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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"body awareness"”.
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Sensory Stimulation to Influence Body Awareness in the Adult Hemiplegic Patient
… facilities using fourteen CVA patients with body scheme disturbances. The study was done to test the hypothesis that the experimental technique of light touch sensory stimulation as supplied by fast brushing to the skin dermatomes C 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the affected arms would increase the …
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Body conscious: a comparative study of body awareness and body alignment methods for singers and for teachers integrating them into their teaching
… is to research and discuss the necessity of body alignment and awareness required to enhance a singer's vocal technique. The science supporting proper alignment and awareness provides evidence for the importance of this area of training. Research presented in this document compares several of …
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Stress Management, Relaxation Techniques and Free Drawings with Elementary School Children
… work suggests a beginning: to teach children body awareness, unstressing, relaxation techniques in conjunction with free drawing in the elementary school classroom, enhancing their interdisciplinary learning process. Due to the nature of the school and the cooperation of the teacher, the …
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Exploring Pathways Toward Psychobiological Safety through Mindful Body-centered Art Making with Sheltered Homeless Women
… a trauma-informed intervention on relaxation and body awareness in sheltered homeless women, where trauma history can be a pathway to homelessness, and the experience of homelessness itself can be traumatic. The study took place at three interim housing locations along the peninsula of the greater …
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Teenage Clumsiness: Does it exist?
… that specifically do not depend on strength, or body awareness. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether female adolescents’ awareness of their body size and movement was influenced by biological maturation, and whether adolescent awkwardness could be detected in performance of sport …
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Core stability of undergraduate collegiate dancers: an investigation of pilates on core stability and dance performance
… developed: (1) Core Strength and Control, (2) Body Awareness, (3) Support for Dance Practice. Participant responses supported perceived impact of Pilates on core control, body awareness and improved dance training. Study 3 investigated the effects of a Pilates wall unit on dancers, focusing on …
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Experience in Action: Incorporating Somatic Education into the General Music Classroom
… music-related injury and to promote free, wholebody movement. To do so, the principals of somatic education, specifically those of the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping, were combined with the current general music pedagogies by altering pre-existing lesson plans. Alterations include a …
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Breathing embodiment: a study of Middendorf breathwork
… breathwork, a way of cultivating breath and body awareness developed by Ilse Middendorf (b.1910, Berlin), based on sensing subtle bodily movements that occur with breath as it is allowed to come and go on its own. Drawing on the author’s personal experience, together with interviews and …
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Fashioning the Hip-Hop Dancing Body: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to “Fresh” Performance Practice
… capacity of the fashioned, hip-hop dancing body to transform and be transformed by other material actors (actants) in multiple networks of relationships. ANT’s core principle of “tracing associations” is used not only to map relationships between human and non-human actors, but also to …
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A case study investigating perceptions on process and outcomes in applying the Alexander Technique in vocal production
… production. These primarily involved improving body awareness through "body mapping," identifying physical habits that cause tension, and replacing these with natural freedom in movement. Furthermore, there was parity in perceptions on positive outcomes in vocal production, including ability to …
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Emotion in individuals with features of BPD
… with FBPD self-reported heightened levels of body awareness during emotional states, although this did not generalise to general body awareness or interoceptive accuracy. Standardised images and script tasks were effective in eliciting desired emotional responses. However, the FBPD group did …
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Emotion in individuals with features of BPD
… with FBPD self-reported heightened levels of body awareness during emotional states, although this did not generalise to general body awareness or interoceptive accuracy. Standardised images and script tasks were effective in eliciting desired emotional responses. However, the FBPD group did …
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Hip disorders and osteoarthritis: focus on health-related quality of life, assesssment and intervention
… instrument for assessing movement quality, the Body Awareness Movement Quality (BAS MQ)was examined. The inter-rater reliabiliy and validity were acceptable in a group of individuals with hip OA. Eighty-nine individuals with hip OA were randomized either to Tai Chi for Arthritis, Hip School or a …
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Haplós: Towards Technologies for and Applications of Somaesthetics
… acknowledgement of the socially-inflected body, the research develops a systematic method grounded in first- and third-person accounts of embodied experience to inform the creation and evaluation of design of Haplós, a wearable, user-customisable, remote-controlled technology that plays …
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Somatosensory wearable technology in the dance making process: investigating digital touch in the formation of creative movement and kinaesthetic awareness
… into a reference point, creating a heightened awareness of the moving body. The kinaesthetic awareness involved when wearing such a tool/aid became complicated by passive touch as the vibrations created through digital touch disrupted the perception of internal and external boundaries to the …
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Die Konstituierung des Ichs in den Selbstportraits Maria Lassnigs, ihre bildnerische Umsetzung von Gefühlen und Empfindungen und die Frage nach der Übertragbarkeit des literarischen Begriffs des 'Inneren Monologs' auf Selbstbildnisse : 'Einmal von außen, dann von innen'
… self pictorially in an introspective act of self-awareness. This implies, however, the assumption that a self-portrait is an authentic representation. Using numerous self-portraits of the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (*1919), her display of inner processes is being analysed and her concept of …
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Freedom to Be - An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Connection with Nature in the Forest
… four superordinate themes: (a) grounded body awareness; (b) temporal awareness; (c) nurturing and nourishing relationships; (d) personal wellness promotion practice. Informants expressed that the experience was grounding, relaxing, and restorative, relieved bodily tension and stress, and …
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Midline Movement: The Positive Effects on Student Behavior in a Kindergarten Classroom
… <p>The purpose of this study was to create awareness and open up a larger conversation about the benefit to students from midline movements which has not yet been studied in education research up to this point. The researcher conducted longitudinal qualitative research with a …
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Psychosomatic aspects on diabetes and chronic pain Alexithymia, depression and salivary cortisol The Affect School and Script Analysis Therapy
… and Script Analysis (ASSA) compared to Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) are tried. In a feasibility and treatment efficacy study we offered ASSA to 59 patients with CBP, and 54 (92%) completed. Alexithymia prevalence went from 33% to 11% (p = 0.013), depression from 59% to 48% (p = 0.18), …
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A Phenomenological Approach to Exploring Body Image Among Powerlifters
… and exercise are associated with less negative body image and more positive body image. For example, athletes report less negative body image than exercisers and non-athletes. One explanation for this finding is that competitive sport may be an embodying activity. Embodying activities are those …
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