Body and Movement Programme

At the root of everything JABADAO does is an understanding of the body and movement. We continue to be completely dazzled by how extraordinary and how ordinary our existence as physical beings is – and by how little attention we give to it in our culture.

In the Body and Movement programme we offer opportunities for people working in education, health and social care contexts to get to know more about the body and movement, so that they can support the people they work with to get a better sense of ‘the feeling of life itself’ and who are, therefore, better able to embody their lives.

Born embodied, by the time we are adults, many of us find the very idea of moving in order to learn more about who we are and how we feel, overwhelming and embarrassing. It is an entirely natural process for most young children, but somewhere in the preparation for the adult world, we obliterate this fundamental relationship that we have with our bodies – we unwittingly disembody ourselves.

Staying in touch with the detail of the sensation, feeling and movement that interweaves in and out of all our experience is part of being human. If we help people to hone this capacity, we create better foundations for physical, emotional, social and cognitive development, health and wellbeing.

Staying embodied is a physical affair, not something to be thought out and structured by the intellect. The natural learning medium is spontaneous movement play, engaging with what things feel like – as well as what we think about them.

A full 2008-9 Body and Movement programme is available from JABADAO. Click on the image to request a brochure by post:

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