The art and science of gut health and fermentation: Quark, kimchi,yoghurt, kefir, kombucha, and more
More than ever, we need to understand the relationship between our gut, our health and our food. This book focuses on fermented foods in particular, how fermentation works and the key role these foods play your diet. It includes recipes to get you started. Eat a little every day, change your microbiome, improve your gut health and change your ......
Exploring the Buddhist/Taoist concept of non-doing and intention in relation to bodywork, this book focuses on how the therapist should approach their client without agenda and meet them where they are at.
What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make emotions? When can anxiety be good? This science-based graphic book responds to these questions and more, revealing just how strange anxiety is, but also how to unravel its mysteries and relieve its effects. ......
A Guide for Yoga Therapists, Yoga Teachers and Bodyworkers
This manual for yoga teachers and bodyworkers provides guidance for working with athletes of all disciplines. It teaches basic principles for application of techniques. Covering yoga background, biomechanics, postures, breathing and mental training, it creates a bridge between evidence-based modern sports medicine and ancient practices of yoga.
Interpreting Laboratory Tests Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine
Translating Western biomedicine into Chinese medicine patterns and physiology, this seminal text guides readers in using lab tests alongside their traditional diagnostic tools. It allows practitioners to enhance their treatment plans whilst focussing on how pathophysiologic states develop in the body.
This comprehensive guide creates a straightforward and accessible resource for anyone interested in Nei Dan inner meditation. Focussing on the channels and the benefit of breathwork, meditations and qi gong movements, this book encourages a rebalancing of emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health.
A guide to living the seasons in harmony, the Chinese wisdom tradition way, the book deeply explores the connections between the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual levels of human experience.
Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to using the Five Element model in your daily life in ways that can ......
With its practical and immensely readable introduction to the nature and self-help uses of a key acupoint for each week of the year, this book is a gateway to the mysterious world of Chinese medical thought.
The author journeys through the seasons of the year, and the five elements that make up the Chinese ......
This books explores how qigong can be incorporated into yoga sequencing by covering key concepts and principles. It will allow yoga teachers to become more dynamic in their practise through a unique approach to yoga, and also offers valuable ideas on finding appropriate and appealing themes for yoga classes.
The first book to fully explore the range of treatment options available for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome using Chinese Medicine. A must have for practitioners who wish to employ a creative and flexible integrative practice.
This yoga handbook for teachers and trainees provides extensive detail on common injuries and health conditions. It equips teachers and trainees with specially adapted knowledge needed to safely support students with injuries, including tips on how to manage this responsibility in large classes.
An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Medical Theory, and Chann
This is a creative, entry-level book on Chinese medicine theory, philosophy, and concepts told in an accessible, story-telling format in the context of a child visiting their grandparents over the summer and having lessons over afternoon tea. I
Donna Noble draws on years of experience teaching body positive yoga to help yoga teachers host truly inclusive classes. Covering the philosophy and history of the body positivity movement, as well as providing tips on language, touch, modifications for larger bodies and marketing for body-positive yoga classes, this is an inspiring resource for ......
Examining the treatment of hot flashes in menopause through an integrative lens, this book combines Chinese medicine approaches - including acupuncture and herbal medicine - with current Western frameworks of research. It covers pathophysiology, diagnosis, current research and adjunctive therapies, and suggests a fresh and interlinked approach to ......
This comprehensive clinical guide on the treatment of insomnia bridges the gap between western and Chinese medicine approaches by clearly presenting the latest research and knowledge from the west whilst including over 500 clinical experience reports from Chinese medicine clinicians including treatment plans and diagnostic approaches.
Cultivating a Graceful and Fulfilling Life Through the Virtues of Water
Drawing on South and East Asian philosophies and medicines, this book illustrates how our bodies and minds are influenced by our actions, habits, aging, trauma and thought patterns.
The first book to take an integrative approach to the treatment of male infertility issues, this easily digestible guide uses graphics and visual aids to help explain key concepts in diagnosis, anatomy and treatment from a Western and Chinese medicine perspective. Dr Olivia Pojer, a Western medical doctor and Chinese medicine practitioner, uses ......
Exploring the benefits of yoga on social prescription, this book details the 10-week Yoga4Health social prescribing programme developed by the Yoga In Healthcare Alliance. This evidence-based prevention programme targets NHS patients at risk of becoming chronically ill and supports them to bring about lifestyle change through a daily yoga ......
Power, Presence and Practice for Teachers and Trainees
From Anna Ashby, one of the first yoga teachers in the UK to offer this style, comes a complete overview of restorative yoga for teachers, trainees and experienced students.
Our initial experience of life and existence is tactile and spatial at its core. In Touch is Really Strange, Steve Haines takes readers on a fascinating exploration of touch - a complex and fundamental human experience. He explores the science behind how touch makes us feel real and connected, and how it is essential to the development of ......
A Somatosensory Approach to Mental, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing
This is a comprehensive and inclusive guide that explores how yoga therapy can be practiced with children and teens with complex needs and conditions including autism and other neuro differences, trauma, depression, anxiety, and Down syndrome. It includes comprehensive theory on child development as well as practical tools and resources.
Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know, that western medicine ignores?Dan Keown's highly accessible, witty, and original book shows ......
Online yoga classes are becoming increasingly popular and necessary. With a down-to-earth and friendly approach, this book guides yoga teachers on how to develop a streamlined and successful online yoga business. The book is supported by worksheets and videos to help you gain the confidence you need to thrive online.
Pulse diagnosis is a notoriously complicated area in Chinese medicine with very few practical or accessible resources available to practitioners to improve their skillset.
Meridians are the bridge between the psyche and soma, the system that allows our life force to flow through our body. Each of the twelve main meridians stand for a fundamental life principle and by examining them, we can begin a journey towards better health- as well as freedom and contentment. In this inspirational, easy-to-read deep dive, ......
Freedom to Move is an evidence informed practical resource which provides movement therapists of all disciplines with an exercise blueprint for rehabilitating spinal pain and many related injuries. In essence, Freedom to Move describes what goes wrong in the spine and what to do about it. It integrates the applicable contemporary ......
In this book, Lee Majewski and Ananda Bhavanani define yoga and yoga therapy as a whole person practice, demonstrating how it can help the individual to heal through their own mechanisms.
Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda with Modern Recovery Tools for Addiction
Durga Leela presents an empowering, personal recovery program for yoga teachers and yoga therapists supporting clients through recovery from addiction. She integrates yoga philosophy and physical practices - such as hatha yoga, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, and pranayama - as well as the psychology of yoga and Ayurveda, for a program suitable for ......
Written in a narrative form, this is a new and creative approach for those hoping to learn about Chinese medicine theory. Told in the context of a child having a conversation with their grandparents, this primer explains the theory behind distal needling techniques, channel interaction systems and holography, and how to implement them in practice.
Tackling mental-emotional health problems in young people from a Chinese medicine perspective, this book shows how a child's mental-emotional health is intrinsically connected with core elements of their everyday life. It suggest an approach to preventing and healing anxiety and depression that involves neither medication nor costs anything. ......
Providing essential support to schools and universities that offer yoga therapy training programs, this comprehensive, edited textbook develops robust curricula, enabling them to prepare yoga therapists to integrate into healthcare settings safely and effectively.
Stems and Branches is a style of classical acupuncture which uses the fundamental, cyclical rhythms of nature and life as a foundation for patient health and development.
Approaching diabetes from a multidimensional perspective, Evan Soroka links the practices and philosophy of yoga with science and lived experience. In this book, she addresses the major challenges of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, providing descriptive practices including spinal movements, breathing techniques and meditation. By giving yoga ......
This is a follow-up workbook to Gail Parker's Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma, for readers who want to delve deeper into restorative practice as a means of combatting the harmful effects of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It also incorporates the effects of the COVID pandemic, and the health inequalities faced ......
