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Kill or Cure
... have a natural flow. Keep in mind, however, that we cannot truly convey the experiential nature of these two arts within an ... at the point. The physical conditioning for each experience is also extremely complementary, and the practice of each art ... concrete, fundamental, physical examples, but these may not be the most fascinating comparisons. For those, we turn to the realm of the ...
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Water Workouts
... “letting go” of relaxation in her body. Through the experience of her personal journey, Bialek, now 50, developed an innovative ... a good place to start is in the water. “Some people cannot participate in yoga on land for many reasons,” she says. For instance, ...
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The Feldenkrais Method
... and ways of being that may limit our self-concept and experience. In Feldenkrais lessons, we have the opportunity to notice how ... ideas we work with is to clarify your skeletal structure. We cannot sense the skeleton directly—it only has pain receptors, and we don’t ...
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Cancer, Radiation, and Massage
... breast cancer and was on a cruise to relax after the arduous experience. What she was most looking forward to after boarding the ship was ... who is, rather than telling people with cancer they cannot receive massage. Cancer is still a socially ostracizing experience. To ...
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Two Paths, One Heart
... Cohen noted, “Alan always said that in matters of mystical experience, each person is the authority because each person is the author. You ... many techniques that are used in healing others that one cannot do on oneself. For instance, in therapeutic gestures, like what to do ...
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The Ageless Mind
... most people become more cynical and discouraged with age and experience; but cynicism and discouragement are unnecessary, learned ... teacher. It might have taught you that your fondest goals cannot be reached, because of a few disappointments. Don’t believe it. You ...
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Returning to Native Tradition
... traditional medicine background and Rÿser’s extensive experience in political action and self-determination has resulted in an ... refers to the despair and depression that develops when one cannot escape from stress or control the outcome of the situation. Seligman’s ...
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Letting Go
... the abstract realms of mind, through which we filter our experience, to an actual “lived” experience of life in process. Massage is ... and clinging to pleasure. Experience teaches us that this cannot be done. When seeking pleasure and running from pain becomes our modus ...
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Kinese: The Language of Movement
... we humans have. During this initial year, the baby cannot speak or understand the details of what is spoken to it, so much of its ... what their supposed followers were also doing. We experience the results of an example like this and yet we do so much teaching ...
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Misunderstood Modality
... Usually, they have received a Thai massage and because the experience was so powerful—and because their eyes were closed—they assume ... of alignment and sound body mechanics. One student I know cannot work keeling; he has found ways to work in a lunge or with one leg ...