Joged Amerta: Moving Back into Oneself

Beyond responding to space and surroundings, a dancer practicing Joged Amerta must also become aware of and liberate the body from all forms of attachment. With its fluid, unstructured movements, Joged Amerta emphasizes the process over the outcome—its value is not measured by the number of spectators. Ultimately, it manifests as living awareness in motion, guiding practitioners to rediscover themselves and cultivate sensitivity. 
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Values in Amerta Movement

In its practice, Amerta Movement also fosters self-awareness of natural elements such as earth, fire, wind, water, and metal. Additionally, when combined with prayer or mantra, a spiritual atmosphere emerges that makes humans aware of their connection with the Creator.
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Introduction

On this page, we share a collection of articles and films on Amerta Movement by practitioners, researchers, artists and authors in Indonesia. Amerta Movement is described by its founder Suprapto Suryodarmo (2009) as ‘movement meditation, or dance meditation’ with the elements of ‘free movement, Vipassana, and surrendering.’ 

This webpage is a space to circulate new offerings in written, audio and visual formats that explore facets of Amerta Movement. It adds to and is inspired by existing web resources developed by the Amerta Movement community including the Amerta Movers WordPress, Web Art Garden, and Amerta Basics Youtube channel. We believe that web resources are an accessible and social way of sharing internationally in a digital age, as well as a means for presenting practice-based contributions. We hope including different formats will encourage new authors and highlight practice as a form of knowledge. The contributions include a variety of themes and styles, such as personal reflections, practice knowledge, theoretical perspectives and considerations of Prapto’s legacy. We welcome both formal and informal expressions, from contributors of different generations, highlighting their relationship with Amerta Movement.

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