I have long been interested in the historical origins of different schools of body work and body practices, in particular how these methods arose from the intricate lives of the quirky founders of different schools of work. That line of inquiry eventually led me to initiate a series of texts that bring together old fragments of pioneers in this field, either unpublished or published in hard-to-find places, along with new writing by contemporary innovators. These volumes are published by The Somatics Program of The California Institute of Integral Studies in collaboration with North Atlantic Books.

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