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...

Available August 19, 2008

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wisdom in the Body

The Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health

Written by Michael Kern, Foreword by Franklyn Sills
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books

Accumulations of life stresses—physical injuries, emotional and psychological stresses, birth traumas, and toxicity—can become imprinted in the tissues, acting like a videotape that is replayed whenever stimulated. Biodynamic craniosacral therapy aims to resolve the trapped forces that underlie and drive these trauma-based patterns of disease and suffering in body and mind...

Working Wonders

Changing Lives with CranioSacral Therapy

Written by John E. Upledger
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books

In this extensive collection, 145 practitioners from around the world tell how CranioSacral Therapy, a method of using gentle pressure to evaluate and improve the functioning of the central nervous system, has made a difference in their clients' lives. Beginning with a foreword by the treatment's developer, the book is divided...

Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume 2

The Primal Midline and the Organization of the Body

Written by Franklyn Sills
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books

In this book, Franklyn Sills extends the concepts and skills covered in his first volume to the specific structural membrane and tissue dynamics of the human form, demonstrating the connection between craniosacral therapy and osteopathic healing. Volume Two shows students and practitioners how to relate to the major tissue structures within...

I Can Show You I Care

Compassionate Touch for Children

Written by Susan Cotta, Illustrated by Gregory Crawford
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books

This full-color picture book written for school age children shows the famous Upledger Technique's 'Healing Hands' program at work with children. Conducted at schools around the country, the program teaches children—at a young age—the importance of compassion and caring for others. Children have shown remarkable behavioral improvements after participating in this...

Cell Talk

Talking to Your Cell(f)

Written by John E. Upledger
Price: $65.00
North Atlantic Books

In Cell Talk, Dr. Upledger presents the conceptual and experiential core of his work. By addressing the relationship between cell activity and consciousness, he strikes at the heart of how living systems form and heal themselves and, indeed, how organisms with minds may exist at all. Understanding how cells communicate and...

Somato Emotional Release

Deciphering the Language of Life

Written by John E. Upledger, Foreword by Richard Grossinger
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books

Developed by the author, SomatoEmotional Release is a technique for bringing psychotherapeutic elements into CranioSacral therapy. It helps rid the mind and body of the residual effects of trauma by anatomically freeing the central channel of the body. John E. Upledger presents the history, theory, and practice of this subtle form...

Craniosacral Biodynamics

The Breath of Life, Biodynamics, and Fundamental Skills

Written by Franklyn Sills
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books

Craniosacral therapy is based on the belief that functions of the human system are maintained and integrated by a biodynamic force known as 'primary respiration,' or the breath of life. Found in the brain, spinal cord, and bodily fluids, this rhythmic pulse promotes healing and health. Written for students and practitioners...

CranioSacral Therapy

Touchstone for Natural Healing

Written by John E. Upledger
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books

In CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing, John E. Upledger, DO, OMM, recounts his development of CranioSacral Therapy. He shares poignant case studies of restored health: a five-year-old autistic boy, a man with Erb’s palsy, a woman with a fifteen year history of severe headaches, and numerous others. And he offers...

Compassionate Touch

The Body's Role in Emotional Healing and Recovery

Written by Clyde Ford
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books

Through his treatment of many men and women as a chiropractor and therapist, Dr. Clyde W. Ford discovered that the body can be the key to unlocking and opening the door to healing from physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Dr. Ford has used touch to help his patients recover from a...

The Heart of Listening, Volume II

Written by Hugh Milne
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books

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...

The Heart of Listening

Written by Hugh Milne
Price: $80.00
North Atlantic Books

This deluxe hardcover editions contains both Volume I and II of The Heart of Listening. 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...

The Heart of Listening, Volume I

A Visionary Approach to Craniosacral Work

Written by Hugh Milne
Price: $29.95
North Atlantic Books

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...

Your Inner Physician and You

CranoioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release

Written by John E. Upledger
Price: $16.00
North Atlantic Books

This lively book describes the discovery and therapeutic value of the craniosacral system in easy, understandable terms healthcare professionals and laypeople alike can understand. Dr. Upledger's colorful case histories explain the path that led to his discovery of this exciting medical modality. The book contains a play-by-play account of the development...

A Brain Is Born

Exploring the Birth and Development of the Central Nervous System

Written by John E. Upledger
Price: $65.00
North Atlantic Books

Witness the dramatic unfolding of the human form in all its potential. Join John E. Upledger, D.O., O.M.M., as he takes you from the union of sperm and egg through the development of the complex circuitry that makes up the human brain. You'll learn about birth, growth, function and dysfunction, and...

An Introduction to Craniosacral Therapy

Anatomy, Function, and Treatment

Written by Don Cohen, Foreword by John Upledger
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books

Grounded in ancient hands-on methods of diagnosis and treatment while encompassing the innovations of the early experimental osteopaths, craniosacrally-based treatment is now one of the most successful and fastest-growing approaches to mind-body healing. Providing access to the unity of structure and function in the organism, such therapy offers a simple, direct...