What is Insight Bodywork?
Insight Bodywork, developed by Kondañña Barry Kapke, is a floor-based energy work that seamlessly integrates massage, movement, and meditation. Earthy, gentle, and spontaneous, its integrative approach to somatic discovery and education facilitates energetic balance and flow, brings awareness to embodied experience, and supports the body to find greater ease and ability. Insight Bodywork utilizes acupressure and myofascial techniques, giving maximum support to the body while mobilizing joints, moving into slow deep stretches, integrating with soothing brushes and holds, and, when appropriate, energizing through shaking, rocking, swinging, or dropping. It is a work that is both playful and sacred in its approach.
Insight bodywork is a form of Asian bodywork developed by Barry Kapke (also known as Kondañña) that embraces an integrated therapeutic approach to meditation, movement and massage. Insight bodywork also incorporates other somatic therapies, such as acupressure and myofascial techniques. However, unlike some other therapies that utilize massage and energy medicine, the work is performed on a mat on the floor. The primary objective of insight bodywork is to improve the flow of qi, the vital life energy force. This is achieved by employing a variety of massage techniques that include tapotement and percussion, as well as meditation and visualization. It may also involve a variety of guided movement exercises ranging from stretching to shaking and rocking. Insight bodywork often calls upon a technique known as dropping, which is the application of a sudden percussive impact on the body. Its purpose is to free the subject of blocked energy. Insight bodywork is also about movement. In fact,
