Author: Yoana

   Embodying Change Through Authentic Movement is an MFA thesis project about the change one encounters when dancing between the conscious and the unconscious space. Allowing the soma (the living body) to speak brings renewal and refreshment to the being (Whitehouse, 1980). A more strongly established relationship to the body increases perceptivity, proprioception, kinaesthetic awareness and...

Mary Starks Whitehouse (1911-1979) was a contemporary dancer taught by pioneers Martha Graham and Mary Wigman (Whitehouse, 1980). Experiencing powerful emotional occurrences while dancing or observing others dance made Whitehouse want to deepen her practice which led her to pursue a training in CG Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland (Whitehouse, 1979). Becoming a psychotherapist, she was able...

"We come together in pairs or groups to practice Authentic Movement. We come together to find out what is already within us, waiting for us. We come knowing we don’t know what we will do, what we will find. We come for refreshment, revelation, rest, recuperation. We come for open time, unprogrammed time, in our bodies and in our inner worlds – the unconscious, the imagination, the soul, the...

Authentic movement is that process of self-exploration which allows you to be anchored in your center while experiencing internal sensations (Pollaro, 2007). It comes from deep felt sense of permitting the energy to flow with or without knowing what it represents. Allowing to be moved by an inner impulse seeking freedom through expression, movement provides with wings, freedom and openness. It...

A session usually begins with a small talk for setting the intention followed by a body scan. The participant's experiences are allowed to lead. Throughout that time, I keep in touch with my own physical and emotional state, which informs me intuitively where the other person is, which direction we should follow, and how I personally experience in relation to them (Chodorow, 2004). They act as an...

A couple of years ago, amidst completing my BA dissertation (A Psychoanalytical Discussion on the Indivisibility between A Dancing Soma (Body) and Its Psyche Explored through Osho Rebalancing Therapy, 2019), I realized that soma and psyche are not only indivisible, but they are also two opposites of the same whole. The revelation established the beginning of my love for somatic exploration,...

"Because of the depth analysis, I came to see and feel C. G. Jung’s distinction between the many aspects of a human being, without his forgetting for a moment the wholeness of each one. It is a wholeness consisting of totality, completeness. Most people say, “self” using the small letter “s” to mean the ego, the individual, the personality. The world of self is the world of Me and its...

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