The Wild Region of Lived Experience

Using Somatic-Psychoeducation

Written by Danis Bois
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books

The 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...

Available November 4, 2008

Engaging the Movement of Life

Exploring Health and Embodiment Through Osteopathy and Continuum

Written by Bonnie Gintis, Foreword by Emilie Conrad
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books

Engaging 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...

Life on Land

The Story of Continuum, The World-Renowned Self-Discovery and Movement Method

Written by Emilie Conrad, Foreword by Valerie Hunt
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books

Emilie 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...

Ideokinesis

A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment

Written by Andre Bernard, Wolfgang Steinmuller and Ursula Stricker
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books

Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance...

How Life Moves

Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness

Written by Caryn Mchose and Kevin Frank
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books

This 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...