- Somatics I

Catalog description

Through various approaches to learning (memorizing factual information, sharing autoethnographic body-centered stories, drawing evocative and descriptive images, and moving through guided developmental movement explorations), students are introduced to anatomy and kinesiology in their own bodies. The course materials approach the body primarily from a first-person stance through different kinds of movement activities in relation to reflexes and developmental material through skeletal, muscular, and neurological systems. Students are required to keep weekly journals, work in small study groups in and out of class, and create and document a "personal practice" (sometimes referred to as a series of personal bodywork sessions) to illustrate their commitment to self-as-home, command of anatomical and kinesiological principles and reasoning, and the application of those processes on self-identified movement inquiries.