Human beings often think of themselves as separate from the environment, but we are still only substance brushing up against and moving through and over other matter. We are part of the hetergeneous ether of Earth. Breath is one literal way we take in our environment, but how else does this happen through our nervous system?

Taking in My Environment

What happens when somatics and dance education collide?

Education

Training

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Educational Technology

In this episode Sherry and Julia continue to discuss curiosity, commitment, and naming as all help us become more sophisticated movers and more aware of our being.

August 1 2014 (part 2)

In this episode Julia and Sherry continue to explore the importance of naming feelings, sensations, and movements for the sake of recognizing the aliveness of the self in ourselves and in the world.

August 1 2014 (part 1)

Welcome to our relaunching! After taking nearly two years away from creating podcasts, Sheryl Saterstrom and Julia Moser-Hardy return to Mindful Moving and recorded reflection. What happens to our experience of the practice and to us in renewing dedication to it?

July 25th 2014

Aleks Weaver unpacks the concept " to Be Here Now" in the sound-score for her senior capstone choreography project. She addresses the audience and invites them to participate in the performance with content that is reflective of her own personal discoveries. Aleks would like to thank Maddi Frick as the music editor and Brian Eno for the piano accompaniment.

Rituals of Home

If technology one day becomes part of us, what will it mean to be a physical, embodied being? Already we have many metaphors for the body as object, as machine, as technology, while the idea of body as self is critical to understanding Somatics.

Taking in My Environment

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