Engaging the Movement of Life: Exploring Health and Embodiment Through Osteopathy and Continuum

Bonnie Gintis did a wonderful job introducing the underlying tenets of Osteopathy through her exploration of movement and life. There were some wonderful and thought-provoking insights that I gleaned from this book – particularly the paradigm on Health. It has changed how I view the body's natural processes and reactions.

As a layperson, I am loving this interesting book!

just as described. thank you

A bit esoteric.

A must-read hanbook for learning to care for our most prized posession: the human body!

Awesome!

As a computer systems architect and engineer with a strong knowledge base in the sciences, I tend to find most books that attempt to deal with metaphysical or esoteric topics shallow, inaccurate, and annoying.What a pleasure, by contrast, to read Dr.Gintis's excellent, knowledgeable, and grounded vision of the continuum of body-mind-spirit!Also, by contrast to the dry academic tomes with which I am all too familiar, this is a book that allows me to participate in the author's life, vision, and healing process. I find that reading it stimulates me, not only to new thoughts, but also to new ways of experiencing my embodiedness.

This beautifully-written book is valuable for readers from a very wide variety of perspectives, disciplines, interests, questions, and concerns, both personal and professional.For me, the primary value is twofold:1) the paradigm shifts available from the metaperspective that represents Bonnie's unique synthesis of Continuum, Osteopathy, and her own rich and varied life experience. This metaperspective emphasizing fluidity, de-habitualization, open-focus exploration, and trust in organic unfoldment is the connective tissue that links together the diverse topics explored in the individual chapters.2) the insights and openings that come to me from reading a single sentence, paragraph, or page and then letting her words resonate and reverberate throughout the course of a day to see what new intuitive and experiential connections emerge.

I'm a little tired of all these therapists who feel like they need to create a new concept just by inventing a new name. Osteopathy is osteopathy why not keep it pure!Continuum sounds good but nothing new under the sun.But nevertheless a book is born...therefore 2 stars!Jpn

Wonderful,this book really helps you to understand the body from both a scientific and energy perspective--highly recommended for all lovers of movement and movement therapy.