The question for somatic practices is how movement and emotion correspond, and how to create frameworks for positive emotional life through movement experiences.

Dance as theater is an important kind of

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.

Haptic perception refers to touch and how we come to know the otherness of people and

•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

what is self-learning? Simply put, it is learning from personal experience. Self-learning is a multilayered and cyclical process that ebbs and flows in context with specific learning environments. Somatic experiences invite discovery and problem solving, and this self-awareness

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

Plato taught, the student already has the answers.1 Teachers simply provide the circumstances for their arrival. The word education derives from the Latin educare, to draw forth. In the body, teaching and learning ensue

How do educators support the investment of self-learning in their students? How does the freedom of choice in learning empower students? How do teachers facilitate a learning process that acknowledges varied interests and talents of students? How can the whole person—thinking, sensing, intuiting, and feeling self—be invited on the journey of a less