somatic transformations through dance, yoga, and touch /
edited with essays by Sondra Fraleigh.
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Prologue on Somatic Contexts -- Part One: On Somatic Movement Arts -- 1. Why Consciousness Matters -- 2. Somatic Movement Arts -- 3. Dancing Becomes Walking -- Part Two: Soma and Change -- 4. Living Shin -- 5. Environments for Self-Learning -- 6. Trauma in the Theater of the Body -- 7. Radical Somatics -- 8. Somatic Awakenings -- Part Three: Performing Consciously -- 9. Like Drifting Snow My Head Falls -- 10. Performing Body as Nature -- 11. Embodied Dreams -- 12. Contact Unwinding -- Dance Maps: A Guide for Dance Experiences.
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"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."--Publisher.
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Somatic transformations through dance, yoga, and touch
Somesthesia.
Health & Biological Sciences.
HEALTH & FITNESS-- Yoga.
Human Anatomy & Physiology.
MEDICAL-- Physiology.
Neuroscience.
SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Human Anatomy & Physiology.