Saturday, January 3, 2009

Bindegewebsmassage

She discovered that certain areas on the body surface definitely related to certain viscera....


McKenzie drew attention to changes in the muscle tone and sensitivity in areas sharing the same root supply with pathologically affected organs...

Friction

Althoug massage could consist of only effleurage and petrissage, friction is necessary to reach beneath the more superficial tissues. Storm and Cyriax believe that friction is the most important massage technique and base most of their massage treatment around this stroke.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh9a5_3ATHY

Emotional Anatomy by Stanley Kellerman

Randoms

Gravity exerts 15psi on body

Separateness is an illusion

Incomplete breathing gives rise to feelings of suuffocation, defeat, helplessness and fear

Hormones are liquid anatomy

The Startle Reflex

Responses to Startle Reflex
Investigative -> Assertion -> Annoyance -> Anger/Avoidance -> Submission/Collapse

4 Structures: Rigid -> Dense -> Swollen -> Collapsed

Anatomical structure is the basic archetype of thought and experience

Anatomy is behaviour and behaviour generates experience

Alter Anatomy to alter experience and behaviour and the way you use expressions

Human Beings are processes

As you alter a body shape, you are altering anatomy, you are altering behaviour and you are altering experience and this feedback mechanism between the shape that was and the shape that you have just altered begins to reorganize and begins to form another person. A more differentiated person.

Consume more culture

Housing is a right