2017 Schedule
Event Title
The Relevance of Transformative Body Practices to Diversity and Social Change
Location
Namaste Hall
Start Date
21-4-2017 11:10 AM
End Date
21-4-2017 11:50 AM
Description
The original motivations for creating the field of Somatics are easy to forget in the understandable pressures to meet the enormous needs of suffering people in our own neighborhoods and to earn a living doing so. But the originating intentions of the founders was to address the collective pathologies of our histories, recognizing the potentials for profound social change inherent in the widespread cultivation of the wisdom of the body, through intentional practices of breathing, touch, sensing, moving, tasting, and other methods of entering the vast interior worlds of our earthy being. In this presentation, there will be an elucidation of this history and an account of how this vision address issues of diversity.
Event Type
Panel Discussion
The Relevance of Transformative Body Practices to Diversity and Social Change
Namaste Hall
The original motivations for creating the field of Somatics are easy to forget in the understandable pressures to meet the enormous needs of suffering people in our own neighborhoods and to earn a living doing so. But the originating intentions of the founders was to address the collective pathologies of our histories, recognizing the potentials for profound social change inherent in the widespread cultivation of the wisdom of the body, through intentional practices of breathing, touch, sensing, moving, tasting, and other methods of entering the vast interior worlds of our earthy being. In this presentation, there will be an elucidation of this history and an account of how this vision address issues of diversity.
Comments
Panelists:
Don Hanlon Johnson and students from the Somatics program.
Don Hanlon Johnson is one of the handful of creators of the Somatics field, and the CIIS graduate degree program in Somatics. The core of his work has been the exploration of the relationships between transformative body practices and the creation of a just and soulful social order.