Dances with Sheep

On RePairing the Human–Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing

Anna Dako (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2025
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-074-6 (ISBN)

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Felt thinking is a body-based way of working with movement in somatic experience of the ecologically inclusive sense of self. Dances with Sheep presents the multitude of personal journeys which bring the lived connections between Nature and the self to the fore and offers new insights into how to remedy multiple imbalances. 68 b/w and 8 col. illus.

Dances with Sheep presents the methodology of Felt Thinking in Movement as an eco-somatic practice inspired by re-thinking nature of being human, as well as contextualises it within wider frameworks of cultural, philosophical and therapeutic viewpoints on wellbeing.

Felt Thinking is a self-inquiry practice grounded in somatic movement experience that originates in site-specific and embodied dialoguing between what is felt and what shapes as a responsive thought, as creative movement itself, and which paths ways for ecologically inclusive care for being well with self and other.

The book elaborates on creative processes in and with the natural environment in relation to the movers’ overall wellbeing and covers creative journeys of opening up to the living agency of Nature itself through the emergent three phases of experiential relatedness in embodied experience of the self. The book presents its original contribution to eco-phenomenology with its ontological principle of embodied relationality in towards and away from movement as a primal gateway to wellbeing and its creative inter-constitution.

An intriguing and inspiring resource for students, practitioners, educators, self-learners, therapists and researchers. Foreword by Sondra Fraleigh.

Anna is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist and a board member of the Association for Somatic Movement Dance Therapies UK, with nearly 20 years of experience working with dance, movement and creative arts. Anna’s experience stretches from dance research, dramaturgy and site-specific productions. Anna is the founder and director of Dunami - Movement, Arts, Wellbeing, a platform for ecologically mindful growth, psycho-somatic health and artistic development. As a writer, she focuses on practice-based research, ecopsychology and environmental philosophy perspectives.

Foreword: Dancing with Sheep and Paradox

Sondra Fraleigh

Acknowledgements

Summary

List of Figures

Terminology

Preface

SECTION ONE – OPENINGS AND CONTEXTS

Introduction: Contemplating Ecological Belonging in Somatic Felt Thinking

From Living Practices to Practicing Life: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Moving towards Wellbeing: On Change and Continuity in ‘Being With’ Experience
Historical and Cultural Contexts of Relationality
Therapeutic and Philosophical Contexts of Wellbeing
Ecological Contexts of Somatic Movement Experience
On Somatic Ontologies of Human Nature and its Day-to-Day Dimension
Felt Thinking and Languaging the Experience
The Three Dimensions of Felt Thinking and their Embryological Correspondence with Time/Space Experience

SECTION TWO – THE PRACTICE OF FELT THINKING IN MOVEMENT

I. Moving with Receptivity and Sensuous Co-Presence in Physical Time, or On Where and When of Being

9. In and Out

10. Now and Then

11. The Shared and the Unique

12. The Temporal and the Infinite

13. Reflective Synopsis: Moving Towards Sensual Co-Presence

14. Connecting with the Land - Stories in Sensuous Receptivity

II. Moving with Responsiveness and Experiential Exchange in Psychological Time, or On Who and What of Being

15. Voicing and Silencing

16. Moving and Not Moving

17. Fast and Slow

18. Purpose and Willingness

19. Being and Letting Be

20. Reflexive Synopsis: Moving Towards Experiential Openness

21. Co-Creating with the Land – Stories in Experiential Responsiveness

III. Moving with Responsibility and Insightful Intuiting in Primordial Time, or On Why and How of Being

Multi-dimensionality and Permeability in Movement
Feeling with the Land – Stories in Insightful Responsibility

SECTION THREE – DISCUSSION AND DEVELOPMENTS

Felt Thinking and Moving Towards Inclusive Wellbeing Practice
Felt Thinking and the Embodied Experience of Time/Space and its Cultural Implications
Felt Thinking as Green Awakening and its Wider Philosophical Implications
Felt Thinking and the Concept of Temporality
Felt Thinking and Nature as Wholeness
Felt Thinking and the Cycle of Life
Felt Thinking as Living Philosophy in Practice

Rounding Up, Open Thoughts

Glossary

References

About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.4.2025
Zusatzinfo	8 Plates, color; 68 Halftones, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10	1-83595-074-4 / 1835950744
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-074-6 / 9781835950746
Zustand	Neuware