Somatic Practice in Yoga Therapy

Explorations of Body, Movement, Mind, and Self

Jaime Stover Schmitt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2023
Handspring Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-913426-51-4 (ISBN)

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One value of yoga therapy is its ability to bring us to our senses—figuratively and literally. Inner body sensing and the knowing it evokes is a large part of how we become aware of what we need to attend to and work on in our growth as individuals. In Spanda® Yoga Movement Therapy—the yoga therapy method from which this work arises—embodiment practices are as vital to the process of self-understanding as they are to understanding anatomy, anatomical concepts, and physiological processes. This book shares a host of somatic practices that can readily be used in teaching, therapy, yoga practice and other avenues of personal exploration at the physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. A wealth of illustrated step-by-step directions are given for somatic practice at each koshic level. The practices shared have been in use in clinical yoga therapy, in workshops and in classes for the past thirty years. They’ve resulted in greater knowledge, insight, and awareness of the body and the wisdom it can reveal.

As the founding director of Spanda® Yoga Movement Therapy’s accredited yoga therapist and teacher trainings, Jaime Stover Schmitt EdD, CMA, SME, IDME, E-RYT500, C-IAYT is devoted to the education and mentoring of yoga therapists and teachers in somatic practice. She believes safe embodiment to be the ground for insight and positive change. Dr. Schmitt holds certifications in a variety of hands-on and somatic practices. She began the practice of yoga at age five accompanying her mother to class—this well-suited her introspective nature. Discovering dance to be “traveling yoga poses” she earned her doctorate in Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia—a hotbed of somatic investigation at that time. This confluence inspired her to develop her own approach to the therapeutic use of yoga, movement, and hands-on technique. Throughout her thirty years of private practice, she refined her perspective recognizing Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, Psy.D., H.H. Sri Swami Rama, and H.H. Sri Swami Chandrasekharanand Saraswati, along with Aileen Crow and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen as her mentors in this endeavor. Dr. Schmitt serves on the International Association of Yoga Therapists Accreditation Committee having also been a past board of director member of Yoga Alliance. A contributor to Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and A Moving Journal, she is the past editor-in-chief of The Journal of Authentic Movement and Somatic Inquiry. She’s also written Yoga for Pregnancy (HI Press), Yogini’s Kitchen: A Recipe Book of Healthy Vegetarian Cuisine, and Every Woman’s Yoga (Prima/Random House), which has been translated into several languages.

Introduction

Section I: Somatic Practices for an Embodied Understanding of the Body

Introduction to The Purpose of This Section and How to Use These Practices

Chapter 1: Somatic Practices for Understanding the Body’s “Geography”: Experiencing Anatomy and Anatomical Concepts

Chapter 2: Somatic Practices for Experientially Exploring and Illustrating Physiological

Processes

Section II: Somatic Practices for Improving Movement Efficiency

Introduction on the Purpose of This Section and How to Use These Practices

Chapter 3: Embodying Static and Dynamic Alignment

Chapter 4: Embodying the Use of Space

Chapter 5: Embodying Body Organization

Chapter 6: Embodying Movement Quality

Section III: Somatic Practices for Self-Inquiry and Reflection

Introduction on the Purpose of This Section and How to Use These Practices

Chapter 7: Dreaming in Movement

Chapter 8: Spanda® Myofascial ActivationTM

Chapter 9: Spanda® Somatic Accessing TechniqueTM

Section IV: Somatic Practices for Union: Yoga

Introduction on the Purpose of This Section and How to Use These Practices

Chapter 10: Classical Yoga Practices as Somatic Systems of Self-Realization

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 236 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
ISBN-10	1-913426-51-3 / 1913426513
ISBN-13	978-1-913426-51-4 / 9781913426514
Zustand	Neuware