somatics
- noun
- /səˈmætɪks/
- Specialized
- In somatics, we learn to listen to our bodies and develop a deeper awareness of ourselves.
Examples
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I found that at the heart of what many of us have called Somatics lies a deep commitment to embodied inquiry.
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The somatics and trauma course really touched something in me.
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The core of his work, as with other Somatics methods, is to enter into an inquiry about who this person is.
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These four neglected points do not exhaust the ways that somatics is central to philosophy.
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Last week I finished the somatics and trauma training 2012, offered by generative somatics.
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Last week I finished the somatics and trauma training 2012, offered by generative somatics.
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One finds the same pattern in Somatics that one encounters in various meditation practices and martial arts.
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Foucault's seminal vision of the body as a malleable site for inscribing social power reveals the crucial role somatics can play for political philosophy.
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(The late Thomas Hanna, founder of the journal Somatics, often spoke of the conventional adult state of consciousness as one of sensory amnesia.)
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A few years ago, I took their somatics and social justice course, and it left an imprint in me, a longing for more capacity in feeling my body, healing myself, and learning to be a generative healing member of the community, towards liberation.
Blog text (25)
Surface Forms
Morphology
somatics = somatic (semi-transparent) = somat + ics
Formed by the combining-stem somat- plus the productive field-forming suffix '-ics'; the relation to 'body' is regular but the term denotes a specialist domain and may be unfamiliar to average learners.
Etymology
The word somatics comes from the Greek root soma, meaning 'body'. That's why somatics refers to practices and study that use movement and body awareness to connect the mind and the body.