Janet Adler Livres

Intimacy in Emptiness brings Janet Adler's essential writings, to a wider audience, guiding readers through an experiential and innovative approach to embodied consciousness.

Arching Backward is the story of an American woman who found herself suddenly and violently immersed in a mystical initiation for which she was not consciously prepared. For four years, Janet Adler's life was dominated by the transforming experience of a primal energy and the visions that were created by it. She was not seeking spiritual experience, nor was she a student of any particular mystical tradition. But the visions brought her into the realm of the sacred, transforming her body into a conduit for spiritual energy. The writings collected here record her visions and describe the way this contemporary woman dealt with the impact of this energy on her physical body, her work, and her relationships. Her story offers a guide for others on this journey and provides a powerful affirmation of women's experience of the spirit.

The exploration of the direct experience of healing and of the divine through the witnessing of movement becoming conscious. • Uses sample sessions and descriptive theory to explain the discipline. • Based on the author's 35 years of movement work. Offering from the Conscious Body reveals both the theory and practice of a unique body-based process that is cathartic, creative, healing, and mystical--as presented by Janet Adler, the presiding voice in the field. This Western awareness practice encourages the individual to experience the evolving relationship with oneself, another, the collective, and the divine through the natural impulses of conscious movement, compassionate witnessing, and clear articulation of experience. Through the vivid examples taken from her own practice, Adler demonstrates that physical movement can invite direct experience of spiritual truths. The reader is led through the multiple layers within the discipline--moving and witnessing in dyads and then groups, in the presence of a witnessing teacher--to develop a comprehensive and experiential understanding of this innovative way of work. Designed for professionals and laypersons interested in psychology, bodywork, mystic traditions, or personal transformation, the discipline of Authentic Movement is at the cutting edge of emerging Western healing practices.

Janet Adler, führend auf dem Gebiet Authentic Movement, stellt hier Theorie und Praxis dieses einzigartigen Übungsweges dar, bei dem es um psychische Heilung, künstlerische Impulse und die Erfahrung des Numinosen geht. Im Zentrum dieser westlichen Achtsamkeitspraxis steht Bewegung, die von inneren Impulsen ausgeht und bewusst wird, sowie das mitfühlende Sehen dieses Prozesses. Sie lädt dazu ein, die Beziehung zu sich selbst, zu anderen, zur Gemeinschaft und zum Göttlichen zu erleben und sich entfalten zu lassen. Mit überaus lebendigen Beispielen aus ihrer eigenen Praxis und Lehrtätigkeit veranschaulicht Janet Adler die vielfältigen Schichten dieses Weges. Sie entwickelt ein umfassendes und auf Erfahrung basierendes Verständnis dieser innovativen Arbeitsweise - einer Bewegungsarbeit und Bewusstseinsschulung, deren Besonderheit darin liegt, untrennbar mit dem ganzen persönlichen Körperwissen verbunden zu sein