Janet Adler (1941–2023) held a Ph.D. in Mystical Studies, taught the discipline of Authentic Movement in the United States and Europe and was the founder and director of The Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, the first school devoted to the study and practice of the discipline. She is the author of Arching Backward and of two films: Looking for Me, documenting her work with autistic children, and Still Looking, reflecting her work in the discipline of Authentic Movement. She was also a hospice chaplain.

"Janet's astonishing ability to track and articulate the development of this work makes her writing a necessity for those of us who know about Authentic Movement and for others on similar journeys who seek to know about the relationship of the body to psychological healing, artistic impulse, and experience of the numinous."

• Acknowledgments Preface The Individual Body Developing Mover Consciousness The Mover The Moving-Witness Developing Witness Consciousness The Witness The Silent Witness The Speaking Witness The Collective Body Developing Collective Consciousness Coming Toward the Circle One Circle The Conscious Body Offering Emerging Forms Embodied Text Dance Energetic Phenomena Epilogue Epigraph Source Notes

Janet Adler (1941–2023) held a Ph.D. in Mystical Studies, taught the discipline of Authentic Movement in the United States and Europe and was the founder and director of The Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, the first school devoted to the study and practice of the discipline. She is the author of Arching Backward and of two films: Looking for Me, documenting her work with autistic children, and Still Looking, reflecting her work in the discipline of Authentic Movement. She was also a hospice chaplain.

"Janet's astonishing ability to track and articulate the development of this work makes her writing a necessity for those of us who know about Authentic Movement and for others on similar journeys who seek to know about the relationship of the body to psychological healing, artistic impulse, and experience of the numinous."

• Acknowledgments Preface The Individual Body Developing Mover Consciousness The Mover The Moving-Witness Developing Witness Consciousness The Witness The Silent Witness The Speaking Witness The Collective Body Developing Collective Consciousness Coming Toward the Circle One Circle The Conscious Body Offering Emerging Forms Embodied Text Dance Energetic Phenomena Epilogue Epigraph Source Notes

Janet Adler (1941–2023) held a Ph.D. in Mystical Studies, taught the discipline of Authentic Movement in the United States and Europe and was the founder and director of The Mary Starks Whitehouse Institute, the first school devoted to the study and practice of the discipline. She is the author of Arching Backward and of two films: Looking for Me, documenting her work with autistic children, and Still Looking, reflecting her work in the discipline of Authentic Movement. She was also a hospice chaplain.

"Janet's astonishing ability to track and articulate the development of this work makes her writing a necessity for those of us who know about Authentic Movement and for others on similar journeys who seek to know about the relationship of the body to psychological healing, artistic impulse, and experience of the numinous."

• Acknowledgments Preface The Individual Body Developing Mover Consciousness The Mover The Moving-Witness Developing Witness Consciousness The Witness The Silent Witness The Speaking Witness The Collective Body Developing Collective Consciousness Coming Toward the Circle One Circle The Conscious Body Offering Emerging Forms Embodied Text Dance Energetic Phenomena Epilogue Epigraph Source Notes