Meditation, breath-work, and Oriental healing arts are offered as self-reliant health management skills. A distinctive perspective on relationships and an inspirational guide to discover a passionate life purpose are featured.
This book also includes a practical guide to optimize our life's master controller? In the name of comfort and security, we have created increasingly complex systems that demand our lives for their maintenance.
Systems cannot answer life's most important questions? The ultimate goal of education, institutions, and expertise should be self-education. Only then will technology serve humanity rather than reign over us. Human Technology contains the principles and tools that can return us to self-mastery and the life well lived.
Human Technology is a toolkit for living an authentic life. It is now found in dance curricula worldwide, helping to shape the look and sensibilities of both dancers and choreographers and thereby influencing much of the dance we see onstage worldwide.
One of the first books to examine Somatics in detail and to analyse how and what it teaches in the dance studio, The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training considers how dancers discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural values associated with those movements. The book traces the history of Somatics, and it also details how Somatics developed in different locales, engaging with local politics and dance histories so as to develop a distinctive pedagogy that nonetheless shared fundamental concepts with other national and regional contexts.
In so doing it shows how dance training can inculcate an embodied politics by guiding and shaping the experience of bodily sensation, constructing forms of reflexive evaluation of bodily action, and summoning bodies into relationship with one another. Throughout, the author focuses on the concept of the natural body and the importance of a natural way of moving as central to the claims that Somatics makes concerning its efficacy and legitimacy.
Detox regimens can be expensive, lengthy, and difficult to follow--and often don't deliver the results you want. Now, health expert and author Michelle Schoffro Cook offers a fresh approach to purifying your body: spa-style weekends to have you looking and feeling great in just days!
These mini-detoxes help you to reset your natural body chemistry and improve organ function for overall health. First, Dr. Cook's quiz helps you pinpoint which areas need attention. You can then choose from six targeted tune-up plans--from the Love Your Liver weekend to the Fat Blast Weekend, you'll be able to address your specific concerns. Each Weekend Wonder Detox plan features: Meal plans and shopping lists based on delicious, toxin-busting superfoods Easy recipes for hearty salads, protein-rich meals, and detox-promoting beverages Gentle herbal remedies and system-balancing spa treatments Strategies to establish healthful habits in your everyday life No matter how busy your schedule or how stressful your life, you'll look forward to your next Weekend Wonder Detox.
In Chaoyi Fanhuan Qigong Healing, Yap and Hiew detail the meditative movements and practices that allow individuals to begin to heal on a physiological and psychological level. Readers are guided in how to rid the blocked negative energies that is often the root cause of pain, trauma, disease, aging and various chronic issues. Qigong, a centuries-old Chinese system of physical and mental training, has seen a rise in popularity as other Eastern codifications, such as yoga and martial arts, continue to spread in Western societies.
Yap and Hiew understand the attractiveness of alternative health care approaches. Conventional medicine explains and treats diseases from a physical basis. Eastern holistic medicine goes deeper. Cook's quiz helps you pinpoint which areas need attention. You can then choose from six targeted tune-up plans--from the Love Your Liver weekend to the Fat Blast Weekend, you'll be able to address your specific concerns.
Each Weekend Wonder Detox plan features: Meal plans and shopping lists based on delicious, toxin-busting superfoods Easy recipes for hearty salads, protein-rich meals, and detox-promoting beverages Gentle herbal remedies and system-balancing spa treatments Strategies to establish healthful habits in your everyday life No matter how busy your schedule or how stressful your life, you'll look forward to your next Weekend Wonder Detox.
Acupoints Author : Dr. This is the book that tells you how. You may choose not to use medication. Perhaps you shy away from acupuncture because you are wary of needles.
The procedures cost nothing. You can do them anywhere. All you need is your fingers and this book. When you have finished reading this book you will: 1.
International experts provide you with the latest on epidemiology, diagnosis, investigations, management, and prognosis for a full range of pediatric kidney disorders. A full-color, highly visual, meticulously crafted format, makes this material remarkably easy for you to access and apply. Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology also serves as an ideal resource for board review study for the ABP subspecialty boards in pediatric nephrology.
Just the right amount of "need-to-know" basic science coupled with practical clinical guidance for every disorder helps you make efficient, informed decisions. The book provides a much needed update on the genetic origins of pediatric kidney disorders. Chapters about glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and tubular disorders provide an orientation in the pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment of these heterogeneous disease entities.
Disease specific chapters include diagnostic work-up, laboratory evaluation, and management of disorders and complications, making this necessary information readily accessible.
The prevention and management of pediatric chronic renal failure and its complications are comprehensively covered in many detailed chapters. Four chapters devoted to childhood hypertension offer you insights into an increasingly prevalent condition among pediatric patients so you can treat them more effectively. A chapter on the role of the interventional radiologist in pediatric nephrology keeps you apprised of the latest advances in a key area in the field. The function of complementary and alternative medicine in patients with renal disease is reviewed for the first time in a standard pediatric nephrology textbook.
A consistent organization throughout and a full-color layout lets you find diagnostic guidance quickly. This book focuses on the experiences and practices of these people, who as mobile agents are free to embrace or reject being defined as Chinese by moving across borders and reinterpreting their own histories.
By historicizing the notion of Chineseness at local, regional, and global levels, the book examines intersections of authenticity, authority, culture, identity, media, power, and international relations that support or undermine different instances of Chineseness and its representations. It seeks to rescue the present from the past by presenting case studies of contingent encounters that produce the ideas, practices, and identities that become the categories nations need to justify their existence.
The dynamic, fluid representations of Chineseness illustrate that it has never been an undifferentiated whole in both space and time. This book will be relevant to students and scholars in Chinese studies and Asian studies more broadly, with a focus on identity politics, migration, popular culture, and international relations. The collection of essays here highlights the variety of experiences in Southeast Asia and China that suggest that the rock can become a huge boulder with sharp edges and the hard places can have deadly spikes.
Qigong pronounced chee-gung is an ancient Chinese practice consisting of physical movements, meditation, creative visualization, and breathing exercises to help revitalize the body and heal the spirit.
The 5 elements or 5 changes are rooted in Daoist philosophy and aim to explain natural developments in the nature surrounding us as well as in human life itself. This old Chinese thought system puts the earth in the middle and refers the remaining 4 elements onto two rectangular axes.
This book is great to help improve performance and heal for practitioners of combat sports enthusiasts, yoga, dance, sports, martial artists, and anyone who wants to experience the performance-enhancing, deep healing, and transformative effects of 5 Element Qigong. Weight loss and weight management deal with many different facets of the human body, mind and spirit. Suffice it to say that there is no miracle pill, no miracle exercise, no single practice that can control weight loss and weight management.
Qigong can be an integral part of your weight management strategy. The things that are necessary to accomplish weight loss and weight management require a balanced body, mind and spirit. Makko Ho is a set of six simple exercises that restores health and vitality to the body. By moving Qi through the twelve major meridians, the energy pathways of the body, you can regain balance and vigor in as little as 15 minutes a day.
Details and ancient Chinese practice that uses simple movements to accomplish the same chi balancing as acupuncture, with the aim of strengthening immunity, recovering from stress and illness and improving mental relaxation, in a book with step-by-step illustrations of the movements.
By the author of Tao of Letting Go. Maintain the flow of vital energy, or Qi, through your body and promote longevity with Daoist Meridian Yoga. This definitive guide provides everything you need to develop your practice. It includes illustrated and detailed instruction on the 24 exercises that work by stretching, extending and toning specific muscle groups associated with the twelve main meridians.
The book also explains how to spot signs of imbalance that manifest as physical ailments, describes the specific channels and internal branches, and provides meridian charts of the main muscle groups. Drawing on the traditions of Dao Yin, Qigong and Chinese medicine, Daoist Meridian Yoga is an ancient system that will help to transform your health and balance your energy. This book will be an invaluable resource for Qigong practitioners, and for health practitioners wishing to prescribe Qigong exercises to ameliorate specific health conditions.
Based on the latest edition of the approved textbook on Medical Qigong used in Chinese universities, this authoritative paperback edition has been completely revised and edited to meet the needs of western practitioners.
The editors emphasize the practice of Qigong, and this section of the book has been revised and expanded; a wide range of Qigong forms are presented, taking full account of the history, correct practice, and development of Qigong. The section on the clinical applications of Qigong in the treatment of a wide range of conditions, with the recommended Qigong forms for treatment, and relevant references to the ancient texts has been substantially revised, and focuses on conditions more common in the West.
The book also presents the newest research on Medical Qigong, including groundbreaking new discoveries about the physiological and psychological mechanisms. Omitted from this paperback edition are the extensive excerpts from the ancient texts, and the detailed history, more appropriate for academic study.
This is an unparalleled resource for practitioners of Qigong and Chinese medicine, as well as medical students and other healthcare professionals seeking a better understanding of the theory, practice and beneficial health applications of Medical Qigong. In Chaoyi Fanhuan Qigong Healing, Yap and Hiew detail the meditative movements and practices that allow individuals to begin to heal on a physiological and psychological level.
Readers are guided in how to rid the blocked negative energies that is often the root cause of pain, trauma, disease, aging and various chronic issues. Qigong, a centuries-old Chinese system of physical and mental training, has seen a rise in popularity as other Eastern codifications, such as yoga and martial arts, continue to spread in Western societies.
Yap and Hiew understand the attractiveness of alternative health care approaches. Conventional medicine explains and treats diseases from a physical basis. Eastern holistic medicine goes deeper. Hiew, Ph.
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