“The simple and powerful wisdom in Body-Centered Coaching will help you access far more presence, intuition and power with your clients. It’s a must read for any coach aspiring to mastery.”

"Sometimes, when we misplace our keys, we can’t go where we want to go. When this happens we find ourselves searching frantically through the house. We might even go through our pockets or handbag over and over again looking for the missing keys. Why do we do this? Shouldn’t the first time we looked have told us that the keys weren’t there?

Likewise, we exhaust our minds by looking for answers that aren’t really in them. Marlena Field, in her book Body-Centered Coaching, Using The Body As A Resource For Change, shows us how to facilitate change by using the body to find the answers that the mind needs.

Body-Centered Coaching is first of all a book about listening and what to listen for. Through Empowered Listening we learn to listen from an open place where our intuitive, higher self can begin to hear the dilemmas, confusions, beliefs, keywords, feelings and resources that are embedded in what our clients are telling us. From this place of Empowered Listening we can also listen to the insightful messages from our own body and learn to use them in service of our clients.

Marlena teaches us how to use mindfulness as a tool to help clients study the messages from their own bodies. We learn how to lead our clients into a place of quiet awareness where the deeper emotional messages from their bodies—the missing keys they need to get their lives moving—become available.

Body-Centered Coaching teaches a number of ways to help clients access the rich information that paying attention to the body brings into our session work. It is illustrated with lively client stories that bring the method to life and show us how to do it.

Body-Centered Coaching is a special and useful book. It condenses into a slim volume much of the wisdom of the body-centered traditions, making it easily available to coaches, counselors and body-workers."

“Normally I have trouble getting past the first two chapters of a self-help book. I read Body-Centered Coaching in one sitting. But don’t let its easy read fool you. This book is powerful. There are gold nuggets too numerous to mention. I was blown away.”

“Years ago I read Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, a slim volume that was profound and easy to read at the same time. That book was a guide to Mind in a way that I’ve never seen since. This book will do the same for Body- a guide that is clean and elegant, at the same time both simple and profound. When a practitioner hits on a deeper truth, the result is often simple. This is that book for the body- a way of accessing and understanding the wisdom of the body. Every therapist should have this book in their toolkit. A lay person can work with this book towards a greater understanding of their own Body wisdom.”

"Whether you are a seasoned coach or just entering the coaching field this book will be a most valuable resource in your business. Body-Centered Coaching contains valuable information on developing a positive coaching relationship using the principles collected from the fields of eastern and western approaches. Written to meet the needs of coaches at every level, this practical book takes readers through the most fundamental coaching framework to a more involved "mental" and "physical" connection. By the time you finish this book you will have a completely new sense of mind and body awareness in yourself and in your clients.”