The Fluid Nature of Being

Introduction - Linda Hartley



Body, Earth, Nature and Connection



Ch 1. Gaia Body - Mari Winkelman



Ch 2. Becoming Nature - Rachel Lambert



Ch 3. Awakening to the Collective Body: Authentic Movement as a Path to Wholeness



- Mari Joyce



Ch 4. Pelvic Bowls: Digging/drilling/exploitation - A Performance - Raima Drasutyte







Moving into Life 1: Embryological Beginnings



Ch 5. Sailing Backwards Singlehandedly - Beverley Nolan



Ch 6. Navel Radiation - the Development of the Internal Fascial Network - Anna Titova



Ch 7. IBMT and Dance - "Re-Membrane" - Frauke Burchards







Moving into Life 2: Birth and Beyond - Supporting Development



Ch 8. Support on the Path of Motherhood - Anna Feoktistova



Ch 9. Mother witness: revisiting rupture at birth through somatic movement practice



- Penny Collinson



Ch 10. The Development of Movement and the Self - Heike Kuhlmann



Ch 11. Finding our Ground - Working with Adopted Children - Paul Beaumont







Therapeutic Applications 1: Holding and Containing



Ch 12. Circle - the Nature of Containment - Daria Shamina



Ch 13. Somatic countertransference in the work of a somatic therapist - Anna Khasina



Ch 14. Nourishing ourselves - A somatic approach towards deep connection and healing



- Maren Hillert







Therapeutic Applications 2: Working with Trauma



Ch 15. Somatic bodywork and movement approaches to trauma - Jane Okondo



Ch 16. Post-traumatic stress, chronic pain and Authentic Movement - Barbara Erber



Ch 17. Embracing trauma through performance - Leticia Santafe







Somatic Movement and Dance Research



Ch 18. Somatic and Poetic Movement: the connection between IBMT and dance practice - Maria Grudskaya



Ch 19. Mediating Resonant Spaces - Gaelin Little



Ch 20. The Best Present - Aiste Kriukelyte







Three Poems



Winter Solstice - Mari Joyce



Poem 1: Poem 2 - Agniete Laurinaityte