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Title
My Body Speaks: Investigating Movement Strategies for Pain
Description
This thesis is an exploration into somatic movement methods to help ease chronic pain. The study follows my personal experience as a researcher and a dancer with fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions. I carry forward a body-centered autoethnographic frame, as the prevailing ethos of this work revolves around considering bodily experience as an authority in personal well-being. My research follows the spirit of the Intuitive Inquiry research methodology developed by Dr. Rosemarie Anderson and evolved as I progressed through my own research and organizing processes. This thesis document is organized according to eight physical cycles of intuitive inquiry that emerged from my movement and research processes. The cycles address my conditions of chronic pain and disability, my history with dance competition in the United States, my experience with conceptualizations of the body, and the successes I experience with somatic practices, particularly Tensegrity as it applies to the body. My intuitive physical cycles conclude with a proposal for methods of movement and inner-body communication that promote ease in the body and sustainable movement.
Date Created
2023
Contributors
- Smith, Holly (Author)
- Roses-Thema, Cynthia (Thesis advisor)
- Olarte, David (Committee member)
- Anand, Julie (Committee member)
- Tang, Yi-Yuan (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Extent
122 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.187765
Level of coding
minimal
Cataloging Standards
Note
Partial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2023
Field of study: Dance
System Created
- 2023-06-07 12:25:02
System Modified
- 2023-06-07 12:25:14
- 1 year 5 months ago
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