FIRST COMPLETE REVIEW OF "THE MEMORY PALACE"

First complete review of "The Memory Palace of Bones" - from Juliet Cox, Acupuncturist and Zero Balancer in Bristol, England:

"I love this book.

It is beautifully written with a deep knowledge base yet lightly done so the reading feels easy and conversational. There are different voices speaking apart from those of the two authors. The voices include poets like Pablo Neruda, luminaries of bodywork such as Fritz Smith, Ida Rolf, Buckminster Fuller, Stephen Porges and many others. There are other voices too, coming from our past, diverse cultural understandings of our bones and their significance in different histories and locations....I find it deeply restful to have this breadth of quiet intelligence coming through.

It feels like all these voices sit elegantly together not unlike the way our separate bones form the magic of our skeleton. There is a quality of dancing, steps of information, sharing ideas and development of structure and energy and how they connect and renew their connections.

Each chapter covers a different bone. There is detailed information on physiological and anatomical levels and broader exploration of function and significance of the shape and position of each bone. There are lots of stories (which I always like), there is a kind of purposeful wandering and wonder. Stories help us remember and integrate knowledge can do the same with a bright concentrated power. These are woven with deft and illuminating quotes.

There is so much wonder. I now know about the importance of a trim tab (small addition to the rudder of a boat that allows a change of direction with minimal effort in case you also didn’t know). Our xiphoid process may be understood as a trim tab and “we are all trimtabs’ in society. Brilliant, I shall remember that.

The book seems to me like a zero balancing session in book form. I am learning lots about my bones, my wider self and the culture we’re in and how we’re shaped. The shapes we’ve formed from our ancestral inheritance and the shapes we’re continuing to form right now. The shape of our bones are clearly seen in the soft pencil drawings at the start of each chapter. There is a warmth to them and and an alive quality.

There are references to specific key acupuncture points and lots of information and suggestions about how we might inhabit ourselves fully. At the end of each chapter is an embodiment exercise. Fantastic idea and we can do them easily and feel the connection and experience of that bone. I shall be sharing them in my practice.

When I have read or seen something good I can’t stop myself from evangelising to nearest, dearest and probably someone I sit next to on a train. So I was already doing this having only read the chapters on the clavicle and the lumbar vertebrae. . .

Thank you David and Jeff. There are some acupuncture points with palace in their name. They are special places of awe and power where we can rest and be rejuvenated. The book reminds us that we can do this in ourselves. We do already know this in our bones."

Thank you, Juliet!!

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