This is a practical, how-to guide to using yoga to manage stress, relieve pain, and gain the strength necessary to make it through this illness. More than simply an exercise primer, the is a deeply soothing guide to moving meditation and physical activity, giving readers a safe way to rebuild strength, stamina, and flexibility both during and ......
Presenting a study of African American healing, this work sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. Through conversations with black Americans, it demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances.
Presenting a study of African American healing, this work sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. Through conversations with black Americans, it demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances.
Beyond the Medical Meltdown describes the predicament we are in today in relation to health care and prescribes positive and concrete solutions to create a new effective and affordable health care system. These solutions require us to step out of the box and form new economic partnerships of practitioners and patients on local levels throughout ......
Written by the former director of the Spinal Cord Research and Education Foundation of the PVA, this is the first book to cover alternative therapies for Spinal Cord Injury. From acupuncture to laser-based therapies, herbal medicine, homeopathy, craniosacral therapy, magnetic healing and more, the book will empower readers.
A Guide to the Emergence of Sensible, Comprehensive Care
Presents a paradigm for health care that shows us how to go beyond the limitations and severe deficiencies of our sickness care system. This guide is for both those who wish to provide a more complete form of health care for their patients and also for those individuals who are prepared to maintain a movement toward healing.
11 lectures in Dornach, September 8-19, 1924 (CW 318)Today we hear a great deal about holistic medicine--an approach to healing that integrates body, mind, and spirit. For Rudolf Steiner, healing is not possible unless it takes into account all the dimensions that make up a human being-both visible and invisible. Unless we begin to understand ......
In the mid-1970s, a therapy called 'therapeutic touch'(TT) was introduced into the practice of nursing. This anthology of research articles explores every aspect of the subject, including the physics of claimed human energy field, which is an essential component of the theory underlying TT. It provides an account of the history of the practice.