Yamuna Zake & Stephanie Golden
The internal logic of the body is at the heart of Body Rolling, an innovative technique that uses a 10 inch ball to stretch muscles, freeing restrictions in the body, increasing blood flow, and promoting healing. Body Rolling teaches "touch and tell" anatomy; you learn to find the origin of a muscle and sense from within what it feels like for that muscle to fully release. As the muscle releases, you experience release in other related areas of the body. Feeling the sensation of complete release and experiencing firsthand the interrelationships in the muscle system come as a revelation to most bodywork therapists. Yamuna Zake explains the underlying principles of her technique and tells how to get started, then gives instructions for basic side, front, and back routines. More detailed chapters focus on treating specific conditions such as lower back pain, neck problems, and the effects of aging. Following the logic and order of the body, Body Rolling can re-educate muscles, creating positive, permanent changes that prevent new injuries from occurring.
2478 324pp, 10x8, illus. Paperback
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Joseph Heller & William Henkin
Bodywise is based on Joseph Heller's own brand of deep-tissue bodywork, which makes the connection between life issues and natural bodily alignment, and shows how to restore the body's natural balance from the inside out. The book teaches readers how to regain control and become a full-time owner of their bodies. Part One explains the way the body works, in everyday life as well as in the structures of consciousness. Part Two takes the reader on a guided tour of the Hellerwork experience.
262pp, 9x7, illus. ... Paperback
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edited by Don Hanlon Johnson
This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics. Ranging from hands-on workers like Ida Rolf to phenomenologist Elizabeth Behnke, their lives span this century. In these lectures, writings, and interviews, editor Don Hanlon Johnson has sought to reveal the unbroken lineage, theoretical differences, and major similarities of these originators. "The unique contribution of the people in this volume is to have developed practical strategies for effecting a return to the healing intelligence of the body... these somatics innovators have challenged the dominant models of exercise, manipulation, and self-awareness as alienating people from their bodies. They have developed alternative ways of moving, touching, and being aware that bring us closer to the wisdom inherent in the ancient structures of collagen, nerve fibre, and cerebrospinal fluid." - Don Hanlon Johnson.
408pp, 9x6, illus. ISBN 1556432011 ... Paperback
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Julian Baker
The Bowen Technique has gained a reputation for achieving rapid physical adjustments, even though the therapist doesn't actually make things happen, but simply allows the body to ask itself what needs to be done. When it happens, it is not only often very quick, but also long lasting. Bowen Technique moves are gentle and result in very little pain during a treatment, and require little physical effort. The therapist uses his thumbs or fingers on certain points on the body, making rolling type moves over the soft tissue. In between moves, the therapist leaves the room to allow a response to take effect. As a clinical tool Bowen is especially useful and highly effective when other treatments are unsuitable, in acute cases, and when a client is frail, sick or infirm.
156pp, 10x7½, illus. ... Paperback
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Jon Schreiber
Breema is an increasingly popular form of bodywork that achieves radical results by working with our essential energies. The aim of Breema is to allow Existencet o support you. There is a spring within us and it’s connected to the Universal reservoir of the Field of Existence. There is a natural communication and exchange between the spring and the reservoir. The vitality you feel after giving or receiving a treatment is a function of the spring. Breema is the simplest form of natural body movement, yet during the treatment you receive exactly what you need. Everything the treatment accomplishes is the result of the life force passing through our body in its natural rhythm, in harmony with everything that is. RARE, out of print.
174pp, 11.5x8.75, illus. ... ISBN 0962358177 ... Hardback
Grace Halliday
Written for the therapists dealing with patients suffering from a wide variety of common ailments and degenerative diseases. Most of these problems are related to dysfunction of the lymphatic system and the resulting toxic build-up. Deep Lymphatic Therapy restores the lymphatic system ennabling it to remove toxins, metabolic wastes and cellular debris from the body. Grace Halliday has been a leading practitioner of this therapy for over 50 years.
144pp, 10x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
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Kate O’Shea
A manual for people suffering from serious joint problems and who may or have undergone orthopaedic surgery. It provides movement practices to help increase mobility and comfort, as well as strategies for holding the body and walking with greater stability, stamina and grace. Visualisations and self-massage techniques are used to cope with the fear, pain, and depression sufferers may experience.
154pp, 9 x 6, illus. ... ISBN 1556432585 ... Paperback
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John R Cross
Written in accessible language for bodyworkers and hands-on therapists, Healing with the Chakra Energy System describes the use of very simple nonsuppressive and nonsymptomatic techniques in which the cause of the disease process may be halted and disharmony within the body may be changed into harmony. Each chapter contains case histories and descriptions of how to treat many conditions, including muscular, joint, spinal, organic, and emotional. Based on the author's decades of clinical and teaching experience, this book represents a fresh approach to healing by tapping chakra energy.
300pp, 9.25x7, illus. ... Paperback
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Steven & Donna Finando
In this guide to the treatment of muscle pain, Steven & Donna Finando present evaluation and palpation techniques for reducing trigger points - and thereby alleviating pain - in the most clinically significant musculature of the body. A user’s manual for health care practitioners, Informed Touch examines a wide range of pain patterns and their treatment. Introductory chapters include discussion of the oriental medicine concept of Qi and its relationship to myology, information on trigger point location and activation, and palpatory skill-building techniques. Detailed information on each muscle, including pain-pattern and trigger-point illustrations and specific palpation instructions, allows clinicians to locate specific areas quickly and accurately. A visual index, showing reduced versions of the pain-pattern illustrations, makes it easy for clinicians to identify the muscles that may be involved. Informed Touch answers the reference needs of the growing community of physical therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, osteopaths, and massage therapists.
160pp, 11x8½, illus. ... Hardback
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Deane Juhan
Gives a detailed and vivid picture of how the body responds to touch and why therapeutic manipulation effects so many miraculous cures. Shows how bodywork is also mindwork, why touch deprivation can lead to debilitating illness & even death, and how therapeutic touch can alter the course of a wide range of ailments and even change deep-seated patterns - both physical and psychological. A standard text in many bodywork schools.
400pp, 10x7, 200 illus. ... ISBN 1581770995 ... Paperback
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Margaret McCarthy
This volume shows the relationship between degenerative disease and physiological malfunction within the body. It describes in detail the various techniques which may be used to treat the consequent symptoms simply, effectively and economically. To illustrate the range of situations in which the techniques can be used, case studies are included which serve to underline their effectiveness.
140pp, 10x7, illus. ... Paperback
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Jean-Pierre Barral
Manual thermal diagnosis is a method that utilises sensitivity to temperature changes to identify dysfunction within the body. It is useful as an aid to diagnosis for a wide spectrum of health disciplines, and also complements other diagnostic methods. The book starts with the science of understanding body heat and then proceeds, step-by-step, to provide the reader with the tools that are needed to transform their hands into sensitive diagnostic instruments.
128pp, 9x6, illus. ... ISBN 0939616246 ... Hardback
Bonnie Prudden
Bonnie Prudden’s revolutionary breakthrough in pain relief - myotherapy - involves trigger points, tender areas where muscles have been damaged from falls, childhood ailments, poor posture, and the stresses of everyday life. Requiring no special training or equipment, myotherapy is a wonderfully simple technique that can be performed anywhere. With its 95% success rate it has been hailed by healthcare professionals and patients alike. This book teaches how to locate trigger points (which are as individual as a person’s fingerprints, to apply pressure to where there is pain, and to stretch the affected muscles with simple exercises.
288pp, 9x7, illus. ... Paperback
Leon Chaitow
Palpation & Assessment Skills has been designed and developed to help the reader to understand and acquire the palpatory skills which are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments. Subtle and sensitivity of touch and the accurate interpretation of palpatory tests are required from the start of training in any of the manual therapy professions. It is difficult to learn these from written descriptions or static illustrations alone. By combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations and audio explanations on a CD-Rom, Palpation Skills provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop which they can access at any time.
384pp, illus. Paperback + CD-ROM
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Liz Koch
The Psoas Book is a comprehensive guide to the iliopsoas muscle and its profound influence on the body/mind/emotions. It explains the exact location of the psoas within the human body and its relationship to muscles, bones and organs; clarifies the many functions of the psoas and how it serves as a hip flexor, tensile structure, pump and shelf; details the effect the psoas has on structural balance, joint rotation, muscular compensations, organ functioning, breathing and emotional well being; explains the complexities that are inherent in a short or contracted psoas muscle and looks at the ways a parent can support a child’s growth; offers insight into the Fear Reflex system (voluntary and involuntary flee or fight reflex) and the emotional patterns of which the psoas muscle is a part - a strong case is made for not palpating or engaging manipulative/invasive techniques. Also covers traditional body systems and clarifies their somatic approach to working with the psoas muscle and offers ways to properly support the psoas. Simple instructions are given for releasing, toning and lengthening the muscle.
86pp, oversize, illus. ... Paperback
Marion Rosen & Sue Brenner
Rosen trained in Munich in the 1930's, one of a group of therapists doing breathwork and massage with the patients of Carl Jung. She has become one of the major progenitors, along with Rolfe, Feldenkrais and Trager, of a system of bodywork that connects breathing, emotional responses, and body functioning. Her method can keep an 80 year old moving like a 20 year old.
112pp, 9x7, illus. ... Paperback
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Dr. Chaitow provides practitioners and students with a working knowledge of the diagnostic and therapeutic use of neuro-muscular, muscle energy and strain-counterstrain techniques, and covers a number of additional individual techniques and systems involving reflex points and trigger points.
"Chaitow is a visionary in bringing together different alternative and complementary health systems and points of view into a form that offers new therapeutic possibilities." - Robert King, American Massage Therapy Association,
272pp, 9.75x7.25, illus. ... ISBN 0892812761 ... Hardback
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Mary Sanderson
Everyone needs muscles that are strong, supple, and in balance. Regular manipulation of the soft tissues plays an essential role in maintaining healthy muscles. Soft Tissue Release will transform any treatment, allowing specific problems to be addressed rapidly and effectively. This essential guide is a compact yet comprehensive source of information for the manual therapist and will unlock the secrets of soft tissue release (STR). The book is clearly illustrated through a series of diagrams and photo sequences to show the techniques involved. Soft Tissue Release is divided into eight parts, introducing STR and then covering the technique, the lower and upper limbs, the trunk, and the neck. Pre- and post- event treatment and self-treatment are also clearly explained.
112pp, 10x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
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James Briggs
With increased interest since the mid 1980s in the science of sport, this is a text that overviews the role of the sports therapist. The book provides both a theoretical and practical foundation on which to build further knowledge, skills and expertise. It should be a useful source of information for the student of sports therapy, as well as the qualififed therapist. The book looks at the different perspectives and definitions of the subject, then goes on to cover: exercise, training, fitness and performance; injury, inflammation, healing and repair; examination, assessment and diagnosis; treatment; rehabilitation; legal, professional, ethical, moral and practice management issues; drugs/cheating; sports injury clinic; and travelling with the teams.
288pp, 10x7.5, illus. ... Paperback
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Alain Herriott
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 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. Supercharging Quantum Touch gives readers the confidence they need to work in this increasingly popular and important healing art.
224pp. 9x7.5 ... Paperback
William Redpath
Redpath initiates dialogue about trauma and its critical importance in our cognitive, emotional, and kinesthetic experience. Examining how trauma is stored energetically in the mindbody, he includes the transcript of a full session conducted under the rubric he, with clients, has developed, called Trauma Energetics. Using inner vision strategies drawn from physics, he attempts to connect to an elusive realm, namely the phenomena of awareness where there is no movement, where our life energy is systematically held. By identifying and focusing upon these areas without will or intention, he strategizes, we can begin to tap into the most profound aspects of our brain's self-healing capacities.
384pp, 9x6 ... Paperback
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Donna Finando
The vast majority of physical injuries incurred by active people begin with muscular injuries that are not addressed by the conventional medical approach to orthopedic care. Injuries of this type are generally too minor to warrant splinting, casting, or medication and often do not prevent participation in physical activities. They do, however, produce noticeable discomfort and, over time, frequently lead to more severe injuries. In Trigger Point Self-Care Manual Donna Finando presents methods for the healing and prevention of musculature injuries. She identifies the causes of and remedies for areas of muscular tightness and restriction and details many self-care techniques, including precise self-massage, stretching, and the use of wet heat and/or ice. In the fully illustrated reference section, organized by body part, she identifies the pain associated with trigger points in each muscle of the body and provides instructions for palpating, treating, and stretching the muscle in order to release it.
224pp, 11x8.5, illus. ... ISBN 978-1594770807 ... Paperback
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Deb Shapiro
Our bodies are constantly sending us messages. Are you paying attention? On Your Body Speaks Your Mind, Deb Shapiro shows you how mastering the language of your symptoms will dramatically increase your potential for healing. With her, you will discover the intricate link between feelings and thoughts and specific parts of your body, and how unresolved psycho-emotional issues can affect your physical health. Your Body Speaks Your Mind guides you through your internal messaging system, including: Steps you can take to heal your body with your mind, and vice-versa; a top to bottom Body Scan so you can hear and respond to the messages from each of your physiological systems; Talking with Your Body - a 25-minute guided practice that enables you to dialogue with your symptoms and illness.
“By learning the body’s language of symptoms,” explains Deb Shapiro, “you will actively engage in an intimate two-way communication that affects both your physical state and your mental and emotional health.” With this original audio adaptation of her bestseller Your Body Speaks Your Mind, she shows you how to access this powerful dialogue to decode the priceless information your body is giving you.
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