If you have resources or links in the area of dance, somatic practices and/or persistent pain that you would like to share, please get in touch.
Video Playlist
Here is a list of videos created during the network activities. It includes introductory videos, webinar recordings, practice videos, and video interviews. See the Youtube Channel for the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. Click on the top right corner to see the list of 1-14 videos.
Articles
This article by Emma Meehan and Bernie Carter was published in 2021 discussing what it means to move with pain (Front. Psychol., 25 January 2021.)
You’re Not Limited: Chronic Pain, Technology and Ballet
An interview by Emma Meehan with Genevieve Smith-Nunes on her choreography which explores the relationship between ballet, technology and chronic pain (Animated Magazine, Spring/Summer 2022.)
Podcasts
Airing Pain 138: Dance, Chronic Pain And Self-Compassion
Podcast by Pain Concern on dancer, pain and compassion, including Emma Meehan and Sarah Hopfinger.
Interview with Somatic Radio
This interview between Dieter Rehberg, Bernie Carter and Emma Meehan explores what the Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network is, the meaning of the word ‘somatic’ and working across arts and health.
Somatic Radio hosts ‘Podcasts on what makes the Body alive’. Founded by Dieter Rehberg, a performer, Psychological Counselor (LSB), Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA) Somatic Dance Educator and Massage Therapist. Since 20 years, he works in his private practice in Vienna and teaches nationally and internationally. His main concern in his workshops and seminars is a clear and coherent communication of the content in a mindful atmosphere.
Being The Expert in My Own Body
This interview between Ian Tennant, Bernie Carter and Emma Meehan was recorded as part of the Inner Sense Project.
With resources including interviews and scientifically backed articles, Inner Sense is here to help you discover more about interoception so that you can develop your own bodily awareness and harness its benefits.
Interoception is the ability to feel what’s going on inside our bodies. At a fundamental level, it allows us to know how we feel at any given moment, whether we’re hungry, tired or in pain. Dig a little deeper, and this sense can give us more control over how we react to challenges, both internal, external, physical and mental.
Pain Toolkit: interview with Pete Moore
This interview between Pete Moore, Bernie Carter and Emma Meehan was recorded as part of the Pain Toolkit, which supports self-management of persistent pain.
Living with pain himself, Pete Moore recognised that he had actually developed a toolkit of unique pain management skills to enable himself to become an active self manager and to subsequently lead a better life.
The Pain Toolkit website has been developed from the Pain Toolkit information booklet that provides people with handy tips and skills to support managing pain.
Blogs
How somatic practice can effect living well with chronic pain by Paige Karadag & Jenna Gillett on behalf of the WITHIN Team, University of Warwick.
Other relevant links
Dance Research, Coventry University
International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
NHS’s Alder Hey Children’s Arts and Health Programme
Somatic Practices and Performance
The Small Things Dance Collective
Association for Somatic Movement Dance Therapies UK and Ireland
