Practices for embodied living : experiencing the wisdom of your body
Practices for Embodied Living offers an experiential guide--centered on prompts, activities, and opportunities for reflection--to support readers who want to practice embodiment. This approachable, visually stimulating book helps individuals and groups resist cultural myths about ideal bodies, get in touch with the goodness of their bodies, and more fully inhabit themselves. Topics include disembodiment, stress and trauma, sexuality, body image, pain and illness, oppression, and more. Each topic includes various exercises to help readers restore the mind-body connection." --publisher's website.
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- ISBN: 9781587436246
- ISBN: 1587436248
- Physical Description 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2024]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 155) |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An invitation to be here now -- Fully alive: exploring embodiment -- How we become disembodied: lies about our bodies, and how to find our way home -- The body overwhelmed: healing the body from stress and trauma -- Appearance and image: how we see our body from the outside -- Feeling feelings: getting to know the emotional body -- Your are not broken: relating differently to pain, illness, and injury -- The body and oppression: when bodies are political -- Pleasure and enjoyment: the sensual and sexual body -- Holy flesh: reconciling the spirit and body divide -- Conclusion: practices to return to ourselves. |