Mindful Movement:The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and by Martha Eddy

By Martha Eddy

In conscious circulation, workout physiologist, somatic therapist, dance educator and recommend Martha Eddy makes use of unique interviews, case reviews and practice-led learn to outline the origins of a brand new holistic box – somatic stream schooling and remedy­ – and its influence on health, ecology, politics, wellbeing and fitness, schooling and function. The ebook finds the function dance has performed in informing and encouraging the historic and cultural narrative of somatic arts – methods to attention established within the wisdom of the soma, the residing physique. supplying an summary of the antecedents and up to date advances in somatic learn and with contributions by means of various specialists, Eddy highlights the position of Asian stream, the ecu actual tradition move in addition to the language of neuroscience and their dating to the acting arts, and feminine views in constructing somatic move, somatic dance, social somatics, somatic health, somatic dance and spirituality, and ecosomatics. aware move unpacks and is helping to popularize information of either the physique and the mind.

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