Eurythmy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_of_the_Waldorf_schools#Eurythmy

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Eurythmy is a movement art, usually performed to poetry or music, created by Steiner and "meant to help children develop harmoniously with mind, body and soul".^[5] Eurythmy is a required subject in Waldorf Schools in all years.^[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurythmy#Eurythmy_as_a_performing_art

There are notable eurythmy ensembles in Dornach, Switzerland; Stuttgart, Germany; The Hague, Netherlands; London, England; Järna, Sweden and Chestnut Ridge, New York (near New York City), USA. All of these groups both perform locally and tour internationally. Many smaller performing groups also exist (see list).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Meadow_Waldorf_School

Green Meadow Waldorf School (GMWS) is an independent Waldorf school located in Chestnut Ridge, Rockland County, New York. It offers parent and child classes, and nursery/kindergarten through 12th grades. The school is accredited by both the New York State Association of Independent Schools and the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America.^[1] Founded in 1950, it is one of the oldest and largest of the approximately 170 independent North American Waldorf schools (there are about 1,000 such schools world-wide).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Meadow_Waldorf_School#Curriculum

The school practices an interdisciplinary approach^[2][3] based on the Waldorf curriculum, including a strong emphasis on art, music and intercultural understanding; students begin studying two foreign languages (Spanish and German) beginning in first grade.^[1] It also provides a strong community service program. Graduates of the school have been noted for their independence, sensitivity and creativity.^[4]

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inazo_Nitobe#Quotations

"What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents."

"If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker

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The Society of Friends is counted among the historic peace churches. Society members are known as Quakers or "Friends".

Since its beginnings in the United Kingdom

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Unlike many other groups that emerged within Christianity, the Religious Society of Friends has tended away from creeds, and away from hierarchical structure.^[3]

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or do not accept any religious label.^[4] Calls for Quakerism to include non-Christians go back at least as far as 1870,^[5] but this phenomenon has become increasingly evident during the latter half of the 20th century and the opening years of the 21st century, and is still controversial among Friends. An especially notable example of this is that of Friends who actively identify as members of a faith other than Christian, such as Islam^[6] or Buddhism.^[7]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-body_interventions

... Alexander Technique

... Bach flower remedies

Bharat Thakur

Biofeedback

... Eurythmy

F

• Feldenkrais Method
• Five Wisdoms
• Fourth Way

... Meditation

... Metamorphic Technique

... Mindfulness

... Movement Shiatsu

... Psychoneuroimmunology

Neuroimmunology

... Nia (fitness)

... Power therapies

Protective autoimmunity

Psychogenic disease

Psychomagic

Psychosomatic medicine

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• Somatic Experiencing
• Stott Pilates
• Structural Integration

... Vivation

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touch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_communication#Friendship.2Fwarmth

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It is more acceptable for women to touch than men in social or friendship settings, possibly because of the innate nature of the person touching have dominance over who they are touching. Whitcher and Fisher (1979) conducted a study to see whether therapeutic touch to reduce anxiety differed between the sexes. A nurse was told to touch patients for one minute while the patients looked at a pamphlet during a routine preoperative procedure. Females reacted positively to the touch, whereas males did not. It was surmised that males equated the touch to being treated as inferior or dependent.

see Caesar Milan

Touching among family members has been found to affect the behavior of those involved. Various factors are at work within a family setting. As a child grows older, the amount of touching by the parent decreases.

Boys distance themselves from their parents at an earlier age than girls. There is more touching with the same sex parent than with cross-sex parents.

A study of nonverbal communication on how men 'converse' in bars shows that women like men to touch, but it is their touching of other men that intrigues them. The men who are touching others are perceived as having a higher status and social power than those that aren't touching others.

The study found that women were more receptive to men who demanded the most social space, and that when a woman comes into a bar, men will move their drinks far apart to signal to her that they have space in their 'domain' for them.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_touch
Therapeutic touch (TT), also called Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch (NCTT) or Distance Healing,^[1] is an energy therapy claimed to promote healing and reduce pain and anxiety. TT practitioners say that by placing their hands on or near the patient they can detect and manipulate the patient's putative energy field.^[2] Although there are 251 articles on TT on PubMed^[3] quality of controlled research is variable. One study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that TT practitioners could not detect the presence or absence of a hand placed a few inches above theirs when their vision was obstructed.^[4][5][6] The existence of a "biofield" or "bioenergetic field," a necessary component of TT theory, directly contradicts many principles of modern physics, chemistry, and biology.^[7][8]
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nonverbal communication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_communication

Haptic communication is the means by which people and other animals communicate via touching. Touch is an extremely important sense for humans; as well as providing information about surfaces and textures it is a component of nonverbal communication in interpersonal relationships, and vital in conveying physical intimacy. It can be both sexual (such as kissing) and platonic (such as hugging or tickling).

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Touch is the earliest sense to develop in the fetus, and the development of infants' haptic senses, and how that relates to the development of the other senses such as vision, has been the target of much research. Human babies have been observed to have enormous difficulty surviving if they do not possess a sense of touch, even if they retain sight and hearing. Babies who can perceive through touch, even without sight and hearing, fare much better. Touch can be thought a basic sense in that most life forms have a response to being touched, while only a subset have sight and hearing.^{[citation needed]}

In chimpanzees the sense of touch is highly developed. As newborns they see and hear poorly but they grasp strongly to their mothers. Harry Harlow conducted a controversial study involving rhesus monkeys and observed that monkeys reared with a "terry cloth mother", a wire feeding apparatus wrapped in softer terry cloth which provided a level of tactile stimulation and comfort, were considerably more emotionally stable as adults than those with a mere wire mother.^{[citation needed]}

Touching is treated differently from one country to another. Acceptable touch varies by cultural group. In the Thai culture, touching someone's head may be thought rude. Remland and Jones (1995) studied groups of people communicating and found that in England (8%), France (5%) and the Netherlands (4%) touching was rare compared to their Italian (14%) and Greek (12.5%) sample.^{[citation needed]}

Striking, pushing, pulling, pinching, kicking, strangling and hand-to-hand fighting are forms of touch in the context of physical abuse. In a sentence like "I never touched him/ her" or "Don't you dare to touch him/ her" the term touch may be meant as euphemism for either physical abuse or sexual touching. To 'touch oneself' is a euphemism for masturbation.

The word touch has many other metaphorical uses. One can be emotionally touched, referring to an action or object that evokes an emotional response. To say "I was touched by your letter" implies the reader felt a strong emotion when reading it. Usually does not include anger, disgust or other forms of emotional rejection unless used in a sarcastic manner.

Stoeltje (2003) wrote about how Americans are ‘losing touch’ with this important communication skill. During a study conduced by University of Miami School of Medicine, Touch Research Institutes, American children were said to be more aggressive than their French counterparts while playing at a playground. It was noted that French women touched their children more often than the American parents.^{[citation needed]}

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somatosensory system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatosensory

"Touch" redirects here. For other uses, see Touch (disambiguation).

The somatosensory system is a diverse sensory system comprising the receptors and processing centres to produce the sensory modalities such as touch, temperature, proprioception (body position), and nociception (pain). The sensory receptors cover the skin and epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones and joints, internal organs, and the cardiovascular system. While touch is considered one of the five traditional senses, the impression of touch is formed from several modalities; In medicine, the colloquial term touch is usually replaced with somatic senses to better reflect the variety of mechanisms involved.

The system reacts to diverse stimuli using different receptors: thermoreceptors, mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors. Transmission of information from the receptors passes via sensory nerves through tracts in the spinal cord and into the brain. Processing primarily occurs in the primary somatosensory area in the parietal lobe of the cerebral cortex.

At its simplest, the system works when a sensory neuron is triggered by a specific stimulus such as heat; this neuron passes to an area in the brain uniquely attributed to that area on the body—this allows the processed stimulus to be felt at the correct location. The mapping of the body surfaces in the brain is called a homunculus and is essential in the creation of a body image.

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