Dedication. Acknowledgments. Foreword by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD. 1. To the Therapist. Touching the Core. 2. Meet Your Body. A Review. Thirteen Major Hinges. Creating Length Between Those Hinges. Meet Your Body. 3. The Crucial Spot. The Fort of Self: Defeat, or Worth? No Breath, No Spirit. Eastern Wisdom. The Biggest Stuck Spot. Achievement Mode. Not Good Enough. 4. Now, Do Something! The Big One: Lose, or Use? Stretch the CORE. Simple, Good Rules. Stretching Emotionally. 5. Test the Toes. An Amazing Joint: Can't, or Will? Your Own Two Feet. Am I Pleasing Them? Stay on Your Toes. I Can Do Anything. 6. The Back Up Plan. Who Rules: Survive, or Thrive? Why Am I In Pain? Exploring Our Pain. Unresolved Thought Forms. Atlas Wedge. Making Headway. 7. Trust Your Gut. The Churn: Judge, or Discern? Hurting the Ones We Love. Judgement vs Discernment. Encouraging Discharge. PSOAS: Primary Stoner Of All Stress. Stepping Out of Fear. 8. Shame is Optional. Forbidden Zone: Ashamed, or Aflame? The Only Dis-Ease. What Did Love Look Like? The One We've Got. Get Real. 9. Relax The Loins. Steady On: Locked, or Loose? It's the Kidneys! Stand Your Ground Safely. How We Congest and How We Cope. A Friendly Universe? A Three Layer System of CORE Work. 10. Lead With Your Heart. The Core Bloom: Barren, or Full? Vitamin 'G'. The Center Of Right Energy. Congestion vs Circulation. The Heart Hinge. 11. Find Your Voice. Your Expression: Strained, or Soaring? Escape. How Big is Your Universe? What Will You Express? Find the CORE. 12. Reach Out To Serve. Well-Oiled Machine: Off, or On? Let it Go! Replacing Resentments. Burdens You Shoulder: A Pain in the Neck? Less Multi-Tasking. The X Factor. Stretching at the CORE. 13. So Now Relax: Who Rules: Survive, or Thrive? Let the Crown Rule. Another Twist of the Mind. Pay Attention! Beauty, Order, Harmony. Embrace the Shadows. Integration. 14. What We're Hungry For...Moving Forward. A World Challenge. Duty Takes a Rap. Practicing Independence with Interdependence. Appendix A: Emotional Anatomy. Appendix B: Suggested Readings. Appendix C: Glossary of Movement Terms. Index.
Bodywork techniques to release physical, mental and emotional pain within the body
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.
Although directed at bodyworkers and other healers, this
experiential manual combines easily understandable postural and
emotional releasing techniques, common-sense medical wisdom and
superb chakra system explanations, making it completely accessible
to both therapists and clients.
*Spirit of Change Magazine*
Personally, I believe the essential reason for life is to do good
to others, to nurture them. Noah's CORE program is a tremendous
evolution in the nurturing practice of fascial, muscle, tendon and
skeletal alignment. In this exciting new book, Noah goes well
beyond the physical adjustments with practical exercises. Follow
his CORE advice to optimal health.
*from the Foreword by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, President Holos
Institutes of Health, Professor Emeritus of Energy Medicine,
President Emeritus of Holos University Graduate Seminary and
Founding President of American Holistic Medical Association*
Noah Karrasch - recognizing that the line between therapist and
client is a thin one indeed - has written a book that would serve
either consumer or provider in reaching below the surface to the
psychological and expressive correlates that nearly always
accompany postural pain/strain patterns. So many somatic psychology
books are psychobabble with a smattering of the body thrown in for
'holism'. By contrast, this book starts with the body, giving
exercises and insights that provide a way in to authentic
self-expression.
*Thomas Myers, author of Anatomy Trains*
Blending informative case histories and examples from his own work,
Noah brings a blend of ancient and modern thought to his bodywork
approach. Littered with useful and provocative images and
exercises, this book will help a therapist get to many of their
clients' 'Core' issues by contacting both the emotional and the
physical aspects of pain. A worthy addition to any bodyworker's
bookshelf.
*James Earls BA (Hons Psych.), structural integration practitioner,
author of Fascial Release for Structural Balance and Director of
Kinesis UK*
Just as a skilled bodywork session should speak to all the layers
and unite the disparate energies of the body, Freeing Emotions and
Energy Through Myofascial Release brilliantly unites the specific
manual techniques and structural theory of a holistic bodywork
session with the deeper psychological and emotional understanding
of, not only our clients, but of our own processes. In this fine
book, Noah Karrasch moves knowledge to the next plateau of
wisdom.
*Art Riggs, Advanced Certified Rolfer, international teacher, and
author of Deep Tissue Massage*
Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release expands our
awareness of the many ways we get 'stuck' in the flow of our lives.
I'm fascinated by the powerful parallel of this work with
Interactive Imagery and Biofeedback, and encouraged at the multiple
avenues we have to be HEALTHY HUMANS. While respecting our
emotions, we can release 'stuck' and move freely.
*Patricia Pike, Guided Imagery and Biofeedback Practitioner,
Missouri*
Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release is an
immensely valuable book for everyone who wants to be alive, fully
alive. It is a practical guide to health and emotional freedom,
integrating models from East and West into an empowering vision of
how free and unblocked we can be, if only we dare to.
*Michael Kaufmann, NLP Practitioner, Reiki Master and meditation
teacher*
For many people - especially physicians, and health care providers,
discussions about chakras and Chinese healing concepts are so far
out of our frame of reference, and so far out of our knowledge and
experience, that it is something that we avoid. In this book, Noah
brings together in a 'physical way' relating or connecting the
chakras and traditional Chinese medicine with physical human
anatomy. Now, I can picture the concepts, and begin a process of
integrating traditional western and eastern forms of healing. He
also 'brings a challenge' to each healer, regardless of our title,
to go deeper into the core structure and function of the person -
combining the dimensions of physical, emotional, intellectual, and
spiritual self. It is a 'good read', but also an enlightening and
refreshing view of the integrated whole person.
*Ralph Harvey, MD, Cornerstone Family Practice, PLC, Associate
Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine*
I first came to know of Noah through a mutual friend who
recommended I meet this 'American therapist' who had a different
approach to soft tissue work. Over the years he has shared those
views with many of my students who have all come away from his
classes both enriched and inspired. I have witnessed his generosity
of spirit, his compassion for those he serves, and it is reflected
in this gem of a book. He has brought together a philosophy that in
essence has been around for a long time, but not connected in a way
in which Noah has been able to demonstrate. Follow his journey,
make it yours, it will bring a new dimension to your treatments as
well as yourself.
*Susan Findlay, BSc RGN, Dip SMRT, MSMA MLCSP, MCNHC, Director of
North London School of Sports Massage*
Hugely informative, easily accessible to body worker, student and
receiver alike. Everyone will come away with something useful.
*Bev Breeze, Shiatsu practitioner and instructor, London*
My coffee sat cold on the counter as I paged through. It's exciting
to see a book written about putting the spirit back in bodywork
both for the client and the therapist. YES. I love the way you have
blended your CORE Fascial Release Bodywork with the chakra system
as you think about the areas being worked on. Attention and
Intention of both client and therapist working together.
Perfect.
*Brenda Messling, Massage Therapy Instructor and Teacher of
Creative Healing, Arkansas, USA*
As a Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher, Noah's CORE
Fascial Release technique and its representation in this book have
quite simply changed the way I work. It has helped to make complex
cases simple, creating new parallels with the manual work used in
Physiotherapy and the exercises prescribed in Pilates. Freeing
Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release will aid any
movement therapist to 'bridge the gaps' in their ability to deliver
consistently successful therapy.
*Robert White, Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates Teacher and
Director of Body2Fit, Stockton-on-Tees, UK*
Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release is a
compendium of classical structural bodywork principles, concepts
from Oriental Medicine, and psychological common sense. Noah
Karrasch challenges healers of all disciplines to explore their own
body-mind connections and disconnections in order to become more
fully present with their clients. We are blessed to be
beneficiaries of his twenty-five years of dedication to holistic
healing.
*Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, How to Sit, Stand
and Move in the Modern World*
Based on a wealth of personal experience and a blend of 'East meets
West', it is packed full of useful, expertly explained nuggets of
'things to consider' and 'hands on techniques' to aid the
bodyworker and inspire the layperson.
*Shona McStravick, Aromatherapist, The Wren Clinic Newsletter*
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