Returning Home to Our Bodies
Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World--Practices for connecting somatics, nature, and social change
by Abigail Rose Clarke
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Pub Date 9 Jan 2024 | Archive Date 6 Nov 2023
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Description
A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices.
Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure-centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.
Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies, Clarke’s somatic learning system—The Embodied Life Method—centers the body as a guide through today’s most seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort in times of great uncertainty and yet, possibility.
With tools and practices to help us better understand and dismantle the many ways our bodies are weaponized to serve domination systems, topics covered include:
- Harnessing the vitality of curiosity and experimentation
- Using nature as a guide to possibility
- Embracing the necessity of difference
- Exposing the lie of universal isolation
- Dismantling the fallacy of hierarchy
- Uncovering the truth of endless capacity
- Awe as a driving force for transformation
With methods honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid, body-based model of healing and restoration—one that imagines a world beyond systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation to nurture embodied, whole-community liberation.
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Advance Praise
“Abigail uses poetic, down-to-earth language to illuminate the magic of our bodies: the processes, rhythms, and science of being human that are, in fact, quite fantastical. With keen insight rooted in both spirituality and scholarship, this book describes how nature’s wisdom can inform our activism and support a radical reimagining of our bodies in relationship with the world.”
—MIRA WEIL, DTM, MPH, doctor of Tibetan medicine and sexual health educator
“Somatic educator and embodied poet Abigail Rose Clarke invites you to come home to the present moment and to your body, and to join her as she gently explores the meaningful metaphors she finds in the sciences of ecology, biology, neuroscience, anatomy, and physiology. Clarke encourages us to live into these metaphors to question the cultural assumptions that lead to so much inequity, pain, horror, and suffering. She guides readers into gentle, meditative practices that can open us to embodied experiences of grounded calm, and sometimes even joy and love—and the awe of being alive.”
—BARBARA A. BREHM, health coach and professor of health sciences at Smith College
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781623179380 |
| PRICE | US$19.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 288 |
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