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This book captures the essence of Charlotte Selver’s practice of Sensory Awareness like no other publication. It is an invitation to experience life firsthand again, as we did when we were children. In a culture where we have grown accustomed to accumulating knowledge from teachers and experts, it is rare to find a book that actually invites us to trust our own senses again. It is the authors’ intent to give back to the reader authority over his or her own experience and learning processes.

Much of the book focuses on reviving the senses in order to open the mind and body to direct learning. The book imitates an actual Sensory Awareness class, involving the reader as a student, guiding him or her along a journey with and through the senses to a way of living that is in accordance with the natural functioning of the human organism in its environment.

The range of explorations include a renewed connection to the support of the earth as a foundation for trust; the central role of gravity for our health and for finding orientation in life; a study of breathing that promotes health and vitality; and connecting and interacting with other people. A handbook to a more genuine and connected way of living, the work is also a beautifully crafted account of Sensory Awareness, showing these profound teachers at work with their students and with the reader.

Reviews

“This is a wonderful and welcome expansion of a true classic. It teaches us Charlotte’s and Charles’s remarkable way to be genuinely alive.”
—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

“Only by bringing awareness back to our senses can we renew the forgotten empathy between the human body and the breathing Earth. Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks were the great pioneers in this work, inviting us to drop beneath the churning of thought into the intimate silence of our rapport with the textures and tastes of the real.”
—David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous

About the Author

Charlotte Selver's very long professional career as a teacher of Sensory Awareness started at the University of Leipzig in the 1920s. She was a faculty member of the New School for Social Research and a longtime teacher at Esalen Institute. Charlotte taught workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. In 1995 she was awarded "The Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa," by the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Charles Brooks was a longtime teacher at Esalen Institute and a faculty member of the New School for Social Research. Together with Charlotte Selver, he led workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.

Stefan Laeng-Gilliatt (editor) has studied Sensory Awareness and related practices since 1980 with teachers in Europe and the USA. Drawing at times from his background in Buddhism and Gestalt Therapy, Stefan offers individual sessions, group classes and workshops in the US and Europe. Stefan has been president and manager of the Sensory Awareness Foundation since 1995. He also works with prison inmates in New Mexico. He lives in Santa Fe, NM.

Richard Lowe (editor) is a practicing Bay Area psychotherapist. Richard studied for many years with Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks and was the founding first president of the Sensory Awareness Leaders Guild. He lives in San Rafael, CA.

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Foreword by Norman Fischer ix 
Editors'' Introduction xiii 
1 Sensory Awareness and Our Attitude Toward Life 1 
2 Being in the World 5 
3 Coming to Our Senses 12 
4 Nature and "Second Nature" 18 
5 Learning Through Sensing 23 
6 Tasting 28 
7 The Search for Standing 33 
8 Standing as Relating 40 
9 Gravity, Energy, and the Support of the Ground 43 
10 Who Is Standing? 47 
11 Standing, From Foot to Head 53 
12 The Wonders of the Organism 59 
13 Walking: Locomotion and Being 62 
14 Hara 68 
15 On Breathing 72 
16 An Experiment in Being Breathed 78 
17 Finding Our Stature 83 
18 Lying as an Activity 89 
19 Resting as Relating 95 
20 Sitting 104 
21 Something in Us Can Teach Us 118 
22 Slapping as a Stimulant 122 
23 Simple Contact 127 
24 Active Contact 138 
25 Working with Objects 145 
26 Working with Gravity 156 
27 Down and Up 162 
28 Working Out of Doors 168 
29 Working Out of Doors?ontinued 175 
30 The Word and the Voice 180 
31 The Connoisseur 186 
32 Yawning and Stretching 191 
33 Reaching and Serving 197 
34 Giving and Receiving 204 
35 Giving and Receiving?ontinued 212 
36 Giving and Receiving?he Head 219 
37 Playing with Balls 226 
38 Learning to Receive 234 
39 Sensing One''s Own Head 237 
40 Breath and Heartbeat 242 
Epilogue 245 
Appendices 248 
A Charlotte Selver and Charles Brooks A Brief History 248 
B About Elsa Gindler (1885-1961) and Heinrich Jacoby (1889-1964) 261 
C Resources 264 
About the Editors 268 
Credits 269