The body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds. In The Anatomy of Change, Richard Heckler draws on Aikido and Lomi Body Work to demonstrate how a set of practices can bring new awareness and choice into our daily life.
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"Heckler, a teacher of Aikido and a writer of splendid prose, has given us a wonderful introduction to the process of somatic psychotherapy."
- Thomas Hanna, Somatics
"Holistic education, as practiced by Heckler, challenges modern education with its emphasis on cognitive learning and its denial of the wisdom of the body. In this book, Heckler shows with simple, illustrated exercises how to use energies derived from different physical states to deal with both individual and global conflict."
- Lorna Cunkle, Pacific Sun
"Using vignettes from his theraputic work, Heckler gives us a sense of how our experiences shape our body. These stories clearly show that being embodied involves a formative process which organizes our bodily shapes… Heckler maps out a way to contact and shape our somatic rhythms."
- Dan Clurman, Inquiring Mind
"Heckler outlines how we respond to nearly all our traumatic life situations in the same way with what he calls our ‘conditioned tendency.’ He shows how we hold this ‘tendency’ in each of our bodies as a stance to the world."
-Richard Ditzler, San Francisco Chronicle
- Thomas Hanna, Somatics
"Holistic education, as practiced by Heckler, challenges modern education with its emphasis on cognitive learning and its denial of the wisdom of the body. In this book, Heckler shows with simple, illustrated exercises how to use energies derived from different physical states to deal with both individual and global conflict."
- Lorna Cunkle, Pacific Sun
"Using vignettes from his theraputic work, Heckler gives us a sense of how our experiences shape our body. These stories clearly show that being embodied involves a formative process which organizes our bodily shapes… Heckler maps out a way to contact and shape our somatic rhythms."
- Dan Clurman, Inquiring Mind
"Heckler outlines how we respond to nearly all our traumatic life situations in the same way with what he calls our ‘conditioned tendency.’ He shows how we hold this ‘tendency’ in each of our bodies as a stance to the world."
-Richard Ditzler, San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Richard Strozzi-Heckler is President of the Strozzi Institute. He has a sixth-degree black belt in aikido and a doctorate in psychology. Dr. Strozzi-Heckler has taught the principles of embodied leadership and mastery to businesses, the government, the military, non-profits, health care professionals, and educators for the last thirty years. He is the author of In Search of the Warrior Spirit and the editor of Aikido and the New Warrior, Being Human at Work: Bringing Somatic Intelligence into Your Professional Life, and Holding the Center.
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A useful, insightful book on the wisdom of the body-mind.,
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This review is from: The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Second Edition (Paperback)
Mr. Heckler clearly and precisely summarizes 5 steps of growth and change. Using anecdotal examples to illustrate how the mind and body reflect one another, he encourages the reader to find their own means of remaining in balance through change. I have found this book helpful in reminding me of the potential riches within the "stuck-ness" of my life. An excellent, simplified presentation of a very timely subject.
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Great Tools for Self-Improvement!,
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Love most of Strozzi-Hecklers books on Somatic Psychology. Use applications to understand & work the daily conflicts I encounter.
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This review is from: The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Second Edition (Paperback)
Heckler's introductory work on the "embodied" life. He explains the view of the human experience from the ancient wisdom of the profound connection of all things with the body. Describes how our relation to changes in our lives and to experiences with others may be made more meaningful through acknowledgement and understanding of how the body is the basis of all experience.
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- In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets by Richard Strozzi-Heckler in Back Matter
- Aikido and the New Warrior by Morihei Ueshiba in Back Matter
- In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets by Richard Strozzi-Heckler in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Aikido for Self Discovery by Stan Wrobel in Back Matter
- The E-Myth Manager: Why Management Doesn't Work - and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber on page 117
- Aikido and the New Warrior by Morihei Ueshiba in Back Matter
- Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers by Elizabeth Ayres in Index
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