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Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda

More than the story of the life of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), this autobiography offers an insider's view of many of the great teachers, saints and traditions of yoga bringing a balanced and insightful approach to world religion and spirituality that gives true ecumenical recognition to all the worlds major saints and prophets. Considered a classic in its field since it was first published in 1946, it continues to attract countless readers seeking authoritative insight into metaphysical truths.

The Body Electric
by Gary Selden and Robert O. Becker

In this landmark book, Robert O. Becker, M.D., a pioneer in the field of bioelectric science, presents a fascinating look at the role electricity plays in healing, challenging the traditional mechanistic model of the body. Colorful and controversial, this is a tale of engrossing research, scientific and medical politics, and breakthrough discoveries that offer new possibilities for fighting disease and harnessing the body's healing powers. Robert O. Becker does a masterful job of leading the reader into the invisible yet profound world of electromagnetism and its effect on all living organisms. At times awe-inspiring, at others frightening, Becker ends his book with more questions posed than answered, both in the realm of medical implications of tissue regeneration and in the realm of electropollution and its possible ramifications for our industrialized society.

Creating Health: How to Wake Up the Body's Intelligence
by Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Dr. Chopra has revised his groundbreaking book about the healing power of the mind for the people who are turning to alternative methods of health care as a result of the crisis in traditional care. Based on Dr. Chopra's recent work and new perspectives, this book includes the techniques of mindfulness meditation, a simple but powerful form of breath-focused meditation.

 

Dr. Randolph Stone's Polarity Therapy
by Randolph Stone

This book is a goldmine of both energy-balancing principles and numerous therapeutic techniques that practitioners of all the healing arts can employ. In fact, Polarity Therapy clarifies and elaborates the underlying principles of many other healing systems. Dr. Stone 's view is that the human body is the temple of the Creative Power of Life and that it contains the secrets that all human aspirations point toward.

Anatomy of the Spirit
by Caroline Myss

Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the "hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene" (Publishers Weekly). Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, Dr. Myss's work shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body. Anatomy of the Spirit also presents Dr. Myss's breakthrough model of the body's seven centers of spiritual and physical power, in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions-the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life-to demonstrate the seven stages through which everyone must pass in the search for higher consciousness and spiritual maturity. With this model, Dr. Myss shows how you can develop your own latent powers of intuition as you simultaneously cultivate your personal power and spiritual growth. By teaching you to see your body and spirit in a new way, Anatomy of the Spirit provides you with the tools for spiritual maturity and physical wholeness that will change your life.

Emotional Anatomy
by Stanley Keleman

Chi Nei Tsang
by Mantak Chia and Maneewan Chia

In Chi Nei Tsang, Master Mantak Chia and his wife, Maneewan, continue to bring the ancient, time-tested wisdom of the Healing Tao System to the Western world. Chi Nei Tsang presents a whole new understanding and approach to healing with detailed explanations of self-healing techniques and methods of teaching others to heal themselves. Also included are ways to avoid absorbing negative, sick energies from others. Chi Nei Tsang is full of new ideas and ancient healing techniques gathered from thousands of years of experience. The art evolved in an era when there were few physicians, and people had to know how to heal themselves. For many today, the situation remains the same. Chi Nei Tsang teaches people how to take full charge of their health and well-being.

 

The Anatomy Coloring Book Second Edition
by Wynn Kapit

This unique learning tool teaches anatomical concepts and illustrates all the structures and systems of the body through coloring exercises, an effective teaching device that also aids in the retention of the material. Coloring book texts are a proven new direction in learning today. The Anatomy Coloring Book contains 163 detailed illustrations organized according to body system and a color-key system links terminology to illustrations, reinforcing learning and impressing upon students the visual details of anatomy.

Anatomy of Movement
by Blandine C. Germain

This excellent book focuses on the practical explanation of joint construction and function. Describes in easy-to-understand terms how muscles act upon joints. Uncanny in its ability to simplify a complex subject, Anatomy of Movement contains hundreds of drawings showing the attachments and actions of the skeletal muscles. Muscle actions are related to movements of stretching, walking, standing, dance, sport, etc. Diagrams show the range of movement, how muscle action varies with posture and position, directions in which force is exerted, how the action of one muscle affects another.

Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork
by Deane Juhan and Ken Dychtwald

Possibly the most famous and widely used single resource in the field of bodywork (required for national certification in massage therapy), this beautifully written book gives a richly detailed picture of how and why the body responds to therapeutic touch. A reader-friendly yet scientifically reliable and detailed introduction to the human body, this updated edition (including new introductory and supplemental material) surveys "bodywork," showing how its practices alter deep-seated patterns of body and mind. This updated, reader-friendly yet scientifically reliable and detailed introduction to the human body is ideal for use by massage therapists, bodyworkers, and the general public.

 

The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships
by Kylea Taylor

The Ethics of Caring is an extraordinarily helpful and groundbreaking new book for healers, clergy, therapists, and bodyworkers that illuminates what is necessary to offer wise and trustworthy relations to their clients. The Ethics of Caring alerts healers not to underestimate the power of energies that arise in nonordinary states through transference and countertransference, and the palpable physical, emotional, and psychic vulnerabilities that come in these states.

Business Mastery: A Guide for Creating a Fulfilling, Thriving Business and Keeping It Successful
by Cherie Sohnen-Moe

Now in a thoroughly updated and expanded third edition, Cherie M. Sohnen-Moe's Business Mastery is an invaluable reference guiding allied health professional towards successfully creating, operating and managing a business with integrity and profitability. Of special note are two new chapters on Therapeutic Communications and Conscious Business. Business Mastery is enhanced with numerous illustrations, charts, checklists, ad samples, promotional materials examples, and contracts, plus thirty reproducible business forms. Also included are sections of professionalism, ethics, client retention, designing promotional material, referrals, planning, marketing, insurance billing, finding a location, time management, networking, diversification, and self management. Business Mastery is a complete, single volume, indispensable instructional manual and reference for novice health care providers seeking to establish their business or service with competency, practicality, and entrepreneurial success.

 

Kundalini Yoga: The Flow of Eternal Power
by Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa, Yogi Bhajan

Taught for thousands of years--and revealed to the West in recent decades by the master Yogi Bhajan--Kundalini Yoga is suprisingly simple to learn. And practiced regularly, it can strengthen the nervous system, balance the glandular system, and harness the energy of the mind and emotion as well as the body. While general yoga technique focuses on exercise postures and breathing, Kundalini takes yoga concepts a step further by integrating them into everyday life activities. This definitive guide, fully illustrated with photographs, is an accessible introduction to this ancient practice, with information on poses and positions, diet and lifestyle, breathing and stretching techniques, chanting and meditation exercises, and general guidelines that can help anyone--beginner or advanced--gain the greatest benefit from yogic practice.

Chi Kung: The Chinese Art of Mastering Energy
by Yves Requena

Chi Kung, Chinese for "energy mastery," is a physical discipline utilizing deliberate movement, slow breathing, mental concentration, and visualizations. This discipline is based on the same energy meridians used in Chinese acupuncture and is fully integrated into the traditional five-element wisdom of Chinese healing. A corporal art that consists of an intuitive understanding and respect of the yin and yang polarity of the body and its response to that same polarity in nature, chi kung can radically improve one's health and well-being. With a concise yet comprehensive overview of chi kung's theoretical background and more than fifty exercises that are well within the capability of anyone, regardless of age or physical condition, Chi Kung is an ideal guide to improving health and awakening the slumbering potential within.

The Essence of Aikido: Spiritual Teachings of Morihei Ueshiba
by John Stevens

Elegantly translated and compiled by John Stevens, The Essence of Aikido presents the profound philosophy of Aikido in Morihei's own words, disclosing many of the arcane secrets of Aikido's aims and methods. Considered by many to be the greatest martial artist and spiritual teach of the twentieth century, Morihei provides a wealth of clues to the often puzzling nature of the inseparable link between the physical and spiritual aspects of Aikido, revealing the heart of the peaceful warrior's art.

Light on Yoga
by B. K. S. Iyengar

The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga--the ancient healing discipline for body and mind--by its greatest living teacher. Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and illustrations of all the positions and breathing exercises

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
by Sri Swami Satchidananda

This valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras (thought-threads), at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation, transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most respected and revered contemporary Yoga masters. In this classic context, Sri Swamiji offers practical advice based on his own experience for mastering the mind and achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony.

 

Colon Health Key to Vibrant Life
by Dr. Norman W. Walker

You don't need to relate your health to your age! For over seventy years Norman W. Walker, Ph.d., has proven through research that well-being and long life can go hand-in-hand. Modern day nutritionists and medical researchers are just now discovering the truths which Dr. Walker has known and expounded throughout the twentieth century. Colon Health Key to Vibrant Life shows how every organ, gland and cell in the body is affected by the condition of the large intestine - the colon.

Fresh Vegetables and Fruit Juices
by Dr. Norman W. Walker

Conscious Eating
by Gabriel Cousens

This book presents comprehensive information on body, mind, and spiritual life, as well as the understanding of how we eat directly affects the planetary ecology and degree of peace on earth. This book provides an analysis of nutrition, including recipes, the art and advantages of live-food cuisine, how to recognize and alleviate biochemically -based imbalances in brain and body, and how to determine one's own physiological type.

Intuitive Eating/Everybody's Natural Guide to Total Health and Lifegiving Vitality Through Food
by Humbart 'Smokey', N.D. Santillo

A rare book with deep insight. Dr. Santillo has distilled many of the concepts, theories and applications of a holistic lifestyle into a readable, understandable and exciting book.

 

Raw: The Uncook Book
by Juliano

"Gourmet raw cuisine" - if that sounds like an oxymoron, you'll be amazed by the creativity of the recipes in this book. Every food is "live" (uncooked) in these vegetarian recipes from Juliano, the raw-food guru of Los Angeles. Juliano believes that fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, beans, and seeds in their rawest and purest form are the most nourishing foods. If your imagination stops at alfalfa sprouts and grated carrots, hold onto your cutting board. Raw is the first major guide to preparing gourmet raw cuisine, an introduction to the finest dining this planet has to offer, with unique dishes made entirely from vegetarian and living foods.

Raw offers ultimate pure flavor, thousands of textures, and beautiful effects on body, mind, soul and the environment! This isn't 100 variations of salad, but an ultra-gourmet cuisine, which fuses ancient culinary techniques with a modern and practical lifestyle. From sun-baked pizzas, satisfying sandwiches, vegan sushi, the best burritos and sprouted-rice dishes, to sangria and shakes, cookies, pudding, and pies. You're about to acquaint yourself with the vibrant flavors and miraculous nutrition of plant life in a way you never have before.

Sick and Tired?: Reclaim Your Inner Terrain
by Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young

Sick and Tired? presents the revolutionary theories of Dr. Robert Young, a scientist who passionately cares for his work concerning how foods positively and negatively affect the body. This book provides a comprehensive view of Dr. Young's research and ideas, and is a wonderful tool to helping anyone start on the road to once again reclaiming good health.

The Sunfood Diet Success System
by David Wolfe

David Wolfe has emerged as the most important voice in the raw-food movement. This book is destined to be the new `Bible' of the movement, perfect for both the beginner and the veteran raw fooder. The ancient Essenes lived to an average age of over 100 eating precisely the way this book advocates. The philosophy and teachings of The Sunfood Diet Success System plant the awareness of the power of a live-food diet and healthy thinking that is transforming to each individual and to the very planet itself. This breakthrough book not only demonstrates a profound understanding of Nature's physical laws of health-building, but also masterfully integrates the under-recoginzed motivation, mental, and emotional components needed to create overall success in live.

Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill
by Udo Erasmus

Udo Erasmus' in-depth look at the oil industry and the processes that turn healing fats into killing fats is unequaled. Learning about these processes is essential to understanding why we must make certain food choices to prevent and even reverse degenerative diseases including heart disease, cancer and diabetes. In "Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill," Erasmus has far surpassed his original best-selling work, "Fats & Oils." From the way our bodies assimilate fats and oils to the politics of health, Erasmus shies away from nothing.

Diet for a New America
by John Robbins

Diet for a New America is a powerful indictment of our dietary practices that should be read by everyone interested in healthy living. It is a well-researched, well-documented and eye-opening account of the myths and truths about meat, milk, fat and protein. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it.

Diet for a New America is the single most eloquent argument for a vegetarian lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and entertainingly written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze, infuriate, but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1987.

 

Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings
by Lynn Grabhorn

Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting is the book that promises to set the self-improvement genre on its ear with this unorthodox theory: we create our lives through how we feel. That's right, forget positive thinking, visualization, mind over matter, and all those other well-worn cure-alls for what ails the human race. What we feel is what we get! Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting offers a welcome departure from the typical self-help book in more than one way. Not only does it push readers to question their long-held beliefs, it does so with an engaging wit and candor. With a background that includes video production and seminar presentation, Grabhorn knows how to tell a good story, to captivate her audience, to make the unbelievable become believable. She is funny, irreverent, and irrepressible, with a writing style that makes it seem as thought she is speaking directly to each individual reader.

The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can
Change Your Life
By Laura Day

"Intuition isn't mystical. It's a sort of background sense of how things should work; it's facts hidden in the brain. Intuition is logic. Laura Day guides you step by step through a systematic approach to getting in touch with this important faculty." (Dr. James Watson, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of DNA)

What if a single wish could change your life? It can-if you know how to use it to harness energy within and all around you that you never knew existed. This is the promise of Laura Day's The Circle. The Circle shows readers how one carefully crafted wish can serve as a match to ignite potent and lasting transformation in their lives. Each of the book's three sections features exercises that lead readers to discover the hidden potential in themselves, in others, and in the surrounding universe. By the end of The Circle, readers will know how to use their own wishful thinking as a force for powerful change.

Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement
by Anthony Robbins

Unlimited Power is a revolutionary fitness book for the mind. It will show you, step by step, how to perform at your peak while gaining emotional and financial freedom, attaining leadership and self-confidence, and winning the cooperation of others. It will give you the knowledge and the courage to remake yourself and your world. Unlimited Power is a guidebook to superior performance in an age of success.

Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical & Financial Destiny!
by Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life. The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life and harness the forces that shape your destiny.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom a Toltec Wisdom Book
by Don Miguel Ruiz

Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering.

The Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
By Ceanne Derohan

The Will has for so long been misunderstood, judged against, disciplined, punished and denied that most people no longer even know what the Will really is. Many are now calling positive thinking by the mind Will power. While Mind is the masculine aspect, Will is the feminine aspect of our nature and is experienced as intuition, feeling, emotion, receptivity and desire. This book helps the reader understand what the Will is and how to evolve it from the immaturity that has resulted from long suppression.

 

The Mind Map Book
by Tony Buzan

The potential of the human mind is absolutely phenomenal, and Tony Buzan is one of the world's leading experts on how people can maximize their brainpower. Now, in his most comprehensive book yet on the topic, Buzan reveals exciting new ways to improve one's memory, concentration, creativity, ability to learn, and more.

A Home for the Soul
by Anthony Lawlor

Anthony Lawlor is known as the architect who brings soul to design. His acclaimed book The Temple in the House showed how to and the sacred in architecture. Now, in A Home for the Soul, he reveals how our houses and apartments can become havens of inspiration and renewal. Perceiving and creating a home that uplifts the soul is the purpose of this book that invites readers to discover the abode of inspiration and delight hidden within their homes. Proceeding from kitchen to bedroom to garden, explaining how rooms and spaces can be arranged to harmonize with one's deepest self, Lawlor gives creative, practical suggestions for decorating, renovating and even building houses and apartments that will nurture the spirit.