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North Atlantic Books Monthly Mail :: July 2007
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Supercharged bodyworking books make Summer last all year.
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New Releases, Summer 2007
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Supercharging Quantum Touch
Advanced
Techniques
Written
by Alain Herriott
Foreword by Richard Gordon
Quantum-Touch
teaches ways to focus and amplify chi through simple breathing and body
awareness exercises to aid in healing everything from major immune disorders
to chronic pain to emotional disturbances.
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Healing
Your Eyes
With Chinese Medicine
Written by Andy Rosenfarb
Foreword by Marc Grossman
ON SALE JUNE 2007 |
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Rumi
Maki Fighting Arts
Written by Juan Ramon Flores
and Alex Bushman Vega
ON SALE APRIL 2007 |
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Modern-Day
Macrobiotics
Written by Simon G. Brown
Foreword by Michio Kushi
ON SALE APRIL 2007 |
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The
New Seaweed Cookbook
Written by Crystal June
Maderia
Foreword by Josephine K. Spilka
ON SALE JULY 2007 |
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The
Whirling Circles
of Ba Gua Zhang
Written by Frank Allen
and Tina Chunna Zhang
ON SALE JUNE 2007 |
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The
Anti-Estrogenic Diet
Written by Ori Hofmekler
Contribution by Rick Osborn
ON SALE MARCH 2007 |
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The
Foundations of Shiatsu Written
by Chris Jarmey
Shiatsu 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
energy lines or meridians.
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Engaging the Movement of Life
Exploring
Health and Embodiment Through Osteopathy and Continuum
Written
by Bonnie Gintis
Foreword by Emilie Conrad
Osteopathic
physician and Continuum Movement teacher Bonnie Gintis teaches us that
moving fluidly increases our vitality, just as water in the natural
world is vitalized by flowing freely.
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Reclaiming Vitality and Presence
Sensory Awareness as a Practice for Life
Written by Charlotte Selver and Charles V.W. Brooks
Foreword by Norman Fischer
This 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.
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The Anatomy of Change
A
Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Written
by Richard Strozzi Heckler
The body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion
can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds. Drawing on
Aikido and Lomi Body Work, Richard Heckler's practices can bring awareness
and choice into our daily life. |
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Life on Land
The
Story of Continuum Written
by Emilie Conrad
Foreword by Valerie Hunt
Readable, poignant, and ultimately triumphant, Life on Land
melds Conrad’s unique theories of the body-mind frontier with
fearless discussions of Jewish heritage, sexuality, female identity,
and social pressures. |
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Deep Tissue Massage
A
Visual Guide to Techniques Written
by Art Riggs
Foreword by Thomas W. Myers
Featuring more
than 250 photographs and 50 anatomical drawings, this is the standard
guide to the essentials of touch, biomechanics, and positioning options
for strategies to treat all major conditions encountered in a bodywork
practice.
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Relearning to See
Improve
Your Eyesight -- Naturally! Written
by Thomas Quackenbush
In his presentation
of the famous Bates method, Thomas R. Quackenbush describes how eyesight
can improve naturally, at any age, regardless of heredity. This book
is a wonderful tribute to the genius of Dr. Bates, who was a pioneer
in discovering how vision becomes blurred.
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The
Concise Book of Muscles Written
by Chris Jarmey
Illustrated by Amanda Williams
Containing full-color illustrations, The Concise Book of Muscles is
a compact reference guide, clearly identifying all the major muscles,
showing the origin, insertion, action, and innervation of each one.
It also uniquely illustrates examples of stretching and strengthening
exercises. |
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The Anatomy of Stretching
Written
by Brad Walker
Injury prevention
expert, Brad Walker, looks at stretching from every angle, including
physiology and flexibility; the benefits of stretching; the different
types of stretching; rules for safe stretching; and how to stretch properly.
At the heart of the book are 300 full-color illustrations that show
the primary and secondary muscles worked in 115 key stretches arranged
by body area.
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Biodynamic
Craniosacral Therapy
Volume
One
Written
by Michael Shea
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, and emotional conditions in both infants and adults.
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Upcoming Events
Jun
29th, 30th, and Aug 1st
Acupressure Institute
Class: Five Element Chi Kung and Alchemical Creativity
1533 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley, CA
Contact the Acupressure Institute at 510.845.1059
Jul 14th, 15th, 28th, and 29th (Weekends 10am
- 6pm)
John F. Kennedy University Art Annex
Class: Five Element Chi Kung and Alchemical Creativity
2956 San Pablo Ave. (at Ashby)
Berkeley CA
510.649.0499
The capacity to create is part of being
human—whether that means making art, writing, teaching,
cooking for friends, gardening, giving a massage, nurturing
relationships, or following a spiritual path. Nourishing and
maximizing your vital energy, or Chi, is an essential part of
fulfilling your human potential. In Chi
and Creativity, authors Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching
present a wide range of strategies to harness the power of Chi
and cultivate the inner artist. They offer an integrative process
that includes exercises in Chi awareness, Chi Kung, art, journaling,
guided imagery, and meditation, to generate inspiration, awe,
and energy for living a creative life.
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Recent
Praise
"Café
Gratitude's new cookbook, I Am Grateful,
makes it easy to explore raw foods and affirmations in your own
kitchen."
-Versatile Vegetarian column in The Courier-Journal
"As spartan in style as Towers was in life, his poetry takes
readers on a journey through a Fairfield County that is impossible
to see from a car, but that becomes clear and bright whenever
anyone takes the time -- as Towers did -- to walk slowly through
it."
-Westport News, on Jonathan Towers'
Westport Poems
"More than just another collection of terrific recipes guaranteed
to please the palate and satisfy the appetite of even the most
gourmet of diners, Modern-Day
Macrobiotics also presents vitally important information
about the importance and health benefits of eating whole, living
foods; explains about how eating the foods that are right for
the human body can actually enhance our physical and mental energy
... As well as where and how to buy wholesome ingredients."
-Library Bookwatch, The Cookbook Shelf
"This book will be a welcome refresher to students and practitioners
of Bach Flower Remedies and of course will be a good introduction
to the subject of flower remedies to others."
-BookPleasures.com, on Dr. Bach's Flower Remedies
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