Intention and Non-Doing in Therapeutic Bodywork
Published on 21. September 2021
272 pages
978-1-78775-899-5 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring the Buddhist/Taoist concept of non-doing and intention in relation to bodywork, this book focuses on how the therapist should approach their client without agenda and meet them where they are at. This requires the therapist to pay attention to their own surfacing intentions and leave assumptions behind so they may focus on simply 'being', which is a profoundly active, non-reactive expression of presence, rather than a passive state of resignation. The ramifications of sub-conscious doing and wilful intention can negatively impact expressions of health and so the author explains how therapists may skilfully navigate between intention, attention and embodied non-doing whilst treating clients, and how this creates the foundations for safe relational touch.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
52 Figures
File size
2,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78775-899-5 (9781787758995)
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Intention and Non-Doing in Therapeutic Bodywork
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Andy Pike is a registered physiotherapist (physical therapist), yoga therapist, breathwork teacher and biodynamic craniosacral therapist specialising in the treatment and management of clients affected by post traumatic stress. He has worked in various settings including hospitals, yoga schools, neurological care units, military outpatients, university clinics and private practices. Andy currently runs a health clinic in Queensland, Australia and teaches craniosacral and yoga therapy classes, workshops and seminars internationally. He is a senior tutor for Body Intelligence trainings where he tutors both undergraduate and postgraduate courses internationally (www.bodyintelligence.com). He created the postgraduate seminar called "Use of Intention & Non-Doing" for Body Intelligence. Andy also facilitates 1-3 day Cranioga workshop retreats in Australia and New Zealand (www.cranioga.com).
He has a YouTube channel called "Cranioga by Barefoot Physio", and his website is www.cranioga.com
You can listen to him being interviewed on the craniosacral podcast by Ryan Hallford (www.craniosacralpodcast.com)
He has a YouTube channel called "Cranioga by Barefoot Physio", and his website is www.cranioga.com
You can listen to him being interviewed on the craniosacral podcast by Ryan Hallford (www.craniosacralpodcast.com)
Content
- Intro
- Intention and Non-Doing in Therapeutic Bodywork
- Cover
- Of related interest
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Wholistic Awareness
- 1.1 Beyond the dot
- 1.2 The movie
- 2. Feeling Safe
- 2.1 Setting the scene to notice the screen
- 2.2 Familiarity with space and stillness
- 3. Intention
- 3.1 Ramifications of intent
- 3.2 Intention prevents insight
- 3.3 Types of intent
- 3.4 Ground intention, access attention and invitation
- 4. TI/ME Passing
- 4.1 TI/ME
- 4.2 Noticing
- 4.3 Change
- 4.4 Arising and passing
- 4.5 Equanimity
- 4.6 Curiosity
- 4.7 Ice, liquid, steam
- 5. Entering Stillness
- 5.1 No permanent separate self
- 5.2 'No I', or 'I AM'?
- 5.3 Binary simple, complex and non-dual simple
- 5.4 Accessing original nature
- 5.5 Flop, freeze, flight, friend and.freedom
- 5.6 Calm intensity
- 5.7 Beyond the placebo
- 6. Calm In-10-City
- 6.1 The ten characteristics of a 'city' with no gate
- 6.2 Non-doing versus progressive approach
- 7. Access Attention
- 7.1 Access attention
- 7.2 Philtrum
- 7.3 Breath-fast, lung-ch and su-purrr
- 7.4 Sensory balance
- 7.5 Subtle sense awareness
- 7.6 Access to natural fulcrum expression
- 8. Insight Field
- 8.1 It is 'This'
- 8.2 Present in all fields
- 8.3 Felt-sense of another
- 8.4 Revelational realization
- 8.5 Seeing patterns with embodied non-doing
- 8.6 Five factors to help SPEND TI/ME
- 8.7 Elemental insight
- 9. Equanimity and the Grey Zone
- 9.1 The importance of equanimity
- 9.2 Distraction
- 9.3 Tides of tantalization
- 9.4 Good/bad 'energy' trap
- 9.5 Potency awareness versus energy manipulation
- 9.6 Insight, the distinction between calm intensity and dissociation
- 10. Engaged Non-Doing
- 10.1 END principles
- 10.2 Dissolution of TI/ME
- 10.3 The non-doing sage
- 10.4 Insight-primed primal midline
- 10.5 Warrior wu wei versus wimpy wistlessness
- 10.6 Choice, insight and choicelessness
- 10.7 Subatomic and molecular touch
- 10.8 Four chambers of non-doing orientation
- 10.9 Felt-sense connection
- 10.10 This Is,
- 10.11 Socially reactive versus pro-relational
- 10.12 Co-regulation versus co-reliance
- 10.13 Client resourcing
- 11. The Doing Client
- 11.1 Falconer and falcon
- 11.2 Controlling the breath
- 11.3 Moving the body
- 11.4 Subconscious tension
- 11.5 Asking the therapist to 'focus' on specific areas
- 11.6 Asking the therapist for a wide perceptual field
- 11.7 Talking to distract from deepening
- 11.8 Client transference
- 11.9 Projecting the therapist as a guru
- 11.10 Trauma
- 12. Cranioga
- 12.1 Cranioga: process of intentional attention leading to non-doing
- 12.2 Cranioga treatment
- 12.3 Cranioga process in a nutshell
- 13. Loving Presence
- 13.1 Insightful love versus conjured love
- 13.2 Metta (loving appreciation)
- 13.3 Karun.a (compassion)
- 13.4 Mudita (altruistic joy)
- 13.5 Upekkha (equanimity)
- 13.6 Tonglen
- 13.7 Altruism
- Appendix 1: Process of Sensory Conditioning and Insight of TI/ME Passing
- Appendix 2: Foundations for Feeling Safe and the Crescendo of Calm Intensity (Feeling HAPPI)
- Appendix 3: Meditation
- Glossary
- References
- Endnotes
- Index
