Noah Karrasch - Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release

For many people, especially physicians and health care providers, discussions about chakras and Chinese healing concepts are so far out of our frame of reference, and so far out of our knowledge and experience, that it is something that we avoid. In this book, Noah brings together in a physical way relating or connecting the chakras and traditional Chinese medicine with physical human anatomy. Now, I can picture the concepts, and begin a process of integrating traditional Western and Eastern forms of healing. He also brings a challenge to each healer, regardless of our title, to go deeper into the core structure and function of the personcombining the dimensions of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual self. It is a good read, but also an enlightening and refreshing view of the integrated whole person.

Ralph Harvey, MD, Cornerstone Family Practice, PLC, Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, USA

I first came to know of Noah through a mutual friend who recommended I meet this American therapist who had a different approach to soft tissue work. Over the years he has shared those views with many of my students who have all come away from his classes both enriched and inspired. I have witnessed his generosity of spirit, his compassion for those he serves, and it is reflected in this gem of a book. He has brought together a philosophy that in essence has been around for a long time, but not connected in a way in which Noah has been able to demonstrate. Follow his journey, make it yours, it will bring a new dimension to your treatments as well as yourself.

Susan Findlay, BSc RGN, Dip SMRT, MSMA MLCSP, MCNHC, Director of North London School of Sports Massage, UK

Hugely informative, easily accessible to bodyworker, student and receiver alike. Everyone will come away with something useful.

Bev Breeze, Shiatsu Practitioner and instructor, London, UK

My coffee sat cold on the counter as I paged through. Its exciting to see a book written about putting the spirit back in bodywork both for the client and the therapist. YES. I love the way you have blended your CORE Fascial Release Bodywork with the chakra system as you think about the areas being worked on. Attention and Intention of both client and therapist working together. Perfect.

Brenda Messling, Massage Therapy instructor and teacher of Creative Healing, Arkansas, USA

As a Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher, Noahs CORE Fascial Release technique and its representation in this book have quite simply changed the way I work. It has helped to make complex cases simple, creating new parallels with the manual work used in Physiotherapy and the exercises prescribed in Pilates. Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release will aid any movement therapist to bridge the gaps in their ability to deliver consistently successful therapy.

Robert White, Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher, and Director of Body2Fit, Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release is a compendium of classical structural bodywork principles, concepts from Oriental medicine, and psychological common sense. Noah Karrasch challenges healers of all disciplines to explore their own body-mind connections and disconnections in order to become more fully present with their clients. We are blessed to be beneficiaries of his 25 years of dedication to holistic healing.

Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World

Noah Karrasch

Foreword by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD

Illustrated by Julie Zaslow and Amy Rizzo

London and Philadelphia