Conscious Moving: An Embodied Guide for Healing, Learning, Contemplating, and Creating

Christine Caldwell, Ph.

D., BC-DMT, LPC, is the founder of and professor emeritus in the Somatic Counseling Program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where she has taught coursework in somatic counseling theory and skills, clinical neuroscience, and diversity issues. Caldwell's Moving Cycle involves body-centered psychotherapy, and is called Conscious Moving when applied to other disciplines, such as artmaking, contemplative practice, and education. Caldwell has taught at the University of Maryland, George Washington University, Concordia, Seoul Women's University, Southwestern College, Pacifica, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and SRH University in Heidelberg. She trains, teaches, and lectures internationally, and has published more than thirty articles and book chapters. Her previous books include Getting Our Bodies Back, Getting in Touch, Oppression and the Body, and Bodyfulness. She is also an editor for the Journal of Dance, Movement and Psychotherapy, the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy, and the American Journal of Dance Therapy.