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Body Therapy, Ethics and Quantum Mechanics

by Allan Rudolf

A few months ago, I was having tea near St. James Park in London with friends who were far more knowledgeable about the politics of body therapy and alternative medicine. I'm certa...

Body Un-Awareness

by Marjorie Brook

As a race we are excellent at compensating. From surviving in harsh environments, overcoming illness and disease to dealing with daily stresses. We learn to adapt and adjust in orde...

Bodywork and Baking Bread

by Allan Rudolf

I have a good friend named Donna (not her true name) who started studying body therapies about twenty years ago. The first therapy she learnt was a form of structural bodywork, an ...

Bow Legs and Knock Knees

by Joel Carbonnel

This column looks into the shape and language of legs. The author provides a simple tip on how to check if you have bow legs, knock-knees or lock-knees, flat or hollow feet, hallux...

Breema Essence of Harmonious Life

by Jon Schreiber

Through deep receptivity to the body, and a rhythmic connection to the Earth, Breema can help us become available to the instinctive wisdom of the body. By allowing that wisdom to ...

Callanetics(r) - Superb Exercise Programme based upon Ballet and Yoga

by Ágnes Nagy

This article focuses on Callanetics exercises, developed in the 1980s by ex-ballerina Callan Pinckney. The author explains how the exercises work and can change the body from head ...

Carrying Weight

by Joel Carbonnel

In Greek mythology, the Titan Atlas, having angered Zeus, was forced to hold up the sky – a Herculean task if ever there was one. As the heavens were at that time thought to be sph...

Case Study Issue 82: The Metamorphic Technique - The Life Force at Work

by Hazel Russo

Hazel Russo’s case study describes the experiences of Lynne, who became disabled after a simple insect bite, but whose condition has been improved profoundly by treatment with the ...

Case Study: Unravelling A Tight Psoas Mystery

by Liz Koch

The author states that it is possible to unravel complex symptoms if one understands the psoas as ‘messenger of the central nervous system’. The case study involves complex difficu...

Castaways - Complications of No Therapy Following Cast Removal

by Marjorie Brook

The needs of children are completely overlooked when it comes to injury rehabilitation and the ability to cope with the physical stress of daily life.

Chinese Herbal Sports Medicine

by Lev G Fedyniak

This article focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and why and how Chinese herbal medicine, in particular, is one of the best treatments for sports injuries.

Chironic Healing - The Cranio-Spinal-Sacral Mechanism and Physical Etheric Interface

by Dr Trevor D Creed

The basis of Chironic Healing is that each of us has an etheric energy pattern, or 'blueprint', that underlies the physical body that we can see and touch. It is a conductor of vit...

Constructive Programme for Repetitive Strain Injury

by Darren Tilley

The author, a professional Osteopath specialising in soft tissue manipulation, found his career jeopardised by severe symptoms of repetitive strain injury. Anyone whose livelihood ...

Core Blimey!

by Joel Carbonnel

In his Expert Regular column, Joël Carbonnel looks at the trend of the so-called 'core area' currently circulating in fitness circles and magazine articles. Much is spoken of conce...

Creating Creativity in Body Therapy

by Allan Rudolf

I've been involved in body therapy for about twenty-five years and although I have studied many systems and styles of body therapy my main practice has always been Rolfing. Being a...

Curing By Poisoning

by Joel Carbonnel

"All drugs are poisons, and chemotherapy is a particularly nasty set of poisons," says Richard Sullivan, head of clinical programmes at the charity Cancer Research UK.[1]

Disk-Eating Pimple Bugs

by Joel Carbonnel

A concise history of the theories of aetiology would show that among the myriad of ideas put forward to explain the cause of disease, four stand out clearly. They have in common th...

Double Chins, Triple Bellies and Demi-Thighs

by Joel Carbonnel

One of the outcomes of misusing ourselves is that some muscles become short and tight while others become slack and flabby. This unequal and imbalanced distribution of tone does no...

Dr Rolf, Rolfing and Structural Integration

by Allan Rudolf

The practitioner of Structural Integration (Rolfing) applies systematic pressure (energy) to re-shape and re-balance the body structure. Tissue which was short and hard becomes sof...

Eulogy for a Book

by Allan Rudolf

Every once in a while I come across a book which is relatively unknown, possibly out of print, and which has an important influence on my bodywork practice.