How life moves : explorations in meaning and body awareness / Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank

"[S]ponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and crosscultural perspective linking various scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of the arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-142) and index.

An inquiry into movement education--perception, movement, structure, metaphor, and imagination -- Orientation--child of heaven and earth -- Establishing oneself--the cell -- The cell's contents and container-cell movement and boundary -- The cell moves in its matrix--cell colony -- Vessel--the primitive gut body -- Mobility--the gut body gains an axis -- Lateral line--the fish body -- Amphibian and reptile--acquiring girdles -- Becoming warm-blooded--the mammal -- The human--walking upright, achieving lordosis -- Afterword -- Appendixes.

"An experiential movement curriculum with a cutting edge approach to perception and body awareness--an in-depth manual for body workers, yoga practitioners, movement teachers, dancers, physical, somatic, and psychological therapists, theater students, and for anyone wanting to understand the principles beneath posture, movement, and body/mind training"--Provided by publisher.