Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological, & Spiritual Powers of Bodywork
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Author of the indispensable bodywork classic Job's Body, Deane Juhan offers here a fresh look at the transformative powers of touch. Backed up by extensive research as well as long hands-on experience as a bodyworker, this collection of fourteen essays examines our society's complex relationship to touch. In his first book in 15 years, Juhan collects here and updates the pieces written regularly for Massage Magazine. Touched by the Goddess takes on the difficult and critical issues facing therapeutic touch, such as our fear of pleasurable contact despite the role of "touch as food" and the proven necessity of touch to human survival. Our deeply conflicted society has to ask itself hard questions, such as: what happens to children when no distinction is made between friendly and harmful touching? The sheer power of human touch invites inquiry into the electrochemical responses evoked by contact and manipulation. Could it be that learning to touch each other in healing, positive ways is indispensable to productive change in society as a whole? On the sociological as well as the biological level this book is not just a handbook for bodyworkers but a primer for conscious living. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1581770812
ISBN13:9781581770810
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:Station Hill Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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