The Fluid Nature of Being

Linda Hartley has studied, practised and taught in the fields of somatic movement and dance, somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy, and Authentic Movement for almost five decades. In 1990 she founded what became the Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy, developing and running a three-year Diploma Programme in Germany, the UK, Lithuania and Russia since that time. Based upon the practice and principles of Body-Mind Centering (R), and integrating in-depth studies in Authentic Movement and Somatic Psychology, IBMT is an ISMETA Approved Training Program. Linda's studies in the somatic dance approach of Release Work (Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson), T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Buddhist meditation, and the Process Oriented Psychology of Arnold Mindell have also informed the development of a holistic approach to learning, growth and healing. She practised for thirty years as a somatic movement therapist and somatic & transpersonal psychotherapist, and has taught for numerous organisations across the UK and Europe. Currently Linda focuses her time on her writing and teaching the Discipline of Authentic Movement in North Norfolk, UK, where she now lives. She is the author of several books including Wisdom of the Body Moving (1995), Servants of the Sacred Dream (2001), Somatic Psychology: Body, Mind and Meaning (2004) and Contemporary Body Psychotherapy: The Chiron Approach (Editor - 2009). Information about these and some of her articles and chapter contributions can be found at https://www.lindahartley.co.uk/index.html

Introduction - Linda Hartley Body, Earth, Nature and Connection Ch 1. Gaia Body - Mari Winkelman Ch 2. Becoming Nature - Rachel Lambert Ch 3. Awakening to the Collective Body: Authentic Movement as a Path to Wholeness - Mari Joyce Ch 4. Pelvic Bowls: Digging/drilling/exploitation - A Performance - Raima Drasutyte Moving into Life 1: Embryological Beginnings Ch 5. Sailing Backwards Singlehandedly - Beverley Nolan Ch 6. Navel Radiation - the Development of the Internal Fascial Network - Anna Titova Ch 7. IBMT and Dance - "Re-Membrane" - Frauke Burchards Moving into Life 2: Birth and Beyond - Supporting Development Ch 8. Support on the Path of Motherhood - Anna Feoktistova Ch 9. Mother witness: revisiting rupture at birth through somatic movement practice - Penny Collinson Ch 10. The Development of Movement and the Self - Heike Kuhlmann Ch 11. Finding our Ground - Working with Adopted Children - Paul Beaumont Therapeutic Applications 1: Holding and Containing Ch 12. Circle - the Nature of Containment - Daria Shamina Ch 13. Somatic countertransference in the work of a somatic therapist - Anna Khasina Ch 14. Nourishing ourselves - A somatic approach towards deep connection and healing - Maren Hillert Therapeutic Applications 2: Working with Trauma Ch 15. Somatic bodywork and movement approaches to trauma - Jane Okondo Ch 16. Post-traumatic stress, chronic pain and Authentic Movement - Barbara Erber Ch 17. Embracing trauma through performance - Leticia Santafe Somatic Movement and Dance Research Ch 18. Somatic and Poetic Movement: the connection between IBMT and dance practice - Maria Grudskaya Ch 19. Mediating Resonant Spaces - Gaelin Little Ch 20. The Best Present - Aiste Kriukelyte Three Poems Winter Solstice - Mari Joyce Poem 1: Poem 2 - Agniete Laurinaityte