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 to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate 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 ani...

Donna Hamil Talman is a psychotherapist with an interest in the mind/body connection that predated her diagnosis with lupus erythematosus, an auto-immune disease which affects many more women than m ...

Ce texte, un appel lancé à la communauté des hypnothérapeutes et à celle des généticiens, vise à mettre fin aux querelles de clocher et incite à la collaboration pluridisciplinaire pour explorer les puissants mécanismes psychobiologiques qui modulent l'expérience humaine. M. Rossi pro­pose un modèle scientifique qui transcende la dichotomie cartésienne corps/esprit et esquisse les princi...

There are 318 commonly used herbs in this book categorized into 19 chapters based on their therapeutic effects. Every herb is introduced by its unique characteristics and compared to its related herbs. Guided by analysis and comparison, readers will be able to comprehend the major points of herbology, to differentiate among herbs, and to apply the knowledge with certainty. This book was ...

Prakruti : Your Ayurvedic Constitution is a book based on Ayurveda. Dr. Svoboda is the author of several magazine and journal articles, of The Ayurvedic Home Study Course, and of a book entitled The Hidden Secret of Ayurveda.

A guide for the design and development of acupuncture-based chemical dependency treatment programs.

We rarely have the opportunity to share the reflections of another practitioner on their practice.

From time to time for the past 2000 years. Chinese scholars have compiled botanical registers known as pen tsao, listing the varieties and applications of medicinal herbs in current use. The herbs so listed have grown in number from 365 (Han dynasty, A.D. 25) to 1894 (Ming dynasty, 1590), although the number in relatively common use today is considerably less than 1000. In the true spir...

Exploring Tai Chi helps students to understand the intricacies of Tai Chi training, as well as the underlying motives and psychological processes involved in any ongoing practice of this ancient discipline. This book focuses on 'disclosure' and 'empowerment' for the Tai Chi practitioner. What to expect of your training, how to progress in your training, and how to implement the principl...

Chin Na is the art of seizing and controlling, and is an element of all Chinese martial arts including Taijiquan. Today, most people practice Taijiquan to maintain health or cure sickness. For the last fifty years the martial aspects of Taijiquan have been ignored, and the art is now incomplete. Most practitioners no longer understand the martial applications of Taijiquan, or even that ...

Quite a few books have been published on the subject of Chin Na (Qin Na), the proven seizing techniques of Chinese martial arts. However, most books focus on the introduction of techniques themselves, and contain very little or no discussion on application in actual combat situations. This seizing art has thus been confined to stage performances instead of real combat use.