Core Practice 1 — Body Basics: Arriving
All somatic practices share some basic elements, such as breathing, sensory awareness, and body scan, regardless of the type, teacher,
A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers
The Somatics Toolkit is a set of resources for ethnographers and others who want to bring their bodies more deeply into their research. It has four sections:
• Core Practice audio guides will take you on a brief, focused, step-by-step journey through somatic awareness — suitable for all levels of experience.
• Extended Practice audio guides take you further into specific areas of somatic practice and exploration.
• The Podcast “Remember Your Body” is a series of conversations with leading academics, artists, and other leaders on the role of the body and embodiment in their work.
• The Blog offers a variety of voices representing diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and perspectives on the body.
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All somatic practices share some basic elements, such as breathing, sensory awareness, and body scan, regardless of the type, teacher,
By Nicole Bindler This audio recording explores the development of the gonads, which are embryonic, unsexed ovaries, testis, or nonbinary
In the first podcast series, Eline Kieft talks to academics who pioneer the body as a research tool in anthropology.
In Episode 5 of Series 1, Johannes Birringer, choreographer and Professor of Performance Technologies at Brunel University talks to Eline
In the second podcast series, Doerte Weig talks with experts in anatomy, economics, environment, architecture, mobility and systems thinking.
In Episode 7 of Series 2 Finnish architect and former Professor of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology, Juhani
By Johannes Birringer *) The second half of this blog (2) is adapted from the script for Underground Spatialities (2019,