Body Reveals How to Read Your Own Body Author:Ron Kurtz, Hector Prestera, M.D. More than "body language" or conversational signs and signals, the structure of your body is a graphic expression of your physical, emotional, and mental state. It reveals past trauma and present personality, feelings expressed and feeling unexpressed. Now two noted therapists have written the first completely illustrated p... more »rimer on reading your own body structure, posture, and physique -- and that of others. The opening chapters of The Body Reveals discuss just what this can tell you about a person's character and way of being in the world.
The authors then take up each section of the body, giving detailed information on the relationship between body parts and corresponding emotions and attributes. They offer an extremely helpful look at the new body therapies—rolfing, patterning, bioenergetics, the Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques. This is followed by an examination in words and pictures of the bodies of five individuals and the stories their bodies tell.
A special chapter, complete with instructions and illustrations, enables you to discover what your own body reveals about you. The Body Reveals is your indispensable guide to self awareness —and may serve as your first introduction to someone you've never really met before.
Ron Kurtz is a nationally acclaimed psychotherapist whose work is profoundly affecting both traditional and nontraditional modes of experimental therapy. At one time the resident body-mind therapist at Esalen Institute, he has since entered private practice, lecturing and leading workshops across the United States and abroad, and is founder and director of the Hakomi Institute in Boulder, Colorado, for teaching Hakomi Therapy, which he developed. Hector Prestera, M.D., internist and cardiologist, is also a trained acupuncturist and rolfer. A group leader/therapist at Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California, he has a private practice in Monterey, and presents seminars in "Reprinting," a self-programming system he developed.« less