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 Bony Landmarks - A Book By Karen L. Bolesky

Bony Landmarks
Making Somatic Connections

A Book By Karen Bolesky
Director of Soma Institute of
Neuromuscular Integration®


This book is sharing of a personal and professional journey to wellness. A mental health counselor and structural integrator, Karen Bolesky earned a BA degree at University of South Florida in Fine Arts and a Masters degree in Counseling. She purchased the Soma Institute of Neuromuscular Integration® in 1986 and expanded it into a 721 hour Structural Integration training and a State licensing program. She is the director and core instructor in the program. In a multi-faceted career that started 40 years ago, she has studied associated topics extensively, including Bioenergetics, Drawing Interpretation, death and dying, pottery, herbs and earth medicine, BioSomatics, Authentic Movement, and Embryology. She owned two health food stores in Florida. Her masters' thesis on body language was the beginning of her focus on the human body-mind in its wholeness.

ISBN13 Hardcover: 978-1-4363-9040-8
ISBN13 Softcover: 978-1-4363-9039-2
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SOMA
Ida Rolf's Legacy to a New Paradigm for Structural Integration
By Karrie Osborn


When Bill Williams was working on a 10-session bodywork protocol with his mentor Ida Rolf in the 1970s, he knew he wanted to take it further than the physiology that was being explored. His training in psychology and his interest in energy afforded him insight into the integration that could happen when body, mind, and spirit met. While Rolf, with whom he was teaching and researching at the time, didn’t want to take the work in that direction, she gave Williams her blessing to seek out his own truths. And so was born Soma Neuromuscular Integration.
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Keeping in balance - Soma and running.
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Soma Brings Peace of Mind to Families.
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In Their Own Words - Research
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Article from "The Indigo Children"
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Learn to Live With It
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Soma Series Compare Article
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Using Drawings With Structural Integration
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Arm Session
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Photographic artwork:  Carolyn Krieg
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