Dancing in the Muddy Temple
A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body
Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8902-3 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8902-3 (ISBN)
In this book, Eline Kieft creates an embodied spirituality that is based in improvised movement and embedded in the land. Weaving between theory and practice, this innovative work explores fundamental interconnections between self, surroundings, and the sacred.
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.
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.
Eline Kieft is an independent scholar, consultant and coach, combining her background as anthropologist, movement facilitator and shamanic practitioner.
Gratitudes
Prelude
Opening (Introduction)
1. Existential Questions
2. The Spirit of the Dance
3. Body and Embodiment
4. Movement as a Way of Knowing
5. Immersion in the Land
6. Expanded Consciousness
7. Encountering the Spirits
8. The Cauldron of Ceremony
9. Towards Wholeness
Closing (Conclusion)
Appendix: Six Practical Orientations Towards Dynamic Wellbeing
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Body and Religion |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7391-8902-6 / 0739189026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7391-8902-3 / 9780739189023 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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