Janet Adler

Janet Adler (1941–2023) was the founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She had been teaching and exploring emergent movement in the presence of a witness since 1969. Her archives are housed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She is the author of Arching Backward and Offering from the Conscious Body.

Books By Janet Adler

Arching Backward

By Janet Adler

Arching Backward is the extraordinary account of an American woman who found herself suddenly and violently immersed in a mystical initiation for which she was not prepared. Her story offers a guide for others on this journey and provides a powerful affirmation of women's experience of the spirit.

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Offering from the Conscious Body

By Janet Adler

This Western awareness practice encourages the individual to experience the evolving relationship with oneself, another, the collective, and the divine through the natural impulses of conscious movement, compassionate witnessing, and clear articulation of experience.

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Intimacy in Emptiness

By Janet Adler

Edited By Bonnie Morrissey, Paula Sager

A profound inside experience of the transformative potential of the Discipline of Authentic Movement

Sharing vivid examples taken from founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement Janet Adler’s 50-year teaching practice, this book brings Adler’s essential writings, including new and previously unpublished work, to a wider audience, guiding readers through the multiple layers of this experiential and innovative approach to embodied consciousness.

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