Description
Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the less known and most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice. On one side (the left brain, as it were), neuroscience in all its forms is constantly shedding new light on subjects like embodied cognition, the distributed brain (brain-in-the-gut, brain-in the-heart), the workings of the left and right hemisphere of the brain (McGilchrist and others) and the processing of sensory and emotional data. On the other side (the right hemisphere, as it were) our study and awareness of the experience of being in our bodies, moving, feeling pain, dreaming, meditating, growing, becoming ill and healing, is becoming increasingly nuanced. Academic research is approaching the experience of consciousness and awareness 'from the inside' and making remarkable discoveries. The emerging field of 'body and awareness' is transdisciplinary and multifaceted - it has no subject listing in libraries and academia or in booksellers' metadata. But it is of central importance to those interested in understanding art, dance, the psychology of health, child learning and development, trauma, the psycho-ecology of extinction, loss and climate change, proprioception and enteroception, ecological awareness, meditation, and the need for societal transformation in an age of multiple convergent crises.
About the Author
Sandra Reeve is a movement artist, director, teacher, mentor, gardener and dance movement psychotherapist living in West Dorset, where her international 'Move into Life' programme of courses and events is based. Sandra is particularly known for her work on the themes of movement dynamics, ecological lenses and ecological movement. She completed a PhD in Performance Practice at the University of Exeter in 2009 where she remains an Honorary Fellow. Her thesis was called 'The Ecological Body'. As well as writing widely for Routledge, Intellect and others, she is co-editor of Triarchy's Embodied Lives, author of Nine Ways of Seeing a Body and editor of Body and Performance.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913743000
Author Sandra Reeve
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Triarchy Press
Publisher Triarchy Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm
About the Author
Sandra Reeve is a movement artist, director, teacher, mentor, gardener and dance movement psychotherapist living in West Dorset, where her international 'Move into Life' programme of courses and events is based. Sandra is particularly known for her work on the themes of movement dynamics, ecological lenses and ecological movement. She completed a PhD in Performance Practice at the University of Exeter in 2009 where she remains an Honorary Fellow. Her thesis was called 'The Ecological Body'. As well as writing widely for Routledge, Intellect and others, she is co-editor of Triarchy's Embodied Lives, author of Nine Ways of Seeing a Body and editor of Body and Performance.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913743000
Author Sandra Reeve
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Triarchy Press
Publisher Triarchy Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm
