Crossing the threshold … and crisscrossing, and crisscrossing …: Embodiment and varielation in Developmental Transformations and yoga

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-271
Author(s):  
Nicole Brucato Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Mechanisms Of Change ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Developmental Transformations ◽  
Growth And Change

How does Developmental Transformations (DvT) facilitate growth and change? This article illuminates the process of embodied transformation through repetition, varielation and dimensionalization (techniques in DvT). The author examines these elements in operation within two types of embodied experiences: DvT and yoga. Both theory and the author’s personal experience provide windows into the intersection of these embodied practices as well as elucidating the inner mechanisms of change.

scholarly journals "Endless Possibilities" — Embodied Experiences and Connection in Social Salsa Dancing

PhaenEx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-135
Author(s):  
B. McClure
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Empirical Context ◽  
Embodied Self ◽  
Normative Ideals

This article offers an analysis of embodied experiences and connections in social salsa dancing. Framed within a theoretical context that views bodily practices as both the enactment of normative ideals and as a negotiation of personal freedom against normative ideals, social salsa dancing offers a rich empirical context to explore how we make sense of our bodies, bodily practices, and embodied experience. Drawing on fieldwork conducted as part of a doctoral study in addition to a decade of personal experience, I argue that social salsa dancing cultivates kinesthetic, tactile, and musical senses, and emphasizes the value of attentive embodied interactions and momentary connections with others. I conclude that exploring the possibilities of these interactions and connections offers a potentially emancipatory way of working on one’s embodied self.

Personal Experience As a Motivating Factor for Sexual Assault Education, Advocacy, and/or Support Work

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca E. Kason ◽  
Grace Akinrinade ◽  
Rebekah Halpert ◽  
Thomas P. Demaria
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
Support Work
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