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"We have a rich cross-cultural legacy of both contemplative and expressive practices at our disposal. How do we draw upon and update them to meet the conditions of the modern mind living in an industrialized body within an urban environment?"

Articles & Video/Audio Interviews

Articles

Embodying Nature, Becoming Ourselves: A Sensorimotor Approach to Ecosomatics (2025) PDF

360 Degree Belly Breathing - Peper Perspective Blog (2024)

Embodying Nature: Discovering Eco-consciousness through
Sensate Experience
Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices
Volume 13, Numbers 1-2
(2021) PDF

Embodying Eco-consciousness: Somatics, aesthetic practices and social action (Editorial) Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices
Volume 13, Numbers 1-2
(2021) PDF

Neo-Luddite of the Dance Interview with Victoria Thomas (2021)

Mindful Movement Book Review Dance, Movement & Spiritualities
Volume 4 Number 1
(2017) PDF

The Planetary Dance (2016) PDF
French Facilitation Project Report PDF

Embodied Mindfulness - The Art of Stillness (2016) PDF

Anna Halprin 95th Birthday Tribute (2015) PDF

Living with Purpose in the End Times From "Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World” Editor, Martin Keogh, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA (2010) PDF

Movement as Medicine: Body Wisdom for Modern Times - Independent Coast Observer, Gualala, CA (2009) PDF

Dialogai Interview
- 360 Magazine, Geneva (2007)

My Journey to Somatic Expression (2007) (2010)

Soma Play with Gay Men - Yogi Times (2006) PDF

The Five Technologies of Somatic Expression (2005) PDF

Somatic-Expressive Practice in a Post 9/11 World (2001) PDF

EarthBody-BodyEarth Contact Quarterly, Volume 26, Number 1 (2001) PDF

Thoughts on Somatics and the Earth Body (2000) PDF

Alive at the Edge: Journeying Through Hope and Fear - Contact Quarterly, Volume 25 Number 1 (2000) PDF

video interviews & Presentations


Integrating Personal Somatic Practice in Daily Life
A Conversation with Clare Maxwell of Embodied Learning Systems (2025)

Tending and Befriending our Inner Ecosystem & the 5 Somatic Technologies - Presentation & Experiential Practice for United States Association for Body Psychotherapists USABP (2024)

Breathing Room: 360 Degree Belly Breathing Guided Practice (2023)

Shift Network Somatic Movement Summit Interview with Dr Martha Eddy (2023)

Sentient Performativities Conference Plenary Dartington Hall, Totnes, England (2022)

The Embodiment Conference: Research and Ecology Channel (2020)

Art Talks with Narelle Carter-Quinlan (2020)

Portrait by Jens Wazel (2019)

Introduction to Somatic Expression - Sacred Science Series (2016)

 

Audio Interviews

The Power of Simplicity – Remembering the Breath as a Guide Home
Elemental Being Podcast with Robin Tag (2025)

The Five Somatic Technologies: Attuning Body, Mind, and Earth
Elemental Being Podcast with Robin Tag (2024)

One in Nature Podcast - Becoming Intimate with the Body of Nature Interview with Pamela Wirth (2022)

The Sidewalk Talk Podcast - Breathing Room Interview with Traci Ruble (2020)

Embodying NatureInterview with Teri Carter (2016)

Embodied Mindfulness Interview with Brooke Thomas (2015)

Being A Body In The World Interview with Julie Stiles (2014)

Jamie with dancer Anna Halprin

 

Jamie with Pomo Healer Lorin Smith