About the Author
Chuck Duff is an expert trigger point therapist and educator who has been practicing and teaching bodywork for pain relief for more than 20 years. His first motivation to understand the true origins of pain and ultimately develop Coaching The Body® was his own severe back pain. As a practitioner, he was struck by the suffering of his many clients who had been failed by an obsolete system, based on an incorrect assumption that all pain is due to injury. Chuck founded his school in 2001, was a faculty member at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine for several years, and is a regular speaker at panels and conferences. He has been pain-free for many years by following CTB principles.
He has achieved success in multiple fields by being willing to take a creative new look at established ideas, and to combine elements of seemingly unrelated systems to generate something new and unique. He was an innovative software researcher and language designer for many years before entering the bodywork field, and authored two of the first object-oriented programming languages for the early Macintosh® computers. He presented his first formal course on Coaching The Body® in 2005, covering his new approach to manual therapy based on trigger point therapy, Thai bodywork techniques and current neuroscience. Since that time, he has been able to successfully treat hundreds of difficult pain cases and has taught thousands of practitioners how to relieve chronic pain in their patients.
Chuck earned his BA in Religion and the Humanities from the University of Chicago, where his studies focused on the connections between Buddhism and psychology. He loves music, art, and dogs. He is a trained chef with a fervent
commitment to the local, sustainable, and organic food movements. He is a serious guitarist and synth artist who has been playing since his teen years and has collaborated on 3 CDs (Tales of a Prior World, Prior World: No Borders, and Zar). His daughter, Rachel–the light of his life–is a photographer, dancer, and CTB Practitioner who lives in Oakland, CA.
For more information about Chuck and the Coaching The Body Institute, visit coachingthebody.com.
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