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Spacious Body: Explorations in Somatic Ontology by Jeffrey Maitland This book is a phenomenological exploration in somatic ontology, which asked what s the bodily being of human being. Somatic ontology inquires who and what we are. These mysteries are revealed in the bodily transformation. This book is an exploration of the nature of transformation, creativity, freedom, and how we exist as human body-selves. In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience. To write of the nature of being, is difficult. Maitland's patient language leads us deeper into our own experience and towards our own orientation in the world - which is the only place worth going.
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Reviews The Washington Post: "explores the way our culture puts too heavy an emphasis on external power and the will, robbing us of the joys of embodied experience...In this day of stress and compartmentalization, when we tend to reduce life to its constituent parts rather than see it as seamless experience, the questions Maitland poses in his book make for interesting reading." Somatics magazine "Spacious Body is an eloquent attempt to understand and describe something ineffable" the experience of spontaneous freedom. Anyone who has engaged deeply in somatics, meditation, or creativity will know the place whereof Maitland speaks and will appreciate his thorough elucidation of it. Like phenomenologists, somatics pioneers, and mystics before him, he challenges the anti-body, anti-earthly existence position that has held sway in Western culture and upholds the perennial quest for illumination of the body. He is no fusty academician. His writing is informed by many years in the worlds of not only philosophy, but also Zen and Rolfing."
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Jeffrey Maitland, Ph.D.is a certified Advanced RolferŪ and
Advanced Instructor, is one of seven Advanced RolfingŪ instructors who
teaches Rolfers and other healthcare professionals in the United States,
Europe and Brazil.
He was Faculty Chairman and Director of Academic Affairs for the International Rolf Institute. Dr. Maitland is also a Board Certified Diplomate in The American Academy of Pain Management and a Philosophical Counselor. He was a member of the Council of the National Certification Program which helped to establish standards in somatic education and massage therapy by creating a national certification exam. In an effort to promote professionalism and to help evolve appropriately the growing field of Massage/Bodywork, Dr. Maitland helped to found with five other national leaders The Federation of Massage, Bodywork, and Somatic Practice Organizations. Prior to becoming a Rolfer, Dr. Maitland was a professor of philosophy at Purdue University for 13 years. After experiencing the dramatic results of being Rolfed for a debilitating back problem, he gave up his tenured position to pursue a career in Rolfing. http://www.jeffreymaitland.com/
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