Somatic Psychology

The Wild Region of Lived Experience

Using Somatic-Psychoeducation

Written by Danis Bois
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books

The Wild Region of Lived Experience introduces the emerging discipline of somatic-psychoeducation, a powerful body-mind modality developed over a period of 25 years by author Danis Bois. Somatic-psychoeducation uses aspects of manual therapy (touch), movement, and psychotherapeutic methods to help people heal from physical and emotional issues, as well as develop...

Available February 17, 2009

Understanding the Messages of Your Body

How to Interpret Physical and Emotional Signals to Achieve Optimal Health

Written by Jean-Pierre Barral
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books

Fears, anxieties, traumas, and physical and emotional shocks imprint on the body and remain dormant in its vast memory store until they are roused by an event or encounter. They may manifest in a different form or place—a fearful incident may transform itself into a stomachache or a headache, or even...

The Leadership Dojo

Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader

Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $24.95
Frog Books

History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership. The first book of its kind to base business and management strength on integral body awareness...

Life on Land

The Story of Continuum, The World-Renowned Self-Discovery and Movement Method

Written by Emilie Conrad, Foreword by Valerie Hunt
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books

Emilie Conrad’s approach to movement education, health, and healing is as varied and deeply textured as her life story. In Life on Land, she interweaves the story of her Brooklyn childhood and discovery of dance with the psychic and physical collapse that led to the development of Continuum, her groundbreaking movement...

Reclaiming Vitality and Presence

Sensory Awareness as a Practice for Life

Written by Charlotte Selver and Charles V.W. Brooks, Edited by Richard Lowe and Stefan Laeng-Gilliatt, Foreword by Norman Fischer
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books

This book captures the essence of Charlotte Selver’s practice of Sensory Awareness like no other publication. It is an invitation to experience life firsthand again, as we did when we were children. In a culture where we have grown accustomed to accumulating knowledge from teachers and experts, it is rare to...

Trauma Through a Child's Eyes

Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing

Written by Peter Levine and Maggie Kline
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books

An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.

Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents such as auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce...

How Life Moves

Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness

Written by Caryn Mchose and Kevin Frank
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books

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...

Body, Breath, and Consciousness

A Somatics Anthology

Edited by Ian Macnaughton, Foreword by Peter Levine
Price: $21.95
North Atlantic Books

The forces that develop the self—somatic, emotional, mental, interpersonal, social, and spiritual—must all be considered by therapists in treating any patient. Each article in this important anthology deals in some way with these various elements. The writing is focused on the body-mind connection, exploring the practices and theories of this popular...

Victims of Cruelty

Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Written by Maryanna Eckberg, Foreword by Peter Levine
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books

In Victims of Cruelty, Maryanna Eckberg incorporates work with Vietnam veterans (the first to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. This personal testimony of how people can heal after trauma is also a professional book describing the effects of personal and political repression and how we...

The Body in Psychotherapy

Inquiries in Somatic Psychology

Edited by Don Johnson and Ian Grand
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books

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...

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Written by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...

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...

Groundworks

Narratives of Embodiment Volume II

Edited by Don Johnson
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books

Groundworks gives accounts of the actual processes of working with individuals in six major schools of Somatics by either the creator of the method itself or a leading teacher of the method. The creators are Robert Hall of Lomi School, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen of Body-Mind Centering, and Emilie Conrad Da'oud of...

The Anatomy of Change

A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Second Edition

Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

The body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds. In The Anatomy of Change, Richard Heckler draws on Aikido and Lomi Body Work to demonstrate how a set of practices can bring new awareness and choice into our daily life.

Wisdom of the Body Moving

An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering

Written by Linda Hartley
Price: $23.95
North Atlantic Books

This comprehensive guide introduces Body-Mind Centering, the internationally recognized field pioneered by dancer and occupational therapist Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Devoting thirty-five years to a systematic investigation of the relations between bodily experience and the anatomical maps of science, Bainbridge Cohen independently discovered many of the principles that underlie Feldenkrais work, cranial...

Bone, Breath, and Gesture

Practices of Embodiment Volume 1

Edited by Don Johnson
Price: $23.95
North Atlantic Books

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...

Spacious Body

Explorations in Somatic Ontology

Written by Jeffrey Maitland
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books

In Spacious Body, Jeffrey Maitland brings his knowledge and personal experience of Buddhism, phenomenology, alchemy, psychoanalysis, and the bodywork system of Rolfing to bear in forging concepts adequate to an understanding of embodied experience.

Body, Spirit, and Democracy

Written by Don Johnson
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

Body, Spirit and Democracy addresses how can we, of different ethical values, spiritual commitments, and ethnic backgrounds, work together to create a more humane world. The unique perspective on this common concern is from the author's lifetime of work within the family of body-therapies, exercise and movement disciplines that emerged in...

The Subtle Self

Personal Growth and Spiritual Practice

Written by Judith Blackstone
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books

Judith Blackstone's Subtle Self Work is a mind-body therapy integrating teachings from dance, Alexander Technique, psychotherapy, Eastern philosophy, and meditation. A student of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, Blackstone describes in The Subtle Self her own physical and spiritual healing, as well as a method one can work with to establish...

Body

Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom Second Edition

Written by Don Johnson
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books

Body: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom outlines a plan for reclaiming unity among our body movements, senses, and thought processes. It describes how we are pressured to mold ourselves to fit others' needs by attitudes fostered in religions, schools, the workplace, and the military. It gives special attention to how gender ideals...