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Awakening Somatic IntelligenceThe Art and Practice of Embodied MindfulnessWritten by Risa F. Kaparo, Ph.D., Foreword by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and James Oschman, Ph.DPrice: $21.95Trade PaperbackAwakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness—Transform Pain, Stress, Trauma, and Aging offers a guide to Somatic Learning, an innovative body-oriented approach that incorporates mindfulness, visualization, breathing exercises, postures, and stretches. Developed by author, psychotherapist, and award-winning songwriter and poet Risa Kaparo, PhD, Somatic Learning is based on leading-edge...
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Exploring Body-Mind CenteringAn Anthology of Experience and MethodEdited by Gil Wright Miller, Pat Ethridge and Kate Tarlow MorganPrice: $24.95Trade PaperbackExploring Body-Mind Centering features 35 essays on Body-Mind Centering (BMC), an experiential practice based on the application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles. Using the work of BMC founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen as a springboard, the book showcases diverse situations—from medical illness to blocked creativity—in which this discipline is applied...
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Body EncyclopediaA Guide to the Psychological Functions of the Muscular SystemWritten by Lisbeth Marcher and Sonja FichPrice: $34.95Trade PaperbackBased on Bodynamic Analysis, a body-oriented psychology developed in Denmark by the authors and their colleagues, Body Encyclopedia describes the developmental sequence in which psychological and emotional elements are linked to specific muscles. The book shows how certain responses to events in our lives end up bound and connected with our...
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In an Unspoken VoiceHow the Body Releases Trauma and Restores GoodnessWritten by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., Foreword by Gabor Mate, M.D.Price: $21.95Trade Paperback**Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind—a Revolution in Treatment**
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The Wild Region of Lived ExperienceUsing Somatic-PsychoeducationWritten by Danis BoisPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackThe 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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Understanding the Messages of Your BodyHow to Interpret Physical and Emotional Signals to Achieve Optimal HealthWritten by Jean-Pierre Barral, D.O.Price: $18.95Trade PaperbackFears, 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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The Leadership DojoBuild Your Foundation as an Exemplary LeaderWritten by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Foreword by Richard LeiderPrice: $24.95HardcoverHistory 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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Life on LandThe Story of Continuum, the World-Renowned Self-Discovery and Movement MethodWritten by Emilie Conrad, Foreword by Valerie HuntPrice: $24.95Trade PaperbackEmilie 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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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: $19.95Trade PaperbackThis 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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Trauma Through a Child's EyesAwakening the Ordinary Miracle of HealingWritten by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. and Maggie KlinePrice: $24.95Trade PaperbackAn 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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How Life MovesExplorations in Meaning and Body AwarenessWritten by Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank, Foreword by Hubert GodardPrice: $22.95Trade PaperbackThis comprehensive movement program uses the story of biological evolution as a tool to increase strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Readers learn to "unlearn" inherited bodily habits by embodying the many forms that life has expressed on Earth—from the single cell to the human being—and shifting their perception. Through this evolutionary...
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Body, Breath, and ConsciousnessA Somatics AnthologyEdited by Ian Macnaughton, Foreword by Peter A. LevinePrice: $21.95Trade PaperbackThe forces that develop the self—somatic, emotional, mental, interpersonal, social, and spiritual—must all be considered by therapists in treating any patient. Each article in this important anthology deals in some way with these various elements. The writing is focused on the body-mind connection, exploring the practices and theories of this popular...
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Being Human at WorkBringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional LifeEdited by Richard Strozzi-HecklerPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackThis anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or working in the military, the classroom, or the corporation. These essays reveal what gets in the way of our humanity...
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Victims of CrueltySomatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress DisorderWritten by Maryanna Eckberg, Foreword by Peter A. LevinePrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackIn Victims of Cruelty, Maryanna Eckberg incorporates work with Vietnam veterans (the first to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. This personal testimony of how people can heal after trauma is also a professional book describing the effects of personal and political repression and how we...
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The Body in PsychotherapyInquiries in Somatic PsychologyEdited by Don Hanlon Johnson and Ian J. GrandPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackThe Body in Psychotherapy explores the life of the body as a basis of psychological understanding. Its chapters describe the use of movement, awareness exercises, and bodily imagination in work with various populations and life situations. It chronicles somatic work with childhood trauma, political torture, and life transitions such as aging...
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Waking the Tiger: Healing TraumaThe Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming ExperiencesWritten by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., Contribution by Ann FrederickPrice: $17.95Trade PaperbackNature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...
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GroundworksNarratives of Embodiment Volume IIEdited by Don Hanlon JohnsonPrice: $14.95Trade PaperbackGroundworks gives accounts of the actual processes of working with individuals in six major schools of Somatics by either the creator of the method itself or a leading teacher of the method. The creators are Robert Hall of Lomi School, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of Body-Mind Centering, and Emilie Conrad Da'oud of...
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The Anatomy of ChangeA Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Second EditionWritten by Richard Strozzi-HecklerPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackThe body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds. In The Anatomy of Change, Richard Heckler draws on Aikido and Lomi Body Work to demonstrate how a set of practices can bring new awareness and choice into our daily life.
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Wisdom of the Body MovingAn Introduction to Body-Mind CenteringWritten by Linda HartleyPrice: $23.95Trade PaperbackThis comprehensive guide introduces Body-Mind Centering, the internationally recognized field pioneered by dancer and occupational therapist Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Devoting thirty-five years to a systematic investigation of the relations between bodily experience and the anatomical maps of science, Bainbridge Cohen independently discovered many of the principles that underlie Feldenkrais work, cranial...
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Bone, Breath, and GesturePractices of Embodiment Volume 1Edited by Don Hanlon JohnsonPrice: $23.95Trade PaperbackThis 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...
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Spacious BodyExplorations in Somatic OntologyWritten by Jeffrey Maitland, Preface by Michael SalvesonPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackIn Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience.
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Body, Spirit, and DemocracyWritten by Don Hanlon JohnsonPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackBody, Spirit and Democracy addresses how can we, of different ethical values, spiritual commitments, and ethnic backgrounds, work together to create a more humane world. The unique perspective on this common concern is from the author's lifetime of work within the family of body-therapies, exercise and movement disciplines that emerged in...
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The Subtle SelfPersonal Growth and Spiritual PracticeWritten by Judith BlackstonePrice: $12.95Trade PaperbackJudith Blackstone's Subtle Self Work is a mind-body therapy integrating teachings from dance, Alexander Technique, psychotherapy, Eastern philosophy, and meditation. A student of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Blackstone describes in The Subtle Self her own physical and spiritual healing, as well as a method one can work with to establish...
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BodyRecovering Our Sensual Wisdom Second EditionWritten by Don Hanlon JohnsonPrice: $16.95Trade PaperbackBody: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom outlines a plan for reclaiming unity among our body movements, senses, and thought processes. It describes how we are pressured to mold ourselves to fit others' needs by attitudes fostered in religions, schools, the workplace, and the military. It gives special attention to how gender ideals...
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