{"title":"Books by Linda Hartley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781556431746","title":"Wisdom of the Body Moving","description":"This comprehensive guide introduces Body-Mind Centering, the internationally recognized field pioneered by dancer and occupational therapist Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Devoting thirty-five years to a systematic investigation of the relations between bodily experience and the anatomical maps of science, Bainbridge Cohen independently discovered many of the principles that underlie Feldenkrais work, cranial osteopathy, Rolfing, dance therapy, and Zero Balancing. Experienced BMC practitioner Linda Hartley demonstrates the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering. Drawing on animal and infant movements, she takes readers through the wondrous realms of Bainbridge Cohen’s pantheon—from the 'minds' of the skeletal and muscular systems to the quite different inner lives of digestive, lymphatic, urinary, respiratory, vocal, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive organs. Her choreography ultimately brings us into the states of consciousness of skins, cells, blood, fat, cerebrospinal fluid, nervous system, and brain. Hartley’s explorations of the images, feelings, sensations, and intuitions of the diverse organs and cells lead to exercises that gently guide students in ways of discovering and integrating their bodies’ multidimensional aspects.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304358556021,"sku":"9781556431746","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781556431746_978b5792-083d-4e00-89c0-944e7b3bbd88.jpg?v=1786023596"},{"product_id":"9781861564306","title":"Somatic Psychology","description":"This book brings attention to the interface of psychotherapy and psychological theory with the somatic practices of bodywork and movement therapy. To offer a client only psychotherapy, or only bodywork may subtly or directly reinforce the body-mind split from which so many of us suffer; in some cases this will be a reinforcement of a dilemma central to the client's problems. Hartley views body psychotherapy and transpersonal psychotherapy as building bridges between the once separated processes of psyche, soma, and spirit. Today the emerging field of somatic psychology is also contributing to the expanded field of psychology a subtle differentiation of bodymind process, developed through almost a century and a half of research and practice in somatic therapy and education.  Originally trained as a dancer, movement therapist and bodywork practitioner, Hartley continues to use movement and somatic process as an important foundation for her own work. Training in Dance Movement Therapy, the transpersonal psychotherapy of Psychosynthesis, and Process-Oriented Psychology have further deepened Hartley's awareness of the relationships between psyche, soma and spirit, and the need to respond to all levels of experience in therapeutic work.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313097814389,"sku":"9781861564306","price":47.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781861564306_8311ad49-3ea6-4382-8ee2-ae90cdbcf6ff.jpg?v=1786029026"},{"product_id":"9781913743994","title":"Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth","description":"Linda Hartley here brings together the wisdom and learning from nearly five decades of study, practice and teaching at the forefront of somatic movement, embodied awareness, somatic and transpersonal psychotherapy, and spiritual disciplines. The interrelationship of Body, Mind and Spirit weaves its way through the book –              taking us beyond a dialogue between them to the transcendence of unitive consciousness, where an immanent or embodied spirituality is glimpsed. The book draws closely on three sources –              Release Work; Body-Mind Centering;the Discipline of Authentic Movement –              to show how they can inform a practice of consciously embodied movement. As well as condensing her lifetime’             s experience, Linda suggests a way to:- explore our own embodied awareness- understand the patterned impact of conception, embryological development, birth and infant development- rediscover our connection with the consciousness of the Earth and the more-than-human world- find a healthier relationship with our planetary home and the collective body- explore the relationship between the matter of body and the mystery of Spirit, through the arc of human development from conception to death.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313169805685,"sku":"9781913743994","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913743994_1707ec0c-5e51-48d5-946c-115acdb41236.jpg?v=1786030517"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-linda-hartley.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}