The principles of Noah Karrasch's CORE® model focus on whole body, breath, and movement awareness in order to determine where restrictions and blockages in the body may occur. Based on a lifetime of fine-tuning CORE® theory and practice, this comprehensive text not only explains in detail how and why this model works, but will also help movement therapists get better results for clients by being more in tune with them and their bodies, and by improving clarity in their own practitioner bodies.
Looking at the body as a whole with its four centres and five restriction areas, this book shows how to help clients move into and through spaces that may be `stuck'. Photographs and illustrations demonstrate how to work from a free and resilient CORE® and how to isolate, stretch and release restrictions to achieve greater energy levels and pain reduction. With the mantra that in order to treat the physical, we must also examine our emotional, mental and energetic states, this book shows how to better involve clients in their own healing process through movement work.
BodyMindCORE Work for the Movement Therapist : Leading Clients to CORE Breath and Awareness
Description
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. BodyMindCore: The CORE® Philosophy. 2. Pain and the Brain: That Tricky Pain Scale. 3. Partners in The Work: Talking the Talk. 4. Life Is Easier With Breath: A Healthy Heart. 5. Energy Work, Seen and Unseen: Energy Sensitivity. 6. Stretching the BodyMindCore: Our 'Personal' Line. 7. Tools and Cues: Whatever It Takes. 8. The Model. Appendix A. The Work: Examples, Ideas, Awareness. Appendix B. Advanced Work: Connecting the Centers and Gateways. Appendix C: Maturity.
Author Description
Noah Karrasch is a licensed deep tissue massage therapist and holds a teaching degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He teaches CORE bodywork skills around the world. He lives and works in Springfield, Missouri.