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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. 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
Keywords: yoga, Zen meditation, somatic practices, movement, dance, somatics, touch, sensation, consciousness, sensory awareness
Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252039409 |
Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252039409.001.0001 |
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