Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth
From Embryology to Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice
Published on 1. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-913743-99-4 (ISBN)
Description
In 'Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth', Linda Hartley brings together the wisdom and learning from nearly five decades of study, practice and teaching at the forefront of somatic movement, embodied awareness, somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy, and spiritual disciplines.
The interrelationship of Body, Mind and Spirit weaves its way through the book - taking us beyond a dialogue between them to the transcendence of unitive consciousness, where an immanent or embodied spirituality is glimpsed.
The book draws closely on three sources - Release Work, Body-Mind Centering and the Discipline of Authentic Movement - showing how they can inform a practice of consciously embodied movement.
As well as condensing her lifetime's experience, Linda suggests a path:
* to explore our own embodied awareness
* to understand the patterned impact of conception, embryological development, birth and infant development
* to rediscover our connection with the consciousness of the Earth and the more-than-human world
* to find a healthier relationship with our planetary home and the collective body
* and to explore the relationship between the matter of body and the mystery of Spirit, through the arc of human development from conception to the end of life.
The interrelationship of Body, Mind and Spirit weaves its way through the book - taking us beyond a dialogue between them to the transcendence of unitive consciousness, where an immanent or embodied spirituality is glimpsed.
The book draws closely on three sources - Release Work, Body-Mind Centering and the Discipline of Authentic Movement - showing how they can inform a practice of consciously embodied movement.
As well as condensing her lifetime's experience, Linda suggests a path:
* to explore our own embodied awareness
* to understand the patterned impact of conception, embryological development, birth and infant development
* to rediscover our connection with the consciousness of the Earth and the more-than-human world
* to find a healthier relationship with our planetary home and the collective body
* and to explore the relationship between the matter of body and the mystery of Spirit, through the arc of human development from conception to the end of life.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bridport
United Kingdom
Illustrations
20 colour and 6 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913743-99-4 (9781913743994)
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Person
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'.
She has written several books including the bestselling: 'Wisdom of the Body Moving'.
Content
Preface
Part 1:
What is Embodiment?
1:
Conscious Embodiment
What Do We Mean by 'Embodiment'?
Conscious Embodiment of Movement
Three Moments
Embodiment and Dissociation
Returning Home to the Body
2:
Coming Home to the Body
The Integration of Body and Mind
Visualisation
? Somatisation ? Embodiment
The
Moving Self and the Inner Witness
3:
Cultivating Embodied Presence
Stillness
and Rest
Breath
The
Language of the Body and the Language of Words
Presence
- letting movement be just what it is
Transparency
Empty/Full
4: Somatic Movement, Somatic Imagination &
Authentic Movement
Attention
and Intention
The Touch of Attention
Somatic
Movement and the Potential to Heal
Working with Pain in the Body
Somatic
Imagination and Dance-Making
The Discipline
of Authentic Movement as Mystical Practice
Healing
Dance
Mystical Practice
Body as Sacred Vessel - Body
as Prayer - Body as Offering
Part 2:
Embodying Spirit
5:
Embryological Beginnings
Movement
is Life
The
Dance of Conception - Feminine and Masculine
Inside
- Outside
One
Becomes Many, Many Are One - contents and container
Coming
into Relationship - self and other
Bonding
and Defence
6: Emerging
into Form
Bringing
the Outside In
Heart
Nervous System
Digestive Tube
Organic
Origami
Unfolding
to Verticality
7:
Early Imprints
Grof's
Basic Peri-Natal Matrix (BPM)
Womb
Time, Eternal Time ? BPM 1
Paradise
Lost ? BPM 2
Discovering
Agency ? BPM 3
The Threshold between Life & Death, Joy & Anxiety ?
BPM 4
Reflections
8:
Meeting the World
Emergence
and Separation from the Ground of Being
Relational
Consciousness
Mediating Inner & Outer through the Autonomic Nervous
System
Holding
and Being Held
Part 3:
Home and Ground
9:
Body as Resource and Healing
The
Grounding of Spirit in the Body
Trauma
and the Upsurging of the Deep Psyche
Healing
through Movement and Embodied Awareness
The
Discipline of Authentic Movement
Developmental
Movement Therapy
Cellular Breathing
Navel Radiation
Spinal Patterns
Yield and Push
Reach and Pull
10:
Supporting Presence in Relationship
Grounding
Flexibility
Centering
Boundaries
Orienting in Space
Negotiating Relationship
Balancing
the Autonomic Nervous System
Inside and Outside - the Cell
Autonomic Rhythm
Gestures of the Embryo
Navel Radiation Pattern
Deeper
In and Further Out
Physiological Flexion and
Extension
Birth
The
Support of Primitive Reflexes
Self
and Other
To
Summarise
Part 4:
Communication and Connectivity
11:
Cellular Body
Whispering
Between Cells
The
Emotional Brain and Psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinology
Energetic
Pathways
The
Cell's Code of Three
12:
Earth Body
Whispering
Between Trees
We are
Earth
Earth
as Witness
Dancing
with Earth Consciousness
From
Tribe to Individual to Interbeing
Climate
Change as Symptom
13:
Collective Body
Communication
and Connection
Embryonic
Roots of Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice
Global
Expressions of Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice
Part 5:
Endings and Beginnings
14:
Transparency and the Aging Body
Spirit
Grows Younger as Body Ages
Joyful
Body, Painful Body
Coming
Full Circle - Witnessing the Return to Beginnings
And
Endings
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Resources
Part 1:
What is Embodiment?
1:
Conscious Embodiment
What Do We Mean by 'Embodiment'?
Conscious Embodiment of Movement
Three Moments
Embodiment and Dissociation
Returning Home to the Body
2:
Coming Home to the Body
The Integration of Body and Mind
Visualisation
? Somatisation ? Embodiment
The
Moving Self and the Inner Witness
3:
Cultivating Embodied Presence
Stillness
and Rest
Breath
The
Language of the Body and the Language of Words
Presence
- letting movement be just what it is
Transparency
Empty/Full
4: Somatic Movement, Somatic Imagination &
Authentic Movement
Attention
and Intention
The Touch of Attention
Somatic
Movement and the Potential to Heal
Working with Pain in the Body
Somatic
Imagination and Dance-Making
The Discipline
of Authentic Movement as Mystical Practice
Healing
Dance
Mystical Practice
Body as Sacred Vessel - Body
as Prayer - Body as Offering
Part 2:
Embodying Spirit
5:
Embryological Beginnings
Movement
is Life
The
Dance of Conception - Feminine and Masculine
Inside
- Outside
One
Becomes Many, Many Are One - contents and container
Coming
into Relationship - self and other
Bonding
and Defence
6: Emerging
into Form
Bringing
the Outside In
Heart
Nervous System
Digestive Tube
Organic
Origami
Unfolding
to Verticality
7:
Early Imprints
Grof's
Basic Peri-Natal Matrix (BPM)
Womb
Time, Eternal Time ? BPM 1
Paradise
Lost ? BPM 2
Discovering
Agency ? BPM 3
The Threshold between Life & Death, Joy & Anxiety ?
BPM 4
Reflections
8:
Meeting the World
Emergence
and Separation from the Ground of Being
Relational
Consciousness
Mediating Inner & Outer through the Autonomic Nervous
System
Holding
and Being Held
Part 3:
Home and Ground
9:
Body as Resource and Healing
The
Grounding of Spirit in the Body
Trauma
and the Upsurging of the Deep Psyche
Healing
through Movement and Embodied Awareness
The
Discipline of Authentic Movement
Developmental
Movement Therapy
Cellular Breathing
Navel Radiation
Spinal Patterns
Yield and Push
Reach and Pull
10:
Supporting Presence in Relationship
Grounding
Flexibility
Centering
Boundaries
Orienting in Space
Negotiating Relationship
Balancing
the Autonomic Nervous System
Inside and Outside - the Cell
Autonomic Rhythm
Gestures of the Embryo
Navel Radiation Pattern
Deeper
In and Further Out
Physiological Flexion and
Extension
Birth
The
Support of Primitive Reflexes
Self
and Other
To
Summarise
Part 4:
Communication and Connectivity
11:
Cellular Body
Whispering
Between Cells
The
Emotional Brain and Psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrinology
Energetic
Pathways
The
Cell's Code of Three
12:
Earth Body
Whispering
Between Trees
We are
Earth
Earth
as Witness
Dancing
with Earth Consciousness
From
Tribe to Individual to Interbeing
Climate
Change as Symptom
13:
Collective Body
Communication
and Connection
Embryonic
Roots of Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice
Global
Expressions of Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice
Part 5:
Endings and Beginnings
14:
Transparency and the Aging Body
Spirit
Grows Younger as Body Ages
Joyful
Body, Painful Body
Coming
Full Circle - Witnessing the Return to Beginnings
And
Endings
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Resources