Dances with Sheep
On RePairing the Human–Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing
9781789386936
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Dances with Sheep
On RePairing the Human–Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing
Advances Felt Thinking, a mode of personal and environmental self-inquiry rooted in movement and nature.
As forests burn and oceans rise, attunement to the natural world has never been more urgent. In Dances with Sheep, Anna Dako details Felt Thinking in Movement, an ecosomatic methodology intended to deepen an individual’s connection with the environment and with themselves. Through site-specific improvisation, practitioners develop the ability to notice their surroundings and reactions, building a dialog with the natural world.
Dako explains the processes encompassed within Felt Thinking. Practitioners use free movement to interact with the landscape and become attuned to its sights, sounds, scents, and sensations. Gradually, participants focus on their psychological experience of time and cultivate greater awareness of the relation between nature and the self.
Combining insights from performance studies, art therapy, and counseling, Dances with Sheep will interest anyone looking to rediscover their place in the natural world.
As forests burn and oceans rise, attunement to the natural world has never been more urgent. In Dances with Sheep, Anna Dako details Felt Thinking in Movement, an ecosomatic methodology intended to deepen an individual’s connection with the environment and with themselves. Through site-specific improvisation, practitioners develop the ability to notice their surroundings and reactions, building a dialog with the natural world.
Dako explains the processes encompassed within Felt Thinking. Practitioners use free movement to interact with the landscape and become attuned to its sights, sounds, scents, and sensations. Gradually, participants focus on their psychological experience of time and cultivate greater awareness of the relation between nature and the self.
Combining insights from performance studies, art therapy, and counseling, Dances with Sheep will interest anyone looking to rediscover their place in the natural world.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword: Dancing with Sheep and Paradox
Abstract
Summary
Terminology
Preface
SECTION ONE – OPENINGS AND CONTEXTS
Introduction: Contemplating Ecological Belonging in Somatic Felt Thinking
From Living Practices to Practicing Life - A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Moving towards Wellbeing: On Change and Continuity in ‘Being With’ Experience
Historical and Cultural Contexts of Relationality
Therapeutic and Philosophical Contexts of Wellbeing
Ecological Contexts of Somatic Movement Experience
On Somatic Ontologies of Human Nature and its Day-to-Day Dimension
Felt Thinking and Languaging the Experience
The Three Dimensions of Felt Thinking and their Embryological Correspondence with Time/Space Experience
SECTION TWO – THE PRACTICE OF FELT THINKING IN MOVEMENT
I. Moving with Receptivity and Sensuous Co-Presence in Physical Time, or On Where and When of Being
9. In and Out
10. Now and Then
11. The Shared and the Unique
12. The Temporal and the Infinite
13. Reflective Synopsis: Moving Towards Sensual Co-Presence
14. Connecting with the Land - Stories in Sensuous Receptivity
II. Moving with Responsiveness and Experiential Exchange in Psychological Time, or On Who and What of Being
15. Voicing and Silencing
16. Moving and Not Moving
17. Fast and Slow
18. Purpose and Willingness
19. Being and Letting Be
20. Reflexive Synopsis: Moving Towards Experiential Openness
21. Co-Creating with the Land – Stories in Experiential Responsiveness
III. Moving with Responsibility and Insightful Intuiting in Primordial Time, or On Why and How of Being
Multi-dimensionality and Permeability in Movement
Feeling with the Land – Stories in Insightful Responsibility
SECTION THREE – DISCUSSION AND DEVELOPMENTS
Felt Thinking and Moving Towards Inclusive Wellbeing Practice
Felt Thinking and the Embodied Experience of Time/Space and its Cultural Implications
Felt Thinking as Green Awakening and its Wider Philosophical Implications
Felt Thinking and the Concept of Temporality
Felt Thinking and Nature as Wholeness
Felt Thinking and the Cycle of Life
Felt Thinking as Living Philosophy in Practice
Rounding Up, Open Thoughts
Glossary
References
About the Author
Foreword: Dancing with Sheep and Paradox
Abstract
Summary
Terminology
Preface
SECTION ONE – OPENINGS AND CONTEXTS
Introduction: Contemplating Ecological Belonging in Somatic Felt Thinking
From Living Practices to Practicing Life - A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Moving towards Wellbeing: On Change and Continuity in ‘Being With’ Experience
Historical and Cultural Contexts of Relationality
Therapeutic and Philosophical Contexts of Wellbeing
Ecological Contexts of Somatic Movement Experience
On Somatic Ontologies of Human Nature and its Day-to-Day Dimension
Felt Thinking and Languaging the Experience
The Three Dimensions of Felt Thinking and their Embryological Correspondence with Time/Space Experience
SECTION TWO – THE PRACTICE OF FELT THINKING IN MOVEMENT
I. Moving with Receptivity and Sensuous Co-Presence in Physical Time, or On Where and When of Being
9. In and Out
10. Now and Then
11. The Shared and the Unique
12. The Temporal and the Infinite
13. Reflective Synopsis: Moving Towards Sensual Co-Presence
14. Connecting with the Land - Stories in Sensuous Receptivity
II. Moving with Responsiveness and Experiential Exchange in Psychological Time, or On Who and What of Being
15. Voicing and Silencing
16. Moving and Not Moving
17. Fast and Slow
18. Purpose and Willingness
19. Being and Letting Be
20. Reflexive Synopsis: Moving Towards Experiential Openness
21. Co-Creating with the Land – Stories in Experiential Responsiveness
III. Moving with Responsibility and Insightful Intuiting in Primordial Time, or On Why and How of Being
Multi-dimensionality and Permeability in Movement
Feeling with the Land – Stories in Insightful Responsibility
SECTION THREE – DISCUSSION AND DEVELOPMENTS
Felt Thinking and Moving Towards Inclusive Wellbeing Practice
Felt Thinking and the Embodied Experience of Time/Space and its Cultural Implications
Felt Thinking as Green Awakening and its Wider Philosophical Implications
Felt Thinking and the Concept of Temporality
Felt Thinking and Nature as Wholeness
Felt Thinking and the Cycle of Life
Felt Thinking as Living Philosophy in Practice
Rounding Up, Open Thoughts
Glossary
References
About the Author