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Embodied Inquiry

Writing, Living and Being through the Body

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  • Embodied Inquiry comes out of Snowber’s two decades of teaching and writing on embodied ways of inquiry in the academy; her writing is personal and poetic, passionate and playful providing inspiration for you to embrace the knowledge and wisdom of your bodies
  • Embodied Inquiry speaks to what it means to be fully human – an invitation to consider a more intimate relationship with your body as a way of forming, informing and transforming the connections between your personal and professional life
  • Embodied Inquiry offers a way of being in the world, inspiring the courage to live into our own skins and celebrate our physicality as a way to inspire the creative life

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Let the Body Out

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 1-14
  3. Solitude and Physicality

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 15-23
  4. Waking up to the Sensuous

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 25-38
  5. Writing from the Body

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 39-52
  6. Listening and the Body

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 53-62
  7. The Body and Paradox

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 63-73
  8. An Ecology of the Body

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 75-82
  9. Bodyward

    • Celeste Snowber
    Pages 83-91
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 93-95

About this book

"Embodied Inquiry is offered to all who want to deepen the connection to their bodies. Here is the inspiration to see your body as a place of inquiry, learning, understanding and perceiving. Listening to the sensual knowing and aliveness within the body can inform our personal and professional lives and reveal the connections between living, being, and creating. Snowber writes this book in poetic and visceral language as a love letter from the body wooing readers to inhabit their own skins and celebrate the beautiful and paradoxical place where limitations and joy dwell together. Touching on the vastness of our body’s call to us, Embodied Inquiry explores solitude, paradox, inspiration, lament, waking up to the sensuous, ecology, listening, and writing from the body. This is not a manual, but a book to accompany you in befriending the body and let your own gestures, stories and bodily ways of being lead you to listento your own rhythm. Whether an artist or educator, researcher or administrator, performer or poet, seeker or scientist, you will find this book as a companion to sustain a vibrant life and co-create a better world. 


“A beautiful, creative and highly original book. Written with passion and wisdom, this book makes significant contributions to arts-based research, artistic research practice, embodiment, and living artful, intentional and connected lives. A stunning achievement.” – Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., author of Method Meets Art and editor of the Social Fictions series 


“Snowber offers wisdom for learning to live exotically, erotically, emotionally, and ecstatically. Reading Embodied Inquiry is like walking on a wilderness trail, in sunlight-infused rain, learning to embrace the possibilities of vitality and vulnerability, joy and grief, love and loss.” – Carl Leggo, Ph.D., poet & professor, University of British Columbia


“Weaving prose and poetry, Snowber awakens our sensual and embodied self at the very roots of living. This deeply personal work will move educators, researchers, artists, and those for whom lived experience is core to their creative processs.” – Daniel Deslauriers, Ph.D., Professor, Transformative Studies Doctorate Program, CIIS"







Authors and Affiliations

  • Simon Fraser University, Canada

    Celeste Snowber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Embodied Inquiry

  • Book Subtitle: Writing, Living and Being through the Body

  • Authors: Celeste Snowber

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-755-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-755-9Published: 24 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 96

  • Topics: Education, general

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