Epstein Secrets

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have a friend- ship that goes back several decades. Michael and Peter were also part of a small study group of Rolfers and other body therapists in Berkeley, California, in the early 1980s that focused on the function of the auto- nomic nervous system. The method I used involved observation of the breat

he supraspinatus muscle (along the top of the shoulder blade) to improve the tonus of the levator scapulae. (See "Supraspinatus" in the Appendix.) Benjamin Shield suggested another approach. He observed that with a side-bending of the upper cervical vertebrae, you can open the spaces between Cl and C3 to take

in terms of subtle changes in their autonomic nervous system, as the client regresses to the time of a traumatic event. He wrote Waking the Tiger (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1997). Since then, his teaching has grown into a form called Somatic Experiencing. 41 Stephen Porges developed, patented, an

acral therapy at the Upledger Institute and in biodynamic craniosacral courses with Giorgia Milne, studied applica- tions for treating children with Benjamin Shield, and took courses in osteopathy with Jean-Pierre Barral. For many years he led a school in Denmark, teaching structural integration, myofascial re