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Payne, S. Koch, J. Tania, & T. Fuchs  (Eds), Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy.  Available online:\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Embodied-Perspectives-in-Psychotherapy/Payne-Koch-Tantia-Fuchs/p/book/9781138065758?fbclid=IwAR3GbPu_VjGJzIj0oV4vYqPRSRP7mPDl88GeGLaFvxCRkHNU4RYgplyWbAw\" \u0014https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Embodied-Perspectives-in-Psychotherapy/Payne-Koch-Tantia-Fuchs/p/book/9781138065758?fbclid=IwAR3GbPu_VjGJzIj0oV4vYqPRSRP7mPDl88GeGLaFvxCRkHNU4RYgplyWbAw\u0015\nAbstract\nThis chapter traces the development of Somatic Body Mapping as a creative, embodied and feminine approach to marking and supporting life transitions. Beginning with the conception of the Body Mapping methodology in South Africa, it spans ten years of evolution in the author’s work as a body and movement psychotherapist and explores how different conceptual frameworks, practices of embodiment and cultural contexts have shaped her practice of Body Mapping with women in the UK today.\nIntroduction\nBody Maps are life-size creations that start with a person being traced around her whole body on paper or canvas. The resulting outline shapes the body-world that is then explored and visually expressed through a combination of body meditations, movement, ritual, mark making, drawing, painting and sculpting. Tracing and mapping of the body is an ancient human practice and has been part of creative explorations in psychotherapy for a long time.  A formal methodology, however, was only conceived in 2000 at Cape Town University, South Africa, in collaboration with women living with HIV/Aids (Solomon, 2008). The resulting body mapping tool has since been adopted by researchers, artists and creative arts therapists in a variety of settings worldwide (Crawford, 2010; Gastaldo, Magalhães, Carrasco & Davy, 2011; Lu & Yuen, 2012; Lummis, 2015; Verhoest & Kamiru, 2016).  This chapter will illustrate my particular application of the South African methodology and its development into a therapeutic and somatic approach to working with women during life transitions. It spans ten years of practice in Kenya and the UK and highlights different influences from movement and somatic practices which have allowed me to increasingly ‘flesh out’ the original and mostly narrative and art therapy based methodology.\nThe writing is organised around a guiding interest in the connections between the organic body, the experienced body and the represented body on canvas. Throughout, embodiment is understood as a process in which neglected, unconscious and dissociated aspects of being are brought into conscious and bodily felt presence.     \u000f\nOutline of Beginnings:  Between Heaven and Earth\nOutline by Annette Schwalbe, Coleford, 2016\nThe act of marking the outline of one’s body in spiritual and social practices or simply for play is as old as human civilisation. In the Gargas cave of Aventignan, France, dozens of hand stencils line the rock wall. They date from about 27.000 years BC and are presumed to have been part of funeral and sacrificial ceremonies.  Hands were laid on the stone and their shapes immortalised by blowing pigments over them, leaving a clearly defined outline.  According to Holle (1986), the stencils speak of a fundamental human longing to touch the mystery of existence and the worlds beyond.\nIn our modern world, body tracing and printing is familiar to many children in and out of school. Whether on paper with paint, in sand with sticks and fingers or in snow making ‘snow angels’, the pleasure of making and leaving one’s own life size mark is the same.  It touches something fundamentally confirming about being in this world and in our individually shaped body. 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