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The Feldenkrais Method

by Barbara Barnes

Feldenkrais invites you to learn how to move in a new way. It is a movement based solution to movement based problems. If you imagine a friend of yours walking down the street, and...

The Human Spirit Level

by Joel Carbonnel

When it comes to our senses, we usually only speak of five of them: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. But in fact we have many more. For example, embedded in our muscles, ten...

The Iliopsoas

by Joel Carbonnel

Expert Regular Columnist and Alexander and Meziere practitioner Joël Carbonnel tells us that the 'p' right in the middle of this strange looking word is a silent letter, so one pron...

The Importance of Correct Breast Support

by Lynn Young

That 'most women wear the wrong size bra' has almost become a cliché. Women today should be very aware that wearing the wrong bra size can cause all sorts of medical problems, not ...

The Importance of Good Posture in Bodywork Part I

by Mario-Paul Cassar

As part of his series on massage and bodywork, the author advices on the correct posture and handwork of practitioners in this article. Postural awareness is a combination of body ...

The Importance of Good Posture in Bodywork Part II

by Mario-Paul Cassar

Mari-Paul Cassar looks at the use of hands, thumbs and forearms in this 2nd part of his Bodywork piece aimed at practitioners. The palm and fingers are the fundamental tools for th...

The Importance of Good Posture in Bodywork Part III

by Mario-Paul Cassar

In this the final of a 3-part series on bodywork, the author focuses on the importance of good posture in massage and bodywork and considers the benefits and indications of carryin...

The Importance of Palpatory Skills

by Mario-Paul Cassar

Mario-Paul Cassar is well established as a practitioner and teacher in Osteopathy, Bodywork, Clinical Massage and Sports Therapy. He has also written several article and books incl...

The Importance of Scar Tissue Release Therapy

by Marjorie Brook

The author points out that the physical and mental effect of scarring are generally overlooked by health professionals. She describes the structure and functioning of scars and adh...

The Little Toe and Beyond

by Joel Carbonnel

The fifth pedal digit or, for you and me, the little toe, would not win a beauty contest.

The M Technique Touch for the Critically Ill or Actively Dying

by Jane Buckle

This article focuses on the M Technique, a registered method of gentle touch suitable for anyone wanting to touch someone who wants to be touched. It is a series of stroking move...

The Memory Palace of Bones – Exploring Embodiment through the Skeletal System

by David Lauterstein

I am excited to announce a forthcoming book authored by myself and Dr Jeff Rockwell. Its title is The Memory Palace of Bones with the subtitle exploring embodiment through the skele...

The Metamorphic Technique for Personal Transformation

by Julia Bradshaw

Have you ever wondered how your time spent in the womb and your experience of birth can affect you throughout life? If you believe that we have a consciousness from the very moment...

The Mezieres Method - a revolution in manual therapy

by Joel Carbonnel

Francoise Mezieres (1909 - 1991) career as a physiotherapist and a teacher of anatomy/physiology changed radically following an empirical discovery. With this discovery she found th...

The Mini-Trampoline

by Michele Wilburn

Mini-trampolines, also referred to as Rebound units and bouncers, are easily accommodated in homes, and widely used in sports centres, gymnasiums, health hydros, hospital physiothe...

The Multiple Applications of Swiss Balls

by Paul Chek

This article looks into the benefits of Swiss ball training and the multi-functional exercises one can perform with it. He says that the use of Swiss balls in most gyms tends to be...

The neglect of the body in psychotherapy

by Allan Rudolf

This month's column continues on a theme discussed in a previous issue – the interactive aspects of Bodywork and Psychology.

The Originality of The Mezieres Method

by Joel Carbonnel

This column touches on the misrepresentation of physical therapies, namely Mézières Method, and development of totally irrelevant systems of exercises (such as Yogalates), in an at...

The Plantar Grade Foot vs. Morton’s Foot, Rothbarts Foot and the PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity

by Brian A Rothbart PhD

The foot structure you were born with greatly determines your overall health. For example; a plantar grade foot (what you would think of as being a ‘normal’ foot) is linked to havin...

The Poetics of Touch

by David Lauterstein

A philosopher/poet much admired by Ida Rolf, the great innovator in modern bodymind therapy, was Gaston Bachelard. One day I was reading his “Poetics of Reverie” and was struck, l...