The body, an obligated pathway

The body, an obligated pathway
Sensations, perceptions and representations
The living body, the perceiving body or the representing body? And what if soma
aesthetic philosophy was composed of these three elements joined together
being all one? Unity in itself, that balances my interiorities’ world related to the
world around me, allows me to be not only congruent and coherent, but also to
feel free to exist from all parts of me gathered together.
From separation to unification, the dance pathway and the Feldenkrais method
pathway allowed me to unify soul and body to find a specific way corresponding
to my essential. My essential point connects my heart to dance and my body to
awareness, to be all one in the act of talking. This all one part unified is now
becoming a source of apprenticeship and a source of inspiration. They can
express themselves with written or with spoken words, inspired from emotions,
sensations,
perceptions,
images,
symbols,
representations
and
conceptualizations.
What does my body learn to me? What my psychosocial studies learn to my
living and sensing body? What is body’s place in the thought? What are the right
conditions to find my proper embodied talk?
Having different questions I’m looking to tell, from the one who knows inside me
and from the description of my interiorities, something much more bigger than
me. I’m looking not only to link up to the world and to tell myself, but also to
appear in a surprising and original form that will allow to reveal the precise way
between what I’m living internally and what is looking to be told from an
embodied manner. A body’s knowledge that expresses itself with wisdom to give
birth to a new way that will take form with the contact of the world, that means
with the contact of nature and with the contact of the people that is around me
and that also builds me, the people who touches me and that I can also touch.
What is body’s place in our societies? Not the body that expresses itself, but the
body that is imprinted, the one that is imprinted of its life. An autoreflexive looking
on my living body, on my perceiving body and on my representing body that learn
me a lot through my life’s evolution. My interiorities’ account reveals the
perceptions and thoughts that are inscribed in the soma aesthetic pathway of my
woman’s life that is looking for balance in between performance and
consideration of my interiorities for an optimal health: “The emotions’ pathway is
there. My life too. In my core I am. » (Extract of my personal diary).
Resting on different authors (Appendix 1), I will communicate body’s role
importance in apprenticeship and in thought for a better self connection, for a
better link to the other, to our own history, to the nature and to the community.
Appendix 1
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Annexe 2
Biography
Sandra Belzile
After getting my Diplôme d’études collégiales technique in dance – interpretation,
specialization : contemporary dance, in Cégep de Sainte-Foy (1999-2002), I’ve
been working in dance teaching and in dance creation and production in different
professional, scolar and private places. At the same time, I’ve been studying
Feldenkrais method of somatics education to be a Feldenkrais teacher and
practitioner (Feldekrais Institute, New York, 2002-2006). I am also a Bones for
life program teacher (USA and Quebec, 2007-2009) and I have a degree from
Dance department of Université du Québec à Montréal in Diplôme d’Études
Supérieures Spécialisées en Éducation somatique, profil Feldenkrais (20082009).
I pratice Feldenkrais method of somatics education since more than five years
and I’ve been practicing it in education’s, arts’ and health’s fields. Since
september 2009, I am studying in the master degree of Études des pratiques
psychosociales in Université du Québec à Rimouski. In may 2010, I presented a
conference on Body and the Media in 9e annual Colloquium in communication of
Université du Québec à Montréal.