Estara Health and Wellness and Metzli Integrative Therapies, Professionals and Educators™ are working in collaboration with Traditional Healers toward creating public awareness in holistic integrative therapies using an ancestral perspective toward the re-emergence of Ancestral Teachings that support rural clinics, global health and planet sustainability. This and future series of books will highlight different collaborators and authors in the areas of Holistic, Integrative, Native America...

This book encourages one to become involved in the re-emergence of Ancestral Teachings. The ancient prophecy of bridge building between North and South involves uniting people and concepts that were once thought of as opposites, into a common goal. Humanity is moving into a new dimension of understanding Folk Medicine, such as Curanderismo, consciousness, time and possibilities.The book gives a mirror into seeing how we are opened to the world by means of peak experiences, loneline...

The landmark work on how to connect your mind and body to reduce stress and lead a more fulfilling, healthy, and complete life—now revised and updatedFeaturing a preface from Thich Nhat Hanh“This wise, deep book is essential, unique, and, above all, fundamentally healing.”—Donald M. Berwick, M.D., president emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare ImprovementStress. It can sap our energy, undermine our h...

The quest for enlightenment has occupied mankind for millennia. And from the depictions we’ve see—monks sitting on meditation cushions, nuns kneeling in prayer, shamans communing with the universe—it seems that this elusive state is reserved for a chosen few. But now, neuroscientist David Perlmutter and medical anthropologist and shaman Alberto Villoldo have come together to explore the commonalities between their specialties with the aim of making enlightenment possible for anyone...

**"**I highly recommended this book for anyone wishing to work with this plant in a safe and professional manner." - Noel Sweeney (5 star review)Ayahuasca is a traditional spiritual medicine used by the indigenous people in South America. While it is largely used during shamanistic or other religious ceremonies as a sacred substance; it can also be used for its medicinal purposes.More and more people from all walks of life and spiritual and religiou...

A comprehensive instruction guide to the gentle, powerful, non-invasive healing technique being used increasingly both inside and outside the medical profession. Available to anyone searching to help others in pain.

Within each body is an archaeological site that holds the details and wisdom of our extraordinary life story, composed of generational, spiritual, and personal experiences. Historical amnesia locks these stories in the body, manifesting as pain, disease, addictions, emotional patterns, and repetitive circumstances. Somatically excavating your personal legend unearths memories of the past that can be reconciled and healed in order to create a new myth-for your body and for your Earth.

The story of our health is more in our control than we might think, according to clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD. We can not only reframe our experiences but actually experience less stress, greater well-being, and even better physical health than it might appear if we are willing to identify our health story and begin rewriting it. Through journaling exercises and expanded-awareness practices, many of which involve working with and i...

Catch the wave of a powerful training technique that has already transformed thousands of lives. Brain Wave Vibration is a powerful, easy-to-follow method that helps people bring their bodies and minds back into balance for total health. The repetitive shaking method functions as a dynamic, moving meditation that is far easier and more accessible than most traditional meditation practices. This book provides tips for practice as well as profound insights into the nature of human happiness ...

The koshas are a model of the five layers, or aspects of the human. Similar to "body, mind and spirit", this way of looking at the person divides this idea into five rather than three: body, energy, emotions, wisdom and spirit. Recovering from addictions is difficult: behaviors as hard as substances to overcome. The 12 Step programs give us tools that no other modality provides. The physical is overlooked in that program, however, once the addictive process has been addressed. Yoga reaches...

Learn to work with your body intelligence to heal deep-rooted physical, emotional and spiritual suffering.We are at a time of great change, a time when the old 'normal' has disappeared. The great transition that we are undergoing collectively is a dark night of the soul. It's a time when the anchors of our life are ripped away and we find ourselves adrift in a world lacking meaning and safety. To come out of the dark night we need a new set of values, which are life-sustaining and ...

2013 Nautilus Silver Award Winner!In 2010 the Department of Veterans Affairs cited 171,423 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans diagnosed with PTSD, out of 593,634 total patients treated. That’s almost 30 percent; other statistics show 35 percent. Nor, of course, is PTSD limited to the military. In twenty years as a therapist, Susan Pease Banitt has treated trauma in patients ranging from autistic children to women with breast cancer; from underage sex slaves to adults incapacitated b...