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Somatics, an Uncommon card
Somatics describes a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasizes internal physical perception and personal embodied experience.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Ranked #2,130 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Somatics quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Somatics card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Somatic techniques may be used in bodywork, ______, dance, or spiritual practices.
Answer
psychotherapy. Somatic techniques may be used in bodywork, psychotherapy, dance, or spiritual practices. From the Somatics article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tom Blomqvist. Tom Blomqvist 83 · Agricultural policy 78 · Andean civilizations 72 · Somatics 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Azeotrope. Azeotrope 55,000 · Uzbekistani sum 37,000 · Somatics 29,000 · Organosilicon chemistry 13,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term, coined in 1967 by Thomas Hanna, a philosophy professor and movement theorist, is used in movement therapy to signify approaches based on the soma, or "the body as perceived from within", including Skinner Releasing Technique, The Trager Approach, Alexander technique, the Feldenkrais method, Eutony, Rolfing Structural Integration, among others.
- In dance, the term refers to techniques based on the dancer's internal sensation, in contrast with "performative techniques", such as ballet or modern dance, which emphasize the external observation of movement by an audience.
- Somatic techniques may be used in bodywork, psychotherapy, dance, or spiritual practices.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Somatics article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Somatics
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Somatics (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : International Feldenkrais Federation, www.feldenkrais-method.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
