Dylan Newcomb is one of the few other movement workers I’ve found studying integral theory and the body (he’s an artist I work in business). Here’s two videos of his relating to Spiral Dynamics, Hanna Somatics and Yin and Yang.
The integral movement is sometimes criticised as being a disembodied cognitive affair so I’m happy to see a movement specialist working with integral. Integral Life Practice has also got body elements, however my take would be that Dylan Newcomb is a movement and body specialist working with integral rather than an integral specialist working with the body and movement, which makes a big difference. Miles Kessler akido teacher from Tel Aviv would be another.
The integral movement is sometimes criticised as being a disembodied cognitive affair so I’m happy to see a movement specialist working with integral. Integral Life Practice has also got body elements, however my take would be that Dylan Newcomb is a movement and body specialist working with integral rather than an integral specialist working with the body and movement, which makes a big difference. Miles Kessler akido teacher from Tel Aviv would be another.
More on Dylan Newcomb here (video downloads problematic for windows). Dylan will likely be in London in the near future – watch this space.
About Dylan Newcomb
Dylan Newcomb trained at the Juilliard School in both dance and music composition, after which he danced for eight seasons with the Netherlands Dance Theater. For the past eight years, he has been choreographing and composing his own work, largely through the Korzo Theater in Den Haag. He has won several major Dutch awards, including the Lucas Hoving production prize, the Silver Dance Prize, and the Phillip Morris Prize. Newcomb’s choreographies, from solos to large group works, have been shown throughout Europe and America. A long time practitioner of Buddhist meditation and several styles of Yoga, he is certified in Psychological Kinesiology and maintains a private practice as an Energy Psychologist, assisting people in resolving personal issues on the mental-emotional level. Over the past eight years, he has been researching and developing new ways to blend dance training with Yin-Yang Theory, Energy Psychology, MBTI Typology, contemporary Integral Theory (Ken Wilber et al) and Spiral Dynamics (Clare Graves) in the form of new conceptual models and trainings for both the arts and personal development. He teaches a full mind-body approach to dancing and choreographing at the Artez and Codarts Conservatories in Arnhem and Rotterdam in Holland, as well as in international workshops.
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