Deep Tissue Sculpting is Carole Osborne-Sheets' loving presentation of her work. In its two major sections, she describes the physical and metaphysical dimensions of bodywork. The physical dimension includes a brief explanation of her technique: "firm, constant compressions and strokes applied parallel to the muscle fibers" and instructions for working body areas (back and pelvic girdle, low back and abdomen, neck and shoulders) which evoke her background in structural balancing.

The metaphysical dimension includes the roles of connected touch and visualization. Connected touch has a quality that permits the practitioner to sink unintrusively into the client, at its most powerful, this is combined with the deep subjective awareness of the client which Trager calls hook-up and Osborne-Sheets describers as working from the physical, emotional and metal body centers. In visualization, as Osborne-Sheets understands it, the bodyworker uses anatomical, rather than metaphorical, imagery to see the body part being worked responding to the work. Thus the hands send many message to the flesh.

In this compact, easy to handle book, Osborne-Sheets brings together a great deal of information usually available only in lectures at those massage schools which teach connected touch and at workshops. This is supplemented by information on the physiology of fasica, causes of neck and back pain, and an appendix on the origin, insertion and function of relevant muscles.

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