Full Description
In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist, and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies, and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field-somatic movement education and therapy--and its impact on fitness, ecology, politics, and performance. The book reveals the role dance has played in informing and inspiring the historical and cultural narrative of somatic arts. Providing an overview of the antecedents and recent advances in somatic study and with contributions by diverse experts, Eddy highlights the role of Asian movement, the European physical culture movement and its relationship to the performing arts, and female perspectives in developing somatic movement, somatic dance, social somatics, somatic fitness, somatic dance and spirituality, and ecosomatics. Mindful Movement unpacks and helps to popularize awareness of both the body and the mind.
Contents
Part 1: Influences and Development of Somatic Education
Chapter 1
Introduction and Overview — The What and Why of Somatic Education
Chapter 2
The First Generation — Founders of Somatic Education Technique
Chapter 3
Second Generation — Set One: The Influence of Dance on Somatic Education
Chapter 4 - Kelly Jean Mullan
European Antecedents to Somatic Movement
Chapter 5 - Sangeet Duchane
Global Roots of Somatic Movement: Asian and African Influences
Part 2 - The Emergence of Somatic Movement Education and Therapy
Chapter 6
Second Generation — Set Two: Dynamic Approaches to Well-Being in Dance and Fitness
Chapter 7
Third Generation — The Amalgams: Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Today
Chapter 8 - By Sara Reed and Sarah Whatley
The Universities and Somatic Inquiry: The Growth of Somatic Movement Dance Education in Britain
Chapter 9 - Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
How Dance Has Helped Situate Academic Fields of Somatic Inquiry: Case Study University of Illinois-Urbana
Chapter 10 - Kate Tarlow Morgan, Eve Selver-Kassell, Lauren Lipman and Mary Ann Brehm
Somatic Movement and Dance Education in pre-K-12 Education
Part 3: Current Trends in Somatic Thinking and Being
Chapter 11
Healthy Movement, Healthy Mind: Neuroscience Connections to Somatic Healing and Action
Chapter 12
Conscious Action and Social Change: "Social Somatics"
Chapter 13
Somatic Dance and Environmental Activism: Is this Spirituality?
Chapter 14
Concluding Thoughts: Does Somatic Awareness Interplay with Genetics, Ecstasy and Space?
