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Body and Awareness               

NIne Ways of Seeing a Body - Sandra Reeve/MOve into Life
Body and Awareness
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.


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
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Readership

Designed as a guide and stimulus for teachers, students, practitioners and researchers in the fields of:
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  • psychology, psychotherapy, ecotherapy, body therapies
  • somatics and movement
  • dance and creative and performance art
  • conventional and alternative medicine
  • meditation, mindfulness and consciousness

The image on the front of the book is by Greta Berlin in whose sculpture garden we normally move during Ecological Body workshop.