Somatics
" By working with this somatic perspective we acknowledge that our thoughts (even the most abstract ones), our emotions, and fantasies are all manifestations of the indivisible totality of our biological and neurological processes. "
The methods of somatic education are defined in terms of the following four central aspects:
- learning (and not therapy)
- awareness of the living and sensing body (and not the body-as-object seen from outside)
- movement (and not posture or structure)
- space or, alternatively, environment (and not a shallow version of self-absorption).
"approaching the living body from a phenomenological or “first person” perspective, in other words from the subjective point of view of the individual “I”.It is one thing to know the names of the bones and the points of insertion of the muscles. To sense and understand movement from within is probably something quite different, for we learn to roll, jump, walk without any knowledge of the fact that we have muscles! Hence the importance of educational strategies based on experience."
"It is undeniable that movement constitutes the very foundation of life, and is at least the most essential ingredient in the development of the brain, and the clearest indicator of the state of the whole nervous system."
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