Deep Bodywork and Personal Development: Harmonizing our Bodies, Emotions, and Thoughts

210 Pages·1986·6.561 MB·English

by  Jack W. Painter

JACK W. PAINTER
Deep Bodywork
and
Personal Development
Harmonizing our
Bodies, Emotions, and Thoughts
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% MODELS I'M FAMILIAR WITH.”
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“A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO
WESTERN PSYCHOLOGY.”
Robert Hall, M.D.; The Lomi
School.
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DEEP BODYWORK AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Harmonizing our Bodies, Emotions, and Thoughts
Jack W. Painter
Also available by Jack Painter: TECHNICAL MANUAL OF
DEEP WHOLISTIC BODYWORK (Bodymind Books, 450
Hillside Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941, Tel. [phone];
write for free brochure).
Other versions of the present volume have been published in
French (Le Jour, Montreal), German (Koesel Verlag, Munich),
Italian (Sugarco, Milano), Danish (Borgen Vorlag,
Copenhagen), and Spanish (Pax-Mexico, Liberia Carlos
Cesarmen, Mexico, D.F.)
Bodymind Books, 450 Hillside Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941
ISBN 0-938405-01-2
Copyright 1987 by Jack Painter. All rights reserved. Printed in
U.S.A. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
manner whatsoever without written permission except in the
case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and
reviews. Shaded drawings in this volume are copyrighted by
Christine Fessler of Zurich. Copyrights to all other illustrations
are held by Jack Painter.
This book is dedicated
to the two loves of my life,
Claire and Isa Lora

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION by Ron Kurtz 20.0... cece cesesesenece renee sne ren eneenaees
PROLOGUE Search for Self Unity ..........ceeccsecesceeneecereeeeneeeseaer
Chapter
I. BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR TRANSFORMATION OF
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Simultaneous Change + Balanced Change « Change As An
Interaction Between Practitioner and Client
Il. INSIDE AND OUTSIDE BODYMIND. ......cc.c c.see.ee.eee.cee. e es
Growth and Protective Armor * Bodymind and Mindbody
Inside and Outside
IH. THE PROCESS AND EXPERIENCE OF RELEASE............
Phase I, Initial Release » Phase II, Elongation + Phase III,
Release of the Pelvis » Phase IV, Release of Head and Neck «
The Experience of Release
IV. BALANCE, BREATH, AND ENERGY ......0........:ccceeeseeeeeee
Balance as Circulating Energy * Breath and Release « Breath
and Balance
V. INTEGRATING AND FINE TUNING BODYMIND ............
Top and Bottom « Front and Back « Right and Left Fine
Tuning ¢ Fine Tuning and The Limits of Change
VI. BETWEEN YOU AND ME, SHARING AND TRANS-
FORMING BODYMIND .........cccecve crscessencesceneseesnseescencsenee s
Reciprocity Through Inner and Outer Contact « Strategies of
Interaction With One Or More Practitioners « Bodymind Types
and the Limits of Change * Expanding Types ¢ Contracting
Types » Unstable Types + Even Types
BIBLIOGRAPHY ..........cccccecsececeucceensceteeeeaseaeeseensaeeeaseseaeseaees
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Photographs by Margaret Boyles. Illustrations by Christine Fessler,
Christopher Gouvea, Karin Lynch and Tim Tollefson.

FOREWORD
Those of us who are giving birth to the new field of
Somatics have a lot to be thankful for in Jack Painter's
work. He has done the incredible labor of producing a
textbook of our field. The beauty of this book is multifaceted.
It is a concise and crystalline description of the method of
deep tissue bodywork. The descriptions of technique read
like a manual. That alone is a major accomplishment.
But Jack Painter has done more than document
method. He has created a natural synthesis of the theory
and philosophy of body- oriented work with descriptions of
the work. In doing this he reveals the nuts and bolts of
how and why the bodywork is practiced by the bodyworker
who is both artist and therapist.
I think this book is a major contribution to Western
Psychology, which is just beginning to realize that Somatic
teachers have been demonstrating for years: in therapy
and education, we must learn from the wisdom of the body.
Jack Painter is a pioneer in the development of bodywork,
and this book is a wonderful map.
Robert K. Hall, M.D.
Lomi School,
Mill Valley, Ca.