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Bodywork as Meditation Part 4 of 4

by on March 12, 2009 in Bodywork as Meditation, Rolfing® Structural Integration, Tribute for Ray Bishop

Final installment of the article by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. Another dimension of this subtle and global sensing is a phenomenon called entrainment.¹?  Entrainment is the tendency of objects in close proximity to become interlocked and move in synchronicity. One reason that this occurs is that “nature seeks the most efficient energy [...]

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Bodywork as Meditation Part 3 of 4

by on March 8, 2009 in Bodywork as Meditation, Rolfing® Structural Integration, Tribute for Ray Bishop

Continuation of the article by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. The ideas of Tolle have a strong resonance with a much earlier esoteric philosopher, George Ivanovich Gurdjieff who integrated Eastern tenets with his uniquely confrontational approach to enlightenment. In his hagiographic study of Gurdjieff and his philosphy, John Shirley frequently affirms this mystic’s [...]

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Bodywork as Meditation Part 2 of 4

by on March 1, 2009 in Bodywork as Meditation, Rolfing® Structural Integration, Tribute for Ray Bishop

Continuation of the article written by my friend Raymond Bishop, Certified Advanced Rolfer. If we focus too much on muscular structures, we miss the larger fascial planes that morph and alter the dynamic relationships between these structures. Conversely, swimming in the fascia without a constant eye to the mutating coastline, the rocky shoals and obdurate [...]

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