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PhD Thesis: The Ecological Body ~ extracts

The Ecological Body

Movement is a key aspect of the ecological body, which distinguishes itself from the environmental body by viewing the world from motion rather than stasis and by experiencing its changing self as a changing system among other environmental systems.

An ecological body, I suggest, is an immanent, co-creating, moving body: a body constantly becoming within a changing environment, where the body and the spaces in between and around bodies are considered as equally dynamic. Body and environment, I suggest, co-create each other through mutual influence and interactional shaping.

The ecological body is situated in movement itself and as a system dancing within systems, rather than as an isolated unit.

The ecological body perceives the moving world through movement and experiences herself as one part of a changing situation.

The ecological body is situated in flux, participation and change. The changing body/soma experienced through movement as part of the changing environment challenges any fixed and deterministic notion of self and stimulates a different sense of self, self as process, participating in the movement of life .
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Thesis pages

  • Active and Passive
  • Amerta Movement
  • Being in Between
  • Borders of Humility and Humiliation
  • Ecological Lenses
  • Ecological Movement
  • Emergence
  • Grotowski
  • Half-Open Lips
  • Move into Life
  • Movement Dynamics
  • Movement Psychotherapy
  • Movement Studies
  • Niche
  • Pattern
  • Point, Line and Angle
  • Proportion
  • Proportion in Motion
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