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Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
gentle movements for fine-tuning, especially the affective and perceptual influences of movement and touch that are the bedrock of movement-based somatic studies and practices. Slow and gentle movement allows people to pay attention to affects.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
Stern’s term affect attunement describes interpersonal exchanges between infants and mothers in which the mother matches the dynamics of her infant’s movements and vocalizations (as in fig. 8). Stern points out that the dynamics are qualitatively matched in a kinetic-affective sense.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
Haptic perception refers to touch and how we come to know the otherness of people and
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participants can imagine hidden arms waiting to emerge,
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
Moshe Feldenkrais liked to speak about how to find “elegance” in movement, and he didn’t mean ornamentation, but rather an easy attention and reversibility. What goes away from a referenced point returns easily. These are all matters of moving consciously.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
I also know that I am doing this for love of the activity—or stated more objectively—for autotelic reasons internal to the process. Somatic studies emphasize autotelic purposes—doing something for its own sake, as in yoga and Zen where all work is seen as equal. In these perspectives as in somatic processes, we work not toward a particular end, but
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
Noise is not what we want at home. Harmony and balance are part of the routines of having a home, of taking pleasure in our bodies, of finding a pleasing equilibrium, of enjoying safety and well-being.
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Marlo Fisken added 12d ago
their own phrases or changing their use of time, space, and energy. This opens options in “owning” the material as they shade it with their own
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Let go of everything but your sense of you in your body. Find neutrality.
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