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The Wild Region of Lived ExperienceUsing Somatic-PsychoeducationWritten by Danis BoisPrice: $18.95North Atlantic BooksThe Wild Region of Lived Experience introduces the emerging discipline of somatic-psychoeducation, a powerful body-mind modality developed over a period of 25 years by author Danis Bois. Somatic-psychoeducation uses aspects of manual therapy (touch), movement, and psychotherapeutic methods to help people heal from physical and emotional issues, as well as develop...
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Quantum-Touch Core TransformationA New Way to Heal and Alter RealityWritten by Alain Herriott and Jody HerriottPrice: $19.95North Atlantic BooksQuantum-Touch teaches techniques for focusing and amplifying life-force energy (chi) through simple breathing and body-awareness exercises. This practice stimulates our biological intelligence to promote healing in everything from major immune disorders to chronic pain to emotional disturbances.
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Stability, Sport, and Performance MovementGreat Technique Without InjuryWritten by Joanne ElphinstonPrice: $32.95North Atlantic BooksIn Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement, renowned physiotherapist and performance consultant Joanne Elphinston teaches that sporting technique is rooted in movement efficiency, stability, symmetry, and balance. These elements work together to ensure that physical restrictions and inefficient muscle recruitment patterns don’t inhibit technical movement goals. The right muscles firing at the...
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The Concise Book of Trigger Points, Revised EditionWritten by Simeon Niel-AsherPrice: $29.95North Atlantic BooksMost muscular aches and pains are caused or affected by untreated “trigger points,” localized tender spots in muscles. Understanding and treating these points can lead to rapid and lasting pain relief. Trigger point therapy is a powerful tool in the management of both acute and chronic pain, including such common problems...
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Biodynamic Craniosacral TherapyVolume TwoWritten by Michael J. SheaPrice: $39.95North Atlantic BooksThe first volume of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy presented the basics of craniosacral therapy as a gentle, compassionate healing art that can be used by psychologists, midwives, chiropractors, and massage and physical therapists. In this second volume, author Michael Shea goes deeper into the entire biodynamic paradigm, analyzing the relationship of trauma...
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The Concise Book of Muscles, Revised EditionWritten by Chris JarmeyPrice: $29.95North Atlantic BooksA clear, simple guide for students of anatomy as well as an excellent resource for athletes, massage therapists, and anyone interested in the workings of the human body, this user-friendly book is organized around six muscle groups. They include muscles of the face head, and neck; the trunk; the shoulder and...
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A Practical Guide to Acu-pointsWritten by Chris Jarmey and Ilaira BouratinosPrice: $35.00North Atlantic BooksAn understanding of acu-points is vital not only for acupuncturists but also for bodyworkers. This user-friendly manual contains current, comprehensive information for both groups, with special emphasis on how shiatsu and tuina therapists can best utilize “point knowledge” in their practice. Renowned experts Chris Jarmey and Ilaira Bouratinos use succinct text...
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Anatomy of the Moving BodyA Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and JointsWritten by Theodore Dimon, Jr., Illustrated by John QualterPrice: $21.95North Atlantic BooksLearning anatomy requires more than pictures and labels; it requires a way "into" the subject, a means of making sense of what is being shown. Anatomy of the Moving Body addresses that need with a simple yet complete study of the body's complex system of bones, muscles, and joints and how...
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CranioSacral TherapyWhat It Is, How It WorksContribution by John E. Upledger, Donald Ash, Richard Grossinger and Don CohenPrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksWith the troubling side effects and surging costs of medications and surgery, Americans are increasingly turning to CranioSacral Therapy as an effective, drug-free, and non-invasive therapy. A gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the function of the craniosacral system — the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the...
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Harmonic HealingA Guide to Facilitated Oscillatory Release and Other Rhythmic Myofascial TechniquesWritten by Zachary ComeauxPrice: $22.95North Atlantic BooksConnective tissue release, or myofascial release, is a major component of manual therapies, including osteopathic medicine. Most methods involve placing the patient in a passive, relaxed position for diagnosis and treatment. However, many practitioners have intuitively sensed that rhythmic motion should be a component of therapy, and increasingly include it in...
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The Concise Book of Neuromuscular TherapyWritten by John SharkeyPrice: $32.95North Atlantic BooksNeuromuscular Therapy (NMT) is an innovative healing approach that combines the best soft tissue manipulation techniques of osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, trigger point therapy, and other fields. NMT uses massage techniques and flexibility stretching to balance the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, and eliminate the causes of neuromuscular pain. The therapy consists of...
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The Anatomy of Sports InjuriesWritten by Brad WalkerPrice: $29.95North Atlantic BooksEveryone who plays sports experiences injuries. Many people never fully recover because they’re not aware of what they can do to facilitate recovery. But there’s no need to simply resign yourself to “living with” a sports injury. In The Anatomy of Sports Injuries, author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works...
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Understanding the Messages of Your BodyHow to Interpret Physical and Emotional Signals to Achieve Optimal HealthWritten by Jean-Pierre BarralPrice: $18.95North Atlantic BooksFears, anxieties, traumas, and physical and emotional shocks imprint on the body and remain dormant in its vast memory store until they are roused by an event or encounter. They may manifest in a different form or place—a fearful incident may transform itself into a stomachache or a headache, or even...
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Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free MassageWritten by Darien PritchardPrice: $39.95North Atlantic BooksThe most significant cause of early retirement from the massage profession is the cumulative strain on the body developed in the course of performing the work. The explosive growth of this occupation in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in the number of work-induced problems. Practitioners can easily strain...
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Reversing Chronic PainA 10-Point All-Natural Plan for Lasting ReliefWritten by Maggie PhillipsPrice: $17.95North Atlantic BooksReversing Chronic Pain offers a dynamic framework for joining body and mind to speed the healing of traumatic pain from the body level up. Each chapter presents a body-centered skill set that can be mastered through a broad menu of practice exercises. The resulting interlinked somatic building blocks help readers shift...
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The Leadership DojoBuild Your Foundation as an Exemplary LeaderWritten by Richard Strozzi-HecklerPrice: $24.95Frog BooksHistory is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership. The first book of its kind to base business and management strength on integral body awareness...
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Engaging the Movement of LifeExploring Health and Embodiment Through Osteopathy and ContinuumWritten by Bonnie Gintis, Foreword by Emilie ConradPrice: $19.95North Atlantic BooksEngaging the Movement of Life is an invitation to discover new ways to experience health and embodiment. Osteopathic physician and Continuum Movement teacher Bonnie Gintis offers an approach that encompasses fluid movement, open attention, and awareness of sensation and breath as empowering practices to enrich all aspects of life. She presents...
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Life on LandThe Story of Continuum, The World-Renowned Self-Discovery and Movement MethodWritten by Emilie Conrad, Foreword by Valerie HuntPrice: $24.95North Atlantic BooksEmilie Conrad’s approach to movement education, health, and healing is as varied and deeply textured as her life story. In Life on Land, she interweaves the story of her Brooklyn childhood and discovery of dance with the psychic and physical collapse that led to the development of Continuum, her groundbreaking movement...
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Deep Tissue Massage, RevisedA Visual Guide to TechniquesWritten by Art Riggs, Foreword by Thomas W. MyersPrice: $29.95North Atlantic BooksFeaturing more than 250 photographs and 50 anatomical drawings, Deep Tissue Massage is the standard guide to the essentials of touch, biomechanics, and positioning options for a multitude of strategies to treat all major conditions encountered in a bodywork practice.
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Supercharging Quantum TouchAdvanced TechniquesWritten by Alain Herriott, Foreword by Richard GordonPrice: $19.95North Atlantic BooksQuantum-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...
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The Foundations of ShiatsuWritten by Chris JarmeyPrice: $24.95North Atlantic BooksShiatsu works by stimulating the body's vital energy flow in order to promote good health. The practitioner uses palms, thumbs and fingers, elbows, and even knees and feet to apply pressure and stretching to the energy lines or “meridians.” This text written by a renowned practitioner, has been designed as a...
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Biodynamic Craniosacral TherapyVolume OneWritten by Michael J. SheaPrice: $39.95North Atlantic BooksBiodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volume One presents craniosacral therapy as a compassionate healing art that can be used by psychologists, midwives, chiropractors, and massage and physical therapists. Author Michael Shea explains how the fluids of the body hold stress and offers practical, extremely gentle touch exercises that help practitioners heal physical, spiritual...
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Reclaiming Vitality and PresenceSensory Awareness as a Practice for LifeWritten by Charlotte Selver and Charles V.W. Brooks, Edited by Richard Lowe and Stefan Laeng-Gilliatt, Foreword by Norman FischerPrice: $19.95North Atlantic BooksThis book captures the essence of Charlotte Selver’s practice of Sensory Awareness like no other publication. It is an invitation to experience life firsthand again, as we did when we were children. In a culture where we have grown accustomed to accumulating knowledge from teachers and experts, it is rare to...
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The Anatomy of StretchingWritten by Brad WalkerPrice: $24.95North Atlantic BooksBooks on stretching are common, but The Anatomy of Stretching takes a more fundamental approach than the others, taking the reader inside the body to show exactly what is happening during a stretch. At the heart of the book are 300 full-color illustrations that show the primary and secondary muscles worked...
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Trauma Through a Child's EyesAwakening the Ordinary Miracle of HealingWritten by Peter Levine and Maggie KlinePrice: $24.95North Atlantic BooksAn essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
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