Somatic introduction and knowing with the body (video 1 of 3)
Channel: National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Date: 02/09/2020

This video briefly introduces the discipline of somatic practices, leading up to a wider view on knowledge and perception than one only based in cognition. Instead, the entire body can be considered as a way to get to know things. 

This video is part of Online Resource produced by NCRM. This is video 1 of 3. The series is called Embodied Methodologies: The Body as Research Instrument. Find out more here https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/


Dr Eline Kief is a research fellow at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University 



Acknowledgements: NCRM grant to develop the Somatics Toolkit for Ethnographers 
Further Resources: www.somaticstoolkit.coventry.ac.uk