KARRASCH

Noah Karrasch

	(Noah) Steven Karrasch, founder of the CORE Care Group in Springfield, MO grew up on a farm near St Joseph, MO in the US. After a successful career as a musician 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* Bodywork (*Coax Order, Restore Ease). In addition to his Springfield clinic he maintains limited practices in Columbia, MO; Fayetteville, Eureka Springs and Little Rock, AR; and at the Wren Clinic 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 endeavours 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 15 years he has offered continuing education to therapists around the Midwest, teaching them to touch bodies respectfully at an appropriate layer.
	Noah recently wrote Meet Your Body: CORE Bodywork and Rolfing Tools to Release Bodymindcore Trauma. (Singing Dragon Press, London, 2009). His book was written to challenge ordinary people to think about and take care of their bodies more fully. It is available through Amazon, at the Wren Clinic, at your local bookstore, or through the publisher.
Noah is our visiting practitioner in Rolfing, coming over twice a year for about five weeks at a time. He will next be available at the Wren, primarily on Mondays, from 17 May to 7 June, 2010. Cost per one hour session is £75. Noah will also be leading a client workshop based on "Meet Your Body" at the Wren Clinic on Sunday, 23 May from 1 to 5 pm. Cost of £60 includes autographed copy of the book. If you’re interested in reclaiming your body and feeling better for longer, please phone the Wren to register.