Bone, Breath, and Gesture

Author: Don Hanlon Johnson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556432019
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics. Ranging from hands-on workers like Ida Rolf to phenomenologist Elizabeth Behnke, their lives span this century. In these lectures, writings, and interviews, editor Don Hanlon Johnson has sought to revel the unbroken lineage, theoretical differences, and major similarities of these originators.

Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices

Author: Don Hanlon Johnson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623172888
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
A cutting-edge anthology that opens the door for emergent voices from African American, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian embodiment traditions to transform the field of somatics The notion of “body” that underlies most available writings about somatic theories and practices often assumes a universal normality of structure and function that has now come into question. In this collection, viewpoints grounded in neural, hormonal, gender, and physiological diversities challenge convention and open up a more inclusive world of somatics for psychotherapy and many forms of bodywork. The authors embody these differences and have developed their particular somatic practices out of direct experience. Their narratives offer new approaches to the transformation of our social order’s bodily roots enabling a healing of the recurrent traumas of the past. Covering topics such as the autistic body-mind, how the human body is both shaped by and shapes contemporary society, and somatic psychotherapy as a trustworthy resource for healing within the African American community, these poignant essays will help students and practitioners of somatics broaden the scope and efficacy of their therapeutic practices.

Groundworks

Author: Don Hanlon Johnson
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556432356
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Groundworks gives accounts of the actual processes of working with individuals in six major schools of Somatics by either the creator of the method itself or a leading teacher of the method. The creators are Robert Hall of Lomi School, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of Body-Mind Centering, and Emilie Conrad Da'oud of Continuum. Leading teachers of methods include Michael Salveson on Rolfing, Elizabeth Beringer on Feldenkrais work, and Darcy Elman on F. M. Alexander Technique. Each therapist describes how he or she approaches and diagnoses a patient's problem, how he or she determines what and where to work, and the progress of a session. Each therapist shows the complexity of working with somatic processes and the resulting reward for client and therapist both.

Natural Intelligence

Author: Susan Aposhyan
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780683305999
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This text weaves together the history, theory and research of body-mind psychotherapy. The author lays a foundation for an understanding of the connection between the body and the mind and how the therapist/student can work to integrate the two into a healthy, functioning whole. The book is centred around two main themes: integration of the body and mind to access an organic source of intelligence and recognition that our bodies are motivated at every level (even down to cellular and molecular level). It also recognizes that emotion is an inherent part of our bodily process.

Sensing, Feeling, and Action

Author: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9780937645031
Category : Body-mind centering
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description

Discovering the Body's Wisdom

Author: Mirka Knaster
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553373277
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
An informative guide to the principles, theories, and practices of Eastern and Western body therapies explains how to get the most out of some seventy-five different treatment approaches--from massage and yoga to Rolfing and reflexology. Original.

Job's Body

Author: Deane Juhan
Publisher: Barrytown Limited
ISBN: 9781581770223
Category : Human physiology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Possibly the most famous and widely used resource in therapeutic bodywork, this beautifully written, detailed and reader-friendly picture of how and why the body responds to touch is both scientifically reliable and inspiring. Furthering the presentation

In the Watchful City

Author: S. Qiouyi Lu
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250792991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
"This masterful work positions Lu among the vanguard of contemporary futurism and speculative fiction."—Publishers Weekly, starred review In the tradition of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, debut author S. Qiouyi Lu has written a multifaceted story of borders, power, diaspora, and transformation with In the Watchful City. The city of Ora is watching. Anima is an extrasensory human tasked with surveilling and protecting Ora’s citizens via a complex living network called the Gleaming. Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from harm. When a mysterious outsider enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around with the world with a story attached to each item, Anima’s world expands beyond the borders of Ora to places—and possibilities—æ never before imagined to exist. But such knowledge leaves Anima with a question that throws into doubt ær entire purpose: What good is a city if it can’t protect its people? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology

Author: Joan Chodorow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135854122
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Dance/movement as active imagination was originated by Jung in 1916. Developed in the 1960s by dance therapy pioneer Mary Whitehouse, it is today both an approach to dance therapy as well as a form of active imagination in analysis. In her delightful book Joan Chodorow provides an introduction to the origins, theory and practice of dance/movement as active imagination. Beginning with her own story the author shows how dance/ movement is of value to psychotherapy. An historical overview of Jung's basic concepts is given as well as the most recent depth psychological synthesis of affect theory based on the work of Sylvan Tomkins, Louis Stewart, and others. Finally in discussing the use of dance/movement as active imagination in practice, the movement themes that emerge and the non-verbal expressive aspects of the therapaeutic relationship are described.

Bodymind Energetics

Author: Mark D. Seem
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892812462
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Dr. Seem proposes an integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and psychosomatics in this model of health care that acknowledges the connection of body and mind.