Intuitive Bodywork
Essays and Lectures by Loil Neidhöfer: on restoring organic emotional pulsation through physical interaction arising from heart-contact
First in a series of scans of small-press out-of-print books from long ago that are not findable today, whether in electronic or paper form.
This 1990 small-press publication is the only book in English from my Reichian lineage. It is nearly impossible to find in paper.
I recently got it scanned and am sharing here for those interested.
Thanks to Andrew Conner for converting to ePub:
Just wanted to come back and leave a note of appreciation. I read the whole thing. I studied embodiment in the lineage of Moshe Feldenkrais. I have never found any place where Feldenkrais ever commented on Wilhelm Reich, but I know that from my training, I was biased against "energy work" and I was given to understood that Feldenkrais generally polemicized against it.
Reading Neidhoeffer I got a view of how "energy work" could make "perfect sense" - more phenomenologically than rationally!
And...for my money, this approach and the way of Feldenkrais aren't in contradiction, but use different vocabularies with different emphases and potentially are looking at different parts of the broad continuum that we vaguely refer to with the word "embodiment."
btw, in my last post, "Overlapping bodies & minds", I briefly made reference to "streaming" and "armoring" . . . I'm hardly sophisticated with those terms, but they have opened a new area of active embodied inquiry for me. Anyways, all that is thanks to reading this also.
Just downloaded the Da Free John stuff . . . maybe a further stretch for me, but looks like there is fascinating food for thought in there.