Meet Your Body: Core Bodywork and Rolfing Tools to Release Bodymindcore Trauma

by Karrasch, Noah

• ISBN13: 9781848190160
• ISBN10: 1848190166
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY

Summary

Many of us hold on to old fears, traumas and stresses and allow them to define our lives. This book is designed to help relieve this "bodymindcore" trauma and help people look and feel profoundly better. This book offers new ideas for people with ordinary and extraordinary body challenges to change the way their bodies work for them. A practical guide to releasing bodymindcore trauma, Meet Your Body challenges us all to listen to our bodies to improve our health and overall happiness.

Author Biography

Noah Karrasch is a certified Rolfer and licensed massage therapist, and holds a teaching degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He teaches core bodywork skills throughout the midwest and also works with the Wren Clinic in East London. Noah lives and works in Springfield, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 13
Prologue	p. 15
What I do, what I see	p. 15
Dis-ease is the slowdown of energy	p. 16
Hinges in our body: clean them, realign them	p. 17
Bodymindcore	p. 18
The Big Toe Hinge	p. 19
The old sayings make sense	p. 19
The balance points of the foot	p. 20
Check your alignment	p. 22
The secret behind the big toe	p. 25
A new walk	p. 28
Big toe pushups	p. 30
Using steps	p. 33
The Ankle Hinge	p. 35
A firm foundation?	p. 35
A horizontal hinge	p. 36
What's the best way to stretch?	p. 40
It's called "connective" tissue	p. 41
Simple knee bends	p. 42
Barefoot walking	p. 43
Early walkers	p. 44
Squats	p. 46
The Knee Hinge	p. 49
Inflexibility and fear	p. 49
Lock your knees	p. 51
Why do we have pain?	p. 53
How much love?	p. 54
On track, back to the stairs	p. 55
My favorite exercise	p. 58
On the rebounder	p. 61
Now, get creative with this hinge	p. 62
Knee circles	p. 63
The Hip Hinges	p. 65
Our first ball and socket	p. 65
Gird the loins: it's the iliacus!	p. 67
Level the bowl	p. 69
Finding the deep line	p. 69
Z position	p. 70
Finding the inside of your legs	p. 72
Too much?	p. 75
Ticklers and other abusers	p. 75
Finding the pelvic floor	p. 77
Now, can you relax?	p. 78
The Sacred Hinge	p. 81
Stacking blocks on a holy bone	p. 81
Finding balance	p. 82
Don't wag your tail!	p. 83
Health in the deep front muscle	p. 86
What to do about it	p. 88
Pelvic lifts and pigeons	p. 92
Oh, there's the pigeon!	p. 95
The Stomach Hinge	p. 99
Spilling our guts	p. 99
Too many sit-ups	p. 101
A very injured hinge	p. 102
What could life look like?	p. 103
Clean the dump	p. 105
And now, the body dump	p. 106
Another way to keep it clean	p. 106
The Heart Hinge	p. 111
Breath: our inspiration	p. 111
Intentional breathing and the diaphragm	p. 113
Fibromyalgia	p. 115
Open the hinge and breathe	p. 117
Rule of thirty times six	p. 121
The Arm Hinge	p. 125
One arm, many hinges	p. 125
A new type of structure	p. 127
Attitude is everything: what's joy look like?	p. 130
How to unwind	p. 131
Dr. Rolf's arm rotations	p. 134
Other stretches	p. 136
Shoulders, Elbows, Wrists, and Fingers	p. 141
Front legs from the shoulder and down	p. 141
The CORE philosophy	p. 146
Pushing it up and out	p. 147
What's carpal tunnel?	p. 149
Stretching the "great eliminator"	p. 152
Rules to live by	p. 152
Loving all of self, all the time	p. 153
As we think, so we are	p. 154
The Head Hinge	p. 157
A double hinge	p. 157
"Head up, waist back"	p. 157
How did we lose it?	p. 159
Short and tight	p. 163
Deep head line: look to the hills	p. 165
Traction	p. 165
Remember to go the other way	p. 169
Neck rolls	p. 170
"Achievement mode"	p. 171
Afterword: Putting the Hinges All Together	p. 173
Integrity	p. 173
Stretch your hinges away from each other	p. 173
Why are you here?	p. 174
Do what you love	p. 176
What's the use?	p. 177
What will people think?	p. 177
I'm trapped!	p. 178
How do I serve?	p. 178
Index	p. 181
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