Mindful Movement
The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
265 pages
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10 halftones
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7 x 9
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Influences and Development of Somatic Education
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview – The What and Why of Somatic Education
Chapter 2: The First Generation – Founders of Somatic Education Technique
Chapter 3: Second Generation – Set One: The Influence of Dance on Somatic Education
Chapter 4: European Antecedents to Somatic Movement
Kelly Jean Mullan
Chapter 5: Global Roots of Somatic Movement: Asian and African Influences
Sangeet Duchane
Part 2: The Emergence of Somatic Movement Education and Therapy
Chapter 6: Second Generation – Set Two: Dynamic Approaches to Well-Being in Dance and Fitness
Chapter 7: Third Generation – The Amalgams: Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Today
Chapter 8: The Universities and Somatic Inquiry: The Growth of Somatic Movement Dance Education in Britain
Sara Reed and Sarah Whatley
Chapter 9: How Dance Has Helped Situate Academic Fields of Somatic Inquiry: Case Study University of Illinois-Urbana
Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
Chapter 10: Somatic Movement and Dance Education in pre-K-12 Education
Kate Tarlow Morgan, Eve Selver-Kassell, Lauren Lipman and Mary Ann Brehm
Part 3: Current Trends in Somatic Thinking and Being
Chapter 11: Healthy Movement, Healthy Mind: Neuroscience Connections to Somatic Healing and Action
Chapter 12: Conscious Action and Social Change: “Social Somatics”
Chapter 13: Somatic Dance and Environmental Activism: Is this Spirituality?
Chapter 14: Concluding Thoughts: Does Somatic Awareness Interplay with Genetics, Ecstasy and Space?
Appendices
Appendix 1: Elaine Summers: Skytime 2014/Moon Rainbow
Appendix 2: Emilie Conrad in Memoriam
Appendix 3: Ruth Doing’s Rhythms Fundamentals Compared with Body-Mind Centering BNP as presented by Kate Tarlow Morgan
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Part 1: Influences and Development of Somatic Education
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview – The What and Why of Somatic Education
Chapter 2: The First Generation – Founders of Somatic Education Technique
Chapter 3: Second Generation – Set One: The Influence of Dance on Somatic Education
Chapter 4: European Antecedents to Somatic Movement
Kelly Jean Mullan
Chapter 5: Global Roots of Somatic Movement: Asian and African Influences
Sangeet Duchane
Part 2: The Emergence of Somatic Movement Education and Therapy
Chapter 6: Second Generation – Set Two: Dynamic Approaches to Well-Being in Dance and Fitness
Chapter 7: Third Generation – The Amalgams: Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Today
Chapter 8: The Universities and Somatic Inquiry: The Growth of Somatic Movement Dance Education in Britain
Sara Reed and Sarah Whatley
Chapter 9: How Dance Has Helped Situate Academic Fields of Somatic Inquiry: Case Study University of Illinois-Urbana
Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
Chapter 10: Somatic Movement and Dance Education in pre-K-12 Education
Kate Tarlow Morgan, Eve Selver-Kassell, Lauren Lipman and Mary Ann Brehm
Part 3: Current Trends in Somatic Thinking and Being
Chapter 11: Healthy Movement, Healthy Mind: Neuroscience Connections to Somatic Healing and Action
Chapter 12: Conscious Action and Social Change: “Social Somatics”
Chapter 13: Somatic Dance and Environmental Activism: Is this Spirituality?
Chapter 14: Concluding Thoughts: Does Somatic Awareness Interplay with Genetics, Ecstasy and Space?
Appendices
Appendix 1: Elaine Summers: Skytime 2014/Moon Rainbow
Appendix 2: Emilie Conrad in Memoriam
Appendix 3: Ruth Doing’s Rhythms Fundamentals Compared with Body-Mind Centering BNP as presented by Kate Tarlow Morgan
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Review Quotes
Hiie Saumaa | Dance Chronicle
"Mindful Movement, the first comprehensive and large-scale study of somatic education, will surely become a foundational account in the field. It clearly and convincingly demonstrates the importance, breadth, and wide-ranging implications of somatic work. This book, doubtlessly a work of years of meticulous research and personal engagement with somatic practices, abounds in inspiring pathways for future scholars, educators, and students of somatics. Eddy's text helps to further establish, validate, solidify, and clarify this exciting field."
Elizabeth Zimmer | Village Voice
"Eddy’s material is valuable, tracing the history and geography of somatics from its origins in Europe to its flowering in twentieth-century North America, where primary exponents have included such pioneers as F.M. Alexander, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Moshe Feldenkrais. The book provides charts, interviews, first-person testimonials, and photographs, and it includes several chapters written by other people, such as Rebecca Nettl-Fiol’s 'How Dance Has Helped Situate Academic Fields of Somatic Inquiry: Case Study University of Illinois-Urbana.' Anyone planning to teach either dance or somatics—actually, anyone with a body—will find useful information here."
Nancy Romita | Journal of Dance Medicine & Science
"Eddy's considerable expertise in both movement science and varied somatic practices, along with 15 years of case study, practice-oriented research, and personal interviews research, results in a rich investigation of the somatic arts. Eddy is also responsible for the development of the somatic program entitled 'Body/Mind Dancing,' which provides additional depth of expertise and context throughout the book. . . . Eddy's extensively-researched book on approaches to kinesthetic intelligence and embodied understanding, together with its comprehensive bibliography, serves to greatly inform and enrich the literature in this multi-faceted field."
Valerie Blanc | American Journal of Dance Therapy
"Mindful Movement is a thoughtful and comprehensive chronicle of the history of the field of somatic movement education as well as a critical and conscious call to future steps and advocacy. . . . This book is an asset to dance/movement therapists by identifying the multiple roots of somatic education. The book also begins to name the ways in which somatic education both intersects and differs from DMT and how each field can inform the other."
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