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FOUNDATIONS OF SOMATIC PRACTICE minds with healthy bodies, and—the subject of early explorations by the fitness industry at the moment—how do we maintain optimal health with this animal body in the increasingly man-made world in which we live? Putting even what we know now into cultural practice will require many years, many experiments (some of them good ideas with flaws; some of them useful failures, no doubt) before we arrive at a good educational program for teachers and therapists that will result in good physical preparation for our kids and our clients for real life—living successfully in a body in a man-made world. ACCELERATE INFORMATION What would it be like to have a real somatic education program for most everyone in grade and high school? A real training in kinesthetic literacy would allow the recipient: • To use the body well in everyday sitting, standing, and other activities, thus extending our ability to find a naturally noble posture, and resist the progressive and degenerative processes of compression and misuse. • To respond in a somato-emotionally responsible way to insult, trauma, and assaults on self-image such that chronic tension from unexpressed emotion does not plague us as it does now and we understand these processes in those around us. • To improve performance in physical activities without wrecking the body in the process—as Juvenal said more than a thousand years ago—mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body). • Access to the deeper wells of intuitive sense within the body's more unconscious level of response, such as a gut feeling or an inspiration. The question before the house is: could a synthesis of personal training and bodywork produce a new kind of practitioner capable of training a new generation of kids to be conversant with their body's messages (i.e., to be kinesthetically literate)? I believe the answer is a firm yes (although the curriculum is still in development), and I believe it should make its AROMATHERAPY for MASSAGE PRACTITIONERS Ingrid Martin This is the perfect book for massage therapists with an interest in adding aromatherapy to their practice. It addresses specific needs and concerns, and provides useful answers to the questions about aromatherapy. Information about practical issues, such as pricing sessions, proper dilutions, sending products home with clients, and effective formulations for specific ailments, makes this an indispensable resource. 2007/336 pp./140 illus./978-0-7817-5345-6 SPA BODYWORK: A Guide for Massage Therapists Anne Williams This book will guide you through each step of delivering a spa treatment — from a considera- tion of the indications and contraindications to scope of practice issues, the supplies needed, how to set up the room and practical tips on the specific steps involved. It also provides ideas for massage therapists on integrating massage techniques, spa products and enhancing accents, so you can create and deliver unique services. 2007/368pp./330 illus./978-0-7817-5578-8 IT'S EASY TO ORDER: CALL: 1-800-638-3030 (Outside the US and Canada, dial 1-301-223-2300) • ONLINE: LWW.com Or, purchase directly from your local health science bookstore. Mention code A8H399ZZ when ordering. BLS 5/08 A8H399ZZ 64 massage & bodywork september/october 2008