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...
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Understanding the Messages of Your Body
How to Interpret Physical and Emotional Signals to Achieve Optimal Health
Written by Jean-Pierre Barral
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Fears, 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 Dojo
Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader
Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $24.95
Frog Books
History 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 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...
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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
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
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. 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 Eyes
Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Written by Peter Levine and Maggie Kline
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents such as auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce...
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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...
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The Psychic Healing Book
Written by Amy Wallace and William Henkin
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
In this classic text with a new introduction by Wallace and Henkin, the authors demystify such processes as grounding, basic psychic meditations, reading auras, understanding the astral body, and performing simple psychic readings and healings. The book is based on the idea that psychic abilities are not just the province of...
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Conscious Breathing
How Shamanic Breathwork Can Transform Your Life
Written by Joy Manne
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Conscious Breathing presents contemporary Breathwork methods in a comprehensive, structured way for modern readers. Emphasizing the practice as a way to access the most elevated states of consciousness and the deepest states of meditation, author Joy Mann shows how Breathwork can be applied to transpersonal, existential, past life, chakra, Kundalini, shamanic...
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Being Human at Work
Bringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional Life
Edited by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
This 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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Beyond the Trauma Vortex
The Media's Role in Healing Fear, Terror, and Violence
Written by Gina Ross, Annotations by Peter Levine
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
In Beyond the Trauma Vortex, the author proposes a collaboration between the media, helping professionals, and trauma researchers to stem the tide of trauma. The media, Ross suggests, can use its influence to promote messages of peace over violence and be used as a tool in the restoration and rebuilding of...
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Crash Course
A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery
Written by Diane Heller and Laurence Heller, Foreword by Peter Levine
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Trauma following automobile accidents can persist for weeks, months, or longer. Symptoms include nervousness, sleep disorders, loss of appetite, and sexual dysfunction. In Crash Course, Diane Poole Heller and Laurence Heller take readers through a series of case histories and exercises to explain and treat the health problems and trauma brought...
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Victims of Cruelty
Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Written by Maryanna Eckberg, Foreword by Peter Levine
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
In 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 Psychotherapy
Inquiries in Somatic Psychology
Edited by Don Johnson and Ian Grand
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
The 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 Trauma
The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Written by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics...
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Holding the Center
Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion
Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of Heckler’s lessons arise from his life...
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The Anatomy of Change
A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Second Edition
Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
The 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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The Alchemy of Healing
Psyche and Soma
Written by Edward Whitmont, M.D.
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
In The Alchemy of Healing, Dr. Edward C. Whitmont explores the major themes of illness, health, and the practice of medicine. Uniquely qualified by his personal associations with such pioneers as Carl Jung, M. Esther Harding, Karl Konig, Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, and G.B. Stearns, Whitmont takes a daring plunge into the...
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Body, Spirit, and Democracy
Written by Don Johnson
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Body, 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 Self
Personal Growth and Spiritual Practice
Written by Judith Blackstone
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
Judith 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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Body
Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom Second Edition
Written by Don Johnson
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Body: 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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