The Memory Palace of Bones

The authors guide us on a rich and intimate journey to the heart and meaning of our bony skeleton. Somatic practitioners of all kinds can benefit from taking this journey and making it their own–so as to feel the breadth and depth of what the bones have to tell us, physiologically and psycho-emotionally. An impressive achievement. – Kevin Frank and Caryn McHose, authors of How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness
A source of wisdom that offers readers an opportunity to manifest a personal transformation, one that can restore health and reignite one’s passion for life. – Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, author of The Biology of Belief
The Memory Palace of Bones celebrates the musicality of cellular communication emanating from the resonant marrow of our being. Poetry and prose illuminate unexpected associations, evoking marvels of motion, sensuality of touch and delighted satisfaction. When the sirens of trans humanism scramble subtle signals of deep wisdom and artificial intelligence disturbs the delicacy of complex living systems, recalibrate, and attune with the experience of this book. – Elizabeth Larkam author, Fascia in Motion
The most poetic journey through our innerness since Deane Juhan surprised us all with the soaring and elegant Job’s Body. Like Deane, David Lauterstein and Jeff Rockwell are very experienced bodywork therapists and teachers. And also like Deane, they are artists with a deep appreciation of history, exploring the skeleton’s subtle nuances and obscured meanings. Pure pleasure reading. – Tom Myers

Dr. Jeff Rockwell DC graduated as a chiropractor from Life Chiropractic College and holds a masters degree in somatic psychology. He has been in private practice since 1979, specializing in the treatment of soft tissue dysfunction, as well as practicing cranial osteopathy, polarity therapy, Zero Balancing, Neurodynamics, as well as his own Polyvagal Touch Therapy. Jeff has taught over 400 seminars on myofascial therapy and led dozens of workshops on clinical applications of polyvagal theory and the autonomic nervous system. He is on the post-graduate faculty of Life Chiropractic College West and Parker University, College of Chiropractic, as well as The Institute of Manual Neuroscience, of which he is the co-founder. Jeff is a member of numerous chiropractic associations, the Bay Area Osteopathic Study Group, and the Restorative Practices Alliance. Additionally, he writes for several chiropractic publications, has published five books of what he calls “somatic poetry” and coauthored The Memory Palace of Bones with David Lauterstein.

David Lauterstein is co-owner of The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School and is the founder and teacher of Deep Massage: Lauterstein Method. He is a Zero Balancing faculty member and a member of the Zero Balancing Health Association and the Association for Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP). He is the Presiding Chair of the Massage Therapy Advisory Board in Texas, under the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). David has been in private practice since 1977 doing deep massage, Structural Bodywork, then cranio-sacral work and Zero Balancing. He has taught at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy (1982-84), The Texas School of Massage Studies (1985-88) and at The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School which he co-founded with John Conway in Austin, Texas (1989-present). He has been teaching workshops in Deep Massage (since 1983) and in Zero Balancing (since 1996) and gives workshops in the UK, Costa Rica and throughout the USA. Since the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to limit face to face workshops he has been teaching live on-line workshops on “Deep Massage for the Neck” and “Deep Massage for the Feet”. He also runs online courses: “The Art of Massage: Ways of Touching” and “Intro to Deep Massage - the Lauterstein Method.” David has had his writings published in both books and journals and in his monthly newsletter: Putting the Soul Back in the Body. He is the former editor of the Massage Therapy Journal and has had articles published there as well as in Kindred Spirit, Massage Magazine, Massage and Bodywork, Positive Health and other journals. He is the author of the books Putting the Soul Back in the Body: A Manual of Imaginative Anatomy for Massage Therapists, The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork, and Life in the Bones: A Biography of Dr Fritz Smith and Zero Balancing, as well a recent on-line collection, The Art of Massage. He is also the composer of the CD, Roots and Branches, for massage and meditation. David is internationally known as one of the foremost advocates for the integration of science and art in bodywork. He is based in Austin, Texas.

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