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Embodying Eco-Consciousness: Somatics, Aesthetic Practices & Social Action
  • ISSN: 1757-1871
  • E-ISSN: 1757-188X

Abstract

Eco-consciousness has its foundation in an active relationship between the individual soma and the larger body of the natural world. Embedded within this relationship is our innate sensorimotor intelligence and our natural instinct as children to spontaneously play as living, sensing, expressive bodies coming to know ourselves and our environment. In this practice reflection, I delineate a map and a process with sample activities for embodied creative engagement to cultivate our capacity to witness, contact, mirror, respond and rest in partnership with the living planet. This approach – ‘embodying nature’ – is highly adaptable for various ages and degrees of experience, inviting participation at any level and in whatever natural environment is available.

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2024-04-23
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Keyword(s): consciousness; embodiment; expressive; nature; play; sensorimotor; somatic

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