dance. Yes. The outer membrane of the earth of the planets of the sun. Our cell was in our mother when she was an embryo in her mother. So our grandmother, maternal grandmother was our first conduit into lie in this world. So our biological mother whether we knew her or not, the biological grandmother and the great grandmother and the great great and the great great great the breathing membrane of the body. The body in a certain way comes from the biological mother lineage and we're going to look further into that. The polarity of the body, the forces of magnetism come from the sperm that gives life to the body through the centrialsles. We'll do more. Okay, the next slide, please.
A cell is surrounded by a two-layer membrane embedded with proteins called the plasma membrane. It protects the contents of the cell and modulates the passage of fluid and substances moving in and out of the cell. The area within the cell is called the cytoplasm. The cytoplasm contains subcellular structures, the organels within the cellular fluid called the cytool. So, we will not be exploring all of these structures in this series, but we will be exploring the mitochondria. And you will have a a fairly large um guide on the cell and each of these subcellular membranes. Uh I began this study back in n in 1990. Um and there's a course in the third year of the practitioner program. But going to the subcellular as well as to the cell is similar to exploring the embryology which we've done a lot in this uh five years. of uh Zoom. Okay, I think to go to the next slide please.
So cellular membranes are double layered membranes and we have double layer uh layered membranes. The single layer membrane organisms are more the bacteria blue green algae that you'll look up on the internet. So our membranes are double layered. the membranes of all ukareotic cells in in your document it's more explained ukareotic cells are have two layers of which we are ukareotic there there's more written in the document which Basha will give to you the membranes of all ukareotic cells are composed of phospholipid molecules arranged in two layers. The heads are primary phosphates and they bond with each other and water. The tails are composed of two long hydrocarbon chains which are fat and they bond with each other and avoid water. Again, you will have a document on this in the next slide.
When phospholipids are placed in water, they automatically form a doubled layer membrane enclosed sphere. The phosphate heads will bond together and be on the outside in contact with the water. The hydrocarbon tails of the fat will pack closely together on the inside and avoid contact with the water. Similar to oil and water or why we shake a oil and vinegar dressing because they're not me they're not chemically connected. It's mechanical. So this would be um this would be our body but um a cell an organ or organel inside of the cell and the cell surrounded by these membranes that um have the heads on the outside and the innermost and the tails in the middle. This is a long meditation, but we're going to do more. And now the next uh slide, please.
In two-layer membranes embedded with proteins such as the cellular plasma membrane, some proteins are only in the outside layer, some only in the inside layer and some are contained in both layers. Some of the proteins contain protein channels that passively transport solutes through the chemical interactions and some that actively open and close. Both processes transport fluids and substances from the extracellular fluid outside the cell to the cytool fluid inside of the cell or from the cytool in the cell to the extracellular fluid outside of the cell. Through embodiment research, I perceive that all cells in the body have porous structures that open and close to exchange fluid and substances between the inner cellular cytool fluid environment and the outer extracellular fluid environment. In this practice, two significant insights have emerged that can tone, strengthen, calm, and balance specific and overall membranes in the cells, tissues, and organs throughout the body. And these two are that we'll explore next. The channels that transport fluid and substances from one side of the membrane to the other are different than those that transport fluid and substances in the opposite direction. When the channels of one direction close, there's an automatic response in the channels of the opposite direction to open if they are not inhibited to do so. So I think come back to me please.
So, I'm very excited about these two insights. They've really helped me a lot. So, how have they helped me? They've helped to calm my nervous system for one thing from being so over sensitive. At the same time, I'm more sensitive. Is that funny? I'm more open to experience because I'm not overloaded. It's not the answer to a question. It's a a practice that might be helpful for you and it might not. So what I would like to share of what I discovered for myself and few other people is that the channels that open to exchange this. We breathe through fluid in the body. We breathe through the air out of the skin. But in the body or in the cell itself or through the cell to the extracellular fluid that when there's the flow outward and then the flow inward that they're different channels. So it's not like this channel opens and it goes out and comes in. But what I perceive is that it goes out this one but it will come in another one. And the second thing that has emerged the words are not the practice but hopefully they'll help that on the inhale I'm going I don't want to say inhale exhale yet in the process of going in one direction goes here could be in the cell to the extracellular or from the extracellular into the a different cell. When it goes through here, this closes and that closure creates the opening of the exchange. I'm gonna say that again that when the pore I'm calling them pores or windows or doors. When the pores open to let something go out one way, they close so that another can open for the exchange that closes. It opens And that's different. Now I can maybe do practicing getting the words inhaling. So now I'm not through this skin, but I don't want to hold the skin either. Inhaling and feeling. We could do it through the lungs or through the belly or through the can do it anywhere where you feel breathing. Breathing in, feeling what membrane, feeling the membrane somewhere expanding and then exhaling. Something's releasing and go at your rhythm. This isn't a long breath, short breath, just your breathing. Something membranous is expanding but something's going out of that membrane and then releasing something is coming in the other direction. But for now let go of the out and the in. Just feeling one direction something expanding. It means something's coming in, right? And then something's going out and the membrane is condensing. So something expanding because something is coming in and something is condensing because something's going out. So with your hands perhaps that can be helpful that in the expanding something's coming fluid is coming in and as the fluid goes out there's a condensing. Could be in your arm. Fluid coming in your arm expands. fluid going out. Condense it. Just playing with your own rhythm. Yes, Kelly. It's not about contracting. There's an expanding and a condensing and it can be different. This can be expanding. This can be cond. There can be different rhythms in different part of the body. Maybe we get confused because this is doing this is then that's doing that. This is just focusing in one area and then another area one at a time. Though many things are happening, I'm wanting to share just this feeling of the fluid in one direction and the other direction. And then as you open your awareness becomes more subtle that the the channels of the going in one direction are not the same as coming in the other direction. or explore them going in and out of the same. For me, that stops my breathing. Maybe not for you. And then this is a practice. So if it's not coming to you like right away, don't push it. What is coming to you? Maybe just your breath. Be where you are, not where you want to be or where I tell you you should be because I didn't mean to tell you that. Find out where you are. What you are doing, not what you want yourself to be doing. What is real and know who you are. So, Kathleen, how to see it? All right. It's just maybe start with the one thing that's clear because so many things are happening and you have that ability. of the whole just one thing. Can you feel that the coming in creates expansion be with that and the going out? So in this hour and a half, I'm offering a lifetime practice, not an hour and a half practice. Unless you want it to be an hour and a half practice, it will be that. So the next thing I want to offer is that as you can feel the fluid going out, don't wait a long time like long long breath or don't go quick but just breathing out in your rhythm and then close the door and pause to bring weight or suspend to bring lightness. whatever feels better. And in that pause or suspension, notice what opens automatically for the return. So the air, the fluid in this case coming in expands and then I close that door. So there's it's the pause or suspending and waiting for the other direction which would be the exhalation in this case for the fluid to go out. It will open other channels because I closed the inhaling channel. And then at the end of that, close that channel and wait, pause for the inhaling channels to open. It's a lot. And if you're getting it here, forget it. Just go back to feeling your breathing. Everyone's in a different place in their practice. Each place is important and real. Feeling the inflow and the expansion, the outflow and the condensing. Feeling the inflow channels, closing them, and then allowing the others to open automatically. And then they close and these open. Maybe it's reading the chat now. Enjoying that. Thank you for those who can type. Some of us would not be able to type in the midst of all this. My main suggestion is don't make any contractions and try to fiddle with it. Be where you are. If an area might be too loose, too tight, too numb. Feel if there's any flow through there at the smallest level. Martina, maybe you'll fall asleep before the class is over. Yes, I'm speaking Nina of the cellular level. It's playing. I love Kathleen. You're very much awake. And someone else was falling asleep. Isn't that great? We're not the same. And yet we we can communicate. I can't often read the chat, but I can have this period while you guys are breathing. You can start in any area and that expands or you can start in the whole area and it can condense. Oh, I saw someone wrote scar tissue. This is wonderful for opening. I think I I think maybe it's easier to start where it's easy to to perceive the process and then gradually go to areas that are more difficult because the process is clear. But maybe you find to go to the area where there's difficulty and that will reveal the process. Again, we're going to be different, the same as some and different than others. I'll say a more personal thing that's happened in terms of uh um go ahead and say it, Bonnie. It's been very helpful for the movement through the di my digestive tract. Much easier digestion and ease of uh evacuating. It's been great for digestive organs for myself and for someone else. I would be interested what you find a saki on that but not just that it's the whole body and the other thing that I for me is that I'm more homogenized instead of having everything happening at a different rhythm more of me is in sync. So our cellular breathing is fluid. The lung breathing is air. But in the lung tissue it's fluid. So when the air comes in the lungs, it goes to the um uh avioli, the little air air sacks, but then it diffuses through the membrane and the air becomes fluid into the uh blood to blood vessels carried to the heart. So another course how the heart is the center of the breathing. So from the plants coming into the carbon dioxide to the lungs and to the heart and in the heart spiraling into the body into the cells and from the cells the carbon dioxide coming to the heart spiraling to the lungs to the plant. So between the plants and the cell is the heart. And this practice has also released some maybe the word anxiety would fit for me. But tension in my heart because there's more um synchronicity And somebody had mentioned to me that when they brought not on the chat but uh when they brought attention to their breathing their breathing stopped and in a certain way that the closure can be scary, right? Because I've also been with people with um asthma where some have trouble breathing on the inhale, some on the exhale. And there's something about the closure. If one can feel the weight or the suspension, it's different. The other can can open automatically instead of them all closing. But to distinguish these from these I don't know if there's any research for that. I've never heard of it in the science field, but in myself or those of you who do hands-on work with others when there's difficulty. Yeah. Otherwise, play. Maybe more when you place your hands on after you feel it in yourself. Feel the channels. Which where are the channels opening for that direction? And then where are the channels for the other direction? And where is the pause to open the other direction? So I saw your question on cellular and I think we're ready for the next slide.
So endocytosis and exocytosis cell swim in the viscous fluidity of extracellular fluid throughout the body. There's continual flow of fluid and substances between cells and the extracellular fluid via the cellular outer membrane the plasma membrane. So in the first illustration we have the extracellular fluid on the outside and the cytoplasm on the inside of the cell. And starting on the left with the arrow there are I'll say let's say just for language being easier for me that that's protein on the outside in the extracellular fluid there on the left. And then the membrane will fold around whatever that membrane channel is and then it will create on the inside a trans oh oh I have it there. I don't have to make it all. Let me read it. Endocytosis is the process of transferring fluid and proteins and other substances from the extracellular fluid outside the cell to the cytoplasm inside the cell. The plasma membrane surrounds the proteins and forms vacules that carry the proteins to the organels within the cell. So there we see the um the membrane forming the uh sphere. And then that vacule will go to one of the organels and fuse with the membrane of that organel and then release the substance on the inside of that organel. Now I have to get a slide because I can't read the other with the um the chat thing. Exocytosis is the process of transferring fluid and proteins and other substances from the cytoplasm inside the cells to the extracellular fluid outside the cell. Vacules within the cytoplasm carry proteins to the plasma membrane, fuse with it, and then release the proteins into the extracellular fluid outside the cell. Okay, the next slide please.
So the mitochondria I'll just read it I say it more clearly. Mitochondria. Mitochondrian is singular, but I will always probably say mitochondria, so it may or may not be correct. Mitochondria are the organels responsible for cellular respiration. They provide the power for most cellular activity by combining the glucose obtained through digestion and oxygen obtained through respiration to form carbon dioxide, water, free radicals and ATP, adinosine triphosate which is the energy source of the cell ATP. Mitochondria are embedded in an envelope of two membranes each composed of phospholipid billayers containing spe sorry containing specialized proteins. I'll read that since I kind of flubbed. Mitochondria are embedded in an envelope of two membranes each composed of phospholipid billayers containing specialized proteins. Mitochondria have a different DNA than the nucleus and are transmitted to the embryo primarily by the egg. They therefore carry the history of the biological mother's lineage. Molecules embedded in the mitochondria's inner membrane carry out the many steps required during cellular breathing and the production of ATP. The number of mitochondria in a cell is in proportion to the amount of activity in the cell. Increasing activity in the cell stimulates the mitochondria to reproduce. Mitochondria change their size and shape and move about the cell. Recent research shows that mitochondria also travel between cells to other cells. Uh I just read that recently since uh we had the last uh course and it was discovered about 10 years ago but I hadn't found it and nobody had sent it to me. Um I hope you had pleasant dreams Emily. Um this is phenomenal. It's phenomenal that mitochondria move between cells. It's just phenomenal. I keep saying the same word. So come back to me please. Amad I feel that we've been exploring the we've been exploring mitochondria for 30 years specifically for uh within the cells. So there's cellular breathing of the membranes of the cells and then there's mitochondria breathing in the membranes of the mitochondria. So I want to say this without embodying what I want to say which is a practice that when we have a pattern that causes us stress that is stress to talk about it that we don't have to go to that pattern to talk about it. So we did a series maybe two years ago. So, let me I'll be right back. Okay. Meanwhile, you could practice where uh we explored holding a rock, picking up a rock. I'm going to put it down then at some point. and um feeling the weight of the rock and putting it at different parts of the body to feel the weight of this. And when we feel you can put it anywhere where you feel the weight then you can set it down and leave the weight in the rock so that you have the experience. I in this situation have the experience of this rock but I leave the weight in the rock. So the story that I want to say is that I experienced a pattern of great stress but I can sit it down. Let's see if I can and leave it in the rock so that now I can tell about it. Thank you, Cynthia. But I don't have to hold it while I tell what I experienced. Can I do it, gang? Leave it in the rock. I carry the pattern that I'm wanting to share from before birth. So it's very much a primal pattern and I leave it in the rock. You'll help me Thanks, Joe. Several of you. You don't have to pick it up yourself. All right. That was the key I needed. Don't pick up. I needed to say that by my setting it down, you do not have to pick it up. And it had to do it has had to do, watch my language, with the mitochondria. I have passed that pattern in the past from one mitochondria to the other. instead of setting it down. We don't have to change the mother's lineage. I don't get your name. They have their own life. They passed it to us. We can set it down, but first pick it up and hold it. Otherwise, how are you going to put it down? when you feel it in your whole being in all the mitochondria. Thanks, gang. I can set it down and you don't have to pick it up. Haha, Trish, how to put the rock down. You got to feel it first. That's the big question. So, I'll pick it up again. Play with it. Feel it. Feel it. You feel it anyway. Why don't you really feel it? Accept it. Absorb it. If you reject it, you can't put it down. If you put other rocks on top of it and make it heavier, you can't put it down until you take all of that. So, take one off at a time. Take a pebble off and another pebble. Get feel the weight of it. Maybe get 10 little rocks or two or just take two of them. Do you have rocks to put down? I imagine you've got a whole lot of them. Maybe maybe it's a boulder that you can't put down and you have to learn to sit against it to give you strength. Or maybe you climb a mountain or you sit at the bottom of the mountain or you go into the cave of the mountain or maybe it's only a petal that's so damn irritating and you I saw the word juggle. You juggle it until finally you can set it down. So these mitochondria looking at how they carry cancer. They're looking at how this mitochondria is healthy and it sees one that's not healthy and it divides. The healthy one divides in two and goes and helps the one that's struggling to survive and to heal. So our breathing at this basic level and maybe we don't have energy. I certainly have been at the point of death. But at the mitochondria breathing. And this one helps that one. That helps that one. And they divide. They divide by attention to multiply. And one thing that I've read about cancer over and over is that it doesn't like oxygen. And the mitochondria are what pre what produces the ATP from the oxygen. So the more we we receive by attention I probably mean awareness. Attention to be aware to receive. I know there are no more slides. I'm looking. Bash has put documents in your account. There are slides. I think we can open it to comments Basha or questions we have maybe.
"Sure."
"Okay, let's get to the questions. Uh the first question is, do you talk more about the difference between condensing and contracting?"
Okay, I see you're still having a computer issue, but I'm so glad you're able to be with us. That's such a good question. Let me get a little ball. Getting a tissue. That takes a minute longer. There's something um we called the peripheral pump and it's the um capillaries where the the me the membranes of the capillaries where the fluid is going from the blood to the extracellular fluid to the cellular cytool and the cytoplasm in the capillaries. They're small enough that one blood cell can go through. So the blood cell stays in the capillary. It stays in the blood system unless you cut yourself. You can't tell, but I a door ran into me yesterday. Um, so the in the capillary bed fluid is going from the capillary into the extracellular fluid into the then another membrane into the cell. Meanwhile, with the cell is produced, maybe it's uh we studied not the hormones, but we looked at the endocrine system in the last series. The hormones go through the fluid and they go back into the capillary, which is small enough for one blood cell, which is carrying the oxygen. Ask ask the professor chat. So at that level, I can make everything complicated. Maybe this shows up better. If I squeeze the ball, can you tell I'm squeezing it like this? That's a contraction. that will engage a lot of membranes including my muscles of the hand and all. But if I go to the capillaries and I feel the membranes, put this one down. And I feel the membranes of the capillaries. That's not contracting. It's resting my heart. So my heart doesn't have to pump around my body. So, the heart isn't this big pub. It's a spiral that's moving things through it. And I can pick this one up. And then these these capillaries everywhere, skin, digestive tract, spine. It's there's a condensing, a closure and an opening. The closure and opening that's synchronizing. Maybe show more of me, please. Lana, do I have to move back? do it with me because you can't learn from me. You learn from what? Your own experience. Don't take my word for it. My movement isn't your movement. Your movement Am I contracting my muscles? Yes. But I'm not doing this. I'm inside. I'm in the vessels. And then I'm in the cells of the vessels. I'm in the mitochondria. It's an opening and closing. a receiving and expressing. I don't think I answered anything, but I had fun. Next, is there time for one more? Are we at the end?
"We have time for a short one. I think I'm going to leave my video off for this if I'm having some connectivity issues and ask the question here. Okay, so we have um do mitochondria travel between cells via the same channels as fluids substances?"
You know, this is for us to explore. This is a very new concept. Um, but those of you who know me, I don't know if you feel the difference, but I'm I really have become more um I'm going to get off the ball because I can answer things better with movement than words. If I I need my whole body then please. Thank you. If I put my hands down on the ground on the floor, this magic carpet. Those of you who know me, you'll need more of me on my hands. Do you see that my hand is almost flat? For those who don't know me, I was like this since I was 10 years old and gradually opening it. But just since the last series, my hand is more open and it has to do so I can show you because I can't do it better. If I go through the capillary, my capillary um membranes, first of all, if I go in my muscles, I I forget it. But if I go to the uh capillary bed, I'm like this. But if I go to the mitochondria, I'm like this. Should I do it again? If I just think of my muscles, you see there's there's not the same flow. If I I don't know if you can see it, but I feel there's not the flow. I just put my hand down, but my hands are still amazingly open for myself looking. Um, but then if I go through the capillary beds, I'm like this. I have some movement. But if I go to the mitochondria, I have this. I'm an animal. Play with it yourself. And then I know that we're we're nearing the end. I still would like to offer you the suggestion that you continue to sidelie sideline. Those of you who are new, I'll just do it and then I'll put me on the screen. This comes from a year ago. We started in September of uh last year to spend 10 minutes a day on each side. And I won't go into all the reasons now except that it's phenomenal. It balances the front and the back. And we'll come back to it more, but it won't be uh the major theme of the class. And if you've been doing it and had a positive experience, maybe you know you you can't lie that straight or maybe you have to lie on the bed because you have a hip problem. U could be many reasons. Be comfortable, but eventually 10 minutes a day, especially if you run out of time and have no time, it's perfect. We're at the end of the first class. Thank you for joining all of us. Have a good week. And if you're watching this not during this moment, it's this moment in another moment. Thank you. You can take it, Basha.
Okay. Thank you everyone. As Bonnie mentioned at the beginning of beginning of class, what she's presenting here is a lifetime practice, one that she's been exploring for more than 60 years now. You can make what she's sharing 90minute practices um or you can continue on um as deeply as you'd like to explore it for your lifetime. Your registration does include unlimited lifetime access to the class recordings. Be patient with yourself. Explore and approach the material, which is you, with curiosity. And if you're new here, it can take time. Um, be patient with yourself. Read through the study guide documents. Um, look at anatomical pictures, look up words you may not be familiar with, and um, there is much more information in the study guide documents that Bonnie writes for you than she can present in class. So, some of your questions can be answered by reading through those study guide documents. And, um, of course, we encourage you to join an optional study group facilitators. Um, study groups are being offered around the material Bonnie presents in this series. All facilitators have met specific educational and professional requirements. Um, there are currently 16 study groups available offered in English, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese, and one in English with French translation if needed, and one in English with German translation if needed. And you can find a list of study groups on our 2025 fall series resources page. Um if you are a study group facilitator in class today, please post about your study group in the chat. Thank you all um for our wonderful first class. Um thank thank you to each and every one of you for being here. I want to let you know about an upcoming online event where Bonnie will be the featured present presenter. Um but first just a some important information about the class materials resources um and frequently asked questions. So we have added six study guide documents to your account. 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If finances are an issue, let them know about the pay from the heart scholarship or the payment plans. Um we have been offering our pay from the heart scholarships for all of Bonnie's online series since the beginning of the pandemic in the summer of 2020. And these offer the the the pay from the heart scholarship offer people the opportunity to study with her um based on what they are able to pay. Uh it is a community project looking at how we can support support one another as individuals and as a community. If you would like to help support the registration of those who do need the scholarship to attend this series, um you can do so on our support the scholarship page on our website. Okay. So now for the upcoming event, um join Bonnie and the wider body mind centering community for liaison. This 3-day online event is organized and hosted by the body mind centering association. It's going to spotlight some of the many ways in which body mind centering has been applied to a range of disciplines and help to shape cross exchanges between body mind centering and other sematic, creative, educational and therapeutic approaches and disciplines. And as I said, Bonnie will be the featured presenter. She will be joined by other body mind centering teachers, practitioners and explorers from more than 15 countries. Topics include body mind centering and contemplative practices, creative processes, body mind centering and dance performing arts education, body mind centering developmental movement education and therapy, and body mind centering informed psychotherrapeutic and trauma approaches. The early registration discount has been extended through September 19th through tomorrow. All pricing is on a sliding scale. Please select a level that feels meaningful and sustainable to you. Registration and information can be found on the Body Mind Centering Association's website. Please note that this event is organized and hosted by the Body Mind Centering Association. And that is it last for minutes. We'll put some of some of the information I just mentioned on the screen and um we look forward to you to being with you again on September 25th. Take care.