The Wild Region of Lived Experience

by BOIS, DANIS

• ISBN13: 9781556437489
• ISBN10: 155643748X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2009-02-17
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

The Wild Region of Lived Experienceintroduces the emerging discipline of somatic-psychoeducation, a powerful body-mind modality developed over a period of 25 years by author Danis Bois. Somatic-psychoeducation uses aspects of manual therapy (touch), movement, and psychotherapeutic methods to help people heal from physical and emotional issues, as well as develop their maximum potential for balance, well-being, and creativity. Considering the person as a body-mind unit, this method aims to resolve physical pain and psychological suffering, thereby helping the subject regain the sure sense of his or her life. By teaching people to perceive, to feel, and to reflect, they learn from their bodies and from events in their lives. Parts I and II of the book provide a general description of somatic-psychoeducation, as seen through Bois's career path and personal experience. Part III introduces the idea of "bodymind tuning," which involves methods of touch, movement, introspection, and verbal dialogue to connect the patient more fully to his or her body, thoughts, and behavior. Part IV explores the origin and evolution of physical and psychological pain and explains how somatic-psychoeducation helps people heal. This is an ideal reference for movement educators and therapists, as well as those seeking a holistic approach to their own healing.

Author Biography

Danis Bois was trained as a physical therapist and osteopath. In 1983, he founded a school of fasciatherapy, a manual therapy inspired by his experience of osteopathy. He has taught in numerous schools worldwide. The author of several books and articles presenting his original approach to mindbody healing, he lives in France.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	p. xiii
Editor's Note	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxiii
Renewing the Self	p. 1
Potentiality and the Discovery of the Inner Movement	p. 3
Potentiality, the Initial Perspective	p. 3
The Discovery of the Inner Movement	p. 5
Potentiality and Inner Movement	p. 8
The Renewed Self: An Acting Potentiality	p. 9
The Unconscious in Somatic-Psychoeducation	p. 13
The Unconscious Has a History	p. 14
From the Unconscious to the Unperceived	p. 18
The Body Talks	p. 31
Dialoguing with the Tissues	p. 33
First Analogies with Verbal Dialogue	p. 34
Informative Directiveness	p. 35
Gestural Language	p. 39
Kinesthetic Perception and Self-Awareness	p. 40
Reading the "Dance" of Movement	p. 41
Body-Centered Verbal Dialogue	p. 49
Words Arising from Sense-Experiencing	p. 49
Three Levels of Introspection	p. 51
Establishing Verbal Empathy	p. 52
Body-Mind Tuning	p. 55
Body-Tuning Techniques	p. 57
Manual Tuning	p. 58
Gestural Tuning	p. 59
Introspective Tuning	p. 60
Tuning through Verbal Dialogue	p. 62
Reconstructing the Sense of Existence	p. 66
The Tuning of Inner Skills	p. 69
Attention	p. 70
Perception	p. 73
Thought	p. 75
Memory	p. 80
Sense-Experiencing	p. 82
Empathy and Actuating Reciprocity	p. 84
Tonic Regulation	p. 86
Perceptual-Cognitive Tuning	p. 89
The Process of Transformation	p. 89
Resistance to Accepting Contact with the Immanent	p. 95
Perceptual-Cognitive Modifiability	p. 99
Healing The Sensible Being	p. 103
Treating Somatizations	p. 105
Physical Pain and Psychological Suffering	p. 105
The Pain and Suffering Duo	p. 110
The Shock Resonance Pathway	p. 112
Reclaiming Our Sensible Being	p. 117
The Pathologies of Non-Being	p. 117
Disorders of the Individual Relationship to Inner Tonality	p. 129
Healing the Malaise	p. 137
How Malaise Becomes Chronic	p. 137
The Warning Signs of Malaise	p. 140
Easy Assessment through Gestural Evaluation	p. 146
Evaluating Chronic Malaise through Structured Dialogue	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 167
Bibliography	p. 171
Notes	p. 179
About the Author	p. 186
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