Your feet and my hands – fulcrums of support and reorganization: Bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Amanda Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Considerable Strain ◽  
At Home

This article is offered as part of the COVID-19 special issue. I imagine it is useful for practitioners and students who are working at home, unable to attend the studio. The article explores the joints in the feet through a model of differentiation (traditional anatomy) and de-differentiation (biotensegrity). The feet are often forgotten. While they carry us through the world, from our first step to our last, they often fall beneath conscious awareness. Our feet run frantically underneath us, trying to catch up with our over sympathetically charged bodies. Under current socio-economic pressures, and work–rest imbalance, they suffer considerable strain. They often become a repository of life’s stresses and strain. The health of the feet affects the whole organism and any change in the feet locally will affect the global. In this article, I share a practice that helps to realign the feet through a model of biotensegrity, co-creative touch and self-regulatory movement. In this model, the bones are viewed as floating in a sea of connective tissue. Each joint is perceived as a mini fulcrum of reorganization. The article explores the feet as fulcrums of reorganization and the receptive hands of the therapist as fulcrums of sensory support. The article also shares some subtle embodied qualities that underlie healthy practice, such as finding safety in your nervous system before facilitating. The article is divided into four parts – Part 1: Hygeia meets Asclepius; Part 2: The feet suffer; Part 3: Preparing for practice; and Part 4: My hands, your feet: Fulcrums of support and reorganization.

scholarly journals Empowerment Of Women Through Information And Communication Technology [ICT]

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
S. M. Khalid Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
At Home

Our world has seen enormous improvements in mobile telephony, the internet, and ebusiness. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) play a critical and core role in today’s society. All over the world nations have recognized information and communication Technology (ICT) as a powerful tool in accelerating the economic activity, efficient governance and developing human resources. Whether it’s the electronic form of conducting business or social/professional networking over the World Wide Web, ICT has proved that it is a basic requirement for social and economic development. To increase the flow of Information and improving communications and to increase possibilities and opportunities, ICT infrastructure is a rudimentary need. ICT has proved that it is one of the major difference between developed and developing countries. Take for example India. India has achieved the status of the world’s 4th biggest economy, major fraction of which is basically IT driven. The information and communication technology could be used to empower the Women in Pakistan by making the resources available to them at home, where a nearby area / residential based environment could be created for working at home where they could fulfill their home based liabilities as well.

scholarly journals THE IMPACTS OF WORKING AT HOME ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF BRAZILIAN WOMEN DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. e25295
Author(s):  
Aline Cavalcante Santana
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
At Home

Brazil is one of the biggest epicentres of COVID-19 outbreak in the world, with many deaths and impacts in the economy, such as record unemployment rates and massive business closure in many industries. Due to this pandemic, about 7.3 million Brazilians worked from home (WFH) in November 2020 (IBGE, 2020), including women, that traditionally carry the most housework and care responsibilities in a home. To investigate the impacts of WFH on productivity of Brazilian women during the COVID-19 pandemic it was distributed a survey on Google Forms. The survey was attended by 31 respondents (100% cisgender women; Mage = 24-48 years), from several areas of expertise. To deepen the discussion it was made a systematic revision using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - PRISMA (Galvão, Pansani, & Harrad, 2015) and 11 studies were analysed (6 reviews and 5 surveys). It was found that the pandemic has made gender gaps more apparent and that women are disproportionate impacted by its due to the traditional gender roles.

scholarly journals CHILDHOOD MOOD DISORDERS DURING PANDEMIC; LEARNING MANAGEMENT BASED ON SELF DISCIPLINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-344
Author(s):  
Akmal Mundiri ◽  
Chodijatus Sholehah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Staying At Home ◽  
At Home

This paper describes the management of early childhood mood in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic through qualitative research approaches and types of case studies. Covid’s-19 pandemic that hit the world has changed most of human activities. This pandemic anables everyone to do their own work by staying at home, studying at home and working at home. It was requested that the government had appealed. This research aims to learn how to regulate early childhood moods so that they can be disciplined in the midst of this pandemic. There are several methods that can be used, use the exemplary method, habitation, and discuss individuals. Besides that, there are other things that can also be done, such a giving awards to children who have met the specified discipline standards, for example, providing additional play time. And give punishment the sentence consist of no award received, not with punches, screams or twists.

scholarly journals Playing catch up? An exploration of supplementary work at home among Australian public servants

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 538-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Cortis ◽  
Abigail Powell
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Work At Home ◽  
At Home

Working at home has conventionally been understood as a formal, employer-sanctioned flexibility or ‘telework’ arrangement adopted primarily to promote work–life balance. However, work at home is now most commonly performed outside of normal working hours on an informal, ad hoc basis, to prepare for or catch up on tasks workers usually perform in the workplace. Scholarly assessment of this type of work has been sparse. To fill this gap, we undertook secondary analysis of a large data set, the Australian Public Service Employee Census, to explore the personal and organisational factors associated with middle-level managers regularly taking work home to perform outside of and in addition to their usual working hours. We conceptualise this as ‘supplementary work’. The analysis shows how supplementary work is a flexibility practice associated with high workloads and poor organisational supports for work–life balance, distinguishing it from other forms of home-based work. Whereas previous studies have not found gendered effects, we found women with caring responsibilities had higher odds of performing supplementary work. These findings expand understandings of contemporary flexibility practices and the factors that affect them, and underline the need for more nuanced theories of working at home.

Fascia and biotensegrity: Bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-85
Author(s):  
Amanda Williamson ◽  
Maisie Beth James ◽  
Karin Rugman
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Nerve ◽  
Dance Education ◽  
Nerve Endings ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Sensory Nerve Endings ◽  
Pressure Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
At Home

This article is offered in the spirit of supporting students studying at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. It is offered as a study aid for those who may not be able to return to the studio for months but want to continue with their life-giving somatic studies at home. The article shares the properties of fascia and biotensegrity. I reflect on why somatic movement dance education and therapy is an effective approach in the world of fascial therapies. The first areas covered are sensory nerve endings found in fascia that respond to different types of movement and pressure, such as Golgi organs, Ruffini receptors, Pacini corpuscles and interstitial receptors. Other movement concepts covered are omnidirectional volume, pressure, time, stretch, gravity, ground reaction, floating bones, and chirality and counter-chirality. The article serves as an introduction to biotensegrity and why fascia innervates the parsympathetics. Of note, the article is pedagogical, primarily aimed at supporting students who are training in somatic movement dance education and therapy. Throughout the article Karin Rugman and Maisie Beth James offer experiential sensory images applying key ideas about fascia in the studio.

At Home in the World:At Home in the World.

1997 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-450
Author(s):  
Robert Desjarlais
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
At Home

Trading Barriers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
International Competition ◽  
International Economy ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Foreign Competition ◽  
Capital Movements ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Business Support ◽  
The World ◽  
At Home

Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? This book argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined with growing international competition due to lowered trade barriers has led to greater limits on immigration. The book explains that businesses relying on low-skill labor have been the major proponents of greater openness to immigrants. Immigration helps lower costs, making these businesses more competitive at home and abroad. However, increased international competition, due to lower trade barriers and greater economic development in the developing world, has led many businesses in wealthy countries to close or move overseas. Productivity increases have allowed those firms that have chosen to remain behind to do more with fewer workers. Together, these changes in the international economy have sapped the crucial business support necessary for more open immigration policies at home, empowered anti-immigrant groups, and spurred greater controls on migration. Debunking the commonly held belief that domestic social concerns are the deciding factor in determining immigration policy, this book demonstrates the important and influential role played by international trade and capital movements.

Personal Versus Political Affairs in Churchill's This is a Chair

Human Affairs ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Worpel
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
At Home

Personal Versus Political Affairs in Churchill'sThere are plenty of issues in the world to petition and fight for, yet each individual also has "battles" at home to contend with. Which is of more importance? We often separate the two indefinitely. In studying Caryl Churchill's work

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