Tag: somatics
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Biomechanical enlightenment is not arcane and esoteric.
Thinking about coordination dynamics the question we must consider is whether the several major coordinative centers of the body, complex multilevel bony systems, each produce a characteristic voice, an identity, a sense of the whole greater than the sum of its parts–one that is predictable and understandable. We suppose that this might be so because…
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A handful of bones
A handful of bones is just about all that we can hold in our mind as we go through the process of our complex daily full body movements. A handful of bones is enough to coordinate and balance the system in almost any position. Perhaps in our mundane daily movement of the body only a…
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Touch, the absence of touch, and trauma. Reflections on the recent 2023 USABP Annual Meeting.
In a world where everyone is profoundly touch deprived then yes, touch can easily equal trauma, or invoke traumatic memories, because it is unexpected and because it can be manipulative and because we are not connected to each other in such a world. In my mind this, the 18th meeting of this association, was evidence…
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The Anatomy of Self Awareness
The human body is self-reproducing, self-organizing, and self-healing, but not without self-awareness.
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The revolution that starts from within:
the importance of understanding our own anatomy. The body is self reproducing, self organizing and self healing. The human body does all of this, but not without self-awareness. If animals are able to renegotiate many forms of even quite dramatic trauma that occur in a natural environment, shouldn’t the same be true for us? Wouldn’t…
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Mechanistic paths to wholeness
A brief discussion of simple ways to change the world.
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Not without self awareness
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I know the truth