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"Embodied Inquiry is offered to all who want to deepen the connection to their bodies. Here is the inspiration to see your body as a place of inquiry, learning, understanding and perceiving. Listening to the sensual knowing and aliveness within the body can inform our personal and professional lives and reveal the connections between living, being, and creating. Snowber writes this book in poetic and visceral language as a love letter from the body wooing readers to inhabit their own skins and celebrate the beautiful and paradoxical place where limitations and joy dwell together. Touching on the vastness of our body's call to us, Embodied Inquiry explores solitude, paradox, inspiration, lament, waking up to the sensuous, ecology, listening, and writing from the body. This is not a manual, but a book to accompany you in befriending the body and let your own gestures, stories and bodily ways of being lead you to listen to your own rhythm. Whether an artist or educator, researcher or administrator, performer or poet, seeker or scientist, you will find this book as a companion to sustain a vibrant life and co-create a better world. "A beautiful, creative and highly original book. Written with passion and wisdom, this book makes significant contributions to arts-based research, artistic research practice, embodiment, and living artful, intentional and connected lives. A stunning achievement."--Patricia Leavy, Ph. D., author of Method Meets Art and editor of the Social Fictions series "Snowber offers wisdom for learning to live exotically, erotically, emotionally, and ecstatically. Reading Embodied Inquiry is like walking on a wilderness trail, in sunlight-infused rain, learning to embrace the possibilities of vitality and vulnerability, joy and grief, love and loss." -- Carl Leggo, Ph. D., poet & professor, University of British Columbia "Weaving prose and poetry, Snowber awakens our sensual and embodied self at the very roots of living. This deeply personal work will move educators, researchers, artists, and those for whom lived experience is core to their creative processs." -- Daniel Deslauriers, Ph. D., Professor, Transformative Studies Doctorate Program, CIIS TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1: LET THE BODY OUT; AN ENFLESHED THEORY DANCES; WHAT HAPPENED TO BODY KNOWLEDGE?; REMEMBERING YOUR FIRST LOVE; CHAPTER 2: SOLITUDE AND PHYSICALITY; HORIZONTAL INQUIRY AND SABBATH; EMBODIED PRACTICES; CHAPTER 3: WAKING UP TO THE SENSUOUS; LANDSCAPE OF OUR BODIES; SENSUAL ART OF LIVING AND BEING; LIVING ROMANTICALLY; LIVING EXOTICALLY; IN PRAISE OF HIPS; CHAPTER 4: WRITING FROM THE BODY; WOMB-STUDIO AND WRITING; RETURNING TO THE BREATH; WALKING INTO WRITING; LAMENT AND WRITING; MOVEMENT AND WRITING; GETTING UNSTUCK WRITING FROM OUR VULNERABILITIESCHAPTER 5: LISTENING AND THE BODY; LISTENING AND THE SENSES; THE BODY AS MUSE; LISTENING TO OUR PASSION; LISTENING AND INSIGHT; CHAPTER 6: THE BODY AND PARADOX; GRAVITY AND LEVITY; BODY AND THRESHOLDS; KNEE WISDOM; DANCING INTO GUIDANCE; STERNUM TO SKY; CHAPTER 7: AN ECOLOGY OF THE BODY; DANCING IN THE ALPHABET OF CREATION; WE ARE MADE OF STARS AND SCARS; LIVING FROM SKIN, STONE TO SKY; RETURNING TO THE EARTH'S INTELLIGENCE; CHAPTER 8: BODYWARD; THE BODY IS NOT POLITE; JUMPING OFF; DOMECSTACY; VISCERAL CREATIVITY; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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