Cover -- PUBLISHER'S NOTE -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. PRESENCE -- Beate Stühm (Germany) -- Reflecting -- An Experiment -- Fields of Awareness -- Further Development -- Acceptance -- Blossoming -- 2. AMERTA MOVEMENT AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- Keith Miller (UK) -- Archaeology -- The Embodied Archaeological Experience -- Time and Place -- Amerta Movement -- Working with Layers -- Living Measurement -- Position and Perspective -- Using Objects or Tools -- Circle, Oval, Square -- The Art Approach -- 3. CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE MOVEMENT WORK -- Christina Stelzer (Germany) -- Waiting -- Hearing the World -- Respect -- 4. AMERTA AND TIBETAN BUDDHISM -- Monika Förster (Germany/Holland) -- Back Home -- Mind as an Ally? -- Bowing Towards Daily Life -- The Blessing of Being Seen -- How to Give Awareness Without Creating Stagnation -- The practice of sounding -- Epilogue -- 5. THE EYE OF THE HAND -- Steve Hopkins (UK) -- Opening Sequence: The Empty Axis -- The Frame: Moving in Not Moving -- The Shot: Moving in Moving -- Editing: Finding Your Stopping -- Endings: Blossoming in the Blessing -- 6. A DOG PRACTICING 'Talking Body' -- José Mulder van de Graaf (Bolivia) -- Summary and Concluding Thoughts -- 7. "MAKE LESS THE HOPING" -- Sandra Reeve (UK) -- Epilogue -- 8. TOUCHING FORGOTTEN REALITIES -- Bettina Mainz (Germany) -- Preamble -- Born in the Age of Criticism -- Embodying the Right to Criticize and to Be Against -- Dance as refuge -- A Way -- Reconciliation: -- One Way to Describe How Prapto "gives practice" -- Body of Becoming - Forgotten Realities -- Conclusion -- 9. THE ECHO OF LIFE -- Daniela Coronelli (Italy/UK) -- Mindfulness -- Shiatsu -- Proprioception -- Seiki and Resonance -- Amerta Movement and Contact with our Condition -- Combining All These Practices -- Guiding and Being Guided Through Resonance -- Conclusion.

10. I ALWAYS DO THREE THINGS -- Shantam Zohar (Israel) -- 11. A PRESENCING DIAL -- Margit Galanter (USA) -- Practicing Presences, Presencing -- 2004, Brooklyn, NY -- 2004-2006, New York -- The Garden -- 2008, SEEDS Festival Showing, Western Massachusetts -- 2011, Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley, California -- 2013, East Bay, California -- 2010-2013, Ellen Webb Studio, Oakland -- 12. AMERTA MOVEMENT AND SOMATIC COSTUME -- Sally E. Dean (USA/UK) -- Description and Aim of the Project -- Project Background -- What is a Somatic Costume? -- Somatic Costumes and Amerta Imagery -- Amerta Movement and the Role of the Image -- Amerta Imagery - The Ecological Image -- Somatic Costume and the Ecological Image -- Amerta Movement's Approach: "Dream/Reality"or "Fiction/Fact" -- Amerta Movement and My Shifting Relationshipto Image -- The Image and the Audience -- Future Applications -- 13. CRYSTALLIZATION-PERFORMANCE -- Lise Lavelle (Denmark) -- Growing my Performance in the Valley -- 14. BEING AND DOING IN THE WILD GARDEN -- Susanne Tümpel (Germany) -- Setting -- Different Cultures in Former East and West Germany? -- The Wild Garden -- Process in Individual and in Group Work -- Oneness and Separateness -- Single Session with Mrs. A. -- Being-Doing in My Work - The Wild Garden -- 15. 'MANTRA GERAK' / MOVEMENT MANTRA -- Agus Bima Prayitna (Indonesia) -- I. Personal Background -- II. Chronology Leading to 'Mantra Gerak' -- III. 'Mantra Gerak' (Movement Mantra) -- IV. 'Mantra Gerak' and 'Rajah' -- V. A 'Mantra Gerak' Perspective on Life Now and inthe Future -- VI. Religiosity of 'Mantra Gerak' -- 16. THE MUSICAL PORTAL -- Tim Jones (UK) -- Let's Go Outside! -- 17. NEAR THE UNKNOWN -- Franca Fubini (Italy) -- Dreamworld and Realityworld -- What is Social Dreaming? -- Social Dreaming Matrix -- The Workshops -- The Evidence -- Conclusions -- 18. FAMILY.

Una Nicholson (UK) -- Receiving -- The 'I in the We' -- Developing a Sense of Place -- Extended Family -- Blossoming -- 19. THE INFANT'S LANGUAGE -- Katya Bloom (USA/UK) -- Conferring with Infants -- Organism/Organization -- Choreography in the NICU -- Organism to Organism -- Measuring in the Unknown -- Singing in the NICU -- Time Outs -- Moving in the Studio after being in the NICU -- Depth Movement -- Two Clinical Examples -- Summary -- 20. "GOING OUT OF THE SITUATION" and "STOP, DON'T FOLLOW THAT, WALK!" -- Regula Nell (Switzerland) -- Going Out of the Situation -- Stop, Don't Follow That, Walk! -- 21. AMERTA MOVEMENT AND AUTISM -- Sean Williams (UK) -- The Meeting of Amerta and Autism -- New Meaning to 'Special Needs' -- Collaboration in Autistic Gardening -- The Sensory-Motory -- The Baby Sitter Therapist and Waking Up -- Happiness as the Source rather than Healing Illness -- Bringing it All Together -- 22. "FIND YOUR POSITION" -- Susan Bauer (USA) -- Afterword -- 23. "BODY BODY" -- Helen Poynor (UK) -- 24. EVER-SPEAKING BEING -- Michael Dick (Germany) -- Our Speaking Being -- Permeable and Present -- A Practice Session -- A Blocking Rehearsal -- Concluding Remark -- 25. MOVING IN THE LAW -- Simon Slidders (UK) -- 26. THE BREATHING EYE -- Andrea Morein (Germany) -- Introductory Note -- The Space in the Gaze -- Who is in the Centre - or Centreless Space? -- History of My Gaze -- 'Is there a split between me and my expression?' -- Breathing in the Cross-Section... -- Delight Out of Nowhere -- Knowing from Unknowing - Creating is Recognisingthe Moment -- Images from a Somatic View -- The Limbic System as an Underpinning toPrapto's Work -- Photographing Movement - Vividness and Resonancewith the Space -- 27. JOY -- Anita Lüdke (Germany/Bolivia) -- Part I: The Fulfilment -- Part II: Fruit Along the Way -- Part III: The Art of Daily Life.

28. "RE-MEMBERING" BUTTERFLY BEACH -- Melinda Buckwalter (USA) -- Memory -- Words -- Practice -- Semaphore -- Blossoming -- Seraphim -- 29. I WILL TRACE THE CONSTELLATION OF MY STARS WITH MY FINGERS -- Ellin Krinsly (USA/Australia/Mexico/Ethiopia) -- Preface -- Introduction -- Metaphor -- I Will Trace the Constellation of my Starswith my Fingers -- Framework of Practice -- Amerta Movement Beyond the World of Mojosongo -- Intercultural Performance -- An Intercultural Performance that Traveled fromSpain to Mexico and then on to Australia andSulawesi -- Ritual Performances -- 30. AWAKENING ART AND DHARMA NATURE TIME -- Diane Butler (USA/Indonesia) -- Re-Membering my Movement, Creative and AwarenessPractice Heritage -- The Basic Orientation and some Movement-BasedPractices in my Early Work -- Nurturing Seeds with Prapto and Sharing MovementColleagues -- 'Awakening Art' Workshop Themes and PracticeEnvironments -- Participatory Public Programs of Dharma NatureTime -- What Does 'Sharing Art' as an Approach toInterculture in Cultural Environments Reveal? -- A Vision for an Institute to Support Interculture inCultural Environments through the Arts and Culture -- Afterword: A Prapto companion -- Suprapto Suryodarmo: An Introduction -- Interviews with Prapto: Solo, August 2013 -- The Art of Joged Amerta -- Sound, voice, words, sentences -- Prapto's Arrangement of the Javanese Alphabet -- Index.