Reimagining the Body offers an innovative exploration of embodiment and somatics, allowing us to understand our bodies in a grounded and holistic way. With over 40 years of practice and teaching, Aline Newton offers an engaging blend of client-based storytelling, scientific research, and embodiment practices that will fascinate anyone working with the mind and body, including yoga teachers, massage therapists, Rolfers, psychologists, social workers, dancers and movement therapists.
Insights from physics, robotics, neuroscience, and movement science reveal a refreshing, evidence-based perspective on how our bodies are not just objects, they are dynamic, living systems deeply intertwined with the environment around us. Section one unravels the prevailing idea of the body as an object through robotics and neuroscience. Section two invites us to reimagine our understanding of the body through a new framework of thinking. Section three focuses on our psychologies, exploring the intricate connection between emotion, perception, and the body.
In weaving together the concepts of movement, self, and the world, Reimagining the Body allows us to nurture a more profound and interconnected understanding of ourselves.
Introduction
1.EMOTIONAL BODY
2. MECHANICAL BODY: Understanding by Building
3. BODY IN CONTEXT: Dispelling the cerebral mystique
4. BODY IN GRAVITY
5. MANAGING INSTABILITY
6. BODY IN MOTION: Degrees of freedom
7. CULTURAL BODY: What is a reliable body?
8. EXPRESSIVE BODY: Posture is an Attitude
9. BODY READING 10.PERCEPTUAL BODY: A feeling for movement
11.BODY AS RELATIONSHIP
12.BODY IMAGES
13.EMBODIMENT PRACTICES
14.ACTION SPACE
15.CASE STUDY
16.THE MISSING GESTURE
17. SECURE BODY
18. BECOMING CONCLUSION
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