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  [Description of] Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing

  Cheryl Pallant

  How to develop the body’s innate intelligence for individual and planetary transformation
  
  In this practical guide, Cheryl Pallant explains how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness by embracing the interconnections between our inner and outer worlds. She shares exercises to develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear and anxiety, and open to new levels of awareness.

  • Explains how healing ourselves and enacting inner change can also contribute to healing of the planet
  • Shows how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness, heal individual and collective wounds, and uncover latent energetic, somatic, and psychic abilities
  • Shares ecosomatic and embodiment exercises to help you expand perception, develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear and anxiety, and open to new levels of awareness.

  The inner world of self and body is inextricably linked to the outer world of biosphere and biome. As experienced somatic and energy medicine practitioner Cheryl Pallant reveals in vivid depth, by expanding our sensory perceptions and becoming intimately in touch with the rhythms of the body, we can contribute not only to our own healing and transformation but also that of the planet.

  In this practical guide, Pallant explains how ecosomatics—embodiment work for personal and planetary health—can help us shift our consciousness through expanded listening with all our senses and embracing the interconnections between our inner and outer worlds. Blending research with personal experience in somatic and contemplative practices, the author explores how a broadened appreciation of conscious and unconscious bodily events and perceptions leads to vitally needed, improved stewardship with ourselves and the planet. She shows how the current health, social, and environmental crises are a chance for an evolution in consciousness, pushing us to heal the divisions within personal identity, between self and others, and with the environment. Throughout the book, the author offers ecosomatic and embodiment exercises to help you expand perception, develop somatic intelligence, let go of limiting beliefs, lessen fear, anxiety, and alienation, and open to levels of awareness that allow you to tune in to a greater vision of what is humanly possible.

  Revealing how to incorporate embodiment into everyday life, this guide shows how the body is a process that is part of nature, not separate from it, and that by embarking on the transformative inner journey, we can bring healing to the world around us.

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  [Description of] Light at the End of the Word

  Cheryl Pallant

  Cheryl Pallant’s exuberance for life is barely contained in her surging lines made of luxurious wordplay, bravura wit and lithe music. A happy bodhisattva, Pallant just can’t quit life for Nirvana. In Light at the End of the Word her gorgeous, death-defying acrobatics are simply irresistible. She notices, thinks about, everything—intuiting life’s spark. Her realization of being alive materializes like an invisible inscription held over a candle’s flame—readable in turning to ash. Her motto: “Don’t apologize for beauty.” In honoring life’s fleeting nature, she possesses the gravity of its mortal register. Her confession: “What I most want to say folds into the forget of dreams.” Shaped by the grace of existence, her poems become our self-reflections.

  —Burt Kimmelman

  Cheryl Pallant invites you inside a briskly moving environment with “no sitting down” where ordeal can’t help turning to dance. Passing through unforeseen lingualities—zones of possible languaging—you find it thinkable to think otherwise. Instead of new solutions to old problems or analyses of past events, speaking works new ways of being. Light at the End of the Word is singular language shedding skin, revealing beyond understanding, with ever finer intensities—and laughter over fearful edges. Something like continuous subclinical startle puts reading under pressure, feels text as body in mind-therapeutic mode. Everything’s at stake on the tip of the tongue; you lose your way to find it newer, line by line, barely recognizable. Mirroring alters the looker. Reading finds its further selves in steps along precarious ways.

  —George Quasha

  “Resisting the path is a path” writes Cheryl Pallant. What does that path sound, feel and look like? Light at the End of the World creates a charged (mostly) long lined, breathed, loping, dancerly language that resists easy syntax, old stories and absolutely anything poetically predictable. “Our mission requires the emergence of impromptu faculty” writes the poet who is “susceptible to double vision/ and seeing what isn’t seeable” that is, “as if orcas and manta rays surface, as if a bathyscaphe plunges/ to aphotic depths seeking fluorescence.” Pallant’s poetry seeks connection “transducing passed the tympanic membrane” whilst continually registering the energy emitting materiality of one’s own body, the wounded other, and the conditions that “quicken cosmic connect/ to feral superfluity in full throttled resonance.”

  —Kimberly Lyons

  Cheryl Pallant is the author of several poetry books, Her Body Listening and Continental Drifts (Blaze VOX Books), Into Stillness and Uncommon Grammar Cloth (Station Hill Press), and Morphs (Cracked Slab Books). Her nonfiction books include Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing (Inner Traditions), Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice and Contact Improvisation: an Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form (McFarland and Company), and Ginseng Tango (Big Table Publishing). She teaches dance and writing at University of Richmond and is a Reiki and Healing Touch practitioner.

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  [Introduction to] Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice

  Cheryl Pallant

  Based upon the author’s lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body awareness focuses on achieving self-discovery and well-being through movement, mindfulness and writing.

  
  Written from a holistic (rather than dualistic) view of the mind-body duality, discussion and exercises draw on dance, psychology, neuroscience and meditation to guide personal exploration and creative expression.