How to Be Feral Movement Practices to Re-Wild Your Body

by Loussouarn, Claire

• ISBN13: 9781913743918
• ISBN10: 1913743918
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-09-20
• Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd

Summary

In How to be feral, Claire Loussouarn invites us to challenge our preconceived notions of how our body should move. Through a series of practices and reflections, she encourages us to disrupt our usual shape and movement and to explore moving without the head on top, without using the hands, from the spine, with the face ... and in many other ways. In Part 2 she challenges our deeply held beliefs about our place in the natural world. She shows us how to learn from non-human ways of being in the world and wake up our feral bodies in dialogue with the environment. In all, she offers 91 movement practices that any reader can use. They allow us to use our moving body as a way to question and come to understand our conditioning and our biases. By disrupting our movement habits and our ideas of what it means to be human, she shows us how we can tap into our feral selves and reconnect with our bodies in a more expansive way. This is a practical, reflective and beautifully illustrated handbook that re-appropriates the term 'feral' as a potent way to bring to light the limitations of our human perspective. Be ready to see through new lenses!

Author Biography

Claire is a movement artist, a self-taught filmmaker, an insight herbalist and a trained researcher and anthropologist. She has an avid curiosity and loves to explore and experiment with the playfulness of a child. She is a seeker in the darkness, unearthing what is buried in the depths of our psyche. She has a long-term art project in Hackney Marshes, a common land in the heart of London, with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal. With the footage they made a four screens installation with 3D soundscape called ‘ We are plants, we are grass, we are Hackney Marshes’ .

Table of Contents

Trusting the body Notes on practice Notes on reading A conversation I Disrupting the human 1. Moving without the head on top 2. Moving without standing upright 3. Moving without the hands 4. Moving from the pelvis 5. Moving from the spine 6. Moving the face 7. Disrupting the human shape 8. Questioning with the body 9. Finding your edge 10. Not slow or fast, in time 12. Demystifying agency II Being environment 12. Landing 13. Softening boundaries 14. Moving in landscape 15. Tuning to nature’ s rhythm 16. Shapeshifting frames 17. Un-shaping with environment 18. Becoming less human 19. Moving with human design 20. Being with 21. Embracing impermanence A feral human Acknowledgments About the Author