Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork - Softcover

Juhan, Deane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581770812 ISBN 13: 9781581770810

Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill, 2000

Synopsis

The author of the indispensable bodywork classic JOB'S BODY offers a fresh look at the physically, emotionally and socially transformative powers of touch. Backed up by extensive research as well as long hands-on bodywork experience, this collection of fourteen essays (many originally written for Massage Magazine) takes on not only difficult and critical issues facing therapeutic touch, but also its potential to create positive change in all our lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Deane Juhan was born in 1945 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and the University of California at Berkeley (three and a half years as a doctoral candidate in English literature specializing in William Blake). In 1973 an experience with bodywork at Esalen Institute in Big Sur led to a sudden change in career. Joining the staff at Esalen as bodyworker and instructor (where he remained until 1990), he saw dramatic improvements in a wide variety of conditions as a result of hands-on work and movement reeducation. This quickened his interest in clinical research, and years of study of the physiology of touch and its concrete effects on development, adaption, skill learning, and healing eventually produced Job's Body: A Handbook of Bodywork, as well as the essays in his latest book, Touched by the Goddess: the Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork. He is currently a practitioner of the Trager

Synopsis:

A lively collection of essays by the celebrated author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork. Juhan illustrates how therapeutic bodywork relates to many psychological, social, political and spiritual issues. Written for an audience of alternative health care workers, it will also be valuable to anyone interested in the positive powers of human touch and contact.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1581770812
• ISBN 13: 9781581770810
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156