Abstract
This writing documents an auto-ethnographic event that took place at London’s Tower Bridge as part of a marketing exercise for the spectacular glass walkways 42 meters above the ground. The author was invited to meet with Sean Fletcher, a TV presenter for Good Morning Britain who experiences vertigo. The purpose was to explore how sensory awareness of the body’s relationship to gravity might help to alleviate a fear of heights. This proposition is informed by the author’s experience of working with gravity as an embodied potency of falling and draws on the therapeutic notion of a window of tolerance to accentuate how somatic movement practice might benefit people who experience vertigo.
© 2017, Published by Elsevier. The attached document (embargoed until 19/07/2019) is an author produced version of a paper published in Emotion, Space and Society, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.07.002. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.
© 2017, Published by Elsevier. The attached document (embargoed until 19/07/2019) is an author produced version of a paper published in Emotion, Space and Society, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.07.002. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 89-93 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Emotion, Space and Society |
| Volume | 28 |
| Early online date | 19 Jul 2017 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
