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"I have worked with George Russell
as his private client following an acute onstage injury, and in small
workshop settings where he taught restorative practices for dancers.
George is an anatomical savant. I have experienced many talented
body workers and teachers. George is, quite simply, the most gifted and
intuitive student of the body I have ever met. His work combines his many
trainings with his own experience as a dancer and mover. He merges deep
and often stunning insights with a matter-of-fact approach that has little
patience for treatments based on self-esteem or rigid ideologies. George
is a healer. His thoughtful eye quickly penetrates webs of misdiagnosis
and post-injury compensations to see the root cause, the source of imbalance.
In a medical world ruled by statistical flow charts and economies of time,
George is a last refuge for the dancer -- or for anyone -- who needs true
insight, no matter the time or complexity.
I unhesitatingly send to George everyone I know with chronic anatomical
issues. I implore them, "He is different. He can heal you because he will
understand what is wrong. And he will teach you to heal yourself." George's
exercises and rehabilitation work are precise and stripped down. His unerring
sense of what truly works makes his exercises economical, haikus of healing
that contrast greatly with the 'try everything' blathering of statistical
medicine.
To those considering working with George, I say: try it. Just try
it once. You will never think of your body the same way again."
— Andrew Simonet
Artistic Director
Headlong Dance Theater, Philadelphia
www.headlong.org
"I've been cared for by many good body practitioners in my time.
None have impressed me more than Dr. George Russell has. He exudes a brilliant
ability to intuit and give language to what is happening in my body. Not
only was he able to name a previously unrecognized tangible problem (that
related to a surgical trauma over twenty years ago) but he gave me simple
exercises in awareness that have been profoundly beneficial. While I know
Dr. Russell teaches "The Spirit of Anatomy," when in his presence
he is that spirit. This is a man I want to keep learning from."
— Michael Picucci, PhD, MAC, SEP
Dr. Michael Picucci, author, focalizer, and psychotherapist; helps dissolve "blind spots" to where we really want to go.
Author, "Ritual as Resource: Energy for Vibrant Living" &
"The Journey toward Complete Recovery"
www.michaelpicucci.net
"George’s explorations of the body and movement are both
educational and inspirational. They leave me more at home in my own body
and more empowered to move through the world with ease and grace.”
— Caroline Horn
Editorial Director, Music Alive!, singer-songwriter, and music journalist
www.carolinehorn.com
www.musicalive.com/aboutCH.asp
"As a fellow dancer, colleague and patient, I have always found
George to have an extraordinary ability to take in the whole person. He
offers both his depth of anatomical knowledge and his intuitive perceptions
to re-align your body while deepening your insight. This makes his healing
work not just treatment, but a profound form of creative education."
— Joan Arnold
Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique
Certified Yoga Instructor
"Dr. George Russell's chiropractic work is on a continuum with
his reading, writing, dancing, choreographing, and spritual advising.
In other words, he works not just on staying alive, but on what we stay
alive FOR. He elicits the active participation of the conscious minds
of his clients while working on them. The downside of this is that you
don't get to lie there like a piece of meat on the table. The upside is
that you may actually gain some insight into the way you live in your
body, on and off the table, and how that is open to change."
— Meg Fry
Co-Director
Improvisational Arts Ensembles and De Facto Dance Company, NY, NY
"Dr. George Russell expresses an astonishing intellectual and
intuitive intelligence. His penetrating insights into character and his
ability to articulate these perceptions in ways that illuminate and heal
are profound, often awe-striking. He is a gifted practitioner and an inspiring
teacher. His knowledge and practice of bodywork and movement improvisation
are brilliantly creative – grounded in principle and deeply considered,
but also spirited, keenly sensitive, and spontaneous.
Dr. Russell is a consummate professional; knowledgeable, precise,
conscientious, dedicated. Yet, demanding as he is of perfection in himself,
he is generously compassionate in his thoughts and dealings with others.
His dedication to the growth of his patients and students has always seemed
to me closer to that of ministry than any other vocation."
— Cheryl Varian Cutler
Professor of Dance at Wesleyan University (retired); workshop leader and
teacher with Listening Unlimited
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