Discovering the Body's Wisdom: A Comprehensive Guide to More than Fifty Mind-Body Practices That Can Relieve Pa in, Reduce Stress, and Foster Health, Spiritual Growth, and Inner PeaceIn an attractive, oversized format, enlivened with illustrations, sidebar quotes, personal accounts, techniques to try, and profiles of leaders in the field, Discovering the Body's Wisdom is a basic resource for well-being and natural health. Body disciplines and therapies have enjoyed phenomenal growth in the past decade, becoming a major alternative to mainstream medicine and traditional psychotherapy. But with more than 100,000 practitioners and dozens of methods available in the United States alone, how can consumers choose the right one for themselves? Mirka Knaster's richly informative guide provides an overview of the principles and theories underlying the major Eastern and Western body therapies, or "bodyways." It shows readers how to befriend their own bodies, getting back in touch with their internal sources of health and wisdom. It also describes more than 75 individual approaches, answering such questions as: How does each therapy work? What can we expect from one session or a series? What are the reasons for selecting this method? How do we find a qualified practitioner? What, if any, are the "consumer-bewares"? |
Contents
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CHAPTER3 BODy WSDOM | 41 |
GETTING STARTED | 63 |
CHAPTERS DECIDING ONA BODyWAy | 92 |
A GUIDE TO BODYWAYS | 136 |
The Benjamin System of Muscular Therapy | 164 |
CHAPTER ſo FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES | 209 |
CHAPTER 11 WESTERN MOVEMENT ARTS | 245 |
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Common terms and phrases
Acupressure acupuncture Aikido Alexander Alexander Technique approach awareness Ayurveda balance become blood body wisdom Body-Mind Centering body's bodyways Bodywork bones brain breath chest Chinese clients Craniosacral Craniosacral Therapy dance developed emotional energy Eutony example experience fascia feel feet Feldenkrais Feldenkrais Method function gentle Gerda Alexander Hakomi hands hands-on healing injuries Institute Integration Kinetic Awareness knees legs lower back lymph martial arts massage therapists medicine Mensendieck ment mental method mind Moshe Feldenkrais move movement arts muscles Myofascial Release nervous system neuromuscular organs P.O. Box pain patterns pelvis person physical posture practice practitioners pressure psychotherapy relaxation release Resources Rolfing Rubenfeld says sensations sense sensory session sexual Shiatsu shoulder skin Somatic Education someone ſor spine structure T'ai teacher techniques tension Therapy tion tissue touch traditional Trager trauma trigger points Western Yoga