Gill Edwards

Living Magically: A New Vision of Reality

Written with empathy and openness, the book guides the reader through gradual process of changes happening in day-to-day life. It helps to restore trust in relationships with one’s own body and the universe surrounding us. Coincidences, synchronous events, realization of what you dreamed about – a living metaphysics that comes through the body, if you know how to listen to it. The author does not impose her point of view, but rather invites the reader to try, take their own steps and see what happens.

First published in 1991

Danny Penman, Mark Williams, and Robert Arthur Jr.

Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

Eight weeks practice program. Can be followed without much effort by an adult who has never tried “anything like this” before. Consists of techniques that help to gradually let go of excessive anxiety and tension. Helping to recover those missing connections that will bring confidence, and allow to treat the world as well as one’s own self, in a more compassionate manner. The exercises that this book is offering leads to a state of greater resilience, even if a reader is deeply rooted in an environment that favours quite the opposite.

First published in 2011

Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth

Modern times cause uncertainty in many. Eckhart Tolle’s text offers a reliable navigation tool. It helps to live in harmony with what one would call destiny or in other words, the purpose of our presence in this complex world. The book does not focus specifically on the body and the bodily experience. It rather helps the reader to get back to their self, an impossible task without the contact with the body.

First published in 2005

Alexander Lowen

Spirituality of the Body

A student of the rebellious psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich was the first to address the body issues as the root source of various requests in psychotherapy. Lowen is the founder of the Bioenergetic Analysis approach. The capacious text is full of author’s exercises, examples, comments. Lowen often talks about unleashing potential, mastering creative freedom. Bioenergetic analysis is one of the schools that stands at the foot of the modern building representing somatic approaches to health and wellbeing. The concept is at least worth getting to know.

More important is how the exercises and practices, insights can affect the reader. The book is replete with powerful tools for change. Lowen suggests that exercises be handled with care. It is unclear whether an unprepared reader will be able to cope with results.

First published in 1990

Michael Kern

Wisdom in the Body: the Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health

It would be a bold assumption to think that it is possible to learn a body-oriented technique without receiving a single session. In the meantime, Michael Kern’s book seems to be a great introduction to CranioSacral Therapy as an approach.

Craniosacral often looks incomprehensible to the uninitiated. Something between a high-tech somatic view on health and a mystical bodily experience. The text of the book helps to understand what is attributed to the theory and practice of the method, from an applied, tangible point of view.

The author describes what the results of the therapeutic process are and what constitutes this paradigm of working with the body. Respectfully and delicately structured, the book can explain why the craniosacral approach can be useful for you, and for practitioners, somewhat enrich the understanding of this therapeutic direction.

First published in 2001.

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Even if it Costs Me My Life 

by Stefan Hausner

A perfect introduction to the method. Strong and bright examples of practical cases. What could illness or disease have to do with the situation in client’s family system? This book alone gives a sense of quality and depth of the Constellation work.

The Tears of the Ancestors. Victims and Perpetrators in the Tribal Soul

by Daan Van Kampenhout

A travelogue, a book of reflections, or a series of stories. How shared past affects the individual and collective present. Daan builds a narrative, as if moving between places of collective pain. Concentration camps, prisons, territories with difficult history. What remains with us, and what is lost forever? What do those places of difficult history still carry?

The Ancestor Syndrome: Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the Hidden Links in the Family Tree 

by Anne Ancelin Schützenberger

One of the most clear and compelling texts on the transgenerational transmission of trauma. Written by a carefully scientific and experienced psychotherapist. Like a complex ornament, events far from each other in time and space, sometimes taking place in different parts of the globe, turn out to be connected in an unexpected way. It may seem that later events are predetermined by unconscious, forgotten elements of the past. Author offers a methodology and a set of tools for dealing with what lies behind the recurring patterns of family dynamics.

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