CATALOGUES - Health - Somatics

An Introductory Guide to Massage is an essential textbook for all massage students and professionals. Clearly written and comprehensively illustrated, it is designed to provide a thorough introduction to massage techniques, essential background knowledge and professional practice

Applied kinesiology uses diagnostic muscle tests in conjunction with standard examination procedures to determine the causes of health problems. Written for professionals and nonprofessionals alike, "Applied Kinesiology "includes 32 muscle tests and a step-by-step guide for applying specific correction techniques.

"Applied Kinesiology is something that can be performed with knowledge, with physiological facts, and with predictable certainty. It should be done, it can be done, and this book offers a means and a measure of how it's done."
--George J. Goodheart, DC, Founder of Applied Kinesiology
"Robert Frost accurately describes AK the way medical doctors and chiropractors perform it. This is the best introduction to Applied Kinesiology I've ever seen!"
--Dr. Rudolf Meierhofer, International Medical Society for Applied Kinesiology
"This book presents the basic techniques of ..read more

Organized into thirty-one "days" of pleasurable learning activities, this book helps readers experience their anatomy directly through dance- and story-related movements.

Featuring 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. The book is divided into three sections. "Fundamentals" covers basic skills of palpation, explaining the deeper layers of the body and presenting detailed instruction on working with these layers to release tension. This section gives clear information on the proper... read more

"Art's passion, teaching expertise, and therapeutic knowledge blend beautifully in this user-friendly text. Every somatic therapist will gain valuable insights for energizing their practice and enhancing skills. The book is obviously a labor of love, and as the great author, poet, and artist John Ruskin once stated, 'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.'"
--Erik Dalton, Ph.D., Developer of the Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques and founder of the Freedom From Pain Institute
"Art Riggs is masterful at teaching and explaining deep bodywork. We unre..read more

"Esoteric Anatomy" offers a spiritual approach to massage, bodywork, and somatic psychology, demystifying an ancient transpersonal model for understanding energy in nature and working with consciousness in the healing arts.

"When I hold this text, I feel as though I am holding one of the more important documents of our time--an extremely comprehensive and extraordinary map of our subtle anatomy."
-Richard Gordon, author of "Quantum Touch" and "Your Healing Hands"
"This book is a significant addition to holistic-health literature."
- John Chitty, R.P.P., President, American Polarity Therapy Association
"With "Esoteric Anatomy," Bruce Burger integrates profound levels of Oriental wisdom and Ayurvedic theories of creation and transformation in a new and convincing way."
- Paul Pitchford, author of "Healing with Whole Foods: Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition"

This book, an authoritative text on musculoskeletal and physical medicine that integrates Eastern and Western approaches, covers every aspect of musculoskeletal medicine, starting with an in-depth introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) principles as they relate to the subject. Author Alon Marcus surveys the science of pain from both modern biomedical and TCM perspectives, examines the foundations of integrative musculoskeletal medicine, explores biomedical and osteopathic clinical assessment, and outlines treatment opti... read more

Originally published as a single volume, "The Heart of Listening" has been re-issued as two separate volumes because of public demand for a more concise, portable edition. Milne, a third generation Scottish osteopath, begins by explaining the visionary approach to healing, and how it may be applied to the realm of craniosacral work. He explains the importance of meditation, centering, and the cultivation of heartfulness in the development of compassionate practice. Milne introduces the reader to the story of visionary work--its gen... read more

""The Heart of Listening," a welcome book to those of us teaching in this field that is so difficult to put into words, embodies the uniqueness of its author, who offers a rare combination of being a highly skilled healing practitioner and biomedical."
-Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D., Director of Somatics Program, California Institute of Integral Studies
"A wonder of a book. So many wisdoms and books within books. A book for all people."
-Betty Balcombe, Visionary Healer and Author of "As I See It" and "The Energy Connection"
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Originally published as a single volume, "The Heart of Listening" has been re-issued as two separate volumes because of public demand for a more concise, portable edition. Milne, a third generation Scottish osteopath, begins by explaining the visionary approach to healing, and how it may be applied to the realm of craniosacral work. In the second volume, Milne details the anatomy, physiology, energetics, and techniques that are the essential core of visionary craniosacral work. His particular genius lies in his ability to weave a d... read more

""The Heart of Listening," a welcome book to those of us teaching in this field that is so difficult to put into words, embodies the uniqueness of its author, who offers a rare combination of being a highly skilled healing practitioner and biomedical."
-Don Hanlon Johnson, Ph.D., Director of Somatics Program, California Institute of Integral Studies
"A wonder of a book. So many wisdoms and books within books. A book for all people."
-Betty Balcombe, Visionary Healer and Author of "As I See It" and "The Energy Connection"
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Possibly the most famous and widely used resource in therapeutic bodywork (required for national massage therapy certification), this beautifully written, detailed, and reader-friendly picture of how and why the body responds to touch is both scientifically reliable and inspiring. Furthering the presentation of recent research in biochemistry, cell biology, and energy medicine in the Second Edition, this new update includes advances in neurophysiology and physics, reconfiguring knowledge of mind and body, from "microgenesis"to "qua... read more

This manual, written with the minimum of technical language, is a guide to ortho-bionomy, an exercise system that combines the Western osteopathic tradition with the Eastern tradition of martial arts.

"Kathy Kain, one of the foremost international instructors of Ortho-Bionomy, has managed in this book to be both technically and humanly accurate. Anyone who wants to be qualified at a master level of practice in bodywork would benefit from being fully familiar with the methods and philosophy of Ortho-Bionomy."
-Julie Henderson, Ph.D., Somaticist, author of "The Lover Within and Restoring the Mother"

Charles Ridley is known for having refined a version of biodynamic craniosacral work that is nonmedical and nonmechanical. In Stillness, he clarifies the three fundamental types of this work — biomechanical, functional, and biodynamic. He explains the requirements and pitfalls of each model, and how to discern the differences and similarities between them. He guides the practitioner experientially to explore what he is describing, and offers exercises drawn from his own practice to help therapists access directly the whole fe... read more

"Charles Ridley is one of the most authentic practitioners I have met. The clarity with which the connection between tides, waves, and consciousness is made, coupled with his vivid anecdotes and practical practitioner exercises, makes this an inspiring and helpful book for beginner and advanced practitioners alike."
-- Hugh Milne, third-generation osteopath; founder of Visionary Craniosacral Work; author of "Heart of Listening"
"This wonderful book is firmly rooted in technical knowledge and practical instruction, yet there is also a palpable quality that inspires. Thank ..read more

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.

"For those wishing to bring their Quantum-Touch skills to a new and even higher level, I heartily recommend this book."
--Richard Gordon, author of "Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal"
"[Ever] since taking Alain's Supercharging workshop and doing the Color Meditation ... I am happier, calmer, and more loving as well as more serene and confident. I can handle whatever comes my way with grace and love."
--Heather Churchill, N.D.

Books 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 in 115 key stretches arranged by body area. Author Brad Walker brings years of expertise--he works with elite-level and world-champion athletes, and lectures on injury prevention--to this how-to guide. He looks at stretching fr... read more

The result of more than two decades of research and practice, The Endless Web present in clear, readable language a comprehensive guide to understanding and working effectively with the myofascial system, the 'packing material' of the body. Myofascia is a flexible network of tissue that surrounds, cushions, and supports muscles, bones, and organs. It also acts as a riverbed containing the flow of interstitial fluid, and is a critical influence on the immune and hormonal systems. In daily life, this connective tissue is an underlyin... read more