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"Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not? She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to 'practice yoga.' Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, YOKE tells us why. In...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
If you restrict, binge, purge, excessively diet or weigh yourself, exercise compulsively, or engage routinely and obsessively in any other food or weight related behaviors, this book will help you find the road to recovery. The authors, one a former patient of the other, both have their own histories battling the disorder. Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled...
3) Rolfing
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive video discusses how Rolfing, a unique bodywork technique founded by Ida Rolf, aims to increase muscular length and overall balance by allowing the body to achieve optimal posture. This film outlines the ten specific deep connective tissue bodywork sessions involved in Rolfing which allow the body to achieve postural alignment thereby enabling the body to reduce stress and strains, and use energy more efficiently. Learn the origins...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Experience the art of Mind-Body Therapy encompassing Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Time-Line Therapy, Massage and Polarity Therapy. Understand the practice of NLP and its practical applications in effective communication with others from observations in speech patterns and eye movements. Learn how Time-Line Therapy can be utilized to unlock hidden issues buried deep in our past and bring them to the surface so that they can be dealt with. See...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The human brain is fascinating-every movement we make, everything conscious or unconscious stems from our brains. The most critical time for brain development is from birth to age five. What can parents and caregivers of children do to help give those developing brains the best chance for success? Discover how the basic workings of the brain influence our memory and how we learn and what can be done to encourage healthy brain development in children....
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"--atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells--create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At 24 years old, filmmaker Shannon Harvey was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Her immune system had become hyperactive and was attacking normal, healthy tissues. Her muscles and joints were inflamed and she was told if her disease progressed she could end up with organ failure, or wheelchair bound. In search of a cure, Shannon tried everything from drugs to alternative therapies and everything in between. But she was still sick. There was one...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging,...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A searing memoir of reckoning and healing from an acclaimed journalist and former This American Life producer investigating the little-understood science behind Complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as a radio producer at This American Life and had won an Emmy. But behind her office door she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk. After years of questioning...
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Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A body-based healing model that interrogates what we've been taught about unfair hierarchies of the body-and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices"--
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Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Emeran Mayer, executive director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience at UCLA, offers a cutting-edge view into this developing science, showing us the full impact and complexity of how the brain, but, and microbiome -- the community of microorganisms that lives inside the digestive tract -- communicate with one another... When this communication channel is out of whack, major health problems can crop up in both...
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Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"This course explores the history, development, and evidence base for an approached called biopsychosocial medicine, in which biology, psychology, and sociocultural factors are examined as both independent and interactive contributors to heath and disease."--page 1 of course guidebook.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"WHY WE MEDITATE by Daniel Goleman, the New York Times-bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and many other books, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, an internationally recognized and beloved spiritual guide in the Tibetan Buddhist community, presents scientifically backed and time-proven Eastern meditation practices that offer an antidote to the forces of frenzy and stress that awash us." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Whether as New Year's resolutions, birthday wishes, or daily promises, most everyone vows at some point to make a major life change. But change is easier said than done, especially when it comes to better managing our wellness amidst the chaos of everyday living. Fortunately, wellness coach and award-winning writer Brett Blumenthal has devised a way to inspire and motivate her readers to live healthier and make positive changes in their lives. Although...
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