Out of the traditions of healers, shamans, and other leaders of complementary medicine, the healing ways of renowned Lakota Sioux medicine man Gary Holy Bull are featured in this profile of his life and teachings. Using Holy Bull's own words and writings, the traditional ways of the Lakota Sioux are evoked through texts, contemporary and historical photographs, quotations, profiles, and first-person accounts. His descriptions of the Yuwipi ceremony, the Sun Dance, and other healing rituals illustrate his emergence as a respected elder and as the embodiment of Lakota beliefs. Also included is a CD of stories, actual dances, chants, and prayers that capture Holy Bull's teachings of the four basic values: kindness, honesty, sharing, and courage.

Gary Holy Bull, Lakota Yuwipi Man

Biographies & Memoirs

Bradford Keeney

Community & Culture

Leete's Island Books

Recognized in Japan as a national treasure, Ikuko Osumi is a practitioner of a nearly extinct Japanese healing ritual called seiku jutsu. A two-part practice, seiku jutsu involves both a series of exercises used by the practitioner to develop and focus the inner spirit and a healing ritual during which the practitioner transmits the seiki life force to the patient. This book presents a series of exercises developed by Osumi that can be used on a daily basis to maintain one's own health and well-being. Designed to unfold like a Japanese scroll a nd read two ways, this book is an autobiographical description of Osumi's life and discovery of her powers and an illustrated description of an actual healing session. An accompanying CD includes translations of anecdotes told by Osumi and traditional music.

Ikuko Osumi, Japanese Master of Seiki Jutsu

In this detailed personal account of traditional healing practices, Bushman doctors from Namibia disclose the defining symbolism, art forms such as rock art, and kinesthetic elements that define Bushman spirituality. Ropes, cords, threads, and lines of light enable the spiritual healers to commune with ancestors and gods, as well as communicate with other Bushman communities. Also documented are the physical movements that facilitate entering the transformative states of hyper-arousal and synesthesia.

Ropes to God: Experiencing the Bushman Spiritual Universe (Profiles in Healing series)

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PH.D.

Ringing Rocks Press

Milton H. Erickson, M.D.: An American Healer

Betty Alice Erickson

M.S. (Editor)

Ph.D. (Editor)

Three Guarani shamans from the rain forest of Paraguay, South America, tell their life stories, revealing how the spirits of the forest taught them to be shamans in service to their communities. The book also includes the spiritual teachings of Ka' Aguygua. The accompanying CD features their own voices singing healing songs and offering sacred prayers. Illustrated with color photographs, Guarani children's drawings, and rare images of their most sacred objects, this book provides primary documentation of shamanistic practice never revealed before. Includes audio CD.

Guarani Shaman of the Forest (Profiles of Healing series)

A traditional Diné (Navajo) medicine woman, Walking Thunder, tells her life story and describes her healing methods using native plants, sand paintings, and other medicinal ways in this first-person account. As a practitioner of the peyote ceremony, she shares her indigenous understanding of the world of spirits evoked by this botanical sacrament. Photographs illustrate the ceremonies and ritual practices and the accompanying CD features traditional Diné storytelling as well as sacred songs to evoke the experience of Walking Thunder's life and healing. Includes audio CD.

Walking Thunder: Dine Medicine Woman

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

A relatively unknown shamanic culture, the Shakers of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, is illustrated through personal profiles, stories, and color photographs. A unique blend of West African spirituality and Protestant Christianity, this culture has a strong tradition of seeking personal instruction and spiritual training that is brought forth through a ritual called "mourning." The details of this ritual are examined in this book, along with personal testimonies of visionary journeys. Accompanied by an audio CD of their ecstatic gatherings and healing encounters, this book is a vibrant expression of spiritual healing and is a unique contribution to ethnographic literature.

Shakers of St. Vincent

The fundamental concern of psychotherapy is change. While practitioners are constantly greeted with new strategies, techniques, programs, and interventions, this book argues that the full benefits of the therapeutic process cannot be realized without fundamental revision of the concept of change itself. Applying cybernetic thought to family therapy, Bradford P. Keeney demonstrates that conventional epistemology, in which cause and effect have a linear relationship, does not sufficiently accommodate the reciprocal nature of causation in experience. Written in an unconventional style that includes stories, case examples, and imagined dialogues between an epistemologist and a skeptical therapist, the volume presents a philosophically grounded, ecological framework for contemporary clinical practice.

Aesthetics of Change

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

The Guilford Press

In their most recent book, Circular Therapeutics, Brad and Hillary Keeney encourage therapists to let go and free themselves from the imprisonment of any and all models of therapy and instead become wisdom-based practitioners with healing hearts. Through circular therapeutics, utilization, and improvisation, the Keeneys demonstrate how diverse wisdom traditions can positively impact clinical practice and offer help in restoring one s inner resources, gifts and wisdom to revitalize the therapeutic process. Although written to influence behavioral health professionals, Circular Therapeutics is entertaining, refreshing light and readable and appeals to a wide audience including those who have an interest in traditional healing and cybernetics. Reflecting its ideology, Circular Therapeutics goes full circle, beginning with the history of traditional healing, into an introduction into circular therapy and circular poetics. Then takes the reader into the core principles of cybernetic epistemology, to the healing crossroads of change, and through the door to the other side where one can begin their own journey toward embracing a healer s heart.

Circular Therapeutics: Giving Therapy a Healing Heart

Hillary Keeney

Zeig,Tucker & Theisen

Performance. This is where it starts. The Keeney's heretical perspective holds that professionals can fill up on theory -- indeed, on many theories -- at the expense of developing the performance skills that are the foundation of effective therapy. They argue that creative performance technique, rather than theory, is primary. Thus this new book is appropriate for any practitioner no matter what school of therapy they belong to. The authors begin by envisioning every session as a three-act structure with a beginning, middle and end. This helps therapists maintain a focus on movement and change, like a compass that allows practitioners to keep track of the plot line and direction of every session. Exercises help readers make these ideas their own. In Chapter Two, the focus is on creative ways to interrupt the pathological discourse that maintains impoverished experience in clients lives, while Feeding Virtuous Circles considers the creation of more generative, resource-rich experiences. This section ends with Designing Prescriptive Action for Change, thus rounding out the discussion of the basic tools necessary to implement a well-formed therapeutic performance. The midsection of the book presents opportunities to initiate and maintain consistent presence inside creative, transformative interactions in every session. Always Utilize and Improvise leads the way by describing, and inviting the reader to practice, ways to create openings for new movement. Absurdity Lubricates the Wheels of Change introduces exercises to help awaken difference and inspiration. The Changing Therapist encourages the therapist to include and expand his or her role as an instrument of change. In the case studies in Chapters Eight, Nine, and Ten, the authors demonstrate ways in which they have helped practitioners to uncover their own unique resources and to develop mastery of creative and effective expression. The final chapter,Bringing Life to Clinical Training,gathers together thoughts on the importance of performance-based skills and one's own wisdom-based learning as the linchpins of an alive therapeutic environment. Hillary Keeney and Brad Keeney bring to their work a rare combination of intellectual depth and jump-off-the-page enthusiasm. Creative Therapeutic Technique is a practical guide that knocks the familiar staid therapeutic stance on its ear, suggesting instead an approach that allows therapists to always be ready and able to meet clients where they are--and then uncover fresh and vital ways to get them where they long to be.

Creative Therapeutic Technique: Skills for the Art of Bringing Forth Change

Psychology & Counseling

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