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This book focuses on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the
importance of self-regulation and co-regulation. Â The
chapters attend to self-regulating different tissues through
movement, breath, sound and the imagination. Throughout the book
the author shares processes and practices that support participants
to balance their living tissues, moving from sympathetic arousal
into parasympathetic ease and release. The study of the autonomic
nervous system and how to innervate the parasympathetic through
breath awareness, heart-sensing and intero-ception is the central
through-line in the book. Uniquely, Williamson attends to the
anatomical and physiological complexity underlying the apparent
simplicity of somatic movement dance practice. How to
sense-perceive and move with attuned awareness of specific body
tissues, such the skeletal-muscular and craniosacral system invites
the reader into a deep anatomical and physiological excavation of
self-regulation. The interconnectivity of fascia, and the
importance of cardio-ception, breath awareness and gravity lie at
the heart of this book. Sensory-perceptual awareness of the heart
is foregrounded as the most important ingredient in the efficacy of
practice, as well as gravi-ception, soft-tissue-rolling and fascial
unwinding. Includes a collective foreword from Sarah Whatley,
Daniel Deslauriers, Celeste Snowber and Karin Rugman This is
a must-read practice-as-research book, for under- and postgraduate
students, researchers and educators and especially important for
practitioners who feel the weight and condensation of the
mechanistic paradigm.
This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational
presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement
dance education internationally. The expressive and integral nature
of spiritual experience remains academically undefined and
peripheral to our understanding of creative practice. Lack of
theoretical rigour, as well as a lack of a substantive definitional
and methodological competency, has resulted in spirituality being
marginalised. To date, important questions about how diverse
spiritualities shape professional practice in the somatic movement
and dance arts remain unanswered. This cutting-edge collection
fills that void, providing greater creative and discursive clarity.
This is a collection of works by internationally recognized women
leading the field of dance research and spirituality across the
globe. Building on current soulful research scholarship in the
discipline, these authors offer extensive and detailed research
into spirituality, dance, gender, religion, somatics and
women-centred dance research. Written by women dance scholars in
higher education, this evocative and illuminating work highlights a
growing discourse on gendered leadership in dance research.
Spiritual Herstories provides new pathways and innovative research
methods that respond to the educational needs of women emerging in
male-centric socio-historic research traditions.
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