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Movement and Identity: Multiculturalism, Somatic Awareness and Embodied Code-Switching®
This trauma-informed approach to bodywork explores the ways in which varying facets of identity and culture manifest in the body, allowing a much more nuanced, person-centred approach to client care. Marcia Warren describes how our bodies interpret our identities, often informed by cultural norms, communication styles, trauma, and systems of power and oppression.
Therapists and bodyworkers reading this book will have the opportunity to engage personally and professionally, learning to build on their own neuroplasticity in order to engage with compassionate curiosity rather than resistance when confronted with identity-based differences. Each chapter uses the Embodied Identity Feedback Loop, a mechanism representing three entry-points we use to process sensation, interpretation, action. This pioneering tool allows readers to examine their own somatic experiences, beliefs, behaviours, and choices, all of which is supplemented with journal prompts and questions.
In guiding readers in how to interpret the body's expression of identity, this unique guide maximises the potential of therapists to foster change, increase empathy, and nurture connection through trauma-informed, somatically aware bodywork.
Therapists and bodyworkers reading this book will have the opportunity to engage personally and professionally, learning to build on their own neuroplasticity in order to engage with compassionate curiosity rather than resistance when confronted with identity-based differences. Each chapter uses the Embodied Identity Feedback Loop, a mechanism representing three entry-points we use to process sensation, interpretation, action. This pioneering tool allows readers to examine their own somatic experiences, beliefs, behaviours, and choices, all of which is supplemented with journal prompts and questions.
In guiding readers in how to interpret the body's expression of identity, this unique guide maximises the potential of therapists to foster change, increase empathy, and nurture connection through trauma-informed, somatically aware bodywork.
297 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2025
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August 3, 2025
A book that is both revealing and deeply supportive all in one. Marcia beautifully walks you through various facets of being, learning, doing, healing, and embodying a multicultural identity. Sprinkled in throughout are poems, short entries, and stories of the unique road Marcia has traveled this lifetime, thus far. The majority of the book is an invitation into our inner processes, both of mind and body, and with an emphasis on how multicultural elements show up in the body. The design of the book is as a workbook, which allows you to step into curiosity regarding your own unconscious and conscious behaviors, movements, and ways of interacting.
Marcia is a gifted writer and hopefully just getting started. If you want a brief look into the essence of the book, here is a line that encompasses it for me:
“Perhaps by discovering more about ourselves, our personal journeys can become a “remembering” of how intrinsically bound we are to each other and to a larger existence, and to the inner knowing that we are never truly alone (even within ourselves).” - Marcia Bonato Warren
Marcia is a gifted writer and hopefully just getting started. If you want a brief look into the essence of the book, here is a line that encompasses it for me:
“Perhaps by discovering more about ourselves, our personal journeys can become a “remembering” of how intrinsically bound we are to each other and to a larger existence, and to the inner knowing that we are never truly alone (even within ourselves).” - Marcia Bonato Warren
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