(Noah) Steven Karrasch, founder of the CORE Care Group, was born in St. Joseph, MO in 1950 and grew up on a farm north of town.  He graduated from Savannah, MO Public Schools and the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1972 with a BS in Education, vocal music emphasis.

After working as an entertainer at Silver Dollar City in southwest Missouri, he taught public school music for several years.  Next came a stint in Maine as a camp counselor, bartender, and pianist/vocalist/entertainer.  On returning to the Ozarks in 1981 he again became a public school teacher until he picked up the Ida Rolf book Ida Rolf Talks About Rolfing and Physical Reality (Rosemary Feitis and Ida Rolf).  This book totally opened his mind to the importance of bodywork with Ida Rolf's first quote:  "This is the gospel according to Rolf.  When gravity gets flowing appropriately through the body, then spontaneously the body heals itself."  He contacted the Rolf Institute in Boulder, CO and initiated the training process to become a certified Rolfer in 1984.  He was certified by the Institute in 1986, received advanced certification from the Guild for Structural Integration in 1991 and has continued to develop and train in his bodywork practice.  In addition to his Springfield, MO practice he maintains limited practices in Columbia, MO as well as Fayetteville and Little Rock, AR.

Additionally Noah has been a teacher of bodywork both for massage schools and independently since 1994.  His reason for participating in the training of the massage community is that he believes too many massagers learn just a bit about deep tissue work without really understanding what they are trying to achieve.  He hopes to increase the level of learning in the massage and bodywork community by challenging his students to continue to enhance their skills.

Noah is our visiting practitioner in Rolfing.  He plans to visit next in November 2007. 

In his spare time, Noah enjoys travel, gardening, reading, most things Jamaican, and rehabilitating the unused and unloved. 

Noah invites you to try a session of bodywork and see if you feel it serves your goals of achieving better health.