Its free-form approach is exploratory rather than therapeutic, though it is frequently used by therapists in many different disciplines as a way of enabling the client to learn more about their own life habits through movement.
Rather than being simply an approach to improvisation, Amerta movement is a practice that cultivates an attitude towards life.
Over time, students of Amerta movement can be seen to become increasingly adept at moving in ways that derive from their developing relationship to inner and outer experience.
They also to learn to move with a clear recognition of a number of essential ‘lenses’: ‘proportion’ in relation to themselves in their environment a sense of active and passive an understanding of point, line and angle in movement.
According to Katya Bloom, Amerta Movement offers “a skill which can be glossed over in therapy training – how to practice making one’s own bodily experience more conscious as a resource, to sense oneself as a three-dimensional container, able to receive and reflect the transference, projective identification and counter-transference more fully”.
[3] In Java and Bali, Amerta movement is taught by Suprapto Suryodarmo, who is based at Padepokan Lemah Putih.