Embodied writing practices are used by academics and artists to highlight the connection between writing and the body,
bring consciousness to the cultural implications of
academic writing
Academic writing or scholarly writing is nonfiction produced as part of academic work, including reports on empirical fieldwork or research in facilities for the natural sciences or social sciences, monographs in which scholars analyze culture, ...
, and inform an understanding of art forms as
first person narrative
A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first-person protagonist (or other focal character), first-person re-teller ...
.
Definition
In her article "Embodied Writing: A Tool for Teaching and Learning in Dance", dance theorist Betsy Cooper defines embodied writing as:
Psychologist Rosemarie Anderson also describes embodied writing:
Practices
Certain psychologists utilize embodied writing as a practice of putting the experience of the body into words to connect to it more deeply. Some link this to meditative practices.
In
dance theory Dance theory is the philosophy underpinning contemporary dance, including formal ideologies, aesthetic concepts, and technical attributes. It is a fairly new field of study, developing largely in the 20th century. It can be considered a branch of e ...
, choreographic writing (a form of embodied writing) is done by imagining words as dancing across a page.
Others use forms of
yoga
Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-conscio ...
to more deeply connect the body to the writing.
[{{Cite web , last=Wegner , first=Christy , date=Winter 2012–2013 , title=Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way to Mindfulness and Balance in Embodied Writing Pedagogy , url=http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1220&context=jaepl , website=JAEPL]
Each of these practices aim to create more awareness of the sensation of the body in space and to think of writing as a physical act.
References
Educational practices
Writing