Thai Massage & Thai Healing Arts

Author: Bob Haddad
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1844099067
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
This fascinating anthology presents a much wider scope than other books on Thai massage, and uncovers a wealth of previously unavailable information on the historical, spiritual, and cultural connections to this powerful healing art. Topics include ways to refine and maintain a healthy practice, breathwork and body mechanics, self-protection techniques, reading body language, acupressure concepts, and Thai herbal compress therapy. The spiritual and cultural section offers modern translations of ancient texts, Indian and Buddhist influences, magic amulets and sacred tattoos, and accessory modalities such as reusi dat ton (stretching) and tok sen (hammering therapy). Rounding out this thorough text, the final section features essays about actual practice with clients, written by therapists and teachers from around the world. The extensive experience and information provided in this reference book is invaluable to students or practitioners who wish to deepen their personal and professional understanding of traditional Thai healing arts.

Healing with the Arts

Author: Michael Samuels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451696833
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

Healing Arts

Author: Susan Hogan
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1853027995
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
As well as providing an authoritative history of art therapy, it covers such diverse topics as the philosophy of art therapy, the way attitudes to insanity have changed, the role of art therapy in the context of post-war rehabilitation and the treatment of tuberculosis patients, Surrealism, and Britain's first therapeutic community.

A Still Forest Pool

Author: Achaan Chah
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 0835630234
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Achaan Chah spent many years walking and meditating in the forest monastery of Wat Ba Pong, engaging in the uncomplicated and disciplined Buddhist practice called dhudanga. A Still Forest Pool reflects the quiet, intensive, and joyous practice of the forest monks of Thailand. Achaan Chah’s humble words, compiled by two Westerners who are former ordained monks, awaken the spirit of inquiry, wonderment, understanding, and deep inner peace. Attachment, according to Achaan Chah, causes all suffering. Understanding the impermanent, insecure, and selfless nature of life is the message he offers for human happiness and realization. To vividly grasp the meaning of attachment leads us to a new place of practice – the path of balance, the Middle Path.

The Healing Arts

Author: Ted J. Kaptchuk
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780563204473
Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

Chinese Healing Arts

Author: William R. Berk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865680838
Category : Exercise therapy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Chinese Healing Arts was originally translated in 1895 from classical Chinese texts. This is a unique book which blends the ancient with the modern, and prescribes a program to develop and integrate the body and mind. Included is a discussion of Taoist sexual control, static and dynamic posturing, internal and external massage or kneading, meditation, respiratory exercises and acupressure.

Witchcraft Medicine

Author: Claudia Müller-Ebeling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 159477661X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
An in-depth investigation of traditional European folk medicine and the healing arts of witches • Explores the outlawed “alternative” medicine of witches suppressed by the state and the Church and how these plants can be used today • Reveals that female shamanic medicine can be found in cultures all over the world • Illustrated with color and black-and-white art reproductions dating back to the 16th century Witch medicine is wild medicine. It does more than make one healthy, it creates lust and knowledge, ecstasy and mythological insight. In Witchcraft Medicine the authors take the reader on a journey that examines the women who mix the potions and become the healers; the legacy of Hecate; the demonization of nature’s healing powers and sensuousness; the sorceress as shaman; and the plants associated with witches and devils. They explore important seasonal festivals and the plants associated with them, such as wolf’s claw and calendula as herbs of the solstice and alder as an herb of the time of the dead--Samhain or Halloween. They also look at the history of forbidden medicine from the Inquisition to current drug laws, with an eye toward how the sacred plants of our forebears can be used once again.

Dying, Bereavement, and the Healing Arts

Author: Gillie Bolton
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843105160
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Offers valuable insights and inspiration for any practioner working in a palliative care setting. Australian contributor.

Music and Sound in the Healing Arts

Author: John Beaulieu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Based on seventeen years of experimentation, observation and experience in assisting people through music and sound, this book is a guide for anyone interested in understanding and using music as a powerful means of healing for themselves and others.

Medicine

Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Marlowe
ISBN: 9781569247082
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
A history of therapeutic practices, from ancient rituals to the age of computers, explores traditions from the East and the West, and argues that a combination of the Eastern and Western approaches would provide the best healing