Somatic Movement Dance Therapy
The Healing Art of Self-regulation and Co-regulation
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Somatic Movement Dance Therapy
The Healing Art of Self-regulation and Co-regulation
About this book
This book focuses on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the importance of self-regulation and co-regulation. Â The chapters attend to self-regulating different tissues through movement, breath, sound and the imagination.
Throughout the book the author shares processes and practices that support participants to balance their living tissues, moving from sympathetic arousal into parasympathetic ease and release. The study of the autonomic nervous system and how to innervate the parasympathetic through breath awareness, heart-sensing and intero-ception is the central through-line in the book.
Uniquely, Williamson attends to the anatomical and physiological complexity underlying the apparent simplicity of somatic movement dance practice. How to sense-perceive and move with attuned awareness of specific body tissues, such the skeletal-muscular and craniosacral system invites the reader into a deep anatomical and physiological excavation of self-regulation. The interconnectivity of fascia, and the importance of cardio-ception, breath awareness and gravity lie at the heart of this book. Sensory-perceptual awareness of the heart is foregrounded as the most important ingredient in the efficacy of practice, as well as gravi-ception, soft-tissue-rolling and fascial unwinding.
Includes a collective foreword from Sarah Whatley, Daniel Deslauriers, Celeste Snowber and Karin RugmanÂ
This is a must-read practice-as-research book, for under- and postgraduate students, researchers and educators and especially important for practitioners who feel the weight and condescension of the mechanistic paradigm.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Transatlantic Reflections
- Introduction: The Seabed, Waves and Ripples in this Book
- 1. Autogenic Self-regulatory Movement
- 2. Sympathetic Holding and Parasympathetic Ease-and-release
- 3. Fulcrums of Support and Soft Tissue Reorganization
- 4. Co-regulation, Cardio-ception and the Transpersonal Witness
- 5. Co-regulatory Touch and Myofascial Softening
- 6. Sense–perceiving the Craniosacral System
- 7. Soft-tissue-rolling and Fascial Health
- Bibliography
- Backcover