Simply Somatic Simply Somatics

In this episode Sherry and Julia continue to discuss curiosity, commitment, and naming as all help us become more sophisticated movers and more aware of our being.

In this episode Julia and Sherry continue to explore the importance of naming feelings, sensations, and movements for the sake of recognizing the aliveness of the self in ourselves and in the world.

Welcome to our relaunching! After taking nearly two years away from creating podcasts, Sheryl Saterstrom and Julia Moser-Hardy return to Mindful Moving and recorded reflection. What happens to our experience of the practice and to us in renewing dedication to it?

Aleks Weaver unpacks the concept " to Be Here Now" in the sound-score for her senior capstone choreography project. She addresses the audience and invites them to participate in the performance with content that is reflective of her own personal discoveries. Aleks would like to thank Maddi Frick as the music editor and Brian Eno for the piano accompaniment.

In response to a morning radio show about the possibility of installing technology into human lives in a more literal way, Sherry and Julia discuss how technology has advanced the music and dance industry and the perception of the body as object versus as self.

The Somatic Foundations in Higher Education project returns with new podcasts from this summer's research! In this podcast from June 28th 2012 St. Olaf College student researcher Julia Moser-Hardy '14 and Professor Sheryl Saterstrom discuss the effort cycle, taking in one's environment through breath and acquisition of sensory information, and how the simple concept of front-body/back-body becomes contorted with rotation.