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Foreword |
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Introduction: Insights from the Ancients |
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PART I Somatic Intelligence Is Your Birthright |
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Chapter 1 Dawn Begins in the Bones |
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3 | (14) |
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My Healing Journey: From Crippling Pain to Ever-Greater Freedom and Aliveness |
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6 | (1) |
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The Healing Power of Presencing |
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Chapter 2 Fundamental Principles of Somatic Learning: The Science and Practice of Awakening Somatic Intelligence |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (3) |
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The Primacy of Perception and Beliefs: A New Biology |
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28 | (3) |
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Presencing---Embodying the Infinite |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (1) |
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Proprioceptive Illumination |
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35 | (6) |
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Chapter 3 Engaging the Natural Wisdom of Embodied Mindfulness |
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41 | (22) |
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Cycles of Learning and Habituation |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (1) |
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A New Perspective on Healing, a New Way of Living |
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46 | (6) |
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52 | (3) |
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55 | (2) |
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Transforming Your Relationship to Gravity and Aging |
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57 | (1) |
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Partnering with Gravity Will Lead You to a New Reality |
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58 | (5) |
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63 | (20) |
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65 | (8) |
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73 | (10) |
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Chapter 5 The Invitation: Birth Yourself Slowly |
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The Practice as Chrysalis |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Discipline as a Way of Loving |
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86 | (2) |
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Finding and Losing Yourself |
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88 | (1) |
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Developing an Ecology of Affect |
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89 | (2) |
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91 | (2) |
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How to Assess Your Practice |
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93 | (6) |
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Research on Wounding and Healing |
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99 | (4) |
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Engaging Somatic Intelligence in Non-local Healing |
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103 | (2) |
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105 | (4) |
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PART II Reorganizing Your Structure, Reorganizing Your Life |
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109 | (94) |
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Chapter 6 Gravity-Surfing on the Waves of Your Breath |
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111 | (22) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (3) |
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116 | (1) |
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The Myth of "Taking a Deep Breath" |
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117 | (1) |
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Activating the Peritoneum to Float the Organs and Skeleton |
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118 | (3) |
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121 | (1) |
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Differentiating the Diaphragms |
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122 | (2) |
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Gravity-Surfing and the Practice of Spinal Elongation |
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124 | (3) |
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125 | (1) |
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Anchoring the Base of the Skull and the Feet |
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126 | (1) |
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The Exhalation: Floating the Bones |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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Variation: Snake Breathing |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (5) |
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Chapter 7 Bedtime Practices |
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133 | (32) |
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Reallocating Internal Resources---Realigning Your Energy |
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135 | (1) |
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Evening/Bedtime Practices: 5---20 Minutes |
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136 | (14) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (8) |
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Shape-Shifting Practice with a Ball |
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145 | (4) |
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Sequence One: Upper Torso, Arm, and Head |
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149 | (1) |
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Sequence Two: Pelvis and Leg |
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149 | (1) |
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Sequence Three: Rib Cage, Shoulder, and Hip |
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150 | (1) |
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Sequence Four: Opening the Heart and Pelvis |
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151 | (3) |
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Morning Practice before You Rise |
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154 | (4) |
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Dreamtime Somatic Meditation |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (7) |
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Chapter 8 Morning Practices |
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Set-Up for Morning Practice |
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166 | (1) |
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The Morning Practices, 20-40 Minutes |
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166 | (28) |
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166 | (1) |
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Pelvic Position with Block |
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167 | (6) |
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Further Differentiations: Deepening Your Breathing |
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173 | (1) |
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Cultivating Sexual Energy for Self-Renewal |
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174 | (1) |
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Sensing the Omnidirectional Flow of Energy |
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175 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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Sitting Forward Bend (Uttanasana) |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (1) |
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Feeling the Wave: Introduction to the Scorpion Tail |
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180 | (3) |
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183 | (2) |
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Sensing the Pelvic Organs |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (8) |
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194 | (9) |
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PART III The Art and Practice of Somatic Learning: Anytime Anywhere Practices |
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Chapter 9 Anytime Anywhere Practices: Standing |
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205 | (32) |
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Transforming Your Relationship to Gravity |
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208 | (29) |
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Gravity-Reference Scan (Standing) |
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210 | (2) |
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Finding Neutral (Standing Position) |
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212 | (1) |
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Standard Weight-Shifting Reference |
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212 | (1) |
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Somatic Learning Weight-Shifting |
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213 | (4) |
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Calling through the Horizon from Standing Position |
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217 | (1) |
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Restoring Natural Breathing (Standing) |
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218 | (2) |
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Quick Spinal Release (Standing) |
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220 | (5) |
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225 | (2) |
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Spinal Elongation (Standing, without Knee Bend) |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (9) |
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Chapter 10 Anytime Anywhere Practices: Walking |
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237 | (16) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (4) |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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247 | (6) |
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Chapter 11 Anytime Anywhere Practices: Sitting |
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253 | (32) |
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254 | (4) |
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Finding Neutral (Sitting) |
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258 | (3) |
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Calling Through the Horizon (from Sitting Position) |
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261 | (2) |
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Spinal Elongation (Sitting) |
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263 | (2) |
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265 | (4) |
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Quick Spinal Release (Sitting) |
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269 | (5) |
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Awareness of Awareness Meditation |
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274 | (1) |
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Integrating Your Practice into Daily Life |
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275 | (10) |
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275 | (2) |
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277 | (1) |
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Computing and Playing a Keyboard |
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278 | (2) |
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280 | (5) |
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Chapter 12 Changing Planes/Changing Paradigms |
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285 | (18) |
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Spiral from Lying to Sitting |
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286 | (1) |
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Spiral from Sitting to Lying |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (3) |
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Half Spiral and Pour Up to Standing |
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291 | (2) |
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Pouring to the Ground from Standing |
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293 | (1) |
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Spiraling from Standing to Ground |
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294 | (1) |
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Sitting in a Chair from Standing |
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295 | (1) |
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Standing from Sitting in a Chair |
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296 | (7) |
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PART IV Deepening Your Practice |
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303 | (30) |
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Chapter 13 Deepening the Dialogue |
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305 | (28) |
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Self-Facilitation through touch |
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305 | (3) |
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Integrating Other Modes of Perception |
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308 | (7) |
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Self-Facilitation from Lying Supine |
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309 | (2) |
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Self-Facilitation Using the Pelvic Position with Block (or Blanket) Elongation |
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311 | (4) |
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Flushing the Lymph and Breast Tissue |
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315 | (8) |
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316 | (1) |
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Embracing Your Lower Abdomen |
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317 | (6) |
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Facilitated Elongations: Quick Outline |
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323 | (2) |
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325 | (6) |
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Partner Facilitation from Upright Positions (Sitting and Standing) |
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326 | (3) |
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Healing from Trauma and Integrating Feelings through the Embrace |
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329 | (2) |
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331 | (2) |
Glossary |
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333 | (6) |
Notes |
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339 | (12) |
Acknowledgments II |
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351 | (4) |
Permissions |
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355 | (2) |
Index |
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357 | (10) |
About the Author |
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