Freeing Emotions and Energy Through Myofascial Release – Noah Karrasch – Review

This book, aimed at the professional body therapist, offers a fairly balanced split between physical exercises, anatomy, and theory. There are definite parallels between the theory that Noah Karrasch expounds and Biodynamic theory, which makes the read of particular interest to us as Biodynamic therapists. While he includes massages and other types of physical manipulations to be used on (or with) clients, the main emphasis is on the personal development of the therapist - whatever our specialism.[i] With this in mind, there are regular sets of exercises at the end of each chapter as well as further exercises scattered throughout the text. The text is itself is full of challenges and questions which require us to pause for consideration. Explicitly and implicitly throughout this book, Karrasch makes it clear that he wants us to stretch our minds and bodies alike. He aims for us to shine light upon, and relax, our preconceptions and our habitual behaviours, as well as relax the habitual holdings of our physical body.

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