Somatics Toolkit

Somatics Toolkit

A Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers

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      • What can I expect?
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      • Before you begin
    • Core Practice
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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — A Non-Binary Guide to Embodying One’s Embryonic Gonads

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Nicole Bindler This audio recording explores the development of the gonads, which are embryonic, unsexed ovaries, testis, or nonbinary

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Blood work, part 1: Finding your pulse

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Mette Terp Høybye and Marie Hallager Andersen This Audio File is the first of three that focus on blood.

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Blood work, part 2: Flow

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Mette Terp Høybye and Marie Hallager Andersen This Audio File is the second of three that focus on blood.

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Blood work, part 3: Solids

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Mette Terp Høybye and Marie Hallager Andersen This audio file is the third of three that focus on blood.

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Butoh Walk

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Paola Esposito A butoh walk is a walking meditation that is grounded both in physical technique and in imagination.

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Comfort, Discomfort and the transformation of perception

20th March 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

By Andrew Suseno Our brain learns through comparison. Without a solid grounding in comfort and self-care it is difficult to

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Dancing with the camera

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Claire Loussouarn In this audio file you will be guided to explore different ways of moving with a video camera

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Dealing with challenging research situations

20th March 201927th August 2019 Eline Kieft

By Lene Faust and Simone Pfeifer In this Exploration you engage with challenging research situations and how to incorporate them

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Finding relief from overwhelm

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Elizabeth Maynard This Exploration is intended to help reorient you when you’re feeling overwhelmed by work. When we are in

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Moving with the breath for presence and connection

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Marcia Donadel This Exploration is inspired by the Lessac body and voice practice and guided by the breath as

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Spatial awareness and gaze: a solo exploration

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Deborah Black This audio file offers a preparation for the body and tools to guide you into observing and

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Spatial awareness and gaze: working with others as participant and observer

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Deborah Black The aim of this Recording is to explore your relationship to power when working in a group.

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — The deep nerves of rest and restoration

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Roxlyn Moret In this meditation you’ll bring awareness to the tissue targeted by the parasympathetic nerves. These nerves regulate

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Extended Practice 

The dynamics of flow. An introduction to moving with the fluid system

20th March 201926th February 2021 Eline Kieft

By Lisa Dowler This audio recording provides a meditative way of connecting to the body’s fluid system, full of spaciousness

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Working with challenges, working from inspiration

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Elizabeth Maynard This Exploration is intended to help you notice what your current motivations are, and if necessary to

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Extended Practice 

Extended Practice — Working with empathetic fatigue

20th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

By Elizabeth Maynard Often in doing fieldwork with traumatized subjects, it is common to experience empathetic fatigue. This Exploration is

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 1 — Body Basics: Arriving

18th March 201929th March 2019 Ben Spatz

All somatic practices share some basic elements, such as breathing, sensory awareness, and body scan, regardless of the type, teacher,

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 2 — Literature: A spatial approach

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

During literature review we easily get inundated with questions about what to read, where to start, and how to find

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 3 — Identity: Noticing your lenses

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

This recording supports you to explore your identity as researcher, and articulate some of the lenses through which you approach

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 4 — Confidence: Taking on the Researcher’s Mantel

18th March 201921st March 2019 Eline Kieft

This Exploration is designed to increase your self-confidence before starting your data collection, before ‘entering the field’. Sometimes it takes

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 5 — Observation: Seeing and Being Seen

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Observation is one of the core methods of ethnographic data gathering, yet the reciprocity and vulnerability of ‘seeing’ AND ‘being

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 6 — Interviews: Intimacy and Reciprocity in the Field

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Interviews, like observation, are a crucial part of doing ethnography. They are a social event on their own. While you

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 7 — Places: Being in the Unknown

18th March 201912th April 2019 Eline Kieft

Entering the unknown can be anything between and beyond exciting and daunting. Wherever you go, there is however one familiar

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 8 — Analysis: Moving with Polarities

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Data sets are usually quite messy. How can you write one thesis that represents voices, stakeholders, landscapes, traditions or themes/variables

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 9 — Writing: Embodying your Thoughts

18th March 201919th March 2019 Ben Spatz

Writing is literally part and parcel of Ethnography (graphy = writing about ethno = people and cultures). Most texts address

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Core Practice 

Core Practice 10 — Presenting: a full-bodied performance

18th March 201929th March 2019 Eline Kieft

Presenting our project results to research participants and academic colleagues is an essential part of the research cycle. No matter

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“The instructions allow me to think with my body and this provides me with different ways of perceiving the materials in front of me.”

— PhD Student Anthropology

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