Somatic Practices for Screen Wars
I am honored to have been interviewed by Titania Jordan for her new book Parental Control: A Guide to Raising Balanced Kids in the Digital Era. I was happy to offer my thoughts about how technology affects the body. As the originator of Chi for Two, I know a lot about how our chi (life force) moves our arms and hands to reach for connection with our parents when we are babies.
How does Chi for Two® align with the work of Resmaa Menakem’s Cultural Somatics?
Written by Dee Wagner - with Fred Shelton, Chi for Two Embodiment Coach and Director of Diversity Marketing
Resmaa Menakem is the author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies as well as Monsters in Love: Why Your Lover Sometimes Drives You Crazy—and What You Can Do About It. The best way to describe how Chi for Two is like the work of Menakem is to explain some ways that Chi for Two deepens Menakem’s work.
Chi for Two® Mindful Touch
In Chi for Two® - The Energetic Dance of Healthy Relationship, we invite embodied awareness of the difference between touch in relationships that replicate the infant/caregiver dance and touch in relationships where there is ideally power equality.
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© 2020 John Cargile - Let’s dig deeper into the Chi for Two© practices of Push and Reach/Grab/Pull