SOMATIC TECHNIQUE: A Simplified Method of Releasing Chronically Tight Muscles and Enhancing Mind/Body Awareness by Jim Dreaver This is an illustrated text I wrote when I was still a chiropractor. The information in this book is a must-read for chiropractors, physical therapists, bodyworkers, and massage practitioners. The intensive week I spent at Esalen in 1989 with Thomas Hanna, the originator of this system, changed my professional life. I spent several years working with his technique of releasing chronically tight muscles and adapted it into the method I created here. You can learn the work from the book. It is fully illustrated and the techniques are easy to learn. They represent the cutting-edge of hands-on neuromuscular release work. Between 1991 and 2001, I was a Postgraduate Faculty member of Palmer College of Chiropractic West, and taught over 100 professional seminars in Somatic Technique to chiropractors, physical therapists, bodyworkers, and massage practitioners throughout the western United States. I retired from chiropractic in 2003 because of a life-threatening illness, which I have since recovered from. I was on a twenty year quest for the truth of my being, and finally woke up fully in 1995. I tell the story of my awakening and the illness in my new eBook, END YOUR STORY, BEGIN YOUR LIFE (available for $10.95 at www.endyourstory.com). As I write in the book, “this is the story of how I came to the understanding that I am not my story, and thus realized the inner freedom which is my true nature.” This book also reveals my simple three-step process for discovering the freedom and love within.