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By employing the latest science and scholarship on mindfulness and creative contemplative practices, my research aim is to engage in embodied presence practices (related to but not limited to mindfulness meditation) as a way to support the healing process and nervous system repair of Historically Marginalized People (HMP). My research will investigate three embodied-presence based practices: Mindfulness Meditation, Mindful Movement and Mindfulness and Music. Mindfulness often fails to consider that the practice is one of the physical body as well as of the mind. I have chosen to call this work (my work) embodied presence to be inclusive of both the presence of the mind and presence of the body. Mindfulness Meditation, Mindful Movement and Mindfulness and Music are each practices that I facilitate for individual participants, groups of participants as well as a practice I facilitate for myself (as also a participant). They each hold a similar structure of 20-60 minutes. I begin by inviting participants to find a comfortable place to be. Practice can be taken sitting, standing or lying down. I offer the option to practice with closed eyes if it feels safe to. For the practice time, participants are invited to explore the depths of the physical and emotional experience of existing through senses, contact with the environment and breath. For Mindful Movement, participants are guided through a moving body scan where they are invited to move each body part consciously and improvisationally with curiosity. The tone for these practices are open, spacious and non judgemental. The practice includes self-inquiry during and after the guided session and participants are given time and space to write reflectively on the experience and the questions. These three practices are each crucial components for how I create choreographic work and will be a part of a site specific performance exploring the themes of freedom, identity, healing and liberation. I will first review my own practice with embodied presence (which includes dance, improvisational mindful movement, music and mindfulness, authentic creative expression, and collaborative performance) as a way to understand my personal healing and liberation. I will also conduct study groups of participants practicing embodied presence as a way to determine if healing and transformation happens through case studies, observation, interviews and questionnaires. I will then investigate if these practices have the same effect within a performance context. RESEARCH QUESTIONS How might embodied presence-based practices support and encourage emotional, inner-personal, and relational transformation within historically marginalized individuals? What are effective embodied presence-based practices or a combination of effective practices and what is the optimal length of time that support, stress management and capacity building for HMP? If individual healing within HMP happens by implementing embodied presence-based practices, can this extend to intrapersonally (1:1 relationships) and be applied to collective group healing through contemplative dance performance and witnessed storytelling? Explain how your project contributes to (or challenges) existing work in the field (i.e the originality or significance of your project). New Knowledge/ A New Method or Approach to Healing Mindfulness + Contemplative Dance Currently the research of the effects of embodied-presence based practices include mindfulness meditation, movement (yoga, dance therapy, qi gong) and reflection (journaling and writing). Presently, there are not many research examples that address the combination of dance/movement and meditation and are mostly limited to graduate theses. While research includes a combination of these as a way of improving health outcomes, it does not include contemplative improvisation dance in performance (Marich, J. and Howell, T. 2015). Embodied Presence Curriculum Additionally, treatment-based curriculum that includes mindfulness, movement and journaling exist, however these programs do not include contemplative dance. Nor has it been studied as a way of supporting HMP (Bizal, 2017). Mindful Music + Dance Performance Both music and mindfulness have been researched separately as a way of managing stress and healing anxiety as well as a combined treatment, however not in a performance space or as a performance or as a combined offering (Hanser, S.B., 1985 and Marich, J. and Howell, T. 2015). The affect of musical performance on its audience members has been researched as well as the role dance therapy has on stress reduction and empathy building. Research has been conducted on the impact the audience has on the performer but not on the performer’s impact on the audience (Shikanai and Hachimura, 2014). Outside of the Dance Movement Therapy practice of mirroring (McGarry, L.M. and Russo, F.A., 2011), current research does not investigate the ways that witnessed storytelling in the form of dance and participatory arts has the potential to create transference, associated healing or compassion in the witnessing (audience). I am interested in conducting case studies on all existing embodied presence-based practices that I do— group mindfulness meditation, self-guided mindfulness practices, self-guided use of embodied presence base practices, group music and mindfulness practice, movement practices as well as performance/ embodied story-telling. My hypotheses are that: 1.Embodied presence cultivates an awareness of healing and stress reduction. 2. Embodied presence deepens the connection to self and others through self-expression that results in stress reduction, a repair of the nervous system and transformational healing. 3. Embodied presence can be choreographed for self-expression and a sense of belonging. 4. Embodied presence is a tool for personal agency, self-expression, on-stage liberation and creating contemplative dance performance. Overall Objectives Exhibition/ Performance Through embodied-based practices, I intend to produce a multi-component project that will be an immersive, durational group performance piece that includes dance performance, film, original music, as well as guided mindfulness meditation to address the complex psychological portraits of people and communities of marginalized individuals. This project will also include a solo performance that I will choreograph and dance to depict my own relationship with and to healing and liberation. A hypothesis of this work will be: The individual and collective feel a sense of connection to self and others in the presence of their own human experience and in the witnessing of human experiences in performance. Research Paper My current embodied presence practice is preoccupied with mindfulness, contemplative dance and participatory engagement. My research with mindfulness is interested in exploring concepts of freedom, liberation, compassion and loving-kindness. This will be explored through archival research, personal practice, as well as practice studies with groups. The Personal I will achieve my practice-based research through the methodology of autoethnography and autotheory that looks at my engagement with neuroscience, identity, choreography, performance, spirituality, the nervous system, somatic psychology, mindfulness meditation, power structures, and dominant culture. I will do this through the methods of journaling, self observation, participant observation, self interviews, participant interviews, and archival research. The Collective The research is interested in exploring hypotheses derived from my personal experiences engaging with embodied presence based practices within other participant groups to see if it has the same impact. I will design and conduct case studies on all existing embodied presence-based practices that I do— group mindfulness meditation, self-guided mindfulness practices, self-guided use of embodied presence base practices, group music and mindfulness practice, movement practices as well as performance/ embodied story-telling. Additionally, I will design, develop and employ a practice-based curriculum for self expression and stress reduction. This can be experienced by participants in solo and group settings. 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