The wooden pillow--a block of lightweight, strong wood ergonomically curved into a healing tool for your entire body. In a world full of sophisticated technologies, it is surprisingly simple. The simplicity of the wooden pillow, however, belies the amazing things it can do. By eliminating tension, realigning your body, and rebalancing your energy, the wooden pillow unleashes your body's ability to rebalance and regenerate itself. This book is meant to help you get the most out of a wooden pillow and to help you discover many uses you couldn't have imagined on your own. Use this book as a health manual for all the aches and pains of life.

Meridian exercise is a health regimen to open relaxing points and facilitate energy circulation. Using pulling and stretching exercises, it increases flexibility, strength, and balance of the body to increase natural healing capacity. Presentation of exercises is clear, systematic and easy to follow. There are exercises to address common complaints including headache, backache, PMS, and shoulder pain, as well as conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Positions are explained in a detailed and friendly manner, and are broken down into a step-by-step explanation.

The Secret to Health Is in the Belly Button Your belly houses about 26 feet of intestine, about a third of the body’s blood volume, over 300 million neurons, and more than 300 species of gut microbes, and it’s responsible for about 75 percent of the body’s immunity. Your health can easily decline if this major area of your body remains stagnant. By simply and repeatedly stimulating the center of it all—your belly button—you can pump more energy and vitality into your life. In this latest book, New York Times bestselling author Ilchi Lee shows you how to press the button that turbo-charges your natural healing power. Learn how to exercise your belly button just for 5 minutes a day, and reconnect to your body’s innate wisdom so you can best take care of your health for a long and happy life. The benefits of Belly Button Healing Include: • Increased blood and energy circulation • Boosting your energy and vitality • Quieting your mind and gain clarity • Enhanced digestion and detoxification • Relief of pain and stiffness • Improved immunity

The premier text for therapeutic exercise Here is all the guidance you need to customize interventions for individuals with movement dysfunction. You’ll find the perfect balance of theory and clinical technique—in-depth discussions of the principles of therapeutic exercise and manual therapy and the most up-to-date exercise and management guidelines.

Starting today, you don't have to live in pain. “This book is extraordinary, and I am thrilled to recommend it to anyone who’s interested in dramatically increasing the quality of their physical health.”—Tony Robbins That is the revolutionary message of this breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Developed by Pete Egoscue, a nationally renowned physiologist and sports injury consultant to some of today’s top athletes, the Egoscue Method has an astounding 95 percent success rate. The key is a series of gentle exercises and carefully constructed stretches called E-cises. Inside you’ll find detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions for dozens of e-cizes specifically designed to provide quick and lasting relief of: • Lower back pain, hip problems, sciatica, and bad knees • Carpal tunnel syndrome and even some forms of arthritis • Migraines and other headaches, stiff neck, fatigue, sinus problems, vertigo, and TMJ • Shin splints, varicose veins, sprained or weak ankles, and many foot ailments • Bursitis, tendinitis, and rotator cuff problems Plus special preventive programs for maintaining health through the entire body. With this book in hand, you’re on your way to regaining the greatest gift of all: a pain-free body!

This full-color, user-friendly book identifies specific meridian exercises to alleviate common ailments, including headache, colds, and flu, as well as more serious conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and thyroid disorders. Meridian exercise is a technique developed and perfected over the course of thousands of years in the Asian healing arts traditions. This book includes the following features: - Low-impact, time-efficient exercises that relieve stress, restore physical health, and rebalance the mind - Step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos for dozens of exercises specifically designed for common symptoms - Breathing and relaxation techniques to awaken innate healing power and to maximize the benefits of meridian exercise - A spiral binding for easy and comfortable use

An in-depth and up-close look at the ONE energy principle you need to know to take care of your health simply and naturally. What is the one thing you should know to have a lifetime of abundant health? Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west due to Earth’s rotation, there are natural laws your body follows. One law, discerned by traditional Asian medicine, can decide the health of your body, mind, and spirit. Water Up Fire Down by New York Times bestselling author Ilchi Lee reveals this golden rule of health. Know it, feel it, and use it in your daily life to: -- Manage your stress -- Balance your emotions -- Maintain your focus -- See situations clearly -- Maximize your immunity -- Have abundant energy and passion -- Sleep soundly How can one rule affect all this? Because it is an essential principle of energy circulation in the body. No matter what physical or mental issues you may have, if you apply the Water Up, Fire Down energy principle in your daily life, you can make progress toward clearing them up. Ilchi Lee gives you proven mind-body exercises and lifestyle recommendations so you can apply this energy principle to your body and your life. These simple yet effective exercises are shown with full-color illustrations so you can easily do them on your own right away.

From the editors of Esquire magazine and top-tier personal trainer Adam Schersten comes the ultimate bodyweight training guide for the modern man. Drop the dumbbells. Ditch the weights. Get in shape and stay in shape with this strength training roster of do-anywhere exercises and calisthenics programs. This is the portable personal trainer for the man on the move—no heavy machines or gym membership required. Adam Schersten's bodyweight exercises strengthen, chisel, and tone for a bodyweight training workout that any man can do, from the busy exec to the fitness fanatic looking for his next challenge. Transform your body, with: 75 bodyweight exercises and over 175 detailed illustrations 3 progressive strength training programs (for 4-week, 8-week, and 12-week terms) to condition, strengthen, and chisel Nutritional info for getting fueled and fit—from pre to post-workout An intro to mobility training, the prerequisite to any effective calisthenics program The program in The Esquire Guide to Bodyweight Training fits perfectly into any man's schedule for an effective full-body workout.

This title is an evidence based book that connects the theoretical and practical aspects of human movement and posture and provides basic information for therapists working with people with postural disorders. Practical material is approached area by area so that therapists can easily access the information they require. The anatomy and kinesiology of the locomotor/musculoskeletal system is covered and common pathologies and postural disorders reviewed. Accessible writing style supported by large number of illustrations (line and photograph)Connects theoretical and practical aspects of human movement and postureComprehensiveLinks anatomy, kinaesiology and postureEvidence-based

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.