Sensing Feeling and Action
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen describes her innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis, and movement reeducation through her collected articles and interviews from Contact Quarterly, 1980-2007. Thirty-two additional pages with articles on the cell, embryology, and the autonomic nervous system, as well as new photos and illustrations.

Ideokinesis: A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
Andre Bernard, Wolfgang Steinmuller and Ursula Stricker
Mabel Elsworth Todd pioneered ideokinesis in the 1920s. Her book, The Thinking Body, described new ways to use all the senses as well as inner feeling and imagination to retrain the body to move with ease and balance. The system became an invaluable tool for generations of dancers, actors, and performance artists, thanks largely to one of its most important teachers, André Bernard (1924-2003). This book presents an introduction to the practice as well as a lengthy interview with Bernard and two meticulously detailed workshop protocols illustrated with 52 photographs and line drawings.

Reclaiming Vitality and Presence: Sensory Awareness as a Practice for Life
Charles Brooks and Charlotte Selver
In a culture where we have grown accustomed to accumulating knowledge from teachers and experts, it is rare to find a book that actually invites us to trust our own senses again. It is the authors’ intent to give back to the reader authority over his or her own experience and learning processes. Much of the book focuses on reviving the senses in order to open the mind and body to direct learning. The book imitates an actual Sensory Awareness class, involving the reader as a student, guiding him or her along a journey with and through the senses to a way of living that is in accordance with the natural functioning of the human organism in its environment.

Bodymind
Ken Dychtwald
An established classic in its field, Bodymind presents a comprehensive study on the body and mind relationship. Articulating the complex relationship between body type, personality and experience, Dychtwald suggests methods for obtaining deeper self-knowledge and relates techniques for releasing repressed feelings, as well as self-healing and increased energy. He arrgues that our bodies reflect our life history, state of being, and growth potential, discusses the connection between mental and physical well-being, and explains how to follow an holistic plan for health.

The Wisdom of the Body Moving
Linda Hartley
Experienced BMC practitioner Linda Hartley demonstrates the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering. Drawing on animal and infant movements, she takes readers through the wondrous realms of Bainbridge Cohen’s pantheon—from the ‘minds’ of the skeletal and muscular systems to the quite different inner lives of digestive, lymphatic, urinary, respiratory, vocal, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive organs. Her choreography ultimately brings us into the states of consciousness of skins, cells, blood, fat, cerebrospinal fluid, nervous system, and brain. Hartley’s explorations of the images, feelings, sensations, and intuitions of the diverse organs and cells lead to exercises that gently guide students in ways of discovering and integrating their bodies’ multidimensional aspects.

Somatic Psychology: Body, Mind and Meaning
Linda Hartley
This book brings attention to the interface of psychotherapy and psychological theory with the somatic practices of bodywork and movement therapy. To offer a client only psychotherapy, or only bodywork may subtly or directly reinforce the body–mind split from which so many of us suffer; in some cases this will be a reinforcement of a dilemma central to the client?s problems. Hartley views body psychotherapy and transpersonal psychotherapy as building bridges between the once separated processes of psyche, soma, and spirit. Today the emerging field of somatic psychology is also contributing to the expanded field of psychology a subtle differentiation of bodymind process, developed through almost a century and a half of research and practice in somatic therapy and education.

Body: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom
Don Hanlon Johnson
This book outlines a plan for reclaiming unity among our body movements, senses, and thought processes. Interweaving personal experiences, anatomical analyses, and the stories of men and women from various walks of life, it explores how the mind/body split, concretized in our social institutions, coaxes us to distrust what our own senses tell us. In marked contrast to the individualistic aura of books in a similar vein, this book argues that individual awareness alone is not enough to correct the social scars left by mind-body dualisms. Real change can only come about when we join together to alter the shapes of our social body: schools, churches, political organizations, businesses, and health-care practices. Throughout the book, there are practical yet sensitive exercises offered for bringing about a reunion of abstract ideas and flesh, a recovery of our forgotten genius embedded in the cells of our bodies.

Bone, Breath and Gesture: Practices of Embodiment
Don Hanlon Johnson
This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics. Ranging from hands-on workers like Ida Rolf to phenomenologist Elizabeth Behnke, their lives span this century. In these lectures, writings, and interviews, editor Don Hanlon Johnson has sought to reveal the unbroken lineage, theoretical differences, and major similarities of these originators. Especially recommended for students as wanting to understand the historical context in which what has come to be known as somatics arose.

The Body in Psychotherapy: Inquiries in Somatic Psychology
Don Hanlon Johnson
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, the loss of parents, and the emergence of a sense of self. The Body in Psychotherapy is the third in a groundbreaking series that provides a theoretical and practical context for the emerging field of Somatics. The first and second book of the series are Bone, Breath, and Gesture and Groundworks.

The Body of Life: Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement
Thomas Hanna
In this classic book on bodywork education, Thomas Hanna builds on the theoories of Functional Integration, a method that applies gentle physical manipulation to fine-tune the nervous system and eliminate involuntary responses to tension, anxiety, and emotional pain. Through case histories, the author describes methods for improving bodily coordination, balance, and range of movement. With enhanced awareness, we gain a greater understanding of our internal states and our ability to affect them. He also surveys the pioneering work of Moshe Feldenkrais, who devised the system of Functional Integration, and many other somatic educators.

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Peter Levine
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 that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

Waking Up: The Work of Charlotte Selver
William C. Littlewood, Mary Alice Roche
Although the practice of Sensory Awareness, the rediscovery of experiencing, is nonverbal, its essence can be distilled from the tape-recorded words of its seminal teacher, Charlotte Selver, in response to her students’ actions and questions during her classes. This book is a lovingly selected and skillfully edited compilation of excerpts of more than two decades of Charlotte Selver’s profound teachings, colorful sayings, and rich insights, arranged topically. They represent the heart of her teaching. Using only her own words, the text of each experiment feels like Charlotte Selver herself speaking not only to her class but to the reader. The reader is invited to try out some of the suggested experiments.

A Kinesthetic Legacy: The Life and Works of Barbara Clark
Pamela Matt
An invaluable historical resource and practical text about Clark, a pioneering thinker in the somatics field. Clark was a studentof Mabel Todd who specialized in teaching children. She left Boston in 1949 and came to New York, where she taught privately. Sheassisted Sweigard, also a student of Todd’s, at New York University. Instead of writing a book on ideokinesis, Clark wrote several “manuals” as she called them. Clark moved to Urbana, Illinois, in 1972, where she died in 1982 at the age of ninety-five. This volume includes Clark’s previously published and unpublished manuals and teaching notes.

Heart of Listening: Visionary Approach to Craniosacral Work
Hugh Milne
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 genesis, evolution, philosophy, and practice—and explains how a grounding in meditation, sensitive touch, and intuitive perception can lead to a remarkable unfoldment in skill development.

How Life Moves: Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness
Caryn McHose
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 movement, the body’s native intelligence is revived and new movements can be learned, enabling the body to overcome chronic musculoskeletal complaints such as lower back, shoulder, and neck pain, and to meet whatever challenges it is faced with.

Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide
Andrea Olsen
Olsen’s book about the organic, perceptual and sensory connections of the human body and its earthy places draws successfully on a mix of somatic understanding, environmental studies and sciences, visual imagery in the form of photographs, diagrams and illustrations, and first-person narratives. An inspired synthesis of scientific detail and creative perception, it offers new insights into the relationship between body and earth, and addresses the interconnectedness of body and place through a mixture of reflections, information, exercises, and visual art. This beautifully illustrated book integrates environmental science, biology, meditation and creative expression. Part workbook and part exploratory guide, this book seeks to create a holistic understanding of person and place. By providing hard data, methods of reflection, exercise routines, and inspiration, Body and Earth offers a guide to responsible stewardship of both our planet and our persons.

The Art of Changing: Exploring the Alexander Technique and Its Relationship with the Human Energy Body
Glen Park
The Alexander Technique is a method by which we can allow change to take place in ourselves ‘against the habits of life’. It is recognized the world over as a subtle yet powerful method of dealing with physical and mental stress and of encouraging personal growth and transformation.

Rolfing: Re-establishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human Body for Vitality and Well-Being
Ida Rolf
This seminal work made its debut in 1977, and it has since remained the most important reference for Rolfers around the world. In this new edition, the late Dr. Rolf illustrates her theory and practice of Structural Integration, which brings the body into alignment and balance by manipulation of the connective tissue. Rolfing has helped thousands of people to stand taller, look better, move with greater ease, and have a greater sense of vitality and well-being. This is the original and classic text, with more than 600 illustrations and photographs An indispensible reference for the hundreds of Rolfers in this country, it will also appeal to other professional bodyworkers and the interested lay person.

Inside Motion: An Ideokinetic Basis for Movement Education
John Rolland
An in-depth and comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark work, with a complete description of the skeletal system. Contains many very simple and elegantly drawn diagrams showing the flow of forces through the body together with concise explanations of how the physical forces act on the human body.

Centered and Connected: A Therapeutic Approach to Mind-Body Awareness
Thea Rytz
Centered and Connected presents body-based techniques that integrate practices of self-reflection and non-judgmental awareness in order to foster healing, build self-esteem, and develop a stronger connection to one’s body. Author Rytz explores the disconnection between the mind and body, which can create alienation, lack of self-acceptance, and more serious emotional problems. Some of the body areas explored include the head, heart, hands, feet, stomach, and pelvis, as well as body-related phenomena such as the breath, gravity, and the voice. Each topic is followed by four simple and enjoyable activities meant to improve the body-mind relationship. There are 128 activities in all. More than 250 photographs and illustrations help readers visualize and utilize the exercises described.

Amazing Babies: Essential Movement for Your Baby in the First Year
Beverly Stokes
Amazing Babies is a “guide to parent-baby interactions and adult movement explorations.” The book “is designed to provide you with a dynamic developmental movement framework for relating to your amazing baby in new ways,” says Stokes, founder of the Center for Experiential Learning. “Using this framework, you will expand your observation skills to understand how babies move to learn, communicate, and interact in their environment.”

Human Movement Potential: Its Ideokinetic Facilitation
Lulu E. Sweigard
How does movement proceed and how can it be performed with greater efficiency? This book focuses on the interdependence of postural alignment and the performance of movement. The author, whose method of teaching body balance and efficient movement has been the result of many years of research and teaching, offers a point of view and methodology at odds with the generally employed methods of teaching posture, fitness, sport, rehabilitation or any of the performing arts. Students of dance, drama, physical education, as well as practitioners in the health care field will find this a valuable learning tool.

The Thinking Body: Study of the Balancing Forces of Dynamic Man
Mabel Elsworth Todd
This classic in the study of human physiology and the effect of psychological and mental processes on human movement is a favorite of dancers, students of motor development, and all those concerned with questions of human fitness. An invaluable insight into the precise workings of the skeletal-muscular structure ot the human body and the influence of the mind on its function. Written in extremely accesaible language( to the lay reader), and complete with the original drawings that of beautifully illustrate the text in painstaking detail. Extremely easy reading, yet chock full of the most erudite knowledge on the subject. A virtual mechanics manual for the human muscular skeletal frame and the forces that drive it to bring it into balance.

Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones, and More
Andrew R. Biel, Robin Dorn
This acclaimed book teaches readers to palpate the body’s structures with ease and precision. The beautifully illustrated, user-friendly guide to the muscular and skeletal systems makes learning the necessary bodywork skills interesting, memorable and easy. With 420 pages and 1,100 illustrations, this 3rd edition covers more than 125 muscles, 206 bones, 30 ligaments and 110 bony landmarks. It provides an invaluable map of the body.

Anatomy of Movement
Blandine Calais-Germain
Anatomy of Movement is a dynamic, integrated approach to the study of the physical structures of the musculoskeletal system and their functional relationship to the movements of the human body. The emphasis is on basic human anatomy as it relates to external body movement. In clear and concise text illustrated with more than a thousand graphic drawings, the author takes the reader on a lively tour of the muscles, bones, ligaments and joints of the arms, legs and trunk. The focus throughout the book is on anatomy not for its own sake, but in its functional relationship to the actual movements of the body in physical disciplines. Especially recommended for students looking for an inexpensive anatomy reference book.

Anatomy of Breathing
Blandine Calais-Germain
Everyone breathes, yet few of us understand how to consciously control breathing to improve our well-being and the quality of many daily activities. Anatomy of Breathing is a clear and helpful guide to both the theory and practice of breathing in its many variations. Hundreds of expert drawings along with easy-to-understand text help you explore just how breathing works. Anatomy of Breathing is a unique and wonderful resource for anyone who wishes to understand the science and art of breathing, and how to make their own breathing better and more life-enhancing.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
Eric Franklin
Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery shows you how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release excess tension. The book`s 195 illustrations will help you visualize the images and exercises and show you how to use them in a variety of contexts. You`ll explore the importance of posture and dynamic alignment and discover how to use imagery to affect body movement. You`ll learn how to use basic physics to create a strong yet fluid balance in your muscles and joints. You can select specific images to address individual needs or follow the sequence presented in the book. These exercises will help you establish a body image that facilitates dynamic alignment and releases excess tension.

The Body Moveable: Blueprints of the human musculoskeletal system : its structure, mechanics, locomotor and postural functions
David Gorman
For the student of motion, this volume is distinctly superior to all the traditional anatomy textbooks. The drawings and text are models of clarity for demonstrating the interrelationship of structure and function. This is a book for beginner or expert alike. Anatomy here is not forbidding; it is a joy to learn or review the wondrous facts of the construction of the moving human body. At last, here is an ideal anatomic atlas-text for the study of human movement.

Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork
Deane Juhan
Possibly the most famous and widely used resource in therapeutic bodywork, 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 “quantum consciousness.” A rare book that fits general reader as much as professional and student.

Hands
John Napier (Author), Russell H. Tuttle (Editor)
Intended for all readers – including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists – this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools.

Atlas of Human Anatomy
Frank H. Netter
Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy is the most loved and best selling anatomy atlas in the English language. In over 530 beautifully colored and easily understood illustrations, it teaches the complete human body with unsurpassed clarity and accuracy. This new edition features 45 revised, 290 relabeled and 17 wholly new plates, drawn fully in the tradition of Frank Netter, and includes more imaging and clinical images than ever before.

BodyStories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
Andrea Olsen
BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awareness about each bone and body system and provide self-guided studies. The book draws on Olsen’s thirty years as a dancer and teacher of anatomy to show how our attitudes and approaches to our body affect us day to day. Amusing and insightful personal stories enliven the text and provide ways of working with the body for efficiency and for healing. BodyStories is used as a primary text in college dance departments, massage schools, and yoga training programs internationally. Especially recommended for students wanting an introduction to the approach of experiential anatomy.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you’ve never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light.

The Hand
Frank R. Wilson
The Hand delineates the ways in which our hands have shaped our development – cognitive, emotional, linguistic, and psychological – in light of the most recent research being done in anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology. How did structural changes in the hand prepare human ancestors for increased use of tools and for our own remarkable ability to design and manufacture them? Is human language rooted in speech, or are its deepest roots to be found in the gestures that made communal hunting and manufacture possible? Is early childhood experience in reaching and grasping the secret of the human brain’s unique capacity to redefine intelligence with each new generation in every culture and society? Frank Wilson’s inquiry incorporates the experiences and insights of jugglers, surgeons, musicians, puppeteers, and car mechanics. His book illuminates how our hands influence learning and how we, in turn, use our hands to leave our personal stamp on the world.

Mindful Spontenaity: Lessons in the Feldenkrais Method
Ruthy Alon
Ruthy Alon’s description of Feldenkrais work in Mindful Spontaneity is a favored text of a generation of Feldenkrais enthusiasts. Alon weaves experiential and theoretical information in a poetic yet pragmatic language. These simple and unexpected suggestions will help everyone who suffers from restricted movement or pain to find a new sense of freedom.

Embodied Wisdom: The Collected Papers of Moshe Feldenkrais
Elizabeth Beringer (ed.)
Using Moshe Feldenkrais’s own words, Embodied Wisdom clearly explains the basic principles underpinning his techniques, Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Functional Integration (FI). These thoughtful articles and lively, sometimes humorous interviews explore a diverse range of subjects: the importance of bodily expression, the primacy of hearing, the mind- body connection, martial arts, sleep and consciousness, movement and its effect on the mind. Embodied Wisdom gives readers the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the scientific and spiritual principles behind the Method and offers sound strategies for incorporating it into their lives.

Judo: the art of defence and attack
Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshe Feldenkrais was active for many years 1925-1955, in Jujitsu, Judo, practical self defense, and also published books on those subjects. He met Prof. Jigoro Kano and had very close relationship with the great Judoka Gunji Koizumi, thefounder of the Budokwai.

Higher Judo
Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshe Feldenkrais was one of the early European practitioners of the martial Art of Judo and he wrote a number of influential texts on the subject. This text includes a 6 page introduction where he explicates his early ideas about somatic learning maturation and the martial arts. It is a unique document for those interested in the connection between Martial Arts and Somatics.

Body and Mature Behaviour: A Study of Anxiety, Sex, Gravitation and Learning
Moshe Feldenkrais
A victim of debilitating injuries, Moshe Feldenkrais was intimately aware of the link between bodily suffering and mental health. Through healing himself, he made revolutionary discoveries, culminating in the development of the method that now bears his name. In an intellectually rich and eloquent style, Feldenkrais delves into neurology, prehistory, child development, gravity and anti-gravity, reflexive versus learned behavior, the effects of emotion, especially anxiety, on posture, and most importantly, the inseparability of body and mind.

Awareness Through Movement
Moshe Feldenkrais
This best selling book contains 12 easy-to-follow Awareness Through Movement exercises for improving posture flexibility breathing coordination etc. After an introduction emphasizing the importance of self-education and the primary relationship of movement to sensory thinking and emotional life Feldenkrais demonstrates his ideas through the ATM lessons. Especially recommended for students wanting to read something from Feldenkrais himself on his method.

Elusive Obvious
Moshe Feldenkrais
This warm conversational book represents a summation of the theory and practice of both Functional Integration and Awareness Through Movement. Illuminated by anecdotes with the simple fundamental notions of our daily life that through habit become elusive and impossible to see.

The Potent Self: The Dynamics of the Body and the Mind
Moshe Feldenkrais
In The Potent Self, Feldenkrais delves deeply into the relationship between faulty posture, pain, and the underlying emotional mechanisms that lead to compulsive and dependent human behavior. He shares remarkable insights into resistance, motivation, habit formation, and the place of sex in full human potential. The Potent Self offers Feldenkrais’ vision of how to achieve physical and mental wellness through the development of authentic maturity. This edition includes and extensive Forward by Mark Reese, a longtime student of Feldenkrais, in which Reese discusses many of the important ideas in the book and places them in the context of Feldenkrais’ life and the intellectual and historical milieu of his time.

Body Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora
Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshe Feldenkrais’ classic study of his work with Nora, a woman who has suffered a severe stroke and lost her neuromuscular coordination, including the ability to read and write. Feldenkrais uses rational and intuitive approaches to help his student relearn basic motor skills. One can observe here the groundwork of Feldenkrais’ extraordinary insights which became known as the Feldenkrais Method. We follow his detailed descriptions of the trial and error process which led him to see the ingredients that were needed to help Nora reshape her attention, perception, imagination and cognition.

The Master Moves
Moshe Feldenkrais
This book is an edited transcription of a workshop taught by Dr. Feldenkrais. The theoretical discussions and the movement experiences are interwoven throughout the book making the relationship between theory and practice in the Feldenkrais Method more and more evident. The book is designed so that the reader does the movement lessons as he or she progresses through the book. The movement’s directions are clear and the themes engaging.

Awareness Heals: The Feldenkrais Method for Dynamic Health
Stephen Shafarman
The Feldenkrais Method is a revolutionary approach to health and fitness. Using what Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais called “Awareness Through Movement,” people of any age or condition can learn to move more comfortably and effectively. In pleasant yet powerful ways, his method reawakens the natural process by which we as babies learned to crawl, walk, and talk. Awareness Heals is the first book to present the full benefits of the Feldenkrais Method in clear language. It details six basic lessons which help you to become more aware of how you breathe, sit, walk, and otherwise move. By sensing these natural actions, you grow more skillful and supple in all your movements. Through the Feldenkrais Method, you can learn to relieve pain, enhance flexibility, and recover from physical or emotional stress. Especially recommended for studentswanting a clear introduction to the Feldenkrais, both the man and his method.

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A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
Anne Bogart
A fascinating and thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with immense wisdom of the courage required to create “art with great presence.” Each chapter tackles one of the seven major areas Bogart has identified as both potential partner and potential obstacle to art-making. They are Violence; Memory; Terror; Eroticism; Stereotype; Embarrassment; and Resistance. Each one can be used to generate extraordinary creative energy, if we know how to use it. “A Director Prepares” offers every practitioner an extraordinary insight into the creative process. It is a handbook, Bible and manifesto, all in one. No other book on the art of theatre comes even close to offering this much understanding, experience and inspiration.

Complete System of Self Healing: Internal Exercises
Stephen T. Chang
Tao of Revitalization is seen as a system of many mental and physical movements, called internal exercises which heal and energize the internal organs – the keys to youth, immunity against disease and true health, The techniques in this book aim to be true Taoist teachings (such as the principle of mind and body unification), to be scientific, proven to possess great healing value, to be natural, safe and free from time or space limitations and to fulfill the two basic physical needs to maintain, nourish, revitalize and prolong life – consumption (eating, drinking etc) and movement – of mind and body. Stephen Thomas Chang has been trained in both Chinese and Western medicine and in addition to his medical doctor degree, he holds doctor degrees in law, philosophy and theology

The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design
Galen Cranz
Cranz takes a look at the history of chairs, their place establishing hierarchical relationships among people, and the various design attempts artists and architects have made at creating chairs. Cranz makes clear in her book that in chair design often the “emphasis is on materials-plastic, metal, and wood in varied applications-rather than on the effect of the chair and its structure upon the body and its structure.” The chair becomes an object, an everyday sculpture, that often disregards the fact that it is being used in particular ways for particular purposes, with substantial impact on the individual who sits in the chair.

The Art of Looking Sideways
Alan Fletcher
Describing himself as a ‘visual jackdaw’, master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime collecting images, ideas, quotations, anecdotes, jokes, memories, reflections and scraps of useless information that take his fancy. In The Art of Looking Sideways, all this stuff is distilled into a quirky and highly entertaining feast for the eye and the mind. Loosely arranged in 72 ‘chapters’, this book explores the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination in a wonderfully inventive sequence of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the art of design. The Art of Looking Sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay of word and image, who relish the odd and the unexpected, and who don’t like to take the visual world — or themselves — too seriously.

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
Wherein we discover that many of the “rules” for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control and don’t think. Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well… *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment.

Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Goldberg’s excercises will introduce a beginner to structured writing practice, and stimulate the jaded or professional writer out of any blocks they may have. Each chapter gives an insight into the writer’s problems, routines, habits, and is ended with a practical excercise designed to challenge our imaginations and abilities. Goldberg’s practice of Zen Budhism is woven through her text, and used to illustrate ways we can tame our distracted ‘monkey minds’ and get down to the daily practice that is necessary to produce work of any standard.

Elements of Design
Gail Greet Hannah
Elements of Design is a tribute to an exceptional teacher and a study of the abstract visual relationships that were her lifelong pursuit. Rowena Reed Kiostellow taught industrial design at Pratt Institute for more than fifty years and the designers she trained-and the designers they’re training today-have changed the face of American design. This succinct, instructive, invaluable book reconstructs the series of exercises that led Kostellow’s students from the manipulation of simple forms to the creation of complex solutions to difficult design problems. It includes her exercises and commentary along with selected student solutions, and concludes with examples of work from former students who became leaders in the field.

Freeing the Natural Voice
Kristin Linklater
This is one of the best-known ‘voice’ books in the world, by a doyenne of the RSC and the New York theatre – now published in Britain in a revised and expanded edition. Freeing the Natural Voice offers a logical progression of exercises designed for professional and student actors, teachers of acting and voice, and everyone interested in vocal expression. The emphasis is on the removal of the physical and psychological blocks that inhibit the human voice; its objective is that the voice is brought into direct contact with the emotions, shaped by the intellect but not restricted by it. The whole book is dedicated to ‘freeing’ the voice we were naturally born with.

Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Paul Pitchford
This health manual merges modern nutrition with insight from ancient Asian traditions. There are life-enhancing guidelines to renewal and rejuvenation, allowing the reader to develop an optimal diet to fit his or her constitutional type. This revised edition includes many updates, including new research, resources, information on GMOs, an expansion of the whole food section, and new guidelines for making the information more accessible.

Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home
Rupert Sheldrake
Dogs that know when their owners are returning. Cats that answer the telephone when a person they are attached to is calling. Horses that can find their way home over unfamiliar terrain. Animals that anticipate earthquakes. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative scientists, explores ways in which our own family pets can teach us to quesion the boundaries of conventional scientific thought. Much that seems paranormal at present looks normal when we expand our ideas of normality. This is a book of recognition – a recognition that animals have abilities we have lost. Once part of ourselves has forgotten this; another part has known it all along.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit
In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction – from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina’s Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton’s Nadja – “Wanderlust” offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.

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