ILANA RUBENFELD, Ph.D., currently teaches at the Esalen and Omega Institutes and at the New York Open Center. She has also been on the faculties of the NYU Graduate School of Social Work and the New School for Social Research. She gives lectures and workshops nationwide and conducts a four-year professional certification training program. From the Hardcover edition.
A legendary healer who has been called 'The Genius of Touch' has at last published the pioneering theories and practices of her body/mind work. -- NAPRA ReView A classic. -- Belleruth Naparstek, author of Your Sixth Sense About thirty years ago Ilana Rubenfeld discovered that emotions reside and are held in the body, and that skillful touch combined with talk could release emotions and heal pain, thus freeing people to live healthier, more effective lives. In The Listening Hand Ilana has distilled the essence of her unique approach. -- Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom Ilana is truly a woman with healing intuitive gifts. -- Judy Collins, singer, composer, and author As productive as it is profound. -- Jean Houston, author of Jump Time