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From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Feldenkrais, etc.
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 17:27:47 EST
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>>
>> Oh, PLEASE don't try rolfing!  Not if your back already hurts badly.
>> Rolfing is a very violent rearrangement of muscles, and if you have
>> something wrong with your back (disk out of place, or some such),
>> rolfing may make it worse.  
>> 
>	Rolfing is painful.  Try Alexander or Feldenkrais.  Both
>are gentle but extremely powerful methods of bodywork.  The work
>is on the muscles and not the spine itself.  The theory is the
>the spine is flexible and that the way a person carries themselves
>is responsible for pain.  

The discussion of Alexander or Feldenkrais has aroused my interest.
Would somebody please tell me how I might find (competent) practitioners
of these methods? 



Seth

"We used to play for silver, now we play for life..."