Nine Ways of Seeing a Body
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body
Sandra Reeve - Move into Life
Sandra Reeve - Move into Life
“Living in Java, I had the insight that when I used the word ‘body’ I meant something quite different from a Javanese colleague who used the same word. I came to understand that how we view and inhabit our bodies, and our experience of ‘body’ is as varied as our multiple notions of self. I began to investigate different views of the body to contextualise my work.”
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body is my new book on the many different ways that we can experience our body in movement.
Published by Triarchy Press in June 2011 it covers some quite well-known views of the body (for instance the idea of body and mind being quite separate, introduced by Descartes) and some more recent ideas about the body being the way in which we can experience ourselves.
It ends with The Ecological Body, which is the culmination of the Move into Life workshop programme and suggests that each of us is a constantly changing element of the whole human and environmental ecosystem around us... that we cannot separate ourselves from our surroundings or say where one ends and the other begins.
To read more about it or to order a copy visit the publisher's website. To read more about it or to order a copy visit the publisher's website. Use promotion code MOVEINTOLIFE (case sensitive) to get a 30% discount on the published price.
See also details of the second volume in this collection: Ways of Seeing a Body: Body and Performance.
Some reviews and comments:
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I love your book and will use it as a text in one of my courses next fall....I am now using it starting next week.
Don Hanlon Johnson, Professor of Somatics, California Inst. of Integral Studies
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In this compact and accessible book Sandra Reeve invites the reader to engage with ‘the body’ through nine different lenses. The ensuing thought provoking journey will be of particular value to psychotherapists, arts therapists, and those interested in new ways of being.
Anna Chesner: London Centre for Psychodrama
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This book is a delightful, readable set of beginning points or lenses through which to constantly consider and reconsider embodied practice… I am already looking forward to the second book.
Phillip Zarrilli: Artistic Director, The Llanarth Group
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...a small and perfectly formed book, which is by no means small in content.
...illuminated by reflections on her own clinical practice, Reeve offers a historical tracking of different conceptions of the body within western thinking in a concise and informed way.
...for anyone who has ever trawled through philosophies of the body it is a welcome relief to have them laid out so clearly.
...essential reading for anyone interested in dance, in movement, in philosophies of the body; for dancers, researchers, students, somatic movement practitioners and for dance movement therapists. Wonderful."
Polly Hudson: Senior Lecturer, Dance Performing Arts, Coventry University
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Your little NEW book is absolutely wonderful and useful! Your book is really very helpful - next week I'm going to use it in my lectures and ask all the students get it (I have 36) students, here and in the USA
Amanda Williamson, Course Leader: MA Dance and Somatic Well-being: connections to the living body, New York and UK
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To read more about it or to order a copy (for £10) visit the publisher's website.
The image on the front of the book is by Greta Berlin in whose sculpture garden we normally move during Ecological Body workshop.