Dances with Sheep - Anna Dako

Dances with Sheep

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

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Buch | Softcover
294 Seiten
2025
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-074-6 (ISBN)
43,55 inkl. MwSt
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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
Verlagsort Bristol
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
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