-Titulo Original : Somato Emotional Release Deciphering The Language Of Life-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: Developed by the author, SomatoEmotional Release is a technique for bringing psychotherapeutic elements into CranioSacral therapy. It helps rid the mind and body of the residual effects of trauma by anatomically freeing the central channel of the body. John E. Upledger presents the history, theory, and practice of this subtle form of healing. A result of meaningful, intentioned touch, SomatoEmotional Release allows for identification and removal of energy cysts along with their associated emotions. About the Author John E. Upledger is the founder of The Upledger Institute. Dedicated to the natural enhancement of health, the Institute is recognized worldwide for its groundbreaking continuing education programs, clinical research and therapeutic services. His work has been featured on Good Morning America, ESPN, Oprah, and CNN, and in publications such as USA Today and TIME. Dr. Upledger is a Certified Specialist of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, an Academic Fellow of the British Society of Osteopathy, and a Doctor of Science...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Nature Of Matter-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: Richard Gordon maps out new territory in the rarely explored intersection of science and spirituality in this fascinating investigation of the profound relationship between matter and consciousness. Building on the Quantum-Touch technique he developed in previous books, Gordon explains how the hands-on energy healing technique that he uses to help to alleviate nerve pain, headaches, back pain, hip pain, TMJ, and more provides a unique window onto the secret nature of matter. He explains how, by examining pelvic and occipital torsion, and then aligning people without the use of touch or suggestion, he is able to run a wide range of simple experiments that challenge many dogmas of science. This book teaches readers the technique along with 57 easy-to-reproduce experiments that allow them to test the results. These experiments clearly demonstrate that our consciousness can profoundly influence matter, and that an object charged with energy and intent can dramatically affect us physiologically in seconds. Review “Richard Gordon’s The Secret Nature of Matter is a gift to all those who have asked the question, “What is the reality of existence?” Readers, prepare yourselves to expand beyond any cherished beliefs you currently hold about the scientific and spiritual laws governing the universe and how you may apply them to unveiling the mysteries that permeate our seemingly ordinary, everyday lives. Read this book. Then read it again, allowing the beauty of its liberating wisdom free your spirit.” -Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation and Life Visioning “It is a delightful read to follow Richard Gordon as he experimentally discovers that consciousness is fundamental, that an intent infused with love serves as the organizing principle of consciousness, and that our so called “physical” reality is a virtual reality computed by the Larger Consciousness System. Better yet, Gordon’s process provides a scientific evidential path that allows scientists and laymen alike to unequivocally experience for themselves ancient wisdom and spiritual truths that reduce materialism to an irrational belief. What could be more useful and significant than that?” -Thomas Campbell, physicist and author of My Big TOE (Theory of Everything) “Richard Gordon presents many convincing phenomena demonstrating that our consciousness affects the world around us. He shows the limits of materialistic thinking by outlining the paradoxes of quantum physics. In the “double slit” experiments, the presence of the consciousness of an observer changes the behavior of atomic particles. With infectious childlike curiosity, he then reports on a series of personal experiments. He charges objects like coins with healing intent, and finds that these are later able to produce postural alignment in others. Told with a warm and enthusiastic tone, Gordon provides mind-bending evidence that holds profound implications for the domains of science and of healing. He shows how we can use these gifts to heal our own bodies and those of the people around us, and by changing our subjective consciousness, change the objective world. This practical and provocative book is of great interest to professionals as well as anyone seeking optimal wellness.” -Dawson Church, PhD, award-winning author of The Genie in Your Genes “Once in a great while, someone comes along and challenges the status quo and all that we know to be true. Inspiring and inviting us to open our minds and to become pioneers in new ways of seeing and thinking about our reality. Richard Gordon is one such person. In The Secret Nature of Matter, Richard Gordon takes us on a fascinating journey, pointing out new ways to experience matter and our very own consciousness. He brings a significant contribution to many unanswered questions about energy healing, offering key teachings and deep insights about the role of consciousness in the quantum world. I am particu...

-Titulo Original : Core Awareness, Revised Edition Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, And Dance-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: An indispensible resource for those interested in all forms of movement education, including yoga, pilates, dance, and more Somatic educator and writer Liz Koch has spent decades studying the principles of Core Awareness-a body-based approach to movement that utilizes attention to inner sensation as the key to increasing strength, gaining flexibility, preventing injury, and improving resilience. In this book, she shares her vast knowledge of Core Awareness with readers, providing movements, stretches, and mindfulness explorations that she developed herself. Her exercises are designed to enhance sensory development and shift readers from the standard paradigm of the body as an isolated object to a holistic paradigm of the human being as part of a living process of dynamic expression. This shift in perspective offers practitioners and teachers of movement, yoga, pilates, bodywork, exercise, and dance an empowering model for self-healing and the key to becoming stronger, more flexible, and more resilient. As Koch describes the practice of moving from ones core, she highlights the importance of engaging the psoas muscle-located on either side of the spine-to integrate the body, mind, emotion, and spirit. Koch also discusses how the pelvis is the foundation of our physical core, the vital connection with our bones, and crucial in gaining a sense of support, nourishment, joint integrity, skeletal balance, and healthy muscle tone. Rewritten with updated information, this revised edition includes 247 new photos and 25 new Core Awareness explorations-with 64 in total. A suggested reading list at the end of the book provides resources for continuing the development of the ideas presented within the book. Review Liz Kochs brilliant offerings contribute essential insights for all who are engaged in somatic experience. -Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement Liz Koch offers us a rich and profound understanding of movement. Her extensive research on the psoas muscle provides an important entry into the body and leads the reader into an appreciation of a holistic view as opposed to a more familiar idiosyncratic or mechanical view. Every serious student and practitioner will find this book a must for their library. -Anna Halprin, dance pioneer and author of Dance As a Healing Art and Returning to Health: With Dance, Movement and Imagery “Liz Koch is a deep-diving ‘somanaut’ with many years of worldwide teaching experience. In this book, Koch has moved beyond the psoas into a thorough synthesis of many approaches to core awakening and body balance. Easy to comprehend, with many practical exercises that can be done at home with minimal equipment, this book will be of interest to both the committed somatic explorer in search of self-help and also the motivated practitioner seeking good awareness exercises for client ‘homework.’” -Thomas Myers, author of Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists It seems that yoga classes are offered on every corner these days, but unfortunately they often emphasize movement over awareness, stretching over sensing, and pushing oneself over self-exploration. Luckily Liz Kochs book can offer the yoga student inspiration as well as simple exercises which can create both the depth of feeling and the profound sensitivity necessary to use yoga practice as a physical, mental, and spiritual tool for transformation. I recommend it highly. -Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, yoga yeacher, and author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers “Liz Koch brings her years of awareness of the iliopsoas experience concomitant with not only postural but physiological, psychological, and transformational effects.” -Bob Cooley, author of The Genius of Flexibility: The Smart Way to Stretch and Strengthen Your Body “Life is experienced within the frame of our body. Liz Koch offers practical tools to enhance o...

-Titulo Original : Your Healing Hands The Polarity Experience-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: The human energy field is constantly affected by mental, physical, and emotional experience. This classic guide, written by the author of Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal, shows energy workers, massage therapists, chiropractors, and anyone wishing to heal with their hands how to conduct a full polarity therapy session to restore balance. With clearly written instructions providing steps and techniques and neat, understandable illustrations, readers are introduced to the polarity circle and shown how to balance energy fields, unblock systems, and release energy to normal flow patterns. Review I recommend Your Healing Hands to all those who would heal. -Kry H. Breyer, Massage Magazine Your Healing Hands offers an excellent introduction to the practice of Polarity therapy. Well written and clearly illustrated, this book provides a practical, hands-on approach to therapeutic touch and natural healing. I highly recommend Richard Gordon’s book for both beginners and experienced practitioners of massage, bodywork and the natural healing arts. - Bruce Burger, President, Heartwood: California College of the Natural Healing Arts Richard Gordon has done a good task in expressing the principals of Polarity Therapy as taught by Dr. Stone and myself. He reinforces the feeling more than the intellect for those who want to practice Polarity. -Pierre Pannetier, Polarity Therapy Center About the Author Richard Gordon is recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of energy healing. Today, as the founder of Quantum-Touch, Richard is an internationally acclaimed speaker at conferences, medical centers, chiropractic colleges, and holistic health institutes. Mr. Gordon has been on faculty at Heartwood Institute and The Holistic Health Institute...

-Titulo Original : The Essence And Applications Of Taijiquan-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: Martial arts master Yang Chengfu’s seminal work on the techniques and applications of Yang-style taijiquan-now available to Western practitioners for the first time The publication in 1934 of Yang Chengfus book, The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan (Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu) marked a milestone in the modern evolution of the art of taijiquan. Using what is best-termed demonstration narrative, the author presents form postures and suggested applications from his own perspective, as he performed them. This methodology renders Yang Chengfus direct, hands-on teaching of the art with such immediacy and liveliness that the reader experiences the master’s teaching much as his students did. This English translation finally makes Yang Chengfus classic work available to taijiquan enthusiasts in the West. It includes notes and commentary that clarify the authors frequent classical and literary turns of phrase and elucidate the philosophical and political underpinnings that shape the text. The translator investigates and compares several early taijiquan books in order to help explain the roles played by two of Yang Chengfus students, Dong Yingjie and Zheng Manqing, in bringing Yang Chengfus words and teachings into print. Serious students of taijiquan, and those wishing to deepen their knowledge of taijiquan history and theory, will find this seminal work indispensable to their study and practice. Review “I highly recommend The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan as a valuable resource for Taiji players, with the actual words of Yang Chengfu to guide them in their practice.” -Dojo Rat About the Author Louis Swaim lives and practices in Oakland, California. He is the translator of the highly regarded handbook on the art of taijiquan, Fu Zhongwen: Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan (North Atlantic Books, 1999). He studied Chinese history, Mandarin, and Classical Chinese at U.C. Berkeley. After completing a masters degree, he continued his language study at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taiwan. He has been a taijiquan practitioner for thirty years...

-Titulo Original : Supercharging Quantum-touch Advanced Techniques-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: Quantum-Touch teaches ways to focus and amplify life-force energy (chi) through simple breathing and body awareness exercises. The result stimulates the subject’s biological intelligence to do whatever healing it deems necessary in everything from major immune disorders to chronic pain to emotional disturbances. In Supercharging Quantum-Touch, prominent teacher Alain Herriott takes students and followers of Quantum-Touch beyond the basics, sharing the techniques used by the best, most effective practitioners.From the hundreds of workshops he’s conducted around the world, Herriott has gathered questions that he addresses here in a direct way that refines, clarifies, broadens, and deepens the work. The book begins by walking readers through the basic attributes of the best practitioners. Bit by bit, more techniques are added and “stacked” or laid out to create a step-by-step approach to work on anything a client needs, including (though not limited to) general pain, physical imbalances, and emotional issues. Strategies for perceiving energy more clearly are also included. Written in a very accessible style, Supercharging Quantum-Touch gives readers the confidence they need to work in this increasingly popular-and important-healing art. Review “For those wishing to bring their Quantum-Touch skills to a new and even higher level, I heartily recommend this book.” -Richard Gordon, author of Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal“[Ever] since taking Alain’s Supercharging workshop and doing the Color Meditation … I am happier, calmer, and more loving as well as more serene and confident. I can handle whatever comes my way with grace and love.”-Heather Churchill, N.D. About the Author Alain Herriott is an advanced Quantum-Touch teacher with more than twenty years of experience as an energy-based healer. A frequent workshop leader, he has worked closely with Richard Gordon and made instructional videos for Quantum-Touch. He lives in Talent, OR. Richard Gordon is the internationally acclaimed creator of Quantum-Touch. He lives in San Luis Obispo, CA...

-Titulo Original : The Psoas Solution The Practitioners Guide To Rehabilitation, Corrective Exercise, And Training For Improved Function-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: The first book to comprehensively discuss the function of the psoas in posture, movement, and exercise, The Psoas Solution identifies the functional anatomy, biomechanics, and motor control of the psoas and its role in core and hip stabilization. Integrating research with clinical experience, Evan Osar identifies the psoass role on the hip, pelvis, and low back and demonstrates how to incorporate the psoas into functional movement patterns including squatting, lunging, and bending. The Psoas Solution includes corrective and functional exercise progressions for improving and integrating the psoas into daily activities. Health and fitness professionals will find this a valuable resource full of applicable strategies and exercises to incorporate into current rehabilitation or training programs. Abundantly illustrated with full-color images throughout, this book also provides most complete review on the relevant research on the psoas available. For years the psoas has been a muscle mired in controversy. It has been linked to common postural and movement dysfunction including anterior pelvic tilt, hyperlordosis of the lumbar spine, and low back pain. Strategies to improve posture and reduce pain have primarily involved stretching the psoas and strengthening its antagonist, the glutes. However, recent clinical research has revealed that the psoas is much more than a simple hip flexor and plays an integral role in both posture and movement. This professional treatment manual for health care practitioners and students gives an overview of the ways that non-optimal use of the psoas can affect breathing, posture, and movement. It outlines specific treatment strategies that enable patients to develop awareness and utilization of the psoas muscle to achieve three-dimensional breathing and improve balance and body mechanics. About the Author DR. EVAN OSAR is an internationally recognized lecturer, author, and expert on assessment, corrective exercise, and integrative movement. Osar has authored one of the most highly acclaimed industry resources on corrective exercise, Corrective Exercise Solutions, and is a regular presenter at Perform Better Functional Training Summits, SCW Mania Events, ECA OBOW, and AsiaFit Conference as well as a regular contributor to PTontheNet, OnTarget Publications, and Integrative Movement Insider...

-Titulo Original : Healing Through Trigger Point Therapy A Guide To Fibromyalgia, Myofascial Pain And Dysfunction-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: This book is about empowerment for chronic pain patients and care providers alike. Every chronic pain condition has a treatable myofascial trigger point component, including fibromyalgia. Many of the localized symptoms now considered as fibromyalgia are actually due to trigger points. The central sensitization of fibromyalgia amplifies symptoms that trigger points cause, and this book teaches care providers and patients how to identify and treat those causes. Chronic myofascial pain due to trigger points can be body-wide, and can cause or maintain fibromyalgia central sensitization. Trigger points can cause and/or maintain or contribute to many types of pain and dysfunction, including numbness and tingling, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, plantar fasciitis, osteoarthritis, cognitive dysfunctions and disorientation, impotence, incontinence, loss of voice, pelvic pain, muscle weakness, menstrual pain, TMJ dysfunction, shortness of breath, and many symptoms attributed to old age or atypical or psychological sources. Trigger point therapy has been around for decades, but only recently have trigger points been imaged at the Mayo Clinic and National Institutes of Health. Their ubiquity and importance is only now being recognized. Devin Starlanyl is a medically trained chronic myofascial pain and fibromyalgia researcher and educator, as well as a patient with both of these conditions. She has provided chronic pain education and support to thousands of patients and care providers around the world for decades. John Sharkey is a physiologist with more than twenty-seven years of anatomy experience, and the director of a myofascial pain facility. Together they have written a comprehensive reference to trigger point treatment to help patients with fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, and many other conditions. This guide will be useful for all types of doctors, nurses, therapists, bodyworkers, and lay people, facilitating communication between care providers and patients and empowering patients who now struggle with all kinds of misunderstood and unexplained symptoms. Part 1 explains what trigger points are and how they generate symptoms, refer pain and other symptoms to other parts of the body, and create a downward spiral of dysfunction. The authors look at the interconnection between fibromyalgia and myofascial trigger points and their possible causes and symptoms; identify stressors that perpetuate trigger points such as poor posture, poor breathing habits, nutritional inadequacies, lack of sleep, and environmental and psychological factors; and provide a list of over one hundred pain symptoms and their most common corresponding trigger point sources. Part 2 describes the sites of trigger points and their referral patterns within each region of the body, and provides pain relief solutions for fibromyalgia and trigger point patients and others with debilitating symptoms. Pain treatment plans include both self-help remedies for the patient-stretching or postural exercises, self-massage techniques and prevention strategies-as well as diagnostic and treatment hints for care providers. Part 3 offers guidance for both patients and care providers in history taking, examination, and palpation skills, as well as treatment options. It offers a vision for the future that includes early assessment, adequate medical training, prevention of fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, changes to chronic pain management and possible solutions to the health care crisis, and a healthier version of our middle age and golden years, asserting that patients have a vital role to play in the management of their own health. Review “The hallmark of this book is the ‘Gallery’ which contains detailed discussions of selected muscles throughout the body. The reader will find detailed medical information about the function of each muscle complete with medical illustrations of the highest quality. … [This ...

-Titulo Original : Spinal Manipulation Made Simple A Manual Of Soft Tissue Techniques-Fabricante : North Atlantic Books-Descripcion Original: Written by an expert on alternative bodywork, this book presents techniques for manipulating the soft tissues of the back in a safe, simple manner. The method avoids the high velocity, low amplitude thrusting techniques employed by chiropractors. Instead, it utilizes the intuitive sense of somatic bodyworkers combined with the proven theory and technique of Rolfing to provide safe and effective treatment. Maitland shows how to elegantly release joint fixations in the spine, sacrum, pelvis, and ribcage by using subtle soft tissue techniques, rather than the thrusting techniques that pop the joints. This gentler kind of individualized Rolfing work is thoroughly described within an explanation of biomechanics, aided by drawings and photographs which depict techniques and anatomy. About the Author Jeffrey Maitland, Ph.D., is a philosophical counselor and advanced Rolfer. He is a senior instructor and Director of Academic Affairs at the International Rolf Institute. He lives and practices in Scottsdale, Arizona...