Healing and Holistic therapies

Ancient Mesoamerican shamans and modern practitioners of curanderismo--a Latin American shamanic healing practice--divide each day and night into distinct periods based on the sacred rhythms of the sun and moon, with each time offering opportunities to connect with specific celestial energies for healing and transformation.

Crystals and stones come from Mother Earth and indigenous medicine people have been using them to help and to heal for millennia. Their techniques, although simple, have proven effective through the innumerable healers who have handed down these teachings across the generations.

In Why Am I Sick? Richard Flook explains how disease really works, revealing how the body has not, in fact, made a mistake, but that there are different types of stressful experiences that can cause specific diseases to occur. He tackles the challenging questions of why cancers develop, how chronic diseases are caused, how allergies start.

Krista Mitchell is a master at crystal healing, and with this book she has created a handbook for practitioners both amateur and professional. This hot new technique combines crystal layouts with energy healing to treat a variety of ailments.

In the popular "Little Bit of" series: a fresh, accessible introduction to the practice of Reiki.

An introduction to the ancient healing practice of Ayurveda, one of the world's oldest holistic healing systems.

52 handy healing techniques in a portable, easy-to-access format, now refreshed with a new design. This step-by-step photographic guide shows how reflexology works: by applying pressure to "reflex" points on the hands and feet, you can help to stimulate the body's natural powers of self-healing.

Drawing on the healing traditions of Native Americans, Quakers, and the English, as well as botanical literature and his own observations, the author explains the medicinal uses of thirty-six herbs for alleviating a variety of ailments.

Before the birth of antibiotics in 1930, parents raised their children proactively. Nature harvested the medicines and people were attuned to and lived in harmony with the cycles of the land. This work reintroduces the now lost wisdom that once kept our kids healthy.