by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
Let’s take a moment for reverie. For a minute just imagine that you are receiving an incredible massage. Not just a good massage – an incredible massage, anywhere in or out of this universe, from anyone or anything. Enjoy imagining receiving your most...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
Below I’ve printed a famous passage from the Old Testament book of Ezekiel. It is the one that gave rise to the gospel song, “Dem Bones”, which goes through the body, ending with “neck bone connected to the head bone; Now hear the words of the...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | Anatomy, David Lauterstein
The word “torso” comes from the Latin word “thysus” meaning stalk or stem. The spine within the torso forms a kind of fifth limb within us. The vertebral column runs through the center of the body, up through the neck and becomes the...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
A Talk Presented by David Lauterstein at the first National Conference for Teachers of Massage and Bodywork, July 1993 To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it “the way it really was”. It means to seize hold of a memory as it...
by Bethany | Mar 14, 2012 | David Lauterstein
by David Lauterstein In a “virtual” age, a time greatly affected by the pace of computers and their powerful yet imaginary realities, each individual’s unmet hunger and the social need for the actual becomes more and more urgent. Touch is a medium of...
