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Milton Gendel. Graffiti a Roma fine anni 70

#bessel van der kolk #quotes #trauma #my favorites #Structural Integration Atlanta #Body Alive

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Just finished teaching a shoulder and pelvis class locally, and at the end the students found out I would not be teaching them anymore through their entry level journey.

What was fun was realizing how much I use cranial as assessment…occasionally treatment. In this case found, an abdominal scar that when treated released the reactive parietal bone.

The entire body communicates through reflexes and nerves and fascia, and all that information is stored in the hub of your cranium.

A shift in pressure, fluids, proprioception all goes back and forth between body and brain.

You can learn to listen to these things and have a conversation with body, mostly -learn to listen.

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[@ahsya.dp]

#Adaptable Polarity #polarity #cranial therapy #assessment #bodywork #Structural Integration Atlanta #technique #Body Alive

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NeuroMuscular Reprogramming

Associated secondary tensions may cause the same inhibitions: Check Longissimus Capitis, Rectus Capitis Major, Rectus Capitis Lateralis to the opposite cervical rotators and the ipsilateral muscles of the shoulders and hips and ankle.

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To summarize: Cervical Rotation inhibits ipsilateral lateral line and contralateral hip flexors. Add other muscles as you wish and let us know what you find.

#NMR #Jocelyn Oliviier #Patterns of Inhibition #sub-occipital cervical torque #manual muscle testing

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“The road to wisdom? — Well, it’s plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. Put up in a place where it’s easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it’s well to remember that Things Take Time.” — Piet Hein, German physicist and poet, inventor of the Astro Calendar, the poetry genre known as “grook” and the super-ellipsoid known as “superegg”, and direct descendant of the 16th-century pirate Piet Hein. [exhaled-spirals]

#exhaled-spirals #Piet hein #Things Take Taime #Body Alive #NMR #Jocelyn Olivier

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Buddhist Humor

#humor #Buddhist Humor #Body Alive #cartoons

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Stroboscopic photographs of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1969. Photographed by Gjon Mili.

#NYC Ballet #Jewels #Gjon Mili #Diego Marchi #quotes #Body Alive

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(Transcendental - The Alchemist/Gwyllm Llwydd)

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“Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the third is an adequate explanation of the properties of all the four elements—that is to say, of the whole cosmos—and an introduction into the art of their transformations; and finally, the fourth shows the physician those virtues which must stay with him up until his death, and it should support and complete the three other pillars.” ― Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Selected Writings

#Paraclsus #healing #medicine #philosophy #alchemy #quotes #Gwyllm Llwydd

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Luis González Palma and Graciela De Oliveira from the series " The Cultural Annunciation ", Study of the Annunciation by Rubens, 2007

#Herman Hesse #quotes #Siddhartha #Body Alive

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Nathan Pyle

#Body Alive #Nathan Pyle #feeling #memory #cartoons

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Ricardo Rocio

#Gil Hedley #Integral Anatomy #Ricardo Rocio #quotes #emotion #feeling #limbic #Body Alive #metaphor

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#Body Alive #Dermoneuromodulating #cutaneous nerves #nervous system

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#Clarissa Pinkola Estes #quotes #calming actions #Body Alive #health #mental health

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#healing #love #Body Alive

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“When, its [the soul’s] divine power, it completely possesses the body, it converts that into a luminous moving cloud and thus can manifest itself in the whole of its divinity. This is the explanation of the miracle of St. Francis walking on the sea. His body no longer weighed like ours, so light had it become through the soul.”

–Isadora Duncan

#dance #dancers #Isadora Duncan #quotes

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Warren B. Davis :: “ Glory of the Dance “

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“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”

― Shah Asad Rizvi

#dance #dancers #Warren b. Davis #Glory of the Dance #shah Asad rizvi #quotes

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“On every metaphor you ride to every truth”

Massage and bodywork beautifully interweave art and science. We use anatomical, physiological, psychological knowledge, and logic in our work. We also use inspiration, the right-brain, and deep insights from the unconscious.

Our actual sessions are improvisations, variations on the theme of who this person is and who they could be. With inspiration and logic we help ameliorate disease and injury, build on their dispositional strengths and help them overcome dispositional challenges. We hope, with our haptic suggestions, that the person may become as healthy as they can be, even more empowered to fulfill their destiny.

This most profound medium, for our living art and science, is the human being.

Here’s a wonderful passage from Friedrich Nietzsche that adds information regarding that experience of inspiration (that often gives rise to both scientific and artistic discoveries).

“Has anyone at the end of the nineteenth century a clear idea of what poets of strong ages have called inspiration? If not, I will describe it. - If one had the slightest residue of superstition left in one’s system, one could hardly reject altogether the idea that one is merely incarnation, merely mouthpiece, merely a medium of overpowering forces. The concept of revelation - in the sense that suddenly, with indescribable certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible, audible, something that shakes one to the last depths and throws one down - that merely describes the facts. One hears, one does not seek; one accepts, one does not ask who gives; like lightning, a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation regarding its form - I never had a choice.

A rapture whose tremendous tension occasionally discharges itself in a flood of tears - now the pace quickens involuntarily, now it becomes slow; one is altogether beside oneself, with the distinct consciousness of subtle shudders and of one’s skin creeping down to one’s toes; depth of happiness in which even what is most painful and gloomy does not seem something opposite but rather conditioned, provoked, a necessary color in such a superabundance of light; an instinct for rhythmic relationships that arches over wide spaces of forms - length, the need for a rhythm with wide arches, is almost the measure of the force of inspiration, a kind of compensation for its pressure and tension.

Everything happens involuntarily in the highest degree but a in a gale of feeling of freedom, of absoluteness, of power, of divinity. - The involuntariness of image and metaphor is strangest of all; one no longer has any notion of what is an image or a metaphor; everything offers itself as the nearest, most obvious, simplest expression. It actually seems, to allude to something Zarathustra says, as if the things themselves approached and offered themselves as metaphors ("Here all things come caressingly to your discourse and flatter you; for they want to ride on your back. On every metaphor you ride to every truth - Here the words and wordshrines of all being open up before you; here all being wishes to become word, all becoming wishes to learn from you how to speak”).

This is my experience of inspiration; I do not doubt that one has to go back thousands of years in order to find anyone who could say to me, “it is mine as well.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (“Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” section 3)

[Thanks David Lauterstein and “Deep Massage Book”]

#deep massage book #massage and bodywork #Body Alive #Structural integration Atlanta #quotes #Friedrich Nietzsche #Ecce Homo

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Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness

#stress response #Susan Nathiel #Daughters of Madness #quotes #cortisol