What Is Body Harmony?

by Lee Kuntz

Body Harmony is an open system, integrating both traditional and esoteric bodywork methods from around the world, with a singular focus: a gentle, sensitive, non-invasive touch and a personalized approach to each client and each client's issues. Body Harmony sees the client, not the practitioner, as the true source of healing, and sees the client's way rather than the practitioner's way as the path to that healing.

Our bodies are living, moving, breathing storehouses of all of our life's experiences on all levels -- physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Positive, loving, joyous, and successful experiences expand our bodies and free our movements. Physical and mental traumas, judgments and limitations (both self-imposed and imposed by others), stress, and suppressed emotions compress our tissues and musculature, limiting our healing potential and the realization of our dreams. Our minds may choose not to remember past traumas, but our bodies never forget, and our bodies do not lie. Body Harmony honors and celebrates these truths of the body.

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 -- the "I can'ts", the "you can'ts", and the "who do you think you are's?" 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.

What Are The Benefits Of Body Harmony?

Based on the client's willingness and desire, Body Harmony can:

Relieve stress and tension.
Relieve pain.
Restore natural body movement, function, posture, and presentation.
Accelerate healing.
Resolve issues held in the body to allow:
Enhanced health, vitality, and youthing.
Increased success and prosperity.
Improved interpersonal relationships.
Greater happiness and joy.
About Body Harmony Individual Sessions

Body Harmony sessions support each client's self-awareness and self-direction in healing, growth, and life effectiveness. A session typically begins with a discussion of the client's issues and goals, followed by an analysis of body posture, movement, and function relative to those issues and goals.

The client and practitioner then join together in an exploration of the best ways to allow the body to release the limitations standing in the way of resolving the client's issues and achieving their goals. The work is subtle yet powerful, simple yet profound.

Body Harmony sessions are for anyone wanting greater effectiveness and joy in their lives.

About Body Harmony Courses

Introductory courses cover the elements of touch; the development of sensitivity and intuition; awareness of movement, posture, and presentation; working with the body's energy field and tissue layers; and basic techniques to remove compressions and restrictions. Courses are "hands-on", with students learning to both give and receive sessions.

Advanced courses cover specific topics such as working with joints, healing scars, and eliminating self-sabotage, and present additional hands-on, energetic, and intuitive techniques.

Body Harmony coursework is not a substitute or replacement for any techniques you may already know; you can use Body Harmony to enhance and empower whatever work you already do.

Body Harmony courses are for bodyworkers and breathworkers of all backgrounds, health care professionals of all sorts, healers and shamans, and anyone wanting to experience the joy of self-discovery and personal transformation. No previous background in bodywork is required.

About Lee Kuntz

Lee began his exploration of Body Harmony in 1985, by taking individual sessions from Dr. Don McFarland, the founder of Body Harmony. Impressed with the results he received from his sessions, Lee went on to study Body Harmony and became a practitioner in 1989. His studies and work continued and evolved, and he became a Body Harmony teacher in 1994. Lee co-founded the Southern California Body Harmony Institute with Lisa Malik in 1995. His personal evolution is ongoing, and he empowers his clients and students by continually sharing his discoveries with them.

Lee is also a breathworker, having practiced and taught the techniques of Vivation and Rebirthing since 1984. He is a member of Associated Vivation Professionals (AVP) and serves as Chairman of AVP's North American Board of Directors. He studied Rebirthing with the Loving Relationships Training (LRT) and is an LRT-recommended Rebirther.

Lee's healing work integrates the power of the breath with an intuitive awareness of movement and energy in the body. He teaches how to use your willingness, purpose, and sense of fun to release your limitations so you can get the good that you desire!