Bodyscapes
Guided Somatic Explorations in Anatomy, Movement, and Meaning
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Bodyscapes
Narrated by:
A'rese Emokpae
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Narrated by:
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A'rese Emokpae
Summary
A body-based journey of renewal, transformation, and discovery—somatic practices, embodied tools, and meaning-making myth
Beautifully written, deeply immersive, and enhanced with lush illustrations, Beverley Nolan’s Bodyscapes offers readers embodied tools for healing—and a delightfully unexpected approach to re-knowing our essential anatomy.
Moving from the smallest cell to the complexity of the fascial web, Bodyscapes is organized in 10 body systems. From FEEL: tending your heart and UNIFY: harmonizing the breath to SATISFY: renewing your affinity with fat, each chapter shares affirming practices to reclaim your innate somatic wisdom…and come home to a new understanding of the vibrant joys, curious wonders, and unexpected connections of your body. You’ll discover:
- Guided somatic exercises
- Reflective journaling prompts
- Creative inspiration drawn from myth and folklore
- Practices to integrate body, mind, and emotions
Here, you’ll learn how the heart acts as a vessel: it embodies giving, receiving, and holding, assertiveness on the out-pump and restorative calm on the in-pump. You’ll be invited to appreciate fat in new ways: its active, vital role in energy and protection. And you’ll discover how breath is the unifying force that speaks the story of your inner world.
Interwoven with myth, story, and folklore, Bodyscapes is for somatic therapists, movement professionals, seekers, and readers looking to ground, deepen, integrate, and heal. Bodyscapes opens us up to ourselves—to the systems of sublime miracles that often go unacknowledged, unseen, and unclaimed as the intelligent, supportive pieces of us that they are—and nourishes a new way of moving, transforming, and showing up to the world.
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Critic reviews
“What a tremendous gift Beverley has crafted here! This is not just a book about the body—it’s an invitation to enter it. Through science, embodied anatomy, and incorporating the richness of myth and poetry, Beverley opens a direct and intelligent path into our lived experience. Beverley knows this material—she lives it. She embodies what she’s offering. And step by step, she brings us with her—into the depth, complexity, and quiet beauty of the body’s inner world. This is a dynamic and important book for anyone who wants to know and feel their own body more fully—intimately, honestly, and from the inside out.”
—Patty Townsend, founder of Embodyoga®
“This is a beautifully written book containing a wealth of fascinating information. Beverley Nolan’s decades of research and practice, driven by her curiosity and keen desire to keep learning, weave seamlessly with easy-to-follow explorations. She both deepens our knowledge of the body’s anatomy and physiology and weaves into this ‘bodyscape’ a breadth of scientific, creative, cultural, and mythological associations that will greatly enrich the reader’s experience of their own embodied self. Broad in its expanse, from the origins of the cell in ‘deep time’ to the immediacy of personal somatic practice, the book offers a source of guided learning for both experienced practitioners and those new to embodied practices alike. The writing is clear in detail and speaks directly to the reader so that each description can be felt in the body even while reading, each invitation to embodiment felt somatically and intimately.”
—Linda Hartley, founder of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, and author of Wisdom of the Body Moving and Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth
—Patty Townsend, founder of Embodyoga®
“This is a beautifully written book containing a wealth of fascinating information. Beverley Nolan’s decades of research and practice, driven by her curiosity and keen desire to keep learning, weave seamlessly with easy-to-follow explorations. She both deepens our knowledge of the body’s anatomy and physiology and weaves into this ‘bodyscape’ a breadth of scientific, creative, cultural, and mythological associations that will greatly enrich the reader’s experience of their own embodied self. Broad in its expanse, from the origins of the cell in ‘deep time’ to the immediacy of personal somatic practice, the book offers a source of guided learning for both experienced practitioners and those new to embodied practices alike. The writing is clear in detail and speaks directly to the reader so that each description can be felt in the body even while reading, each invitation to embodiment felt somatically and intimately.”
—Linda Hartley, founder of the Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, and author of Wisdom of the Body Moving and Embodied Spirit, Conscious Earth
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