Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics

Somatics pioneer and the founder of the first graduate degree in the discipline offers a cutting-edge edited collection of articles from and about diverse voices to take the field to the next level of inclusion and healing.
This collection of approximately twelve essays is a first to open the door for voices to emerge from African American, Indigenous, Latin American, and Asian embodiment traditions to impact Somatic theories and practices. In addition, the notion of "body" that underlies most of these currently available writings assumes a universal normality of structure and function that has come into question: such challenges appear in this collection from the viewpoints of neural, hormonal, and physiological diversities. The authors in this collection embody these differences and have developed their particular somatic practices out of direct awareness of them. In the narratives of this anthology, we find the seeds of new approaches to the transformation of the...