The BodyTalk System combines the principles of osteopathy, the wisdom of advanced yoga, the knowledge of modern physics and ancient philosophy, the insights of kinesiology and an understanding of western medicine, anatomy and physiology.

Simple but comprehensive; ethical and non-invasive; painless and gentle-yet incredibly effective and powerful, The BodyTalk System is going to change the way you look at health care forever!

The 5 Basic Premises of Body Talk:

1. The body has an inborn, innate ability to heal itself on all levels.
2. When the Body Talk practitioner’s left and right brain functions interface healthily, learned knowledge and intuited knowledge enhance one another. This dynamic affords the practitioner the mental clarity to determine:
   a) Imbalances within the body
   b) How to correct them
   c) In what order
3. The key factor in maintaining health in the body is to re-establish communication between all the systems and body parts. In this way, the body can synchronise its activities, adapt to the stresses of life, and heal.
4. An important consideration in the healing process is the specific sequence in which the body is stimulated to balance and heal its systems and parts. With many other modalities one of the main factors that slows down the healing process is the projection of the bias and agenda of the practitioner onto the client.
5. Another consideration is to recognise that the health of each unique bodymind needs to be addressed at the level most suited to the particular needs and level of understanding of the client.

Many people neglect to recognise how powerfully we can tap into the innate wisdom of the body and utilize it for the healing process. Most people recognise that the body has a built-in mechanism that initiates the healing process in normal day-to-day activity. If we cut ourselves, the body immediately sets up a process to start healing the wound. This healing process occurs at all levels—physical, emotional, and mental. Although this process is obvious to all of us, many systems of healing do not give full credence to how wonderful the human mechanism really is. They also fail to recognise its potential.

We often have a tendency to make our own personal diagnoses and tell our body how to heal itself based on our (perceived) superior knowledge of the healing process. Granted, you may argue that you only step in when your body is failing to do its job. The body, however, seems to be only failing in its job when its communications systems have been severely compromised through the stresses of life and the interferences superimposed upon it. Once you re-establish a good communication system between the various parts of the body, the body can—and will—heal, except in very serious and/or emergency situations.

The trouble is that up to now the focus of most health care modalities has not been on the inborn communication system inherent within the bodymind. The focus has been on repairing the parts that appear to be problems and hoping that the body can then get those parts to synchronise. The new paradigm, as acknowledged in the BodyTalk system, states that the focus should be on enhancing the body’s natural synchronisation to enable it to repair its own parts more  rapidly. The resultant energy configuration will allow the parts to quickly return to normal synchronised activity within the bodymind complex and its environment. This "inner" synchronisation of the bodymind will then quite naturally be reflected in a more harmonious interaction (synchronisation) with the environment.

Historically, mankind’s working knowledge of the body has often been blown out of proportion. In the light of our vast accumulation of knowledge about the anatomical and physiological processes of the body, we have tended to overestimate our abilities. In recent years it has become increasingly obvious that our knowledge about the workings of the body is still deficient.

Everyday we receive more and more evidence of just how intricate a system the bodymind complex is. The immense number of interrelationships between the components of the body at the physical level, within the energy systems, environmental factors, and mental and emotional components, create a complex symphony of relationships of which we are only beginning to scratch the surface. The joke is that we think we have the knowledge to tell the body how to do its job when it has been doing that job successfully for millions of years. There are times, you might say, when the body fails to do that job and needs help. True, but the type of help it has been getting is not necessarily what it really wants, or needs, where most problems are concerned.

The real problem facing the body lies in the way our life-styles, cultures, and technology have interfered with its natural processes; compromising the communication networks that enable it to coordinate the billions of synchronised activities per second necessary to maintain optimum health.

The BodyTalk paradigm for the future integrative health care is one where we once again start respecting the body’s awesome innate knowledge of the body and learn to utilise that knowledge by working with it, rather than imposing our own limited knowledge upon it.

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