Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
somatology , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Any of several
holistic approaches to physicaltherapy that attempts to train both thebody and themind - noun archaic The
science dealing with the general properties ofmatter ;somatology .
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Examples
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"I am also ... teaching an introduction to somatics, which is kind of an introduction to holistic forms of movement wellness," said Davis, owner of the Movement Artistry Project.
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Which was good, because his somatics were ramping in.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 5.1 of 31.1 2009
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The Strozzi work addresses all of this and more and is based in Aikidoand somatics (looking at the whole person: a unity of language, action, energy, and meaning), so it gets into how we respond unconsciously beyond just "thinking."
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Someone has to ask this directly of the president, if for no other reason then to let us read the somatics body language of “no comment.”
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"Breathing" gets divorced from the company of piping and panting, and gets wed to the ensuing somatics of human passion, "burning" and "parching," while the possibility of "far above" as a location in imaginative surmise subsides to a sighing recognition of high aesthetic privilege, from which mortal humanity is excluded.
The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' - 2003
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Of particular relevance for present purposes is Eagleton's insistent questioning of what he calls the "new somatics," specifically the current fetishization of the sexualized and unfailingly "well nourished" body.
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Certain unpleasant somatics that occur while fasting (or while on a healing diet) may not be dangerous or "bad."
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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Usually they are old, familiar somatics, often complaints that haven't bothered the faster for many years.
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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Bio-somatics, I am learning how to release tension in my horse.
TheHorse.com News 2010
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This is the crest of the creative wave that unites the disciplines of yoga, dance, free form movement, and somatics.
WN.com - Articles related to Hindus welcome endorsement of yoga in a Catholic publication 2010
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