Body and Awareness
Body and Awareness
edited: Sandra Reeve - Move into Life
edited: Sandra Reeve - Move into Life
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.
To read more about it or to order a copy (for £16) visit the publisher's website.
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.
To read more about it or to order a copy (for £16) visit the publisher's website.
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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 |
See also details of the first and second volumes in this collection:
Ways of Seeing a Body Vol. 1: Nine Ways of Seeing a Body Ways of Seeing a Body Vol. 2: Body and Performance. Readership
Designed as a guide and stimulus for teachers, students, practitioners and researchers in the fields of:
The image on the front of the book is by Greta Berlin in whose sculpture garden we normally move during Ecological Body workshop.
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