How to be feral

Movement practices to re-wild your body

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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In 'How to be feral', Claire Loussouarn invites us to challenge our preconceived notions of how our body should move. Through a series of practices and reflections, she encourages us to disrupt our usual shape and movement and to explore moving without the head on top, without using the hands, from the spine, with the face ... and in many other ways.In Part 2 she challenges our deeply held beliefs about our place in the natural world. She shows us how to learn from non-human ways of being in the world and wake up our feral bodies in dialogue with the environment.In all, she offers 91 movement practices that any reader can use. They allow us to use our moving body as a way to question and come to understand our conditioning and our biases. By disrupting our movement habits and our ideas of what it means to be human, she shows us how we can tap into our feral selves and reconnect with our bodies in a more expansive way.This is a practical, reflective and beautifully illustrated handbook that re-appropriates the term 'feral' as a potent way to bring to light the limitations of our human perspective. Be ready to see through new lenses!Claire's practice is broadly in the tradition of Amerta Movement (a form of non-stylised movement) - but these movement invitations and practices are fully accessible to any human.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-20
Mått140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt374 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagTriarchy Press
ISBN9781913743918

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Claire is a movement artist, a self-taught filmmaker, an insight herbalistand a trained researcher and anthropologist. She has an avid curiosityand loves to explore and experiment with the playfulness of a child. Sheis a seeker in the darkness, unearthing what is buried in the depths ofour psyche.She has a long-term art project in Hackney Marshes, a common land inthe heart of London, with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal. With the footagethey made a four screens installation with 3D soundscape called ‘We areplants, we are grass, we are Hackney Marshes’.You can find out more about Claire and watch her move on her twowebsites, www.claireloussouarn.com and www.movingmeditation.co.uk,and her instagram account @howtobeferal.

Trusting the body, Notes on practice, Notes on reading, A conversation, I Disrupting the human, 1. Moving without the head on top, 2. Moving without standing upright, 3. Moving without the hands, 4. Moving from the pelvis, 5. Moving from the spine, 6. Moving the face, 7. Disrupting the human shape, 8. Questioning with the body, 9. Finding your edge, 10. Not slow or fast, in time, 12. Demystifying agency, II Being environment, 12. Landing, 13. Softening boundaries, 14. Moving in landscape, 15. Tuning to nature’s rhythm, 16. Shapeshifting frames, 17. Un-shaping with environment, 18. Becoming less human, 19. Moving with human design, 20. Being with, 21. Embracing impermanence, A feral human, Acknowledgments, About the Author