Podcast: Sabin solo - Somatics 1/2
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What does it truly mean to experience the body from within? In this solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer breaks down one of the core pillars of her work in Holistic Dance: Somatics and Applied Anatomy. Moving beyond the clinical definitions, Sabine explores how somatic practices shift our focus from a purely performative, measurable body to the deeply rich, subjective landscape of the living soma.
Sabine dives into the origins of the field, explaining the fundamental difference between physis (the physical body we can measure) and soma (the lived, internal experience). She shares her personal lineage—including her training in Systemic and Integrative Movement Pedagogy (SIB) rooted in the Feldenkrais method—and discusses how the historic merging of dance and somatics in the 1980s and 90s revolutionized injury prevention, health, and artistic longevity for dancers.
Whether you are a professional mover looking to enhance your artistic expression, or someone seeking tools for nervous system regulation, homeostasis, and everyday quality of life, this episode offers a profound perspective on the "both-and" balance of inner awareness and outer relationality.
Key Topics Covered in This Episode:
Physis vs. Soma: Understanding the measurable physical body versus the subjective lived experience (and the German concept of Leib).
The Interoceptive Layer: How our inner physiological signals meet our rich subconscious world, archetypal images, and pre-verbal body memories.
The Skin as a Threshold: Exploring the continuous dialogue where internal sensing (interoception) meets external sensory input (exteroception).
The Dance & Somatics Revolution: How somatic pioneers like Thomas Hanna and Martha Eddy helped dancers move away from rigid copying toward healthier, long-lasting physical practices.
Sabine’s Lineage: An insight into her background with Dr. Nury Zoma and Gudrun Schreiner, combining Feldenkrais principles with systemic family constellations.
Nervous System Regulation: How micro-movements, conscious breathing, and somatic repatterning help us down-regulate from chronic fight-or-flight culture.
Acceptance Over Fixing: Why somatic alignment focuses on acknowledging the individual body as it is rather than forcing it into rigid, traditional medical or choreographic molds.
Tune in to discover how deep inner inquiry can transform your presence, health, and connection to the world around you.
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series on Somatics. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes where Sabine will explore somatic pioneers and the distinct differences between somatics and other related fields.
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"Good Choices - A holistic conversation about dance, art & life with Sabine Parzer" is a podcast series in which we invite professionals of the dance and art world as well as related fields to speak about the choices that they make, artistically, personally, ecologically, politically and spiritually. How do these choices effect and inspire them in their work, their physical and mental health, their family lives, the communities that they live in? The questions we ask look toward the interrelation of life and art, how seemingly small (or big) choices may influence, enhance or even contradict the flow of life. Sabine Parzer is head and founder of the Holistic Dance Institute, an internationally well known teacher of Contemporary Dance, Contact improvisation and Authentic Movement. She has been professionally active as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, dance- and body therapist for more than 30 years in the USA, Europe, Russia, Brazil and Israel.
Sabine Parzer
Holistic Dance Institute
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Video Editing: Małgorzata Goździk
Grafik: Irmgard Stelzer
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