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  I have been very intrigued about some of your approach and research on somatic practices.  Dieter, Ann, Cael, Matthew.  When I started reading one of the module 1 handbook, I could not start but feel a squash in my stomach: "On this course we are coming from a starting point of embodiment. Embodiment does not separate mind and body. A separation of mind and body which is called Dualism, links knowledge (thinking, understanding, and ideas) with the mind only, and links sensation (hunger, growth and pain) with the body only; the dualist mind / body separation leaves the body as something that carries the mind around but is not a site of knowing." See. I do get this. Totally. Of course.  But my experience with illness totally shredded/crushed/destroyed the relationship between my body and my mind. My body had betrayed me and my mind was the only 'thing' that was me. My body became for a very short period of time (probably a couple of month after my diagnosis) a thing ...

  I have just came back from the depths of a first R&D for my next piece, In the bushes .  I loved that I embraced my learning/living style for that week. Initiating ( Peterson and Kolb, 2017) . I went head first in the action, via the gut feeling. I have always done it, but this time, it was "theorized". I used to talk about working with drafts. I still do, but I have more to argument on this working style.  And how incredible to collaborate with a team who shares the same energy. We did so much in a few days and I can now reflect and build upon what's been done.  Going in and out from: practice -> theory -> practice, helped me be more efficient. Going deeper.  Embracing the incompleteness of a score, ‘Instructions are always and inevitably incomplete’ (Schön, 1987, p. 103). Believing movement comes in to complete, strengthen and nuance our approach of/to the world we live in.  I have not much to write because I am in a moment...