Meet Your Body: Core Bodywork and Rolfing Tools to Release BodyMindCore Trauma
This book began as a textbook for students, to present the ideas I've been teaching for the past fifteen years, and to make the concepts more presentable to their clients also. During a CORE I class, my students unanimously told me a book for clients was more important than another textbook. I rewrote the first book in language more suited to a client who doesn't have a great deal of background in anatomy, physiology or movement.
The result is a book of ten chapters which features a different hinge or hinges in each of the chapters. We begin with the big toe hinge, work up through the ankle, knee, hip, low back, stomach back, heart hinge, arm hinge, shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers, and complete the trip through the body with the head hinge. Each chapter not only describes the particular hinge and its function; it also invites you to realize how you might use that hinge more fully to enhance performance throughout your entire body. With many illustrations and photos included to help you understand the text, I believe you'll find this book easy to use as you begin to unwind your core, find better balance, and meet your body. — Noah
Meet Your Body was released in February 2009. It is now available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers and directly from this web page. Meet Your Body is also available in local bookstores and massage magazines. The cost is $17.95, plus Missouri sales tax, and shipping.
(Noah) Steven J. Karrasch, founder of the CORE Care Group in Springfield, MO, was born in St. Joseph, MO in 1950 and grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated from Savannah, MO Public Schools and the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1972 with a BS in Education, vocal music emphasis.
