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Massage Therapy:The Long View


Integrative education cannot shy away from questions of meaning, purpose and values. One method of addressing these is through the wide range of contemplative methods of learning.

– Parker Palmer and Arthur ZajoncThe Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal


Moshé Feldenkrais, D.Sc. (1904-1984)Functional IntegrationAwareness through Movement


Movement is life. Life is a process.

Improve the quality of the process and you

improve the quality of life itself.


Ida P. Rolf, PhD (1896-1979)Structural Integration


The body process is not linear, it is circular; always, it is circular. One thing goes awry, and its effects go on and on

and on and on. A body is a web, connecting everything with everything

else.


Randolph Stone, DC, ND (1890-1981)Polarity Therapy


True health is the harmony of life within us, consisting of peace of mind, happiness and well-being. It is not merely a question of physical fitness, but is rather a result of the soul finding free expression through the mind and body of the individual.


F. Matthias Alexander (1869-1955)

The Alexander Technique


You translate everything – whether physical, mental, or spiritual, into muscular tension.


Charlotte Selver (1901-2003)Sensory Awareness

We have the ability within ourselves – if we become more awake – to feel more clearly what our own nature has to tell us.


Thomas Hanna, PhD (1928-1990)Somatics

The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.


Ron Kurtz (1934-2011)Hakomi Therapy


When you’re working with people, you want to know the truth about them. The clearest expression of that truth is in a person’s behavior.

The person’s stories may not be all that accurate, but spontaneous behavior – reactions, habits and impulses – are true expressions of a person’s experiential self.


Milton Trager, MD (1908-1997)Trager Psychophysical

Integration


There is a way of being which is lighter... which is freer. A way in which work as well as play becomes a dance and living a song.

We can learn this way.


The healing systems of ancient and indigenous cultures are based in a whole-person approach – working with body, mind, emotions and spirit as a connected entity.


As teachers, our job is to help students discover their innate capacities – waking up that massage therapist who already lives inside.


You can't give what you don't have; the responsibility of massage education is to bring a student to the fullest sense of themselves so that they may share that with others.


The highest potential fortouch therapies is the evolution of consciousness on the planet.


Education can give a sense of all that is possible and stimulate the thirst for more.


“To this end, we cannot neglect the cultivation of the fundamental human capacities for compassion and altruistic action. These too need to be part of an integrative education” ...


“In this way we achieve a meaningful integration of the breadth of learning, with a serious and intimate exploration of our highest aspirations, never forgetting the suffering around us that calls for deepening our human relationships and good work within our diverse communities.”

– Parker Palmer and Arthur ZajoncThe Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal

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