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Volume 6, Issue 1-2
  • ISSN: 2051-7068
  • E-ISSN: 2051-7076

Abstract

In this article, I expand western anatomy’s normative geography of the vertebral column to include the atlantooccipital joints, the sphenoid-basilar joint, the occipital bone, the cranial sutures and the sacroiliac joints. The sphenoid-basilar joint is considered one of the most important joints to contact in the practice of bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy; it is a central joint and point of conscious awareness that organizes the entire vertebral column. Further, I share scientific reasons why gravity and an extended sense-perception of the vertebral column beyond the normative is essential to health. The article invites the craniosacral system into expression, the dural membranes into awareness, and the vagus nerve into creative play. Other areas discussed are the intervertebral discs, the facet joints and the primary and secondary curves. Notably, this anatomical theory is enacted through post-Newtonian somatic principles that bring objectified theory alive through the living soma on the academic page.

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Post-Newtonian anatomy and physiology: The gravitational and parasympathetic experience in bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities 6, 171 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas_00009_1
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Keyword(s): bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy; craniosacral; parasympathetic; somatic movement dance education and therapy; somatics; vagus nerve

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