Published: 2021
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ISBN: 978-1-909470-16-3
Tags: somatics, embodiment, body-mind centering, movement, move into life, Sandra Reeve, Amerta Movement, Suprapto Suryodarmo
Series: ​Ways of Being a Body
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Volume 3 in the series: Ways of Being a Body

Body and Awareness
edited by Sandra Reeve
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20 contemporary approaches to the study and experience  of embodied awareness 



Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice.

     On one side (the left brain, as it were), neuroscience constantly sheds new light on subjects like embodied cognition, the distributed brain (brain-in-the-gut), left and right brain hemispheres (McGilchrist et al.) and the processing of sensory and emotional data.

     On the other side (the right hemisphere, as it were) our study and awareness of the experience of being in our bodies, moving, feeling pain, dreaming, meditating, becoming ill and healing, is becoming increasingly nuanced. Academic research is approaching the experience of consciousness and awareness 'from the inside' and making remarkable discoveries.

   The field of embodied awareness is transdisciplinary and multi-faceted: it has no academic subject listing, but is of central importance to those seeking to understand art, dance, the psychology of health, trauma, learning & development, the psycho-ecology of extinction and climate change, proprioception and interoception, ecological awareness, meditation, and the need for societal transformation in an age of multiple convergent crises. Here 20 practitioners bring a wide range of perspectives to bear on the subject.
Reviewed in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices
“Body and Awareness offers knowledge that emboldens the value of somatic approaches to therapies and creative practices. In each chapter, Reeve encourages the reader to consider how each practitioner’s processes might serve as a type of witness to, or articulator of, their own experiences. The book is structured as an ‘interdisciplinary collection of viewpoints and practices on the topic of Body and Awareness. The twenty chapters define and articulate the central concepts of body and awareness within frameworks which range between various movement practices, philosophies, Buddhism and psychophysical therapies. The authors illustrate their practice and knowledge through case studies, vignettes and/or retrospections...
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Body and Awareness is an important contribution to education, knowing and practice within a predominantly Eurocentric paradigm of somatics. This volume reflects how somatic processes may influence, shape, change, transform, inspire and provoke the embodied body’s experiences within different contextual bodies of awareness. Body and Awareness is an informative guide for teachers, students, practitioners and researchers who operate within the disciplines of somatics, psychosomatics, psychology, embodied cognition, creative arts, alternative medicines and mindfulness.
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About the Editor

Related titles:

Nine Ways of Seeing a Body
​Body and Performance
Attending to Movement
Embodied Lives

See our other titles in:
Movement & Somatics
Mythogeography & Walking
People in Society

Readership

Designed as a guide and stimulus for teachers, students, practitioners and researchers in the fields of:
  • psychology, psychotherapy, ecotherapy, body therapies
  • somatics and movement
  • dance and creative and performance art
  • conventional and alternative medicine
  • meditation, mindfulness and consciousness
“Body and Awareness took me on  an evocative journey through different traditions and brought a breath of fresh air into my practice.” 
Zofia Dymitr, Homeopath
"Body and Awareness is an astonishing compilation of embodied ways of being, seeing and knowing. The volume offers multiple entry points into the event of perceiving, re-defining what it is to know and be in many practical fields of enquiry. The chapters are clear and pragmatic whilst maintaining wisdom that I have rarely seen achieved in an entire book let alone an edited collection. I would highly recommend this collection to artists, academics and curious people around the world."
Kieran Sheehan - Movement Artist and Researcher
Contents
The Actively Imagining Body ~ Helen Edwards
The Alchemical Body ~ Hilary Kneale 
The Changing Body ~ Paula Kramer
The Choreoauratic Body ~ Becca Wood 
The Dreamweaving Body ~ Sarah Hyde 
The Emanation Body ~ Anna Murray-Preece
The Enfolding Body ~ Kim Sargent-Wishart 
The Imaginary Body ~ Alex Crowe
The Instrumental Body ~ Olga Masleinnikova 
The Integrative Body ~ Elaine Hendry Westwick
The Intuitive Body ~ Margaret Kerr 
The Moving Body ~ Sandra Reeve 
The Pain Body ~ Jamila Rodrigues
The Poetic Body ~ Carran Waterfield 
The Proprioceptive Body ~ Laura Haughey
The Psychodynamic Body ~ Sandra Lauffenburger
The Signing Body ~ Sheila Ryan
The Transformative Body ~ Ditty Dokter 
The Unveiled Body ~ Céline Butté 
The Vegetal Body ~ Ali East 
Ways of Being a Body

This is the third in a series of books entitled: Ways of Being a Body.

(Volume 1: Nine Ways of Seeing a Body. Volume 2: Body and Performance.)

All 20 approaches in this newest volume represent the praxis and research of their authors.

The chapters reveal a wide variety of different interests but they share the common framework of the notion of ‘body as flux’, of ‘no fixed or determined sense of self’ and of supporting the being-becoming-being of each of us as a skilful creative entity, emphasising the intelligence of the human body-in-the-world.