Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth

Linda Hartley’s career of five decades has spanned the fields of somatic dance, somatic movement education and therapy, and transpersonal somatic psychotherapy. She has worked as a therapist in private practice, as well as teaching independently and for many organisations in the UK and continental Europe. In 1990 she founded what would become a 3-year ISMETA Approved Training Programme in Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, based on the three foundations of Body-Mind Centering, Authentic Movement and Somatic Psychology.She has written several books including the bestselling: 'Wisdom of the Body Moving'.

• PrefacePart 1:What is Embodiment?1:Conscious EmbodimentWhat Do We Mean by ‘Embodiment’?Conscious Embodiment of MovementThree MomentsEmbodiment and DissociationReturning Home to the Body2:Coming Home to the Body The Integration of Body and MindVisualisation− Somatisation − EmbodimentTheMoving Self and the Inner Witness3:Cultivating Embodied PresenceStillnessand RestBreathTheLanguage of the Body and the Language of WordsPresence– letting movement be just what it isTransparencyEmpty/Full4: Somatic Movement, Somatic Imagination &Authentic MovementAttentionand IntentionThe Touch of AttentionSomaticMovement and the Potential to HealWorking with Pain in the BodySomaticImagination and Dance-MakingThe Disciplineof Authentic Movement as Mystical PracticeHealingDanceMystical PracticeBody as Sacred Vessel – Bodyas Prayer – Body as OfferingPart 2:Embodying Spirit5:Embryological BeginningsMovementis LifeTheDance of Conception – Feminine and MasculineInside– OutsideOneBecomes Many, Many Are One – contents and containerCominginto Relationship – self and otherBondingand Defence6: Emerginginto FormBringingthe Outside InHeartNervous SystemDigestive TubeOrganicOrigamiUnfoldingto Verticality7:Early ImprintsGrof’sBasic Peri-Natal Matrix (BPM)WombTime, Eternal Time − BPM 1ParadiseLost − BPM 2DiscoveringAgency − BPM 3The Threshold between Life & Death, Joy & Anxiety −BPM 4 Reflections8:Meeting the WorldEmergenceand Separation from the Ground of BeingRelationalConsciousnessMediating Inner & Outer through the Autonomic NervousSystemHoldingand Being HeldPart 3:Home and Ground9:Body as Resource and HealingTheGrounding of Spirit in the BodyTraumaand the Upsurging of the Deep PsycheHealingthrough Movement and Embodied AwarenessTheDiscipline of Authentic MovementDevelopmentalMovement TherapyCellular BreathingNavel RadiationSpinal PatternsYield and PushReach and Pull10:Supporting Presence in RelationshipGroundingFlexibilityCenteringBoundariesOrienting in SpaceNegotiating RelationshipBalancingthe Autonomic Nervous SystemInside and Outside – the CellAutonomic RhythmGestures of the EmbryoNavel Radiation PatternDeeperIn and Further OutPhysiological Flexion andExtensionBirthTheSupport of Primitive ReflexesSelfand OtherToSummarisePart 4:Communication and Connectivity11:Cellular BodyWhisperingBetween CellsTheEmotional Brain and Psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinologyEnergeticPathwaysTheCell’s Code of Three12:Earth BodyWhisperingBetween TreesWe areEarthEarthas WitnessDancingwith Earth ConsciousnessFromTribe to Individual to InterbeingClimateChange as Symptom13:Collective BodyCommunicationand ConnectionEmbryonicRoots of Embodied Relational Spiritual PracticeGlobalExpressions of Embodied Relational Spiritual PracticePart 5:Endings and Beginnings14:Transparency and the Aging BodySpiritGrows Younger as Body AgesJoyfulBody, Painful BodyComingFull Circle – Witnessing the Return to BeginningsAndEndingsNotesReferencesAcknowledgmentsResources

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