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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Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement
Great Technique Without Injury
Written by Joanne Elphinston
Price: $32.95
North Atlantic Books
In Stability, Sport, and Performance Movement, renowned physiotherapist and performance consultant Joanne Elphinston teaches that sporting technique is rooted in movement efficiency, stability, symmetry, and balance. These elements work together to ensure that physical restrictions and inefficient muscle recruitment patterns don’t inhibit technical movement goals. The right muscles firing at the...
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The Concise Book of Trigger Points, Revised Edition
Written by Simeon Niel-Asher
Price: $29.95
North Atlantic Books
Most muscular aches and pains are caused or affected by untreated “trigger points,” localized tender spots in muscles. Understanding and treating these points can lead to rapid and lasting pain relief. Trigger point therapy is a powerful tool in the management of both acute and chronic pain, including such common problems...
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Volume Two
Written by Michael J. Shea
Price: $39.95
North Atlantic Books
The first volume of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy presented the basics of craniosacral therapy as a gentle, compassionate healing art that can be used by psychologists, midwives, chiropractors, and massage and physical therapists. In this second volume, author Michael Shea goes deeper into the entire biodynamic paradigm, analyzing the relationship of trauma...
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The Concise Book of Muscles, Revised Edition
Written by Chris Jarmey
Price: $29.95
North Atlantic Books
A clear, simple guide for students of anatomy as well as an excellent resource for athletes, massage therapists, and anyone interested in the workings of the human body, this user-friendly book is organized around six muscle groups. They include muscles of the face head, and neck; the trunk; the shoulder and...
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A Practical Guide to Acu-points
Written by Chris Jarmey and Ilaira Bouratinos
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
An understanding of acu-points is vital not only for acupuncturists but also for bodyworkers. This user-friendly manual contains current, comprehensive information for both groups, with special emphasis on how shiatsu and tuina therapists can best utilize “point knowledge” in their practice. Renowned experts Chris Jarmey and Ilaira Bouratinos use succinct text...
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Anatomy of the Moving Body
A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints
Written by Theodore Dimon, Jr., Illustrated by John Qualter
Price: $21.95
North Atlantic Books
Learning anatomy requires more than pictures and labels; it requires a way "into" the subject, a means of making sense of what is being shown. Anatomy of the Moving Body addresses that need with a simple yet complete study of the body's complex system of bones, muscles, and joints and how...
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CranioSacral Therapy
What It Is, How It Works
Contribution by John E. Upledger, Donald Ash, Richard Grossinger and Don Cohen
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
With the troubling side effects and surging costs of medications and surgery, Americans are increasingly turning to CranioSacral Therapy as an effective, drug-free, and non-invasive therapy. A gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the function of the craniosacral system — the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the...
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Harmonic Healing
A Guide to Facilitated Oscillatory Release and Other Rhythmic Myofascial Techniques
Written by Zachary Comeaux
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books
Connective tissue release, or myofascial release, is a major component of manual therapies, including osteopathic medicine. Most methods involve placing the patient in a passive, relaxed position for diagnosis and treatment. However, many practitioners have intuitively sensed that rhythmic motion should be a component of therapy, and increasingly include it in...
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The Concise Book of Neuromuscular Therapy
Written by John Sharkey
Price: $32.95
North Atlantic Books
Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT) is an innovative healing approach that combines the best soft tissue manipulation techniques of osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, trigger point therapy, and other fields. NMT uses massage techniques and flexibility stretching to balance the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, and eliminate the causes of neuromuscular pain. The therapy consists of...
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The Anatomy of Sports Injuries
Written by Brad Walker
Price: $29.95
North Atlantic Books
Everyone who plays sports experiences injuries. Many people never fully recover because they’re not aware of what they can do to facilitate recovery. But there’s no need to simply resign yourself to “living with” a sports injury. In The Anatomy of Sports Injuries, author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works...
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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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Dynamic Bodyuse for Effective, Strain-Free Massage
Written by Darien Pritchard
Price: $39.95
North Atlantic Books
The most significant cause of early retirement from the massage profession is the cumulative strain on the body developed in the course of performing the work. The explosive growth of this occupation in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in the number of work-induced problems. Practitioners can easily strain...
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A Barefoot Doctor's Guide for Women
Written by Georgette Delvaux
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
In A Barefoot Doctor’s Guide for Women, Georgette Delvaux, DC, focuses on hormonal health explaining in a conversational tone how issues related to menstruation, pre-menopause, and menopause can begin as mere annoyances and gradually develop into major problems that affect both body and mind. She describes the harmful late effects of...
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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
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...
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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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Deep Tissue Massage, Revised
A Visual Guide to Techniques
Written by Art Riggs, Foreword by Thomas W. Myers
Price: $29.95
North Atlantic Books
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...
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Supercharging Quantum Touch
Advanced Techniques
Written by Alain Herriott, Foreword by Richard Gordon
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
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...
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The Foundations of Shiatsu
Written by Chris Jarmey
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
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 the energy lines or “meridians.” This text written by a renowned practitioner, has been designed as a...
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Volume One
Written by Michael J. Shea
Price: $39.95
North Atlantic Books
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Volume One presents craniosacral therapy as a compassionate healing art that can be used by psychologists, midwives, chiropractors, and massage and physical therapists. 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...
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The Anatomy of Stretching
Written by Brad Walker
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
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...
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Stillness
Biodynamic Cranial Practice and the Evolution of Consciousness
Written by Charles Ridley
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
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...
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Craniosacral Therapy for Babies and Small Children
Written by Etienne Peirsman and Neeto Peirsman, Foreword by John Upledger
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
This unique first book shows, through pictures and step-by-step instructions, how to give a baby or small child a full craniosacral treatment. The authors approach babies as conscious beings who endure enormous stress during the birth process. They show how CS therapy can help restore the correct alignments in babies' bodies...
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Quantum-Touch
The Power to Heal
Written by Richard Gordon, Foreword by C. Shealy
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
Quantum-Touch is the touch-based healing technique that uses the chi of both practitioner and client, bringing them into harmony to allow the body to heal itself. Quantum-Touch differs from other healing techniques because it does not require long years of study and presents none of the common hurdles of understanding or...
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Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body
An Overview of Craniosacral Biodynamics
Written by Roger Gilchrest
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
This useful book discusses craniosacral therapy’s history and present situation as well as its spiritual implications and practical contributions in the world of healthcare. Gilchrist demonstrates how the subtle patterns of this practice become a dynamic force in the body, and how this influences overall functioning. What most sets the book...
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