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SOME WORDS FROM LAWRENCE GOLD:
I am a teacher of teachers in our field and I put a great deal of care into the development of programs. Two come from a colleague of mine, Carol Welch. They all guide you into inhabiting your own body with greater ease and comfort. With them, you can recapture, preserve and improve your ability to move with the flexibility, comfort, and effortless ease that are the hallmarks of everyday fitness. If one of these programs excites you, you'll probably get started with it immediately -- which means, get the results. If you need help choosing, contact me and I will be pleased to advise you. Turn what may be a hidden concern -- living indefinitely with pain, stiffness, or diminished activities -- into an asset: the motivation to improve your quality of life. |
The Magic of Somatics |
Somatic Exercise Sampler:
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Free Yourself from Back Pain |
Free Your Psoas TRAINING FITNESS CORE EXERCISES FOR ATHLETES |
ALL BOOKS AND PROGRAMS COME WITH FIFTEEN MINUTES FREE CONSULTATION, BY TELEPHONE.
Call 505 699-8284 to schedule. I recommend you call after you have worked with the program, so your questions are based on experience. Please have your transaction confirmation number and be prepared with three appointment times for your consultation. I will confirm your appointment. How far do you want to go? Stage 1: Eliminate pain and recover function. Stage 2: Preclude a repeat injury. Stage 3: Enhance function to superior levels. All programs can take you through all three stages, depending on how long you work with them. Choose the right program for your requirements or special interest. |
Special Program to Free Breathing |
The Cat Stretch (GENERAL PREPARATORY PROGRAM) |
The SuperCat Stretch (ADVANCED GENERAL PROGRAM) |
The Five-Pointed Star (KEYSTONE PROGRAM) FOR PERFORMANCE ENDURANCE |
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Somatic Transformational Exercises for Easy Walking (from GAIT TRAINING to SPEED WALKING) |
The New Seated Refreshment Exercises |
Body Meditations |
Deeper Lovemaking companion audio set Deeper Lovemaking WORKOUT |
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BioKinetics/Hanna Somatics Reflexes 101 BioSomatics
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Calm and Energize: Somatic Breathing Training to Reduce Stress EXERCISES Get to Sleep |
Pre-Natal/Post-Partum Somatic Exercises TRAINING FOR WOMEN |
The Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises (FOR PROFESSIONALS) |
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"The proof of the pudding is in . . ."
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The Magic of Somatics
Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold
Take Back Your Body,
NOTE: Purchase this program or Body Meditations, but not both. |
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A COMPANION TO THE ORIGINAL BOOK ON CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION,
Somatics,
BY THOMAS HANNA
FREE DOWNLOAD of an excerpt that explains the heart of these exercises.
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OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click and send.
8 1/2" x 11" full-page, coil-bound handbook format that opens flat for easy use.
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FREE BONUS
with bound-book order: instructional AUDIO-COMPACT DISC:
The New Seated Refreshment Exercises
Guided audio instruction teaches you the pace to do somatic exercises to get the best results. | TO TOP OF PAGE |
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The Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises
Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold |
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FOR PROFESSIONALS: Improving Body Awareness, Body Image, Physical Comfort and Mind-Body Integration
INSTRUCTIONS TO DECREASE OR END CHRONIC PAIN, IMPROVE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND COORDINATION
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OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.
PHYSICAL BOOK INCLUDES SPECIAL AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS ON COMPACT DISCS (set of 4):
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message from a young purchaser
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Hi Lawrence, I got the download. Right away, I got a lot from your knowledge today. I was able to eliminate my pain pretty fast. Very cool. Looking forward to more studying/practicing. Thanks,
steev dinkins
I know I have a ways to go to eliminate the quadratus lumborum pain, but I now feel I can actually make better progress than I have in the last 2 months of yoga, weight training, acupuncture and chiropractic work. Thanks much again, steev
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Free Yourself from Back Pain,
2nd edition for a Comfortable Back You Can Trust
Hanna Somatics Gold™
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Recondition Your Back
UPGRADED from Version 2.2 FOLLOW-UP PROGRAM FOR "12-MINUTE EMERGENCY BACK SELF-CARE" and "17-MINUTE FIRST AID FOR BACK PAIN"
People buy this program because it effectively addresses lower-back pain, mid-back and upper back pain, bulging discs, sciatica, and facet joint irritation. You follow evenly paced step-by-step instructions to loosen back muscles with coordinated muscle balancing techniques that work from the inside, out. Pain fades and mobility effortlessly increases with each session. You start softly and gently come free of muscle spasms and pain; you recover comfort and flexibility; as you get better, you progress to exercises that develop strength and prove your back trustworthy. Soon, you're so naturally free that all you have left is gratitude for the relief, and then your ordinary life.
Audio-CD set
Fully Illustrated Guidebook
WORKBOOK: 274 pages, nine instructional sequences
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OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.
with e-BOOK download: $74.70 (Item #218) See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for .
BEST VALUES This electronic download contains an extra instructional track, a higher-integration form of the first lesson, Spine Waves.
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Hi Lawrence,
I typed in "relief for back spasms" yesterday and read your article. Then I ordered the ebook, and did some exercises this morning. I can already feel some relief. And I know over time my "back problems" will return to normal, my natural state. Thank you so MUCH for making Somatics available! I love alternative therapies. I listed your article/site at What Love Does in alternative therapies.
Marelin Thornton
Thanks for the note and for the listing at What Love Does. May I quote you on the website, somatics.com?
with regard,
Lawrence Gold
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Deeper Lovemaking
instructional playbook with optional CD set Hanna Somatics Gold™ Move Freely, Enhance Your Sensuality, and Prolong Your Intimate Occasions by Lorenzo Gold
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People buy this program because they would like to enhance their intimate lovemaking occasions and because it confers added flexibility and sensitivity to lovemaking. This program is a path into deeper, more complete union at physical and emotional levels. It enhances other practices, such as those found in The Kama Sutra, Masterful Lover programs, or the teachings of Mantak Chia, guiding you to awaken feeling intensity -- both physical and emotional.
PLAYBOOK: 198 pages, large print for easy reading, color illustrations of exercises to improve sensation, movement and flexibility
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Body Meditations
Mindful Movement Meditations that Rapidly Improve Mind-Body Integration for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Development Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold |
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The path of meditation is a path of freedom. Body and mind are interrelated. In these times, the body is held in disrepute and that is one reason it is so unconscious. People buy this program because it can take them in an unexpected direction that brings unexpected results: By illuminating the deep unconsciousness of the body, it aids the process of awakening in meditation. As you enter more fully into incarnation as the feeling, moving body, you put yourself together better and relax more deeply and completely. Your mind becomes still. When you become active, again, you find that your mind functions at a higher level of organization -- new clarity of thought, new kinds of thoughts, and creativity. People in psychotherapy may buy this program to speed their progress. See these articles for discussions of the mind-body connection: | TO TOP OF PAGE | |
e-BOOK:
ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL
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SELF-TRANSFORMATION AUDIO & VIDEO
Programmatic Keys to Free and Easy Movement
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Somatic Exercise Sampler
Hanna Somatics Gold™
SELECTIONS FROM THE SUPERCAT STRETCH
You get the CD for ; postage/handling = $5.00 (USA, only).
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AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1): $5.01
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MP3 DOWNLOAD:
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Somatic Transformational
Exercises for Easy Walking Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold People buy this program because there's no better program around for improving efficiency of walking -- balance, grace, endurance, and speed. If you're working to rehabilitate yourself after injury this program can help you get you where you want to go faster. Recover the pleasure of walking freely at your preferred speed.
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AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1):
$18.65 (Item #213)
10 sessions, 79 minutes
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Calm and Energize: Somatic Breathing Training
to Reduce Stress Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold Get this most excellent program to dispel the accumulated effects of stress and boost your overall energy level. You can feel better, even with no change of circumstances. Free your breathing: relaxed, easier, fuller. Contains an embedded sound signal to entrain the "waking dream" alpha brainwave rhythm to help dissipate sensations of stress, help you activate the somatic exercises in yourself, and make mental room for creative problem-solving ideas to surface in the rest period afterwards.
Audio Preview:
CLICK HERE and send - will return an email message with clickable, download links)
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AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1):
$18.65 (Item #214)
seven different lessons
Mailable order form: click here. MP3 DOWNLOAD: $12.00 (Item #214e)
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Get to Sleep
Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold QUIT INSOMNIACS ANONYMOUS. Be lulled to sleep. People buy this program because medicinal sleep aids have undesirable side-effects and this program has desirable side-effects: mental clarity and better daytime physical stamina. The very sounds in this program, apart from the instructional content, "get under the radar" of your mind to guide you into relaxation conducive to sleep. No need to "try" to go to sleep. Preparatory somatic movement exercises relax tensions associated with the waking state. "Waking dream" alpha brainwave rhythms embedded in the sound ease you into the deeper brainwave states of sleep. A Dream Zone soundtrack (additional soundtracks here) draws you into the Blissful Deep.
Audio Preview:
CLICK HERE and send - will return an email message with clickable, download links)
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AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1):
$18.65 (Item #210)
MP3 DOWNLOAD: $12.00 (Item #210e)
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Special Program
to Free Breathing Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold 
Buy this program because you want to increase your ease of breathing and breathing capacity, immediately and progressively. If you have rib pain, this may help.
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AUDIO COMPACT DISC (1):
$18.65
65 minutes
MP3 DOWNLOAD: $12.65
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| People buy this program because they've found that somatic exercises very effectively do what stretching is supposed to do: improve flexibility and prevent injury. Lawrence Gold paces you step-by-step through the instructions for the exercises found in Dr. Hanna's book Somatics: Re-awakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health. Recorded with introductory explanations separate from instructional material, so you can use your time efficiently. | |||||
Audio Preview: CLICK HERE and send - will return an email message with clickable, download links) Sold alone or with The SuperCat Stretch Exercises (see immediately below). |
AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (4):
$54.40 + shipping (Item #211)
eight lessons plus the daily Cat Stretch regimen
MP3 DOWNOAD:
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The SuperCat Exercises - higher integration
Hanna Somatics Gold™ Beyond Overcoming the Myth of Aging developed and guided by Lawrence Gold certified Hanna somatic educator |
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The more integrated a system is, the better it functions. In this program, you feel the releases go further, and when you move, you feel better put together and looser. Athletes may get this program to move to a higher level of integration and a higher level of performance. Evolved forms of Dr. Hanna's original exercises, found in his book Somatics: Re-awakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health, the SuperCat Stretch has sophisticated integration techniques, additional movement elements and mind-body integration built onto the framework of the regular Cat Stretch. Forge a better and better-organized mind-body connection that integrates intuition, intention and physical expression -- in other words, better consistency between intentions and tangible results.
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AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (10):
$107.20 (Item #212)
Includes the Cat Stretch Program (above, 4 CDs) and the SuperCat Program (6 CDs)
MP3 DOWNOAD:
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Deeper Lovemaking companion CD set
by Lorenzo Gold Move Freely, Enhance Your Sensuality, and Prolong Your Intimate Occasions
Contains the complete instructional movement sequences found in the illustrated book (electronic PDF download or bound manual), but without the deeper, psycho-physical disciplines found in the book Deeper Lovemaking. Can be used independently of the book.
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OUTSIDE THE U.S.A. click here.
AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (4):
$47.95 (Item #215)
Mailable order form click here.
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Pre-Natal and Post-Partum Somatic Exercises
by Lawrence Gold For during and after pregnancy. Because pregnancy changes the muscle tone of the abdomen and alters posture, and there's no more direct way to do that than to retrain muscles, posture and movement at a healthy level of tone, women may use these exercises to develop healthy core integration.. Before delivery, ease the pains of pregnancy. After delivery, recover your strength, get back your attractive shape, and feel more energetic. A gift, perhaps, for a sister, a friend or a couple. |
AUDIO COMPACT DISCS (2):
$23.95 (Item #216)
Mailable order form, click here.
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Free Yourself from Back Pain
Hanna Somatics Gold™ Contains the complete instructional sequences found in the illustrated workbook. Can be used independently of the book. BOOK DESCRIPTION, CLICK HERE. |
AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET (5)
with e-BOOK download:
$74.70 (Item #218)
AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM DOWNLOAD (ONLY)
Mailable order form, click here.
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New Seated Refreshment Exercises
by Lawrence Gold Here's the formula for stiffness and stagnation at the desk: relative immobility at a high level of concentration for a prolonged time. Muscles get set and tired at holding a fixed postures. Add coffee to the mix and you get toxic stagnation. No wonder people get stiff and tired at work. You can counteract these effects with a systematic sequence of conscious movements in three basic directions: forward/back, twisting and expansion/contraction (breathing). Here's a system of movements that does just that, sitting in your chair in about five minutes. Follow with two or three minutes of walking, and you're refreshed. This sequence of movements was designed for people with limited freedom to move or who must stay seated for long periods -- air travelers, drivers, desk jockeys, the elderly, customer service and tech support team members.
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AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD (1 CD):
$12.70 (Item #219)
MP3 DOWNLOAD: $10.00 (Item #219e) See the ITEM DESCRIPTION on your eReceipt for .
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Free
Your Psoas
Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold
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ALL MOST PEOPLE NEED:
You've found a more comfortable, lasting way to free your psoas muscles. Freeing tight psoas muscles with massage or stretching can be painful, as you may have found. Freeing tight psoas muscles by awakening control and balancing muscles with each other is much more comfortable and more effective. With this program, you go through gentle and well-organized somatic exercises that free your psoas muscles surprisingly comfortably. You bring ease to yourself and improve your core integration. The exercises fit together like a jigsaw puzzle for a well put-together you. Enjoy this program. |
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DVD set
Electronic Download
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FULL PREVIEW. See all of the exercises in this program explained and introduced here, on video. |
Free
Your Psoas
ENHANCED AGILITY FOR ELITE ATHLETES
An integrated system of brain-muscle training (somatic exercises) to free your psoas muscles and to integrate them with the other core movers and stabilizers of the body. The Athletes' Program contains somatic exercises that are more intricate than the basic program and that develop more sophisticated patterns of coordination. Both programs begin and end with the same somatic exercises, Locating the Center of Breathing and The Athletes' Prayer for Loose Calves. A mind-brain-whole-body training workshop-on-DVD. This video program first tells you how to get the fastest results in the least possible time, then introduces each somatic exercise with a preview and one or two keys to the exercise, then guides you carefully, step-by-step, through each exercise at a slow pace for easiest learning. You will feel immediate results.
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DVD SET (3 DVDs = 228 minutes)
ECONOMIC HARD TIMES SPECIAL
SPECIAL OFFER Obtain the introductory material and first lesson by electronic download for .
AUDIO-INSTRUCTIONAL CD SET (4 CDs): $54.40 + shipping(Item #220)
Mailable order form, click here.
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Hi Please send me more information on how to obtain the introductory material and first lesson on video CD and any other info describing the contents of the full psoas DVD program as well as the Free Preview, Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises. I completed two years of somatic training in the Northampton MA somatics systems institute so i have some background on somatics.
thanks,
Hi Lawrence, Just wanted to say that your DVD, CD, and Manual are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- giving me a whole new perspective on exploring- thanks for sincerity, for sharing your knowledge and for taking me deeper into discovery. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Thanks for the note. May I use your words on the website, to encourage others?
with regard,
I would be honored if it will help inspire others to investigate these wonderful tools. Bill |
The Five-Pointed Star
- or - The Four Universal Human Movements Hanna Somatics Gold™ by Lawrence Gold
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This program is a "keystone" -- meaning that it integrates movements from the core (or "hara" or "dan tien" or "center of gravity") to the periphery (or extremities). As such, it enhances all somatic exercises done immediately beforehand or all physical activities done afterward.
This is one of the shorter and more potent programs available. It immediately increases strength, flexibility, and fluidity of movement to a surprising degree. Get it to magnify the effects of any other somatic exercises (or any other exercises you do, for that matter). additional effect: emotionally calming and centering. Those who meditate after a session of The Five-Pointed Star notice an enhanced capacity to witness mind, emotions, and body from a neutral, centered space. To do this sequence, you need to be fairly supple, already. The Cat Stretch program is good preparation. |
audio compact disc set (2)
$24.96 (Item #221)
MP3 download $21.00 (Item #221e)
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Biokinetics/Hanna Somatics
Developmental Movement Education with Carol Welch, Certified Hanna Somatic Educator |
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Reflexes 101w
Do you learn more easily from seeing than from hearing? Get this program to augment you learning of The Cat Stretch Program This video presents the theoretical foundation of somatic education and shows the exercises found in The Cat Stretch/Overcoming the Myth of Aging and Thomas Hanna's book, Somatics: ReAwakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health in summary form. Practice along with Carol Welch, certified Hanna somatic educator. 76 minutes running time, many hours in fruitful practice time. |
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DVD: $64.00: (Item #303)
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I liked this video very much. It was well organized and aesthetically pleasing. Clear and simple to follow, the video had an excellent pace which allowed the viewer to participate simultaneously with the producers.
Consequently, I would recommend this video . . . It is accessible, applicable and appropriate for any audience: practitioners, students, or novices. ~ Judith Aston (developer, Aston Patterning) |
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BioSomatics
Spine and Joints 102w |
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| This program consists of movement patterns for the well-being of the spine, the long muscles of the back, and the small muscles joining the vertebrae. Included are cyclic motions that serve to integrate the sense of weight, balance, intention, and direction of movement. |
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Consultation by telephone with Lawrence Gold, Certified Hanna Somatic Educator #3 (third person conferred certification), can be arranged by pointing and clicking on (i.e., "following") the link at the end of this description. Lawrence Gold Personal Page was one of the thirty-eight people trained by the developer of Hanna Somatic Education, Thomas Hanna, Ph.D. From 1996 to 1998, he practiced at The Wellness and Rehabilitation Center of Watsonville Community Hospital; his writings have appeared in The American Journal of Pain Management, The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, The Massage and Bodywork Quarterly, and elsewhere. A partial list of conditions with which he may help you can be found by following this link. This page will remain behind the window that opens. In your consultation by telephone, tell Lawrence Gold about your problem. He will then ask pertinent questions about your history of injuries, surgeries, and your general condition.
If somatic education will help, he will offer one or more options to you, all of which are available through
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