Massage Therapy: The Long View

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Massage TherapyThe Long View
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Integrative education cannot shy away from
questions of meaning, purpose and values. One
method of addressing these is through the wide
range of contemplative methods of learning.
Parker Palmer and Arthur ZajoncThe Heart of
Higher Education A Call to Renewal
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• Moshé Feldenkrais, D.Sc. (1904-1984)
• Functional Integration
• Awareness through Movement

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• Movement is life.
• Life is a process.
• Improve the quality of the process and you
  improve the quality of life itself.

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• Ida P. Rolf, PhD (1896-1979)
• Structural Integration

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• The body process is not linear, it is circular
  always, it is circular.  One thing goes awry, and
  its effects go on and on and on and on. 
• A body is a web, connecting everything with
  everything else.

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• Randolph Stone, DC, ND
• (1890-1981)
• Polarity Therapy

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• True health is the harmony of life within us,
  consisting of peace of mind, happiness and
  well-being. It is not merely a question of
  physical fitness, but is rather a result of the
  soul finding free expression through the mind and
  body of the individual.

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• F. Matthias Alexander (1869-1955)
• The Alexander Technique

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• You translate everything whether physical,
  mental, or spiritual, into muscular tension.

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• Charlotte Selver (1901-2003)
• Sensory Awareness

We have the ability within ourselves if we
become more awake to feel more clearly what our
own nature has to tell us.
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• Thomas Hanna, PhD (1928-1990)
• Somatics

The human body is not an instrument to be used,
but a realm of one's being to be experienced,
explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.
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• Ron Kurtz (1934-2011)
• Hakomi Therapy

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When youre working with people, you want to know
the truth about them. The clearest expression of
that truth is in a persons behavior. The
persons stories may not be all that accurate,
but spontaneous behavior reactions, habits and
impulses are true expressions of a persons
experiential self.
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• Milton Trager, MD (1908-1997)
• Trager Psychophysical Integration

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There is a way of being which is lighter... which
is freer. A way in which work as well as
play becomes a dance and living a song. We can
learn this way.
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The healing systems of ancient and indigenous
cultures are based in a whole-person approach
working with body, mind, emotions and spirit as a
connected entity.
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As teachers, our job is to help students discover
their innate capacities waking up that massage
therapist who already lives inside.
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You can't give what you don't have the
responsibility of massage education is to bring a
student to the fullest sense of themselves so
that they may share that with others.
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The highest potential fortouch therapies is the
evolution of consciousness on the planet.
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Education can give a sense of all that is
possible and stimulate the thirst for more.
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To this end, we cannot neglect the cultivation
of the fundamental human capacities for
compassion and altruistic action. These too need
to be part of an integrative education ...
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In this way we achieve a meaningful integration
of the breadth of learning, with a serious and
intimate exploration of our highest aspirations,
never forgetting the suffering around us that
calls for deepening our human relationships and
good work within our diverse communities.
Parker Palmer and Arthur ZajoncThe Heart of
Higher Education A Call to Renewal
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