I touch-I breathe-I move-I voice-I speak: Somatic logos toward social care

This article advances the author’s concept of somatic logos as an inter-embodied praxical framework that facilitates interrelations between individual and collective voices. It draws from her Practice-as-Research (PaR) project From Haptic Deprivation to Haptic Possibilities and uses the project’s Are We Still in Touch? group workshops as a case study. The workshops investigate how self-directed touch (initiated and managed by oneself) can support one’s sense of care, wellbeing, and creative expression amidst societal shifts catalyzed by the pandemic. Research findings suggest that somatic listening to the self extends to an inter-embodied sense of care with potentials for broader societal impact.