Suggested Reading, Resources, & Website Links

Discovering the Body's Wisdom:
A comprehensive guide to more than fifty mind-body
practices that can relieve pain, reduce stress, and foster health, spiritual
growth, and inner peace.

Mirka Knaster. New York: Bantam Books, 1996. 407 pages, paper bound. $15.95
(Canada $21.95).

This book includes a chapter on Being In Movement® mindbody training.
The book is an excellent introduction to the ideas and methods underlying
somatic work, and it includes an encyclopedic listing of all the common forms
of somatic work.

MALE SURVIVOR:
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON MALE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION

Website: www.malesurvivor.org

EMBODY PEACE:

Connecting organizations and individuals who engage in peacemaking through the body. Martha Eddy’s blog.

Blog: http://embodypeace.wordpress.com/

INTEGRATION JOURNAL:

A journal of bodymind exercise. Martial arts, alternative health, somatics, bodywork, Non-Violent Communication, meditation, dance and a personal touch. Mark Walsh's blog.

Blog: http://integrationtraining.blogspot.com

JOURNEY TO CENTER:

Stories, articles, research and quotes to support you in your journey to center. Judy Warner's blog.

Blog: http://www.journeytocenter.net

SIMPLY LIVING:

Becoming the change we seek for the world, Simply Living is an organization based in Central Ohio, USA, whose members and friends share a desire to live more lightly and joyfully by learning and practicing environmental awareness, sustainability, and voluntary simplicity

http://www.simplyliving.org/sl/index.htm

COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION OF CENTRAL OHIO

Compassionate Communication, based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication, is a method of using language compassionately, to create deep connection with both yourself and others, as a means of achieving win/win solutions to conflicts.

Website: www.nvcohio.org

BERTRAM WOHAK:

A German Aikido instructor and bodyworker, his approach is similar to mine.

Website: www.bodyways.de

"RESOLVING THE BODY SCHEMA OF ANXIETY"

by Bertram Wohak.

The body schema of anxiety is a chronic contraction of muscles and breathing.
It is a defensive reflex which has become a permanent neuromuscular pattern.
This article describes how training with a Japanese wooden practice sword
can be used to empower and rehabilitate trauma victims by resolving this body
schema of anxiety.

To download this article, click here.

ROBERT SCHLEIP, M.A.

Certified both as a Feldenkrais practitioner and a Rolfer, his website has
interesting material about somatic work and links to many other somatics sites.

Website: www.somatics.de

HELMUT MILZ, MD

A physician and psychotherapist, his website has interesting material about
somatic work and links to many other somatics sites.

Website: www.helmutmilz.de

CHARLIE BADENHOP

An Aikido instructor and NLP practitioner, his website has interesting material
and links to other sites.

Website: www.seishindo.org