DANCES WITH SHEEP

DAKO, ANNA

ISBN 10: 1835950744 / ISBN 13: 9781835950746

Published by Intellect Ltd, 2025

Seller Inventory # NW9781835950746

Synopsis:

Dances with Sheep presents the methodology of Felt Thinking in Movement as an eco-somatic practice inspired by re-thinking nature of being human, as well as contextualises it within wider frameworks of cultural, philosophical and therapeutic viewpoints on wellbeing.

Felt Thinking is a self-inquiry practice grounded in somatic movement experience that originates in site-specific and embodied dialoguing between what is felt and what shapes as a responsive thought, as creative movement itself, and which paths ways for ecologically inclusive care for being well with self and other. 

The book elaborates on creative processes in and with the natural environment in relation to the movers’ overall wellbeing and covers creative journeys of opening up to the living agency of Nature itself through the emergent three phases of experiential relatedness in embodied experience of the self. The book presents its original contribution to eco-phenomenology with its ontological principle of embodied relationality in towards and away from movement as a primal gateway to wellbeing and its creative inter-constitution.

An intriguing and inspiring resource for students, practitioners, educators, self-learners, therapists and researchers. Foreword by Sondra Fraleigh.

About the Author:

Anna Dako, Ph.D., RSME/T, UKSMDT, holds a Ph.D. in counselling in education (art practice-based research), MA in dance and somatic wellbeing and MA in theatre studies. Anna is a registered somatic movement educator and therapist with over seventeen years of experience working with dance, movement and creative arts. Anna’s earlier experience stretches from dance research, dramaturgy and on-screen productions. She is also a board member of the Association for Somatic Movement Dance Therapy, United Kingdom & Éire. She collaborates internationally and has lived and worked in Poland, the Netherlands and now in Scotland, United Kingdom. As a writer she specializes in practice-based research, eco psychology and environmental philosophy perspectives. Her forthcoming book Dances with Sheep: On RePairing Human-Nature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing is due to be published in 2022 with Intellect Books. Anna is the founder of Dunami – Movement, Arts, Wellbeing, a platform for ecologically mindful growth, psycho-somatic health and outdoor arts projects: www.dunami-somatics.com. In her research, she has been developing movement-based approaches towards more embodied ways for ‘being well’ with the natural environment guided by processes of creative felt thinking, and is currently offering both online and on-site courses on this somatic methodology of ecologically inclusive self-therapy work.

Bibliographic Details

Title: DANCES WITH SHEEP
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: NEW