Touched by the Goddess [Paperback]

Deane Juhan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2001

The author of the indispensable bodywork classic JOB'S BODY offers a fresh look at the physically, emotionally and socially transformative powers of touch. Backed up by extensive research as well as long hands-on bodywork experience, this collection of fourteen essays (many originally written for Massage Magazine) takes on not only difficult and critical issues facing therapeutic touch, but also its potential to create positive change in all our lives.

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Juhan's writings contribute profoundly to our evolution as a species, and to the medicine of the future... -- James Oschman, Ph.D, author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis

About the Author

Deane Juhan was born in 1945 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado (BA), the University of Michigan (MA), and the University of California at Berkeley (three and a half years as a doctoral candidate in English literature specializing in William Blake). In 1973 an experience with bodywork at Esalen Institute in Big Sur led to a sudden change in career. Joining the staff at Esalen as bodyworker and instructor (where he remained until 1990), he saw dramatic improvements in a wide variety of conditions as a result of hands-on work and movement reeducation. This quickened his interest in clinical research, and years of study of the physiology of touch and its concrete effects on development, adaption, skill learning, and healing eventually produced Job's Body: A Handbook of Bodywork, as well as the essays in his latest book, Touched by the Goddess: the Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork. He is currently a practitioner of the Trager

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.; 1 edition (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581770812
• ISBN-13: 978-1581770810
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Essays to refer to Over and Over Again, June 28, 2009

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This review is from: Touched by the Goddess (Paperback)

Whether you are a practitioner of Body work or simply dwell in a human body, this little gem of an essay collection is a user's manual that you will refer to over and over again. Deane Juhan is one of the rare body gurus who not only combines scientific and artistic insight, but can illuminate his thoughts with eloquent mastery of the English language...an educator and a poet in the tradition of the Greeks. Keep this classic close at hand.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Science and Spirit Aligned Facilitate Change, March 28, 2011

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This review is from: Touched by the Goddess (Paperback)

Deane Juhan has been the voice of both the science and spirit underlying massage and bodywork for more than 25 years. His classic, JOB'S BODY, organizes the modern scientific thinking that explains how the ancient arts of massage and bodywork facilitate change in the body. Deep and comprehensive, it is the bible of bodywork.
TOUCHED BY THE GODDESS looks at the spiritual and psychological changes that can happen when you learn how to live more fully embodied, with an expanding repertoire of movements. Move your body and you can move the world.
There is another revolution waiting to happen: the high touch revolution. Deane is the articulate, visionary voice that can help you reclaim the intimacy of your own body and soul. GODDESS is a must read for change agents and adepts of transformational bodywork.

Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork (Third Edition)