Testimonials – George Russell, D.C.

George always helps me so much! He is a kind person and knows how to get rid of neck kink quickly!

— Sofia Coppola
Film Director

George Russell has an amazing intuition & gift of how the body and mind work together to ultimately be in balance with each other.

— Pat LaFontaine
US Hockey Hall of Fame

…an astonishing and intuitive intelligence…

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
www.listeningunlimited.com

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George was able to help me identify and correct so many physical limitations — and the pain in my mid-back has never returned.

I came to George years ago with a terrible pain in the middle of my back that no one else had been able to alleviate in the two years or so I had been seeking treatment. As a chiropractor, George addressed some alignment issues, but his wholistic approach also uncovered much, much more. I has areas of tension and nagging pain stemming from everything from the shoes I was wearing, to my diet, to childhood trauma. George was able to help me identify and correct so many physical limitations — and the pain in my mid-back has never returned. The idea that all sorts of things – mind/body, past/present – can affect your well-being makes perfect sense, but it took George’s compassionate guidance and treatment to help me fully understand it, and use that understanding to feel better.

— Anna

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George is, quite simply, the most gifted and intuitive student of the body I have ever met.

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
Writer and Choreographer
Headlong Dance Theater, Philadelphia
www.headlong.org

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… a brilliant ability to intuit and give language to what is happening in my body.

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 and psychotherapist
www.michaelpicucci.net

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… educational and inspirational.

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
Director of Institutional Advancement, Library of America (loa.org)
Writer and musician (carolinehorn.com)

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His healing work is not just treatment, but a profound form of creative education.

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

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He works not just on staying alive, but on what we stay alive for

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

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