Advances Felt Thinking, a mode of personal and environmental self-inquiry rooted in movement and nature.
As forests burn and oceans rise, attunement to the natural world has never been more urgent. In Dances with Sheep, Anna Dako details Felt Thinking in Movement, an ecosomatic methodology intended to deepen an individual’s connection with the environment and with themselves. Through site-specific improvisation, practitioners develop the ability to notice their surroundings and reactions, building a dialog with the natural world.
Dako explains the processes encompassed within Felt Thinking. Practitioners use free movement to interact with the landscape and become attuned to its sights, sounds, scents, and sensations. Gradually, participants focus on their psychological experience of time and cultivate greater awareness of the relation between nature and the self.
Combining insights from performance studies, art therapy, and counseling, Dances with Sheep will interest anyone looking to rediscover their place in the natural world.
By:
Anna Dako
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789386936
ISBN 10: 1789386934
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 19 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
