Moving consciously : somatic transformations through dance, yoga, and touch / edited with essays by Sondra Fraleigh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraleigh, Sondra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somesthesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 256 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois ; Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The popularity of yoga and Zen meditation has heightened awareness of somatic practices. Individuals develop the conscious embodiment central to somatics work via movement and dance, or through touch from a skilled teacher or therapist often called a somatic bodyworker. Methods of touch and movement foster generative processes of consciousness in order to create a fluid interconnection between sensation, thought, movement, and expression. In Moving Consciously, Sondra Fraleigh gathers essays that probe ideas surrounding embodied knowledge and the conscious embodiment of movement and dance. Using a variety of perspectives on movement and dance somatics, Fraleigh and other contributors draw on scholarship and personal practice to participate in a multifaceted investigation of a thriving worldwide phenomenon. Their goal: to present the mental and physical health benefits of experiencing one's inner world through sensory awareness and movement integration

Contents:

Introduction

Prologue on somatic contexts

Part 1. On somatic movement arts. Why consciousness matters / Sondra Fraleigh

Somatic movements arts / Sondra Fraleigh

Dancing becomes walking / Sondra Fraleigh

Part 2. Soma and change. Living Shin / Catherine A. Schaeffer

Environments for self-learning / Kelly Ferris Lester

Trauma in the theater of the body / Richard Biehl

Radical somatics / Hillel Braude

Somatic awakenings / Ruth Way

Part 3. Performing consciously. Like drifting snow my head falls / Robert Bingham

Performing body as nature / Alison East

Embodied dreams / Jeanne Schul

Contact unwinding / Karin Rugman

Dance maps : a guide for dance experiences.

Notes:

Contains bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-252-09749-1

OCLC:

913869204