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The Fluid Nature of Being
Embodied practices for healing and wholeness
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We will use this data to notify you when this publication is available, and for no other purpose.The Fluid Nature of Being is a collection of writings by practitioners of Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy (IBMT), an approach to somatic movement education and therapy. The cultivation of consciously embodied movement is at the heart of somatic movement practice. Through embodiment practices, soma – the subjectively experienced sense of embodied self – becomes a vital, living reality and a foundation through which healthy relationship to others, to Nature, and to life as a whole can be nourished.
The book describes the practice, thinking, research and creative work of twenty-one IBMT practitioners. Each has also trained in other disciplines and their writing weaves together their broader learning, passion and professional practice within the IBMT approach to somatic work. In this volume we offer a collection of expressions with a rich diversity of themes and styles, bringing these voices from the next generation of somatic movement practitioners, writers and leaders to a wider audience.
The book covers topics such as IBMT in therapy, education, early years learning, dance and theatre; the integration with psychotherapy, psychoanalytic thinking, and somatic trauma therapy; and the connection between individual healing and the healing of the Earth and Nature during this time of planetary crisis.
There are many aspects of IBMT practice described in this book that are shared with somatic practices in general, though there are also aspects which are specific to this approach. IBMT uniquely integrates in-depth studies in Somatic Psychology and the Discipline of Authentic Movement into a foundation of Body-Mind Centering® training. At the core of the practice is the quest to deepen connection with self, and from there, connection with others and the world around us.
Introduction – Linda Hartley
Body, Earth, Nature and Connection
Ch 1. Gaia Body – Mari Winkelman
Ch 2. Becoming Nature – Rachel Lambert
Ch 3. Awakening to the Collective Body: Authentic Movement as a Path to Wholeness – Mari Joyce
Ch 4. Pelvic Bowls: Digging/drilling/exploitation – A Performance – Raima Drąsutytė
Moving into Life 1: Embryological Beginnings
Ch 5. Sailing Backwards Singlehandedly – Beverley Nolan
Ch 6. Navel Radiation – the Development of the Internal Fascial Network – Anna Titova
Ch 7. IBMT and Dance – “Re-Membrane” – Frauke Burchards
Moving into Life 2: Birth and Beyond – Supporting Development
Ch 8. Support on the Path of Motherhood – Anna Feoktistova
Ch 9. Mother witness: revisiting rupture at birth through somatic movement practice – Penny Collinson
Ch 10. The Development of Movement and the Self – Heike Kuhlmann
Ch 11. Finding our Ground – Working with Adopted Children – Paul Beaumont
Therapeutic Applications 1: Holding and Containing
Ch 12. Circle – the Nature of Containment – Daria Shamina
Ch 13. Somatic countertransference in the work of a somatic therapist – Anna Khasina
Ch 14. Nourishing ourselves – A somatic approach towards deep connection and healing – Maren Hillert
Therapeutic Applications 2: Working with Trauma
Ch 15. Somatic bodywork and movement approaches to trauma – Jane Okondo
Ch 16. Post-traumatic stress, chronic pain and Authentic Movement – Barbara Erber
Ch 17. Embracing trauma through performance – Leticia Santafe
Somatic Movement and Dance Research
Ch 18. Somatic and Poetic Movement: the connection between IBMT and dance practice – Maria Grudskaya
Ch 19. Mediating Resonant Spaces – Gaelin Little
Ch 20. The Best Present – Aiste Kriukelytė
Three Poems
Winter Solstice – Mari Joyce
Poem 1: Poem 2 – Agniete Laurinaityte
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Embodied practices for healing and wholeness
£34.95 GBP / $45.00 USD Free delivery in the UK and USA
Buy eBook >The Fluid Nature of Being is a collection of writings by practitioners of Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy (IBMT), an approach to somatic movement education and therapy. The cultivation of consciously embodied movement is at the heart of somatic movement practice. Through embodiment practices, soma – the subjectively experienced sense of embodied self – becomes a vital, living reality and a foundation through which healthy relationship to others, to Nature, and to life as a whole can be nourished.
The book describes the practice, thinking, research and creative work of twenty-one IBMT practitioners. Each has also trained in other disciplines and their writing weaves together their broader learning, passion and professional practice within the IBMT approach to somatic work. In this volume we offer a collection of expressions with a rich diversity of themes and styles, bringing these voices from the next generation of somatic movement practitioners, writers and leaders to a wider audience.
The book covers topics such as IBMT in therapy, education, early years learning, dance and theatre; the integration with psychotherapy, psychoanalytic thinking, and somatic trauma therapy; and the connection between individual healing and the healing of the Earth and Nature during this time of planetary crisis.
There are many aspects of IBMT practice described in this book that are shared with somatic practices in general, though there are also aspects which are specific to this approach. IBMT uniquely integrates in-depth studies in Somatic Psychology and the Discipline of Authentic Movement into a foundation of Body-Mind Centering® training. At the core of the practice is the quest to deepen connection with self, and from there, connection with others and the world around us.
Introduction – Linda Hartley
Body, Earth, Nature and Connection
Ch 1. Gaia Body – Mari Winkelman
Ch 2. Becoming Nature – Rachel Lambert
Ch 3. Awakening to the Collective Body: Authentic Movement as a Path to Wholeness – Mari Joyce
Ch 4. Pelvic Bowls: Digging/drilling/exploitation – A Performance – Raima Drąsutytė
Moving into Life 1: Embryological Beginnings
Ch 5. Sailing Backwards Singlehandedly – Beverley Nolan
Ch 6. Navel Radiation – the Development of the Internal Fascial Network – Anna Titova
Ch 7. IBMT and Dance – “Re-Membrane” – Frauke Burchards
Moving into Life 2: Birth and Beyond – Supporting Development
Ch 8. Support on the Path of Motherhood – Anna Feoktistova
Ch 9. Mother witness: revisiting rupture at birth through somatic movement practice – Penny Collinson
Ch 10. The Development of Movement and the Self – Heike Kuhlmann
Ch 11. Finding our Ground – Working with Adopted Children – Paul Beaumont
Therapeutic Applications 1: Holding and Containing
Ch 12. Circle – the Nature of Containment – Daria Shamina
Ch 13. Somatic countertransference in the work of a somatic therapist – Anna Khasina
Ch 14. Nourishing ourselves – A somatic approach towards deep connection and healing – Maren Hillert
Therapeutic Applications 2: Working with Trauma
Ch 15. Somatic bodywork and movement approaches to trauma – Jane Okondo
Ch 16. Post-traumatic stress, chronic pain and Authentic Movement – Barbara Erber
Ch 17. Embracing trauma through performance – Leticia Santafe
Somatic Movement and Dance Research
Ch 18. Somatic and Poetic Movement: the connection between IBMT and dance practice – Maria Grudskaya
Ch 19. Mediating Resonant Spaces – Gaelin Little
Ch 20. The Best Present – Aiste Kriukelytė
Three Poems
Winter Solstice – Mari Joyce
Poem 1: Poem 2 – Agniete Laurinaityte
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