Bodyscapes: Guided Somatic Explorations in Anatomy, Movement, and Meaning
Beverley Nolan, RSME/T
Nov 2026 · North Atlantic Books
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Less a traditional anatomy text than an expansive somatic atlas, Bodyscapes is an astonishing, textured, and interdisciplinary invitation to the wonders of our bodies.
A body-based journey of renewal, transformation, and discovery—somatic practices, embodied tools, and meaning-making myth
Beautifully written, deeply immersive, and enhanced with lush illustrations, Beverley Nolan’s Bodyscapes offers readers embodied tools for healing—and a delightfully unexpected approach to re-knowing our essential anatomy.
Moving from the smallest cell to the complexity of the fascial web, Bodyscapes is organized in 10 body systems. From FEEL: tending your heart and UNIFY: harmonizing the breath to SATISFY: renewing your affinity with fat, each chapter shares affirming practices to reclaim your innate somatic wisdom…and come home to a new understanding of the vibrant joys, curious wonders, and unexpected connections of your body. You’ll discover:
Here, you’ll learn how the heart acts as a vessel: it embodies giving, receiving, and holding, assertiveness on the out-pump and restorative calm on the in-pump. You’ll be invited to appreciate fat in new ways: its active, vital role in energy and protection. And you’ll discover how breath is the unifying force that speaks the story of your inner world.
Interwoven with myth, story, and folklore, Bodyscapes is for somatic therapists, movement professionals, seekers, and readers looking to ground, deepen, integrate, and heal. Bodyscapes opens us up to ourselves—to the systems of sublime miracles that often go unacknowledged, unseen, and unclaimed as the intelligent, supportive pieces of us that they are—and nourishes a new way of moving, transforming, and showing up to the world.
A body-based journey of renewal, transformation, and discovery—somatic practices, embodied tools, and meaning-making myth
Beautifully written, deeply immersive, and enhanced with lush illustrations, Beverley Nolan’s Bodyscapes offers readers embodied tools for healing—and a delightfully unexpected approach to re-knowing our essential anatomy.
Moving from the smallest cell to the complexity of the fascial web, Bodyscapes is organized in 10 body systems. From FEEL: tending your heart and UNIFY: harmonizing the breath to SATISFY: renewing your affinity with fat, each chapter shares affirming practices to reclaim your innate somatic wisdom…and come home to a new understanding of the vibrant joys, curious wonders, and unexpected connections of your body. You’ll discover:
- Guided somatic exercises
- Reflective journaling prompts
- Creative inspiration drawn from myth and folklore
- Practices to integrate body, mind, and emotions
Here, you’ll learn how the heart acts as a vessel: it embodies giving, receiving, and holding, assertiveness on the out-pump and restorative calm on the in-pump. You’ll be invited to appreciate fat in new ways: its active, vital role in energy and protection. And you’ll discover how breath is the unifying force that speaks the story of your inner world.
Interwoven with myth, story, and folklore, Bodyscapes is for somatic therapists, movement professionals, seekers, and readers looking to ground, deepen, integrate, and heal. Bodyscapes opens us up to ourselves—to the systems of sublime miracles that often go unacknowledged, unseen, and unclaimed as the intelligent, supportive pieces of us that they are—and nourishes a new way of moving, transforming, and showing up to the world.
Less a traditional anatomy text than an expansive somatic atlas, Bodyscapes is an astonishing, textured, and interdisciplinary invitation to the wonders of our bodies.
A body-based journey of renewal, transformation, and discovery—somatic practices, embodied tools, and meaning-making myth
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About the author
Beverley Nolan is a somatic movement educator, yoga teacher, and writer with nearly four decades of experience exploring the intelligence of the body. An ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist and Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500, she blends yoga, Body-Mind Centering, the Feldenkrais Method, and integrated bodywork to offer experiential approaches to anatomy and movement. Nolan is the founder and director of Barefoot Body Training, a Cambridge-based school providing somatic and trauma-informed yoga teacher trainings. She has taught widely in the UK and Europe as international faculty for Linda Hartley’s somatic education programs, and her writing appears in The Fluid Nature of Being and The Yoga Teacher’s Survival Guide. Through classes, trainings, and her newsletter Field Notes From The Body, Nolan guides students and readers to reclaim embodied wisdom, weaving together anatomy, somatic awareness, and mythic imagination.
Beverley Nolan is a somatic movement educator, yoga teacher, and writer with nearly four decades of experience exploring the intelligence of the body. An ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist and Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500, she blends yoga, Body-Mind Centering, the Feldenkrais Me...
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