Books
Interesting books . . . on movement, spirit, conscious living.
Within each category books are listed in order of popularity,
according to the Amazon.com sales rank.
Miscellaneous Books
Sharing the Dance by Cynthia J. Novak
(ISBN 0299124444) August 1990
Authentic Movement
by Mary Starks Whitehouse, Janet Adler, Joan Chodorow, Patrizia Pallaro (Editor)
(ISBN 1853026530) May 1999 (Amazon.com Rank: 179,571)
Pallaro (psychology and dance/movement therapy) presents interviews, conversations, and papers by Whitehouse, Adler, and Choderow, key figures who defined authentic movement as a way to explore the unconscious. They emphasize the importance of movement as a means of communication and as an attitude of inner listening. They maintain that such movement can trigger powerful images, feelings and kinesthetic sensations arising from the depths of our stored childhood memories or connecting our inner selves to the transcendent.
The Expressive Body in Life, Art and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning by Daria Halprin, Jack S. Weller
(ISBN 1843107376) Dec 2002
Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull by Susan Leigh Foster
(ISBN 0819565512) July 2002
Moving into Ecstasy: An Urban Mystic's Guide to Movement, Music, and Meditation by Jivan Amoda
(ISBN 0007116543) Oct 19?2 (Amazon.com Rank: 687,820)
This title invites you to live life more ecstatically. By weaving together movement and meditation, trance dance, chakra work, visualisation, shamanism and tantra, Amoda creates a spiritual workout designed to bring about ecstasy and help you to be here now. Ecstasy - to some it is meditation, to others drugs. Some reach it during orgasm, others find it at the pub; some enjoy dancing while others revel when their team scores. True ecstasy goes past happiness ... it is about total awareness. This book is a wake-up call to life - showing you how to stop obsessing, release your spirit and get to a more relaxed and whole state of one-ness that has nothing to do with escapism - using instead techniques of moving meditation, dance, chakra-work, breath, music and guided visualization.
Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin is a pioneer in the field of dance as a healing art and has been teaching and performing with people with cancer, AIDS, and other lifle threatening illnesses for the past fifteen years. She is co-founder of the Tamalpa Institute in Kentfield, California and the founder of the San Francisco Dancer's Workshop. Her numerous awards include the prestigious American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in Modern Dance. She teaches in her Mountain Home Studio in Kentfield, California and tours the U.S.A. and abroad. She is the author of Moving Toward Life, Movement Ritual and the Circle the Earth Manual.
Moving Toward Life: 5 Decades of Transformational Dance by Anna Halprin, Rachel Kaplan (Editor)
(ISBN 0819562866) Oct 1995 (Amazon.com Rank: 334,935)
The collected writings of one of the most influential luminaries of American dance.
Award-winning choreographer, dancer, and writer Rachel Kaplan tours and teaches her performance work both here and abroad, and is a contributor to such dance-art journals as Contact Quarterly and High Performance Magazine.
Returning to Health: With Dance, Movement & Imagery by Anna Halprin
(ISBN 0940795221) Oct 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 584,641)
Returning to Health: with Dance, Movement & Imagery is a theoretical and practical approach to using movement and imagery as a modality for people challenging cancer and other life threatening illness. Anna Halprin describes her expressive movement work with terminally ill patients and documents a ten-week series with each class clearly described in ways that can be easily followed by others using dance, movement or imagery as healing arts.
Frank Natale
Committed to dance movement as a healing force, Natale, with his band Professor Trance, has produced a body of trance dance music including the best selling CD Shaman's Breath on Island Records, the double CD Medicine Trance and their latest release Rites of Passage. Natale publishing credits include the books Trance Dance the Dance of Life from Element Books and Mastering Alive Relationships.
Natale co-founded Phoenix House in New York, which is the largest residential treatment facility for chemical dependency in the United States. After serving as clinical director for twelve years, Natale chose to leave Phoenix House and focus his work on successful, functioning personalities who want to experience new levels of spirituality, creativity and aliveness.
A major contributor to the New Age for over thirty years, Natale studied and worked directly with many early leaders of the human consciousness movement including Charles Dederich, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Fritz Perls, Baba Muktananda, J. Krishnamurti and Buckminster Fuller.
Trance Dance: The Dance of Life by Frank Natale
(ISBN 1852307021) Oct 1995 (Amazon.com Rank: 431,143)
According to Natale, "dancing is one of the easiest ways to celebrate and heal your life. The magic of trance dancing occurs when you dance from inside your heart." Natale's music, when combined with the special movements outlined in this book, takes you safely into an altered state of awareness where negative emotions and self-imposed barriers disappear, and where mind, body and spirit are healed.
Mastering Alive Relationships by Frank Natale
(ISBN 9080071110) Sep 1990 (Amazon.com Rank: 1,046,373)
Frank Natale identifies and presents his insight into the 20 qualities necessary to create alive relationships in your personal and professional life.
In this provocative self-discovery format, you will realize new levels spirituality, creativity and aliveness as you experience the 20 qualities, which include: Responsibility, the Choice to Think; Service and Acknowledgement; Affinity and Trust; Effective Communication; Self Esteem; Honorable Sexuality; Healing; Forgiveness; Laughter; Humor and Playfulness; Relatedness; and Love.
Gabrielle Roth -- 5Rhythms
"The soul can only be present when body and spirit are one," exclaims Roth (Maps to Ecstasy) in this amiably free-flowing spiritual autobiography. She goes on to explain how dance can be the path to soul or true self. Roth discovered dance as a means of self-initiation and integration through a career that began with a stint as a massage therapist at the wellspring of the human potential movement, Esalen Institute. There, Fritz Perls invited Roth to teach movement to his therapy groups. Prodding her physically frozen students to sense their bodies and breathe, Roth quickly discovered that "two hours of moving were as powerful as two years on the couch." She came to isolate five rhythms related to five archetypes or states of being. Roth claims that even terminally inhibited people can learn to enter these rhythms and sense how it feels to inhabit "mother, mistress, madonna, father, son and holy spirit." The three feminine archetypes follow a flowing rhythm, according to Roth, while the energy of the masculine archetypes corresponds to a staccato rhythm. Roth discovered that when the masculine and feminine fuse, a rhythm of fertile chaos results, as in acts of artistic creation or love. The resolution of chaos is the lightness and liberation of a lyrical rhythm, while stillness is the most profound rhythm of all. Roth's entertaining, appealingly conversational tale, full of breezy asides about Manhattan restaurants and scenes, will tantalize readers into believing that dancing is indeed a joyful way to "sweat" prayers, to seek our innermost truths as they are lived, in movement.
Sweat Your Prayers: Movement As Spiritual Practice by Gabrielle Roth
(ISBN 0874779596) Dec 1998 (Amazon.com Rank: 58,600)
Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit by Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (Contributor)
(ISBN 1577310454) Oct 1998 (Amazon.com Rank: 67,782)
The Power Wave by Gabrielle Roth
(ISBN 1564557677) Oct 2000 (Amazon.com Rank: 1,773,138)
Ecstatic Dance by Gabrielle Roth
(ISBN 156455810X) Oct 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 1,773,139)
The Wave by Gabrielle Roth
(ISBN 1564558193) Jan 2003 (Amazon.com Rank: ?)
Ted Andrews
Ted Andrews is a full-time author and teacher in the metaphysical and spiritual fields. Ted is certified in basic hypnosis through the New Life Center of Hypnotherapy in West Virginia and basic acupressure through the Center for Chinese Medicine in California. He also completed two years of formal study in "Herbs for Healthful Living" at the Herbal Emporium of Dayton Ohio.
How to Meet & Work With Spirit Guides by Ted Andrews
(ISBN 0875420087) Aug 1992 (Amazon.com Rank: 6,301)
Sacred Sounds: Transformation Through Music and Word by Ted Andrews
(ISBN 0875420184) June 1992 (Amazon.com Rank: 86,706)
"Sacred Sounds" reveals to today's seekers how to tap into the magical and healing aspects of voice, resonance and music that, on a metaphysical level, have been used to induce altered states of consciousness, open new levels of awareness, stimulate intuition and increase creativity.
How to Do Psychic Readings Through Touch by Ted Andrews, Hill (Editor)
(ISBN 0738702951) Aug 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 584,641)
Learn Psychometry-the Art of Psychic Touch
You've probably used the expression "If these walls could talk . . ." In truth, seemingly silent objects can tell you a great deal when you use your sense of psychic touch. It's called psychometry-the ability to read psychic imprints that exist on objects, people, and places. This book shows you easy-to-learn techniques to develop your psychic ability to levels you never thought possible.
Learn how to:
Find lost objects and people, Enhance your sensitivity through meditation, Recognize psychic currents, Scan a person's body to sense imbalances, Attune to human energy absorbed by flowers, Do psychic readings for others, Master psychometry-and have amazing psychic ability right at your fingertips.
Sacred Dance
It's not necessarily a Judeo-Christian thing. It's not necessarily within a religion or a church. As Iris Stewart writes:
Dance is divinity, a natural state of grace in which we all reside. In its sacred form, dance is a language that reunites the body, soul, and mind....
Dance becomes sacred as the beauty of movement communicates the divine ideal. In sacred dance, one is found and used by the soul of nature, the energies of which are perceived rhythmically as the continuous dance of life and form. Dance invites a state of exhilaration that the Mevlevi Sufi call hadrah, or "the presence," each step moving us upward toward a new freedom of the spirit, toward ecstasy....
Dance and ritual create community, drawing people together both emotionally and physically in a special sense of intimacy and shared abandon. As the community participates, no one is a stranger any longer....
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality Through Movement & Ritual by Iris J. Stewart
(ISBN 0892816058) July 2000
Today we primarily think of dance as a form of entertainment or as a way to exercise or socialize. There was a time, however, when dance was considered the way to commune with the divine, a part of life's journey, celebrating the seasons and rhythms of the year and the rhythms of our lives. Dance is a language that reunites the body, mind, and soul. While the role of women's sacred dance was most valued in goddess-worshipping cultures where women served as priestesses and healers, dance was once an integral part of religious ritual and ceremonial expression in cultures all over the world, including Judaism and Christianity. In this book the author investigates how dance came to be excluded from worship and reveals how dance is once again being integrated into spiritual practices.
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance is the first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance. It describes sacred circles, birth rituals, ecstatic dances, and dances of loss and grief (in groups and individually) that allow women to integrate the movements of faith, healing, and power into their daily life.
Sacred Dance: Encounter With the Gods (Art and Imagination)
by Maria-Grabiele Wosien, Maria-Gabriele Wosien
(ISBN 0500810060) Aug 1986 (Amazon.com Rank: 407,052
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www.sacreddance-wosien.net/mgwosien/mgwosien.html -- Biography of Maria-Gabriele Wosien
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Animal Guides
What do animals' spiritual and emotional existence have to do with dance?
Animals have a huge advantage over people. They are far more advanced than us in terms of whole-body thought, experience, being in joy, bliss and love with all their senses and feelings in the present moment.
Animals dance every minute of their lives while we think so much and try so hard to become what we already are. Why wait? Why not understand nature, be our own natural beings, and truly live? Be an active part of nature, interdependent and fully integrated within the world. Learn to move and purr each moment authentically.
Kindred Spirits: How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans and Animals Can Change the Way We Live by Allen M. Schoen
(ISBN 0767904311) Feb 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 28,096)
Invoking the "mystical, magical, or metaphysical" aspects of our relationships with animals, veterinarian Schoen (Love, Miracles and Animal Healing) recounts his dawning awareness of amazing acts of courage and compassion by animals toward both their human companions and one another. Early in his career, his golden retriever, Megan, came to act as his "ecumenical guide" and veterinary assistant, responding to the distress of an injured lamb, kitten or cow--or panicked human onlookers--with loving licks. In an engaging work that is part memoir, part argument for a more holistic approach to veterinary medicine, this "left-brained" man of science tells how he gradually learned to observe and respond to an animal's emotional state, as well as to the physical needs he was trained to focus on. Since then, with Megan's help, he has learned to care for animals on both levels, and has incorporated alternative medicine into his practice. While a growing number of books espouse our interrelationship with animals and attempt to change our attitude of superiority, this account is distinguished by Schoen's fresh voice and seamless writing. "As we learn more about our connections to animals, we will consider them our heart," Schoen believes. "More than anything else on this earth, animals have the facility to make sure we remain connected to our deepest feelings.... Always remember: Do unto all animals as you would do unto yourself."
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Susan McCarthy, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
(ISBN 0385314280) May 1996 (Amazon.com Rank: 33,903)
From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating them to scientific experimentation. Forming a complete and compelling picture of the inner lives of animals, When Elephants Weep assures that we will never look at animals in the same way again.
The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions by Marc Bekoff (Editor), Stephen Jay Gould
(ISBN 156331925X) Oct 2000 (Amazon.com Rank: 57,811)
Longtime mates Turbo and Kachina get agitated whenever the other is even briefly out of sight. Kanzi, jealous of his younger sister, throws temper tantrums when she outperforms him. Tulip giggles when she�s tickled and loves to play games. And Ake gets angry when scolded; she once hurled a plastic pipe at her teacher when the instructor rebuked her for failing a task.
Turbo and Kachina, Kanzi, Tulip, and Ake are, respectively, a pair of Arabian horses, a bonobo, a rat, and a dolphin. In each case their devotion, jealousy, playfulness, and anger, their display of emotion, was observed and reported by a scientist�an expert in animal behavior whose formal training has discouraged either anthropomorphic thinking or jumping to conclusions.
In this unforgettable collection of stories, more than fifty experts on animals ranging from great apes to guppies present compelling evidence that, when faced with such circumstances as losing a child; confronting an enemy; choosing a mate; or being tricked, chastised, challenged, played with, or picked on; many animals do seem to have an emotional response, one whose underpinnings may be strikingly similar to our own. What�s more, these familiar feelings occur even in such �unlikely� animals as birds, reptiles, and fish.
Animals As Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections by Susan Chernak McElroy, Michael W. Fox
(ISBN 0345421175) Mar 1998 (Amazon.com Rank: 60,632)
Susan Chernak McElroy credits her astounding triumph over cancer to the love of the animals in her life. In Animals as Teachers & Healers she shares her remarkable story along with true stories from others who have been touched by the loving energies of animals.
A woman escapes an abusive relationship by observing how her boyfriend treated her two Arabian horses . . . a German shepherd cocoons its body around a toddler during a house fire . . . a coyote gives a couple wisdom about their rebellious daughter . . . a little three-legged frog imparts a valuable lesson to a frightened nine-year-old girl. Unique and compelling, Animals as Teachers & Healers invites us to reconnect with the boundless gifts of joy, wisdom, and deep healing that flow from our ageless and intimate relationship with the animal kingdom.
Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart by Marc Bekoff, Jane Goodall
(ISBN 0195150775) March 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 81,857)
Thinking bees, ice-skating buffaloes, dreaming rats, happy foxes, ecstatic elephants, despondent dolphins--in Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe--from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Antarctica. He draws on this vast experience, as well as on the observations of other naturalists, to offer readers fascinating stories of animal behavior, including grooming and gossip, self-medication, feeding patterns, dreaming, dominance, and mating behavior. Many of these stories are truly incredible--chimpanzees medicating themselves with herbal remedies, elephants clearly mourning a dead group member--but this is not simply a catalog of amazing animal tales, for Bekoff also sheds light on many of the more serious issues surrounding animals. He offers a thought-provoking look at animal cognition, intelligence, and consciousness and he presents vivid examples of animal passions, highlighting the deep emotional lives of our animal kin. All this serves as background for his thoughtful conclusions about humility and animal protection and animal well-being, where he urges a new paradigm of respect, grace, compassion, and love for all animals. Marc Bekoff has gone deep into the minds, hearts, spirits, and souls of animals, giving him profound insight into their lives, and no small insight into ours. Minding Animals is an important contribution to our understanding of animal consciousness, a major work that will be a must read for anyone who loves nature.
Animal Grace: Entering a Spiritual Relationship With Our Fellow Creatures by Mary Lou Randour, Susan Chernak McElroy
(ISBN 1577312252) May 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 379,443)
Animal Grace explores the human-animal relationship as a path to enlightenment. The author calls for readers to ensure that their interactions with members of other species are based on compassion and respect. �Mary Lou Randour invites us to open our hearts and minds to the animal lives all around us.� � Jane Goodall
Souls of Animals by Gary Kowalski, Art Wolfe (Photographer)
(ISBN 0913299847) Sep 1991 (Amazon.com Rank: 293,454)
A classic book on animal spirituality - now updated and expanded. In this book, author Gary Kowalski offers vignettes from the lives of creatures that illustrate the qualities he considers spiritual: playfulness, capacity for love, altruism, and awareness of death. Kowalski reminds us, "If we are to keep Earth safe for coming generations, we must awaken to a new respect for the family of life."
Musical Spirit
Music effects us. It can expand our mind, tune our subtle awareness, lift our state of being, shift our emotions, and send our soul. Use it for yoga, meditation, healing, celebration, movement and self-awareness. It is our voice.
The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice, and Music by Mitchell L., Md. Gaynor
(ISBN 1570629552) Aug 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 2,257)
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The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit by Don G. Campbell
(ISBN 0380974185) Oct 1997 (Amazon.com Rank: 5,502)
You know that music can affect your mood it can make you feel happy, enchanted, inspired, wistful, excited, empowered, comforted, heroic. But music has an even more astonishing power, one you may have suspected from your own experience, but which you will now learn well documented. Quite simply, music is good for you-physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Particular sounds, tones and rhythms, especially the music of Mozart, Gregorian chant, and some jazz, New Age, Latin, pop, and even rock music, can strengthen the mind, unlock the creative spirit, and, miraculously, even heal the body. This remarkable phenomenon is called The Mozart Effect.Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, THE MOZART EFFECT offers dramatic accounts of how doctors, shamans, musicians, and health care professionals use music to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, even mental illness.
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by Robert Jourdain
(ISBN 0688142362) March 1997 (Amazon.com Rank: 34,379)
Bringing together discoveries from neurophysiology, psychology, music theory, and philosophy, Robert Jourdain moves from the simplest aspects of music, such as sound and tone, to the more complex, like composition and performance. In clear, accessible language, Robert Jourdain writes about the extraordinary array of physical and mental functions involved in the appreciation of music.
Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy is divided into chapters on the basics of sound and aspects of music and the way music is perceived, then it considers the neurological and emotional adaptations of composers and musicians to the demands of the music. He notes that there is no proof that any particular brand of emotionality is tied to musical greatness.
Stretching the mind in every dimension that music occupies, Robert Jourdain encourages one to think like a paleontologist, a neurophysiologist, an acoustician, a psychophysicist, a musicologist, a composer, a performer, a sociologist, a linguist, and a philosopher. He looks at the evolution of music, and introduces surprising new concepts of memory and perception, knowledge and attention, motion and emotion, all at work as music takes hold.
Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture by William L. Benzon
(ISBN 0465015433) Oct 2001 (Amazon.com Sales Rank: 166,922)
It took a cognitive scientist who is also a musician to notice an obvious but scientifically ignored linkage: making music together is something that enables humans to improvise cooperation on the fly. Benzon uses his own experiences as a musician to tie the extensive citations in biology, psychology, sociology, and economics into a sense-making narrative. Benzon believes that when people make music together they create a kind of shared brain-state that exists in no single head, but emerges from the synchronized communications of a group. and uses an impressive body of knowledge to back up his case. Benzon might be proved right and he might be proved wrong, but he uses solid science and creative conjecture to make a highly readable as well as reasonable case.
Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr
(ISBN 0345358473) June 1988 (Amazon.com Rank: 30,092)
Storr's celebration of creative solitude is a counterbalance to the chorus of self-help books extollng interpersonal relationships. This British psychotherapist links the capacity to be alone with self-discovery and becoming aware of one's deepest needs and feelings. Taking Goya, Kafka, Trollope, Kant and others as examples, he shows that solitude, far from being a flight from interpersonal contact, is an inveterate need, at least in some people. He analyzes extroverts who become depressives by losing themselves in the outer world and argues that fantasy is not inherently escapist, as Freud contended. The Jungian process of "individuation," he demonstrates, sheds light on the mature artistic forays of Beethoven, Brahms and Henry James. People need a sense of participating in a larger community than either family or friends can provide, and Storr's message is that the solitary's search for wholeness is a valid avenue to relatedness.
The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Inayat Khan, Hazart Inayat Khan, Inayat
(ISBN 1570622310) Sept 1996 (Amazon.com Rank: 37,672)
According to Sufi teaching, music is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the universe--and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan, the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West, was an accomplished musician himself. His lucid exposition of music's divine aspect has become a modern classic, not only among those interested in Sufism but among musicians of all types.
Travelling the Sacred Sound Current: Keys for Conscious Evolution by Deborah Van Dyke, Crystal Voices
(ISBN 0968766706) Aug 2001 (Amazon.com Rank: 42,284)
This book is an important sound healing resource for the 21st Century with its extensive contribution of spiritual sound wisdom from a wide spectrum of world cultures. Combining the esoteric with the therapeutic, it explores sound as a vibrational tool for self healing, sacred creation and higher consciousness. A blend of the mystical and the practical, it covers ancient wisdom teachings, sound healing practices for inner attunement, and the use of voice and crystal singing bowls for expanded awareness, healing, and transformation. Whatever stage of your journey, Travelling the Sacred Sound Current offers an energy-shifting, soul-enriching experience.
An important work with her decipherment of harmonic knowledge from a wide spectrum of world cultures. The sacred use of voice and breath, overtones and harmonics...are all woven intelligibly and discussed by Deborah as the multi-colored rays of a basic understanding that emanate from a single source.
Music of Life by Hazrat I. Khan, Inayat Khan, Anahat I. Khan, Hazart Inayat Khan
(ISBN 093087238X) Jan 1993 (Amazon.com Rank: 96,797)
In the words of the author, "Music should be healing; music should uplift the soul; music should inspire. There is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection than music, if only it is rightly understood." "The Music of Life" is the definitive collection of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings on sound, presenting the Sufi master's vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of our lives. With deep insight and wisdom, he explores the science of breath, the law of rythm, the creative process, and both the healing power and psychological influence of music and sound.
Voice
Our voice has power and import. It responds, reflects, and moves us.
Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics by Jonathan Goldman
(ISBN 0892819936) June 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 40,532)
The human voice is an amazing and beautiful instrument and all of us have one. Sadly most of us are totally unaware of the power and beauty of our own God-given voice. Goldman's book remedies that ignorance. It gives us detailed and precise instructions for toning - "the singing of prolonged sounds, usually simple vowels, on a single note" (Le Mee)- which anyone can follow.
Toning: The Creative Power of the Voice by Laurel E. Keyes, Elizabeth Keyes
(ISBN 0875161766) Sept 1979 (Amazon.com Rank: 71,581)
The Classic that started it all. If you are interested in discovering the power of your voice for healing, this classic book offers an excellent start. Written simply but effectively, voice toning pioneer Laurel Keyes walks you through the steps of becoming comfortable using the inherent vehicle of great creative power - our voice. Laurel was dedicated to helping people connect with this mighty healing tool and her heart and sincerity shine through all her writing as she gives exercises and examples that you can begin to work with. This
The Roar of Silence: Healing Powers of Breath, Tone & Music by Don G. Campbell
(ISBN 0835606457) Sept 1989 (Amazon.com Rank: 81,617)
This is a wonderfully-written, easy-to-read book that is powerfully-inspiring and deep-reaching. As Jean Houston's foreword shares, Don Campbell helps you become aware of and attune to universal sound, and find your resonance within yourself. Don shares his "Journey into Toning" and that he had "always known there are powers in music, sound, and light that are far more potent than the arts themselves..." (pg1) Reading this book lets you share in his journey, and wondrously guides you to enlarge your own journey into a healing, loving self-exploration and sharing of your own creative expression of yourself with yourself and, with the world. He writes: "To sing is not enough. We must tap the powers that lie beneath the consciousness of the song. The song leads down to the chant, the chant leads down to the tone, the tone leads to the energy beneath the sound --- the roar of silence." (pgs75-76)
Being and Vibration by Joseph Rael, Mary Elizabeth Marlow (Contributor)
(ISBN 1571781196) Sept 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 364,661)
A reissue of the visionary classic of ancient teachings on sound, vibration, and language, and their role in the creation of reality
Highly respected Ute healer and visionary Joseph Rael teaches that the nature of all existence is vibration. From human breath and heartbeat to the pulsating energies of subatomic particles, to expansion and contraction of stars and of the universe itself, there is pulsation-vibration inherent in all that exists. Rael�s teachings show how we may experience spiritual reality in its totality through drumming, chanting, and vision quests. The book includes practical instructions and visualizations around breath, chant, and sound.
Since its publication in 1993, Being and Vibration has gained a growing audience, including followers of Gurdjieff. Over 45 Peace Chambers have been established throughout the world, based on Rael�s teachings -- and the number keeps growing.
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Women's spirituality circles have taken to drumming in a big way. Redmond has been a leader in reintroducing the frame drum, which, she persuasively argues, has been an instrument of spiritual transformation for millennia. Her marvelous book brings together mythology, history and prehistory, personal experience, musical lore, and scientific information on the healthful effects of drumming. Scores of illustrations show stately goddesses holding frame drums, wild maenads tossing their heads as they pound, and priestesses sanctifying space with the rhythms they beat. Redmond's own story of learning drumming in a society in which women are still actively discouraged from taking up the drums is a paradigm of female experience. Wise and passionate, Redmond's book will find a ready audience, made up not only of those who have attended her popular workshops but also of other women drawn to the ecstatic pulse of the drum.
Drum Spirit
Drumming gets us into trance, into dance, together and far forever travelling.
When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
by Layne Redmond
(ISBN 0609801287) June 1997 (Amazon.com Rank: 35,110)
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Creativity
Improvisation in music, dance, emotion and life. Let it be!
Do you have a passion? If you can unlock your creativity you will reach a state which is unknown to many.
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Artby Stephen Nachmanovitch
(ISBN 0874776317) June 1991 (Amazon.com Rank: 14,817)
Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity. Filled with unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors, it reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life, and how finally it can be liberated - how we can be liberated - to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice.
Wild Heart Dancing
by Elliot Sobel
(ISBN 0671869655) April 1994 (Amazon.com Rank: 71,581)
There is creative genius inside of you just waiting to get out. Wild Heart Dancing shows you how to free that innovative spirit by spending a day playing with words, music, songs, dance, and paints. You don't need to be artistic to benefit from the teachings of Elliot Sobel, you just need to open up and take the time to try you hand at new ways of expressing yourself.
Elliot Sobel's step-by-step program will help you to explore all aspects of the creative process and discover abilities you may not know you have. A fun and refreshing break from your usual routine, a day with Wild Heart Dancing will help you to rediscover your passion for living and tap into your own artistic powers.
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Sacred Sexuality
Kama Sutra of Sexual Positions: The Tantric Art of Love
by Kenneth Ray, Ph.D. Stubbs, Kyle Spencer (Illustrator), Richard Stodart (Designer)
(ISBN 1585422185) Jan 2003 (Amazon.com Rank: 3,638)
Celebrating sex as a way to create harmony and joy, Kenneth Ray Stubbs' Kama Sutra of Sexual Positions is a beautifully designed, artistic manual interspersed with historical and cultural perspectives. The book's colorful images are complemented by poetry, spiritual insights and philosophical material, making for a literate, informative read. But it's the illustrations of ancient lovers and contemporary sex partners showing amazing varieties of lovemaking that are the heart of the Kama Sutra of Sexual Positions. Of all the positive elements of the book, its best are the illustrations of everyday people, making the pleasures of eroticism accessible to all.
Tantric Love : A Nine Step Guide to Transforming Lovers into Soul Mates
by Ma Ananda Sarita, Swami Anand Geho, Ma Ananda Sarita, Swami Anand Geho
(ISBN 0743215311) Sept 2001 (Amazon.com Rank: 5,898)
A reviewer says "This book really pleased several lamas I know, who were astonished to see these usually hidden healing techniques made so available and so user-friendly. These are simple but powerful visualizations for "soul retrieval" and physical and mental healing. They're written by a Tibetan healing master who gives the authentic Tibetan material in terms that Westerners can easily grasp."
Another says "Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's Healing With Form, Energy And Light covers the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and space and blend a Tibetan tantric viewpoint with discussions of how each of these elements work in Taoism. Recommended for practitioners of Tibetan shamism and yoga."
Healing With Form, Energy and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen
by Tenzin Wangyal, Mark Dahlby (Editor), Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
(ISBN 1559391766) May 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 9,495)
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Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving
by Charles Muir, Caroline Muir
(ISBN 0916515869) Sept 1990 (Amazon.com Rank: 10,274)
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Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power by Elisabeth Eaves
(ISBN 0375412336) Oct 2002 (Amazon.com Rank: 65,499)
In her absorbing book, Eaves goes behind the scenes of the lucrative stripping business to examine the motivations, thoughts, and lives of the women who work in it and the men who patronize it. Much of Eaves' research is firsthand--she worked as a stripper at a Seattle strip joint called the Lusty Lady. While there, she examines both her own attitudes toward stripping and those of the women around her. Contrary to popular belief, not all strippers are "damaged" or man-haters...
Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour
(ISBN 0300074395) March 1998 (Amazon.com Rank: 194,177)
During a short but incredible life, Lola Montez transformed herself from middle-class British daughter to notorious adventurer, attracting admirers and scandal wherever she went. This highly entertaining biography uncovers the real story of one of the best-known women of the Victorian era-a dancer and actress, a power behind thrones, and a mistress across four continents.
Dance, Sex, and Gender: Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance and Desire by Judith Lynne Hanna
(ISBN 0226315517) May 1988 (Amazon.com Rank: 406,543)
Ambitious in its scope and interdisciplinary in its purview. . . . Without doubt future researchers will want to refer to Hanna's study, not simply for its rich bibliographical sources but also for suggestions as to how to proceed with their own work. Dance, Sex, and Gender will initiate a discussion that should propel a more methodologically informed study of dance and gender.
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(ISBN 0) Sept 1979 (Amazon.com Rank: 406,543)
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