Somatics Toolkit
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Original Project Home Page Welcome Text
Team Members + Updated Professional Links
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What can I expect?
Video Presentations and Methodology

Somatic Toolkit Project Video
Somatic introduction and knowing with the body (NCRM video 1 of 3)
Movement exploration of lines, angles and circles (NCRM video 2 of 3)
The body as research instrument in your research cycle (NCRM video 3 of 3)
Core Practices by Project Team

How to use the Core Practices?
Before you begin
1 Body Basics: Arriving
2 Literature: A Spatial Approach
3 Identity: Noticing Your Lenses
4 Confidence: Taking on the Researcher’s Mantel
5 Observation: Seeing and Being Seen
6 Interviews: Intimacy and Reciprocity in the Field
7 Places: Being in the Unknown
8 Analysis: Moving with Polarities
9 Writing: Embodying your Thoughts
10 Presentation: A Full-Bodied Performance
Extended Practices by Guest Facilitators

A Non-Binary Guide to Embodying One's Embryonic Gonads by Nicole Bindler
Blood Work Part 1 Finding your Pulse by Terp Høybye + Hallager Andersen
Blood Work Part 2 Flow by Terp Høybye + Hallager Andersen
Blood Work Part 3 Solids by Terp Høybye + Hallager Andersen
Butoh Walk by Paola Esposito
Challenging Research Situations by Lene Faust and Simone Pfeifer
Comfort, Discomfort and Transformation by Andrew Suseno
Dancing with the Camera by Claire Loussouarn
Deep Nerves of Rest and Restoration by Roxlyn Moret
Empathetic Fatigue by Elizabeth Maynard
Moving with the Breath for Presence and Connection by Marcia Donadel
Relief from Overwhelm by Elizabeth Maynard
Spatial awareness and gaze a solo exploration by Deborah Black
Spatial awareness and gaze working with others by Deborah Black
Working with Challenges or Working from Inspiration by Elizabeth Maynard
Yielding as an Ecologically Sensitive and Somatic Practice by Tamara Ashley
Blog Posts

1. The body as research instrument by Eline Kieft
2. The politics of Somatics by Ben Spatz
3. Bringing research activities into the body by Eline Kieft
4. Em-Body-Ing an Other-ed Body by Fatima E. Adamu
5. Thoughts from Lisbon, Berlin and Madrid by Doerte Weig
6. What Should go in a Somatic Toolkit? by Rosa Cisneros and Marie-Louise Crawley INCL Photos from here
7. Deepening interviews through shared movement by Mila Bammens
8. Embodied awareness as pedagogy and practice for academic resilience by Elizabeth Maynard
9. The Perils of Un-Physical Education: a personal narrative by Elizabeth Maynard
10. Palestinian Dance and the Obfuscation of Somatic Source Material by Nicole Bindler
11. Knowing the Body in the Virtual Field Site by Harsha Balasubramanian
12. somatics: an undichotomizing poetic: a provocative invitation by Bronwyn Preece
13. Autonomous Bodies by Deborah Black
14. Working with Head and Blood y Marie Hallager Andersen & Mette Terp Høybye
15. Yielding as an ecologically sensitive and somatic practice by Tamara Ashley
16. Sound(e)scapes: Singing as self-care tool during fieldwork at home by Caitlin Pilbeam
17. “Tuning” with a personal somatic toolkit by Marcia Donadel
18. From Kafka’s Burrow to Underground Sensings By Johannes Birringer
Podcast Remember Your Body

Link + Table of Contents Remember Your Body Podcast
Archive & Project History

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Launch Event Programme & Invitation
Launch Event Images Doerte Weig
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5 Observation: Seeing and Being Seen

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