In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience. Dr. Jeffrey Maitland served as a faculty member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute® since 1979 and was a prolific author and leader in the field of Rolfing® Structural Integration. He worked as a tenured professor of philosophy at Purdue University before becoming a Rolfer™ as well as being ordained as a Zen Monk.