Embodied Lives by Katya Bloom

Embodied Lives by Katya Bloom

Prapto's Amerta Movement has inspired thousands of people. But what is Amerta Movement? And what is it about Prapto's work that so touches therapists, artists, musicians, dancers, teachers, performers and laypeople? 30 movement practitioners from around the world (who all trained with him) describe the impact of Prapto's Amerta Movement on them.

Suprapto's work with movement is radically inventive and his dancing a revelationAnna Halprin Suprapto is a movement master. and his work has deeply touched my life and the lives of countless others... A joy to read for anybody interested in making the most of this creative project called living in a body on planet earth. Ya'Acov Darling Khan, author of Movement Medicine. Dancing inside, dancing outside - this elegant book illuminates awareness of both body and place. Whether moving amid temples in Java or in your kitchen, this distinctive compendium invites the reader to engage both the grit and coherence of authentic voice. Each page cultivates the thrill of discovery. Andrea Olsen, author of The Place of Dance.

Bloom, Katya: - Katya Bloom is a movement psychotherapist in private practice in London. She taught Dance Movement Therapy at the University of Surrey Roehampton from 1985 until 2002. She is a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, and is a qualified teacher of Suprapto Suryodarmo's Amerta Movement. She also teaches movement to actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is the author of two stage plays. She is co-author with Rosa Shreeves of Moves: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement (1998). She has pursued her interest in the interrelationships between psychoanalysis and movement since coming to London from the USA in 1983, culminating in her Ph.D., Movement as a Psychophysical Process, under the auspices of the University of E. London and the Tavistock Clinic, in 2005.

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ISBN 13	9781909470323
ISBN 10	1909470325
Title	Embodied Lives
Author	Katya Bloom
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Triarchy Press
Year published	2014-06-30
Number of pages	336
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