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Len Worley, PhD | Rolfing vs Massage

2015

Len Worley, PhD, talks about the difference between roalfing vs massage. The doctor states that, like massage, roalfing leaves you deeply relaxed, but that is only a side effect. Roalfing elongates the thin but sturdy sheath that surrounds your muscles and organs also called connective tissue.

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Bone, Breath, and Gesture: Practices of Embodiment

This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics.

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Don Hanlon Johnson
1995
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Rolfing®: For Healing and High Performance

Dr. Ida P. Rolf Ph.D., dedicated her life to the development of a systematic approach to improving human structure and well-being.

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The Rolf Institute
2024
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Ida Rolf Talks About Rolfing and Physical Reality

This 1978 book is intended as the "feelingful" companion to a more technical and rigorous earlier didactic volume, Rolfing: The Integration of Human Structures. The book is also a memoir of the early history and days of Esalen into its heydays in the 1970s.

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Ida Rolf
1978
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Rolfing: Reestablishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being

This seminal work made its debut in 1977, and it has since remained the most important reference for Rolfers around the world. In this new edition, the late Dr.

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Ida Rolf
1989
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Rolfing and Physical Reality

A warm and wise self-portrait of the woman who originated the therapy that bears her name.

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Ida Rolf
1990
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Deep Tissue Massage: A Visual Guide to Techniques (Revised Edition)

Featuring more than 250 photographs and 50 anatomical drawings, this revised edition of Deep Tissue Massage is the standard guide to the essentials of touch, biomechanics, and positioning options for a multitude of strategies to treat all major conditions encountered in a bodywork practice.

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Art Riggs
2007
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Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork

Possibly the most famous and widely used resource in therapeutic bodywork, this beautifully written, detailed, and reader-friendly picture of how and why the body responds to touch is both scientifically reliable and inspiring.

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Deane Juhan
2003
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An Introduction to Massage

Massage is the targeted manipulation of the body’s soft tissue through techniques such as kneading, rubbing, tapping, and stroking, either by hand or with the aid of massage tools. Depending on the style of massage, it can be done on a table, in a chair, on the floor, or even in water.

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2022
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7 Bodywork Methods to Try

From the lightest massage to the deepest structural therapy, from the physical to the energetic, find your match.

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Hillari Dowdle
2008
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Chi Nei Tsang: Chi Massage for the Vital Organs

An ancient Taoist system for detoxifying and rejuvenating the internal organs • Presents techniques to clear blockages in the body’s energy flow • Includes illustrated exercises to relieve common ailments, revitalize the organs, and enable readers to take charge of their own health and...

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Mantak Chia
2006
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