Holderness, New Hampshire USA
RESOURCES
(JACarleton@aol.com)
McHose, C. & Frank, K. (2006). How Life Moves: Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness. Berkeley: North Atlantic. This book is so extraordinary that it eludes mere description. Its multi-disciplinary approach (referred to by the author of the Foreword as “erudite”) weaves together what they have gleaned from their many teachers (acknowledged and described in a special appendix were names many of us will recognize such as Rolf, Alexander, Feldenkrais, Conrad, Levine, Harper, Bainbridge Cohen) in their very personal creative synthesis. Gliding effortlessly from the cellular level through the unique individual to the movement in and of groups, their explanations and illustrations provide enormous amounts of material for the teacher or therapist. Illustrations of Indonesian textiles, photos of people and animals, skeletal sections, ancient vessels, ancient and modern drawings and wonderful figures in leotards are juxtaposed to illuminate the concepts they present. And interspersed, are brief sections addressed to teachers and body therapists on ways to make clinical use of the material.
From the Fall 2006 Newsletter of the United States Association for Body
Psychotherapy.
To view the entire issue,
click here.
Caryn McHose has taught perceptual movement for over 35 years and created the experiential anatomy curriculum at Middlebury College which became the basis for Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, by Andrea Olsen with collaboration by Caryn McHose. She has a private practice and teaches internationally.
Kevin Frank is
a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Movement Teacher. His work focuses on
articulating and integrating Godard's tonic function point of view in his
practice and his teaching. He is the author of numerous articles on tonic
function, and teaches CE workshops associated with the Rolf Institute and
IASI.
Caryn and Kevin are the co-authors of How Life Moves, Explorations in
Meaning and Body Awareness published by North Atlantic Books. They are
the co-founders of Resources in Movement,
a center for movement and consciousness inquiry in Holderness, NH.