What Is ‘Body Harmony®’?

Founded by American chiropractor Dr Don McFarland in 1985, Body Harmony® is now taught in over 15 different countries around the world. Don McFarland undertook intensive study with such acknowledged leaders as Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, Marion Rosen, John Unledger, Fritz Perls and Leroy Perry Jr. His studies also include credits in sports and dance medicine. Don has synthesized the unique qualities of over 60 different forms of body work and healing modalities. Body Harmony continues to expand and develop through a network of some twenty five teachers of diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.

“It was as if my body knew exactly what
was needed in order to heal itself.”

Body Harmony® is a touch based open system, integrating both traditional and esoteric methods, with a singular focus: a gentle, sensitive, non-invasive touch and a personalised approach to each client and each issue. Seeing the client’s way rather than the practitioner’s way as the path to healing. Our bodies are living, moving, and breathing storehouses of all of our life’s experiences – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

“…its the physical possibilities which amaze me.”

Positive, loving, and joyous, experiences expand our bodies and free our movements. Physical and mental traumas, judgments and limitations, stress, and suppressed emotions compress our tissues and musculature, limiting our healing potential. Our minds may choose not to remember past traumas, but our bodies never forget, and our bodies do not lie.

By listening to the body and following each person’s own unique path to healing, Body Harmony® allows the body to unwind, relax, and release past traumas, no matter what their origins or symptoms might be. When compressions and restrictions are removed from our bodies, so are the limitations that placed them there. With these releases, the body comes into the present moment, and we experience more movement, freedom, vitality, and power — the power to make real the dreams that our limitations had held from us.

Body Harmony® imposes nothing and incorporates everything to empower the client on their path to life without limitations. By honoring the body as the ultimate truth-teller, Body Harmony® is one of the most powerful tools available for empowerment and personal effectiveness in all areas of life.

Why would I do this? To improve your posture, movement and function. To feel better! To become healthier. To change your mind. To change your habit! To respond more intelligently to any situation. To let go. To balance thinking, feeling and action. To appreciate just how things work within, and how they could work better.