Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch

The experience may be slightly different from practice to practice (and lesson to lesson), but the essence revolves around discovering (or rediscovering) the wisdom of the self.

“the problem-posing educator constantly re-forms his reflections in the reflection of the students. The students—no longer docile learners—are now critical co-investigators in dialogue with the teacher. The teacher presents the material to the students for their consideration, and re-considers her earlier considerations as the students express thei

Martha Eddy states, “When the dancing is approached from a holistic perspective, which involves experiential inquiry inclusive of physical awareness, cognitive reflection, and insights from feelings, the dancing is somatic.”

Let go of everything but your sense of you in your body. Find neutrality.

Somatics, as a genre, centers on the individual who is having the experience in the present moment.

“bring your attention to,” or “what if you focus on this, now that you’ve learned that”? Sondra calls this “cultivating verbs of permission.”

If there is one technique that has stayed with me in my quest for silence, it is how to send worries out on the breath, and how to let my thoughts flow by on a river. This is an image, and I say I don’t use these. Well, I use very few, and I try not to guide people through an entire mediation with words.

•Movement Meditations SENSORY AWARENESS PROCESSES •Flow Movement Patterning •Finding Details in Patterns •Focusing Image and Imagination •Holding Presence •Following Six Senses •Using the Camera as Witness Shin Somatics Methods MATCHING MOVEMENT AND TOUCH •Matching through Movement •Matching through Touch •Matching with Flow Repatterning •Clearing

process can exist with or without product.