Dancing in the Muddy Temple: A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body
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AlbakiReads Editorial Embodied spirituality through movement, land, and ritual
Embodied spirituality through movement, land, and ritual
Eline Kieft brings dance into conversation with nature experience, anthropology, shamanism, and existential inquiry. Centering improvised movement as a form of knowing, the book traces connections between bodily awareness, the landscapes people inhabit, and encounters with the sacred. Its scope moves from sensory engagement with land to contemporary ceremony and a closing consideration of healing and wholeness. Personal and professional experience are interwoven with interdisciplinary scholarship, making the volume both a conceptual exploration and a practical framework for examining spirituality through everyday movement.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers interested in dance as an embodied or contemplative practice
- Those exploring spirituality outside mainstream religious traditions
- Students and practitioners of movement, ritual, nature connection, or somatic inquiry
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EmbodimentImprovised movementLand and nature connectionRitual and ceremonyHealing and wholeness
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Book Overview Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight,...
Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight, healing, transformation, and direct interaction with source. Dancing in the Muddy Temple takes the reader on a journey through multiple layers of embodied spirituality based in movement and embedded in the land.
Addressing existential questions outside of mainstream religions, the book seeks possibilities for a spirituality that dances with the sacred life force within and all around us. Starting within the body, and always using movement as a way of knowing, Kieft expands on further concrete and subtle layers of connection. A sensorial immersion in the land develops into an expansion of consciousness and meeting intangible aspects of nature. After exploring the role of ceremony in contemporary times, the book concludes with an unexpected chapter on healing, drawing together insights for a dynamic approach to health and wholeness as innate part of an embodied spirituality.
Moving seamlessly between her personal, professional, and academic background, Kieft creates an unusual scholarship in which bodily and autobiographical narrative are neatly interwoven with interdisciplinary literature. Its uniqueness lies in a radical integration of theory and practice, which brings an aliveness to the material that stirs an inquisitive desire to move, rooted in language that inspires confidence for personal inquiry into a rich and complex territory. This inspiring book offers an intricate road map to explore and strengthen the interwovenness of various layers of self, surroundings and the sacred, distilling tools for a practical, moving spirituality of the everyday.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 212 | Language: English | Publisher: UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATI | ISBN: 0739189026
FormatHardcover
Pages212
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0739189026
EAN9780739189023
PublisherUNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATI
Publication Date2022-06-07
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.07 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.63 Inches
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