This touching, handling, manipulating of living human bodies enables me to see in the books of these superb writers and turn into practice the science they teach. Probably they themselves do not know, how useful their knowledge is already when translated into the nonverbal language of the hands

sensory stimuli are closer to our unconscious, subconscious, or autonomous functioning than to any of our conscious understanding. On the sensory level communication is more direct with the unconscious and is therefore more effective and less distorted than at the verbal level.

Through touch, two persons, the toucher and the touched, can become a new ensemble; two bodies when connected by two arms and hands are a new entity. These hands sense at the same time as they direct.
-- Moshe Feldenkrais, originator of the Feldenkrais methods from his book The Elusive Obvious.