Somatic clues for a study of the corporeity: a learning of sensations

Abstract

This text intends to present some clues for a study of the corporeity from the methodology of somatic learning evidencing it as a learning of / by the lived and experienced body through the habitation of its intensive and heterogeneous material dimension, producer of space-time othernesses. To do so, we will get closer to the somatic approach developed by Body Mind Centering. We will present accounts of experiences recorded in a logbook and in interviews that will search to highlight the aesthetic-sensitive nature of the body as a propellor of learning through sensations. The accounts set out an investigative field in which the body, in self-experimentation, become the compass of an errant process of searching for the legitimation of the body as a full, potent and vital reality.

Keywords:
corporeity; somatic education; experimental learning; sensations; otherness