383 Touching the Invisible • Chris McAlister
Bodywork There’s something about the act of touch that goes beyond the physical, isn’t there? It’s like we’re not just meeting someone at their skin but somehow dipping into the unseen—into emotions, memories, and layers that words can’t quite reach. What happens when we...
373 Softening Our Gaze: Shiatsu and the Inner Landscape • Joyce Vlaarkamp
Bodywork How we engage the mind can have an effect on our wellbeing in profound ways. What is even more interesting is how the mind and body interact. We are all familiar how the emotions can be the source of internally generated illness, and we are all familiar with how...
267 Language and Language-less Practices of Touch and Healing • Nick Pole
Bodywork When I think about connecting with others, two of the most powerful ways are with non-verbal touch, and the other with the use of attentive language. It would not be a stretch to suggest that this is the yin and yang connection. One that engages the body and the other...
264 Field Dynamics and Touch • Beth Hazzard
Bodywork Like quantum physics, our medicine is built on a sense of connection and potential. It inhabits the reality of a unified field where the boundaries of mind and matter, time and space, rest and motion, or sickness and health blur. Humans are part of a universal...