A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Abigail Rose Clarke frames embodiment as a relationship among self, other people, community, and the living world. Somatic exercises accompany a liberation-oriented argument that bodily disconnection is shaped not only by personal history but also by social systems and ecological estrangement.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It expands embodied practice beyond private wellness and asks what returning to the body might mean in relationship, community, justice, and place. The book adds a current, practice-centered bridge between the Library's embodiment, belonging, and common-good territories.
Good starting place if…
You want somatic practices that connect personal awareness with relationships, community care, social transformation, and the more-than-human world.
Know before you begin…
Clarke writes from explicit anti-oppression and ecological commitments. Some historical or biological language functions as a spiritually and politically generative frame rather than a comprehensive scientific account; readers should distinguish metaphor, interpretation, and empirical claim.