Abstract Many of the discrepancies reported to date in empirical investigations impostor phenomenon (IP) may be due part (a) use different methods for identifying individuals suffering from this syndrome (impostors), (b) common a median split procedure classify subjects, and (c) fact that subjects many studies were drawn impostor-prone samples. In study, we compared scores independently identified impostors nonimpostors on two instruments designed measure IP: Harvey's I-P Scale Clance's IP...

The study investigated the relationship between use ofHolotropic Breathwork and therapeutic changes in levels of distress associated with selfidentified problems, death anxiety, selfesteem, sense affiliation others. Two groups 24 subjects were compared using a repeated measures design. One group participated combination experientially oriented psychotherapy plus six monthly sessions (Breathwork Group); second only (Therapy Group). Dependent Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, Abasement...

This article examines the treatment of pelvis in Pilates exercises “Single Leg Stretch” and “Leg Circles.” The teaching practices hips, as commonly explained educational manuals, reinforce behaviors a noble-class racially “white” aesthetic. Central to this is troubling notion white racial superiority and, specifically, colonizing, prejudicial, denigrating mentality found whiteness its embodied behaviors. Using two exercises, I illuminate how perceived kinesthetic understandings race body may...

Abstract This article synthesizes the scholarly areas of dance studies, somatic research and kinaesiology, to illustrate how Pilates history continuously overlooks values culturally transmitted from body-to-body through practice. In this process, I suggest that not all embodied memories have liberatory effects. could be potentially problematic, especially with respect historical marginalization invisiblization non-white bodies. maintain by making goal an ‘unconscious’ therefore unreflective...

Somatic practice gives agency back to the body, allowing it reconfigure itself, thus integrating mind into an empowered body. Yet, I question whether reliance on individualism, humanism, scientific study, authentic movement, and liberatory processes reinforces normalizes racially biased behaviours, attitudes theorization. An autoethnography of sorts, this article puts in conversation my embodied theoretical experiences with own internalization whiteness. Somatics, essence, me space explore...

Data from a two-year study suggest that water training has similar effects to somatic practice. The nature of this questioned an underlying assumption dancers understood how appropriately engage their external rotation. Principal Investigator (PI) hypothesized working with as cross-training method would both strengthen and increase the range motion femoral Subjects (university dancers) underwent pre- post-testing measurements (passive active rotation internal rotation). consisted twice week,...