Spacious Body - Explorations in somatic ontology

In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience.

To write of the nature of being, of bodily experience, is difficult. The abstractions of being, temporal, and spatial presence draw language out of its daily context and often leave us longing for specifics. But if we stay with it, Maitland's patient language eventually leads us deeper into our own experience and toward our own orientation in the world -which is the only place worth going.
- from the Preface by Michael Salveson

Certified Advanced Rolfer and Instructor Jeffrey Maitland is one of four Advanced Rolfing Instructors in the world, and is Faculty Chairman and Director of Academic Affairs for the International Rolf Institute. Dr. Maitland was a professor of philosophy at Purdue University for thirteen years and was certified to practice Rolfing in 1979. He has published numerous articles on Rolfing, the theory of somatic manual therapy, and philosophy in various professional journals. Dr. Maitland maintains a private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona.