communication, but we should not lose track of the original purposes of dance: pleasure, freedom, praise, and the opportunity to listen to our hearts in the making.

the ideas of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, Ida Rolf, F. Matthias Alexander, Elsa Gindler, Moshe Feldenkrais, Anna Halprin, Bob Cooley, Judith Aston, Thomas Hanna, Emilie Conrad, and many others have evolved into a vision of the human body as motion. The mechanical approach of body as object has given way to an understanding of body as a living

and yoga, as also in games and sports, are part of a powerful loop of intention and perception. Movement is not something we do nearly so much as what we are, and harbinger to what we can become.

Ideas emerge from bodily practices in two very different forms: from what is done to us, and what we do, both just going about our lives—infant handling, walking, sitting, breathing, studying; and deliberately chosen activities such as exercise regimens, dance, diet, and meditation practices.