Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

by Christine Caldwell
Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life

by Christine Caldwell

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Overview

A somatic counselor offers tools for developing a deeper, more awakened relationship with your body through sensation, breath, and movement

As a foundation for a contemplative life, the body can both literally and metaphorically help us wake up. Breathing, sensing, and moving—the ways we know our body—carry tremendous contemplative potential, and yet, we so often move through our days unaware of or in conflict with our physical selves.
 
In Bodyfulness, renowned somatic counselor Christine Caldwell offers a practical guide for living an embodied contemplative life, embracing whatever body we are in. Each chapter offers insights and practices that help us recover our lost physical wisdom—to integrate our bodies with mindfulness, to deal with emotions, and to develop attuned relationships. Bodyfulness inspires us to reclaim a body-centered contemplative life and challenges us to harness our potential to effect social and personal transformation in this body now.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834841697
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 11/13/2018
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 941,501
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Christine Caldwell, PhD, founded the Somatic Counseling program in the Graduate School of Counseling and Psychology at Naropa University, where she was a core faculty member for more than thirty years. A practicing psychotherapist with a long-standing practice and an advanced student of Thich Nhat Hanh, Christine runs professional trainings in somatics in both the US and internationally. Her books include Getting Our Bodies Back and Oppression and the Body.

Table of Contents

Foreword David I. Rome ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: Why Bodyfulness? xix

Part 1 The Body of Bodyfulness

1 The Eight Core Principles of Bodyfulness 3

2 The Anatomy of Bodyfulness 27

Part 2 Bodyfulness Practice: Presencing Bodyfulness

3 Sensing 55

4 Breathing 67

5 Moving 88

6 Relating 120

Part 3 Bodyful Applications and Actions

7 Body Identity, Body Authority, and Bodyful Stories 141

8 Bodylessness and the Reclamation of Bodily Authority 164

9 When Being Here Takes You There: Change and the Body 178

10 The Enlightened Body 201

Appendix A The Body's Organs and Their Functions 211

Appendix B The Body's Systems and Their Functions 213

Appendix C The Types of Sensations 215

Notes 118

Additional Notes and References 222

Bibliography 240

Index 251

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