Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Sondra Fraleigh
Abstract
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. This book probes ideas surrounding embodied knowledge and the conscious embodiment of movement and dance. Using a variety of perspectives on movement and dan ... More
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. This book probes ideas surrounding embodied knowledge and the conscious embodiment of movement and dance. Using a variety of perspectives on movement and dance somatics, the book draws on both scholarship and personal practice to participate in a multifaceted investigation of a thriving worldwide phenomenon. The goal: to present the mental and physical health benefits of experiencing one’s inner world through sensory awareness and movement integration.
Keywords:
yoga,
Zen meditation,
somatic practices,
movement,
dance,
somatics,
touch,
sensation,
consciousness,
sensory awareness
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252039409 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 |
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252039409.001.0001 |
