(Noah) Steven Karrasch, founder of the CORE Care Group in Springfield, MO grew up near St Joseph, MO in the US. After a successful music career he was led to Ida Rolf’s book Ida Rolf Talks About Rolfing and Physical Reality (Rosemary Feitis, 1978, Healing Arts Press, Burlington, VT). This book totally opened his mind to the importance of bodywork with Ida Rolf’s opening quote: “This is the gospel according to Rolf: When gravity gets flowing appropriately through the body, then spontaneously the body heals itself.”
Noah began the Rolf training in 1984, was certified in 1986, and received advanced certification from the Guild for Structural Integration in 1991. He has continued to develop and evolve his work which he now calls CORE* Fascial Release Bodywork (*Coax Order, Restore Energy). In addition to his Springfield clinic he maintains limited practices in Columbia, MO; Fayetteville and Little Rock, AR; and at the Wren Clinic and North London School of Sports Massage in London.
Clients come to Rolfing and CORE Bodywork for a variety of reasons. Many are experiencing pain and view deep bodywork as a last resort. Others want to simply maintain a healthy body and lifestyle. Still others view deep bodywork as an appropriate adjunct to other therapies. Noah endeavors to meet every client where they are, to work to release holding patterns from the client’s bodymindcore, and to help them live more fully and joyfully from their own CORE experience.
Additionally Noah has had an influence on students of bodywork in the Midwestern US and now in the UK as well. He believes too many massage therapists learn just a bit about deep work and are ill-equipped to practice the technique. For the past 18 years he has offered continuing education to therapists around the Midwestern US, teaching them to touch bodies respectfully at an appropriate layer. He certified his first class of students at CORE Bodywork Level III in the UK in May of 2011, and will see another class in November of 2012.
Noah recently wrote “Meet Your Body: CORE Bodywork and Rolfing Tools to Release Bodymindcore Trauma” (Singing Dragon Press, London, 2009). His intent was to challenge ordinary people to think about and take care of their bodies more fully. It is available through www.amazon.co.uk, at the Wren Clinic, at your local bookstore, or through the publisher, www.jkp.co.uk.
A new book, titled Moving Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release, will be available in January 2012. This book, while geared primarily toward bodyworkers, is for therapists of all stripes who are interested in the relationship of stuck emotions to problems the bodymindcore holds. It encourages the recognition and release of these emotions and their attendant conditions. This book will also be available through either the publisher or amazon.co.uk (see above).
Noah is our visiting practitioner in Rolfing and CORE Bodywork, coming over twice a year for about four weeks at a time. He will next be available at the Wren, primarily on Mondays through Wednesdays, from 3o April until 9 May, 2012. Cost per one hour session is £75. While on these visits, he also teaches bodywork courses for massage therapists. On this May trip he’ll be presenting CORE I Intensive in Bristol and CORE II at body2fit in Wynyard Park (near Darlington). Phone the Wren clinic for bookings or additional information. Email Noah for additional information about courses.
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Hamilton’s take, which is supported by a growing body of research, is that the amount of time you exercise and the amount of time you spend on your butt are completely separate factors for heart-disease risk. New evidence suggests, in fact, that the more hours a day you sit, the greater your likelihood of dying an earlier death regardless of how much you exercise or how lean you are. That’s right: Even a sculpted six-pack can’t protect you from your chair.
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- New research shows biological changes in body from a good massage September 27, 2010
“MASSAGE: New research shows biological changes in body from a good rub-a-dub-dub”
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Researchers took 53 adults and gave 29 of them a 45-minute session of deep-tissue Swedish massage and the other 24 to a session of light massage.
To the amazement of some of the researchers they found through examining the test subjects blood workups after the massage that a single session of massage caused positive biological changes in he body.
Volunteers who got the Swedish massage experienced significant decreases in levels of the stress hormone cortisol in blood and saliva, and in arginine vasopressin, a hormone that can lead to increases in cortisol. They also had increases in the number of lymphocytes, white blood cells that are part of the immune system.
Read more here: http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/MASSAGE-br-New-research-shows-biological-changes-in-body-from-a-good-rub-a-dub-dub-473583
