Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
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Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
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.”
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.
Let us pause on this word affect, because it has several definitions. The one we cultivate in somatic studies is delimited to influences of
Let go of everything but your sense of you in your body. Find neutrality.
movement and feelings associated with actions. Affect as
Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, which made process the leading ontological concern. He held the metaphysical position that sequentially structured sequences of successive stages or phases are essential aspects of everything that exists.
To the definition of consciousness as a state of mind, Damasio adds that states of mind are always accompanied by feelings.17 We are conscious and very much alive to the feeling of our own existence, or perhaps the feeling is dull, but if we are awake and conscious, we feel something (consciousness is consciousness of something).
Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (1999), the first of which he believes should be added to the basic seven: (1) naturalist intelligence, as an ability to draw upon features of the natural environment, (2) and existential intelligence, which signals human concerns with ultimate issues and the nature of existence.12
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