Robert K. Hall (1934–2019)

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In this book, Richard Strozzi Heckler, co-founder of the Lomi schooll, answers that question whit a resounding 'Yes.' His quietly revolutionary book shows how conteacting ther elemental energy of the body and working with it can uncover its innate wisdom, resultinng in the ability to educate, heal, and know oneself.

Through the bodywork described here, it is possible to overcome conditioned psychological tendencies simply by becoming aware of how they express themselves physically. show more Using as its ground the discipines of Aikido and Lomi bodywork, the book addresses the basic dilemma of modern education, with its overemphasis on cognitive learning and its denial of the wisdom of the body. It discusses the habitual patterns of body and mind and shows how working with the body can change them.

With simple, illustrated exercises, Heckler shows how to use different energies and physical states to overcome obstacles during times of change and confusion. Finally, he demonstrates how bodily awareness can help one make meaningful and healing contact with others, a step toward helping the conflictive situations in the individual and larger worlds.

Richard Heckler, whko hold a doctorate in psychology, is on the faculty of the Lomi school and teaches Aikido in the San Francisco Bay area, where he is also a practicing psychotherapist. He has taught and lectured throughout the U.S. and Canada, and in Latin America and Europe.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Background-Introduction; The Body of Knowledge
The Approach-Working Through the Body
The Ground-The Conditioned Tendency; The Rhythm of Excitement
The Way-Living in the Body; The Anatomy of Change
Taking It to Others-Presence and Contact; Taming Aggression: The Aiki Way of Conflict; Resolution show less