This guy turned his whole life around and became a body therapist, learning to Rolph, do Feldenkrais work and some really intuitive eastern body work. It was so inspiring it made me want to open a practice with my roommate who was studying to be a shrink. She could do head and I could do body. They are inextricably linked. Duh.
Really interesting dive into "body therapy." I've heard of Rolf and Feldenkrias, and the training process and cases/examples of body therapy of the author were very interesting to me. I am new to receiving body therapy in the form of physical therapy. It seems to overlap with some of the sentiments presented here, less focus on the woo woo by my practitioner (or at least what she shares with me - she has her doctorate in PT from UCSF and specialized training by the Institute of Physical Art) but similar belief in the need to work through layers of trauma and stress (in my case from scar tissue of multiple surgeries and lack of use from severe fatigue of having Crohn's disease) and re-train the body. Very nuanced audience, I can imagine, but good find (at Community Thrift - he was a local practitioner back in the 70s/80s).