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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.

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

Sujets

Nature therapy

Performing Arts

Body (disambiguation)

General officer

Alternative medicine

Dance

General

ART

Nature

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Publié par	Intellect Books
Date de parution	16 mars 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781789386950
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Dances with Sheep
Life only exists in relationship to other life.
Susan Aposhyan
Dances with Sheep
On RePairing the Human-Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving Towards Wellbeing
Anna Dako
with foreword by Sondra Fraleigh
First published in the UK in 2023 by
Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2023 by
Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright 2023 Anna Dako
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Contents
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
1. From Living Practices to Practising Life: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
2. Moving towards Wellbeing: On Change and Continuity in Being with Experience
3. Historical and Cultural Contexts of Relationality: On Otherness and Interconnectedness in Movement Experience
4. Therapeutic and Philosophical Contexts of Wellbeing
5. Ecological Contexts of Somatic Movement Experience
6. On Somatic Ontologies of Human Nature and Its Day-to-Day Dimension
7. Felt Thinking and Languaging the Experience
8. 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
22. Multi-dimensionality and Permeability in Movement
23. Feeling with the Land: Stories in Insightful Responsibility
SECTION THREE - DISCUSSION AND DEVELOPMENTS
24. Felt Thinking and Moving towards Inclusive Wellbeing Practice
25. Felt Thinking and the Embodied Experience of Time/Space and Its Cultural Implications
26. Felt Thinking as Green Awakening and Its Wider Philosophical Implications
27. Felt Thinking and the Concept of Temporality
28. Felt Thinking and Nature as Wholeness
29. Felt Thinking and the Cycle of Life
30. Felt Thinking as Living Philosophy
Rounding Up, Open Thoughts
Glossary
References
About the Author
Foreword: Dancing with Sheep and Paradox
Sondra Fraleigh 30 September 2021
It is a great pleasure to invite readers to Anna Dako's feast for thinking somatic sense and sensitivity in this book. I marvel at what she accomplishes here with her comprehensive engagement of the natural world and well-studied view of human nature. I have witnessed this book mature over time, first with Dako's doctoral work so extensively based on biological sciences and analysis of the human in culture and philosophy.
Is the book really about dancing with sheep? Yes, quite literally, but more about what the dancing, the sheep and the land have to teach us about ourselves and our responsibility to all life. When I first read Dako's title, I laughed, but then I was intrigued. What would the author make of dancing with sheep, and why would it interest her as a topic of study to share with others? I hoped the dissertation would become a book and said I would buy it.
I confess to reading new work with a phenomenological orientation toward nondualism. Thus, I endeavour to find evidence of body/mind bifurcation in Dako's position, but my search is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Dako writes through a unified embodied feeling for relationships, always led by ecological urgency. Still, she problematizes nature and body. This work is original, heartfelt and committed to its purpose of explaining life through embodied relationships.
It isn't often I encounter such fully developed practice research. In this case, I appreciate how Dances with Sheep moves with experience and intellect alike. It is also historical and cultural, not splitting these apart, even as it acknowledges unique aspects and differences of these bodies of knowledge. Intricacies of moving with receptivity and sensuous co-presence in physical time – ontologies of where and when, in and out, now and then, the temporal and the infinite – inform the book's pages, while surprising stories in sensuous receptivity breathe life into them.
At one time in the development of this book, Anna and I had long e-mail discussions about felt thinking. We finally realized how we might state the issue of feeling and thinking in movement with economy. Now I see how the issue explodes conceptually and in practice. I learn as I dance with sheep in this beautiful book. It convinces me to take time to dance in nature, as nature, moving with other animals and creatures, reading in and out of Anna's dance, feeling in tandem with those influenced by her work.
I applaud this book and its eco-soma commitments. It piques my reflection on what it takes to live a full family life while writing, researching and staying with the difficulty over time. I also know how much effort it takes to study effortlessness and let it be (like a natural makeup look). Yet, in the paradoxical body, there is always enough to share in somatic reserves and extensions. The friction makes it so.
Now! Shall we dance with the sheep and trees and crawl over fences like happy children who know how to play creatively? The thought-filled play of Anna Dako's book is a feast to be shared and savored through dancing – moving towards wellbeing wherever you are – with adversity and joy.
Acknowledgements
Dances with Sheep has definitely been a very rich and most adventurous few years in my personal journey as a practitioner researcher. Having moved homes, internationally, many times before, another move to Scotland seemed like the craziest thing to do. Yet, chasing my dreams to keep working outdoors and moving with the natural world around, I couldn't have pictured a better place for my work to unfold and bear fruit.
I would then like to thank here all the hills, valleys, rivers, lochs, forests and animals of the local Scottish landscapes, so rich and so alive, including all the colours and flavours of the famous Scottish weather that I encountered and danced with on this journey. Thank you for welcoming me.
Taking this opportunity to express my further gratitude, I would also like to thank a strong handful of people who supported this pioneering work in expressive writing in its original format as a doctoral thesis and in earlier years guiding me onto this path.
I would like to thank my wonderful teachers, Sondra Fraleigh for inspiring me with her work over the years and for her most nourishing support for mine, Penny Collinson for ‘taking me home’ in somatic movement experience during the intense years of my time at the University of Central Lancashire, and Andrea Olsen for helping me connect many threads of my moving thoughts with her own teachings.
I would like to thank Dr Salma Siddique for making this work as an academic project possible and for her personal support and trust in the value of the experiential work within therapeutic education at the University of Aberdeen. I am also grateful for being invited to join and participate in the concluding year of Prof Tim Ingold's Knowing from the Inside project that took place at the Department of Anthropology and to all the people I had the pleasure to meet and exchange with throughout its duration. And I would like to include here all the warm-hearted and most supporting staff at the University's Multi-Faith Chaplaincy where majority of the indoor movement work took shape. I feel I learned a lot there about where and how the work I am presenting here belongs.
I would like to thank, for wonderful supervision support, Dr Elizabeth Curtis from the University of Aberdeen and Prof Vicky Karkou from Edge Hill University, as they offered me both guided and grounding direction on the work's way to completion. Like all challenging journeys, this one definitely found their expertise and applicable advice absolutely indispensable. Thank you kindly.
Also, this work would not have been possible without my dear movers: Grace Archer, Gulliver Brodbeck, Kelly Suleman, Martina Polleros, Marta Bury, Dr Sarah Luczaj, Valeria Lembo and Jack Wylie, who did all the nimble work with the camera for us. I would like to thank them from the bottom of my heart simply for opening theirs and for offering their best to the work and the time shared. My thanks here also go to all my clients and students over the years, who strengthened the principles of this work through the