If It All Comes Down to Bodily Awareness, How Do We Know? Assessing Bodily Awareness
Kinesiology Review August 1, 2020 Wolf Mehling 24 citations
A key mechanism in mind-body movement approaches is the maturation of bodily awareness, an experiential learning process with distinct phenomenology and neurological underpinnings. This report focuses on assessing changes in bodily awareness, crucial for documenting this learning in research and clinical settings. Objective lab-based assessments are briefly reviewed. Qualitative methods include interviews, focus groups, and second-person observation of movement. Additionally, several systematically developed and validated self-report questionnaires are now available and presented here.