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This groundbreaking work on ethics addresses the difficult, confusing, and seldom-discussed but often-troubling dilemmas confronting touch therapy practitioners. By honestly describing the issues, identifying clear principles, naming specific resources, and using stories straight from the treatment room, the authors have written a book to guide, support, and inspire both students and seasoned practitioners. This book belongs in the office of every bodywork practitioner and in the classrooms of every professional training school. Features include useful and thought-provoking activities and exercises and real-life scenarios to intrigue students.

With the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted healer with years of professional experience, Barbara Ann Brennan presents the first in-depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential. 



Our physical bodies exist within a larger "body," a human energy field or aura, which is the vehicle through which we create our experience of reality, including health and illness. It is through this energy field that we have the power to heal ourselves. 


Barbara Ann Brennan continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or aura -- the source of our experience of health or illness. She shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very center of our humanity.

In a unique approach that encourages a cooperative effort among healer, patient, and other health-care providers, Light Emerging presents a fascinating range of research, from a paradigm of healing based on the science of holography to insights into the "hara level" and the "core star," Light Emerging is at the leading edge of healing practice in our time.

The Subtle Body is a comprehensive encyclopedia devoted to the critical world of our invisible anatomy, where so much of healing actually occurs. This 500-page full color illustrated reference book covers: What is the "subtle body"? New scientific understanding of our quantum-state existence and the unseen fields that determine our physical condition; True integrative care: how combining Eastern energetic modalities with Western scientific rigor yields optimum results; The meridians, fields, and chakras: detailed information and diagrams about the role of these energetic structures in our overall health; Energy-based therapy principles from the world's healing traditions including Ayurveda, Qigong, Reiki, Quabalah, and many more.

Creating Healing Relationships is the first book to seriously address the need for professional standards in the rapidly growing field of energy healing and to demonstrate how the ethic of human caring can be translated into professional standards for safe and successful energy therapy practice.

Healing work isn't just about what happens in the therapy room, but also about how practitioners communicate with integrity and act in their professional and personal relationships. While gifted healers are being trained in hundreds of modalities worldwide, few genuinely professional organizations exist and, in most cases, standards of relational ethics have yet to be codified.

Healing Touch is one of the most accepted and widespread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using energy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed 100,000 and several thousand have become certified practitioners.

This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy medicine for yourself and others.

The Healing Touch Guidebook, Practicing the Art and Science of Human Caring, is intended to help expand and deepen understanding of the healing process in both newcomers and seasoned practitioners.

No matter where you are in your own journey of discovery, this work is an invitation to widen your exploration of the many facets of Healing Touch and its conceptual framework with focus on theory, science, research, and actual practice.

This book is insightful at any stage of parenting. Give yourself what is necessary to parent with a deep heart from the start. This insightful book will plants seeds of deep connection between you and your family that can have a lifelong effect.

Are you starting a new family? Are you stressed about how you are going to hold it altogether, given our crazy, complicated world? This book will empower you as a mom, and help you to give your baby the best start in life. Through prenatal bonding, you will learn to understand on a very deep heart level, what your baby truly needs. Your Baby Remembers cites research not readily available to the mainstream, that proves beyond doubt that babies are more aware than previously thought. They do indeed remember.

This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.

Nourishing Traditions will tell you:
   1. Why your body needs old fashioned animal fats
   2. Why butter is a health food
   3. How high-cholesterol diets promote good health
   4. How saturated fats protect the heart
   ... and Much More!

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. 



Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food."

The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment.

The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it's full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist.

$18 (2 for $30)

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The Healing Touch Meditations - CD one - offers two basic Healing Touch meditations in this recording. The first, Basic Centering, Grounding and Attuning, can be used as a meditation to learn these foundations one practices for both self care/self healing. It can also be helpful as practitioner preparation for providing healing work for others. The second meditation, The Self Chakra Connection, an adaptation of the work of Brugh Joy, MD, provides both exploration in to one's own healing and personal growth.

The Self Chakra Connection Meditation is used during the Healing Touch Level 1 Class.

Links to Cynthia Hutchison's website for Purchase

The Healing Touch Meditations - CD two - offers three healing meditations that are taught in Levels 2, 3 and 4 of the Healing Touch Program. The Self Spiral Meditation, an adaptation of the work of Brugh Joy, M.D., can be used for self care of the practitioner and those interested in self healing and health promotion practices. The Hara Alignment Meditation, an adaptation of Barbara Brennan's teachings is offered as the second track for care/healing and practitioner preparation. The Etheric Vitality Meditation, an adaptation of the teachings from Doscolos, by Kyriacos Markides is the final offering that may be used for self care and healing, practitioner preparation or client treatment.

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