Somatic Knowledge

People say we are all searching for the meaning of life. I don't think that's what we're seeking. I think what we are seeking is the experience of being alive.

~ Joseph Campbell

 

Other Links: http://embodimentstudies.academia.edu/RaeJohnson/Papers/621508/Knowing_In_Our_Bones_Exploring_The_Embodied_Knowledge_Of_Somatic_Educators 

 

Also see:  On PDF

Journal of Aesthetic Education
Somatic Knowledge and Qualitative Reasoning: From Theory to Practice
Richard Siegesmund
Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter, 2004), pp. 80-96 (item consists of 17 pages)
Published by: University of Illinois Press 

Somatic psychology is an interdisciplinary field involving the study of the body, somatic experience, and the embodied self. Some writers describe the “body as a slow mind”, and this re-examination of the fundamental mind-body dichotomy has coincided with research into neuroscience, embodiment and consciousness, and an unconscious mind that ‘speaks’ through the language of body.
http://www.visual-art-research.com/2009/11/somatic-knowledge-stored-in-the-bones/ 

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Somatic Learning
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