The Body as a Site of Knowledge: Somatic Micro-Practices in Creative and Autobiographical Writing

Key Points

• Investigate how somatic practices enhance creative and autobiographical writing through bodily awareness.
• Examined the role of embodied cognition in therapeutic writing interventions.
• Investigated somatic practices and their impact on perception and memory.
• Utilized arts-based inquiry to explore emotional processing in writing contexts.
• Somatic practices improved emotional processing compared to cognitive-only approaches.
• Participants reported increased bodily awareness enhancing their writing experiences.
• Enhanced perceptual and memory engagement was noted among users of somatic techniques.