Somatic Movement in the Arts + Education
ISMETA’s Somatic Movement in the Arts & Education Committee works to connect the worldwide Somatic Movement community to bring the power of somatic awareness into Education and the Arts. We bring information and resources to our members through our website, webinars, conferences, articles and pedagogical artifacts and highlight our members good work in the world. We collaborate with other organizations to highlight the benefits of Somatic Movement Education in the Arts and Education.
SOMATIC MOVEMENT IN EDUCATION
Somatic movement methodologies offer experiential and constructivist learning for children, youth and adults in a myriad of educational settings. The methods are known to serve all types of learners including those with different abilities. Through exploratory learning somatic movement education aims to teach self-awareness, neuro-motor development, and body-mind agency, as well as foster self- and co-regulation. As counterpoints to exclusive intellectual learning, these embodied experiences provide knowledge and support for teachers working with children and students of all ages. ~ Martha Eddy, PhD, MSME Mindful Movement
Featured Somatic Educator
ISMETA's Somatic Movement in the Arts & Education Committee would like to introduce the latest Featured Somatic Educator. We are thrilled to spotlight Marialuisa Diaz de Leon Zuloaga. "This offering invites practitioners to reconsider the pelvis as an alchemical center of creativity, continuity, and transformation. Drawing on archaeological research by Marija Gimbutas and Brian Stross, alongside the cultural analysis of Casilda Rodrigañez, the session weaves mythic, ritual, and somatic perspectives to illuminate the sacred significance of the pelvic bowl. Through a concise mythosomatic framework and guided movement exploration, participants will shift awareness from the dominance of the head toward the embodied intelligence of the pelvis—engaging its cyclical wisdom of life, death, and renewal as a vital source of creative and regenerative power." https://mythiclife.net/
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SOMATIC MOVEMENT IN THE ARTS
Somatic Movement in the Arts encompass the individual and collaborative ways in which we communicate artistic expression embracing the myriad systems within the body, and methodologies within the field. This approach supports our ability to listen and trust our own internal landscape making it possible to realize our creative vision. Somatic movement practices in the arts facilitate embodied and holistic body-mind awareness that open personal agency and community collaboration in the creative process and in artistic choice making.
Featured Somatic Artist
ISMETA's Somatic Movement in the Arts & Education Committee would like to introduce the latest Featured Somatic Artist. We are thrilled to spotlight Jamie McHugh. "This offering comes from a somatic movement practitioner, body ecologist, and interdisciplinary artist devoted to exploring and integrating the body’s inner terrain with the living world beyond it. Through his practice, Embodying Nature, he weaves breath, vocalization, contact, stillness, and movement into a relational map that supports orienting within the body and attuning without—witnessing and responding to the more-than-human environment. The visual work that emerges from this dialogue, which he calls Nature Being Art, renders the embedded aesthetic of place palpable and visible. Rooted in decades of artmaking and a deep relationship to place, this shared experience invites viewers to settle into embodied perception, participate sensorially, and enter a sanctuary where inner and outer landscapes meet." https://www.naturebeingart.org/
ISMETA MEMBERS SIGN INTO YOUR ACCOUNT TO GAIN ACCESS TO:
- Somatic Movement Lesson Plan Library
- Panel Discussion: Evolving, Developing, and Sustaining Somatic Practices in Higher Education Dance Programs
- Bill Evan's Keynote Address: ISMETA/NDEO Emerging Pathways in Somatic Movement and Dance Education Conference