Dynamic Embodiment™ of the Sun Salutation: Pathways to Balancing the Chakras and the Neuroendocrine System guides you to do the Sun Salutation with more ease by integrating awareness of glandular and chakral embodiment cues and neuro-developmental movement. Everything in this book can be applied to your personal practice and overall health, or to teaching others.
ISMETA is proud to announce that former Board President, Beth Pettengill Riley’s, recently published book on home Somatic Practice: A Moving Inquiry: The Art of Personal Practice, has been included as a required text in Denison University’s Somatic Dance Courses.
In this work, Joan takes the reader through a somatically based experiential approach to our developmental and evolutionary process from pre-conception to standing.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s new book, Basic Neurocellular Patterns: Exploring Developmental Movement, is the culmination of 55 years of research and 40 years of writing. It addresses human movement and its significance to our development and well-being. With this book as a guide, Bonnie invites you to directly experience, embody, and integrate your own developmental movement patterns.
Celebrating the release of her new book, The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills. Designed for somatic educators, therapists, counselors, and movement practitioners, The Embodied Teen presents a pioneering introductory curriculum in somatic movement…
When people who have lived in pain are able to recognize, own, and release what has shaped them, they feel freed, as if a weight has been lifted off their shoulders. My client Carla’s emotional hurt at five years old was reflected in her tight voice and inability to speak up for herself as an adult. In exploring her armoring, she noticed constriction in her throat, a collapse in her chest, and very shallow breathing. In facing the emotional hurt that resided in her voice and body, Carla released the underlying tension that had held her headaches in place — and started speaking up for herself.
Jan Mundo, certified master somatic coach and bodyworker, is delighted to be a debut author and illustrator at age 70. In The Headache Healer’s Handbook: A Holistic, Hands-on Somatic Self-Care Program for Headache and Migraine Relief and Prevention, Mundo shares her nearly fifty years of headache healing wisdom.
Chair of Somatic Studies doctoral specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute published a book ‘Embodied Social Justice’ – a body-centered approach to working with oppression, for somatic practitioners, counsellors, educators, , and other human service professionals. Grounded in current research, this integrative approach to social justice works directly…
Chair of Somatic Studies doctoral specialization at Pacifica Graduate Institute published a book ‘Embodied Social Justice’ – a body-centered approach to working with oppression, for somatic practitioners, counsellors, educators…
Author of the book “Mindful Movement. In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist, and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies, and practice-led research to define the origins of our holistic field—somatic movement education and therapy—and its impact on fitness, ecology, politics, and performance.