Recommended Reading

The Owners Guide To The Body

Roger Golten

Be prepared to laugh and learn and, if you're adventurous, to fall off the toilet. The Owner's Guide to the Body is an informative and delightfully easy read authored by the UK's leading Hellerwork practitioner. Mr. Golten addresses all of the most frequently overlooked fundamentals of living: breathing, standing up, sitting down, and, my personal favorite, squatting. In the book he describes how sitting is really just an interrupted squat. He then proceeds to explain how beneficial squatting can be for your lower back and for elimination. Beg pardon? Yes, Roger squats on the toilet. I've been practicing it for a while now and though the dismount can be an interesting challenge at times, I've found the whole elimination experience to be a much more natural and thorough one (not to mention less time consuming). But even if you're not prepared to squat, the book is full of fantastic (and less acrobatic) ideas. One that I like is "pushing down to go up". When you are seated simply lean forward until all the weight is on your legs (partcularly your thighs) and then feel the weight go through your feet by pushing down into the ground. This is particularly beneficial for those with low back pain since it shifts the work to the large leg muscles which are best designed to do the job. Mr. Golten is very enthusiastic and knowledgable. In a time of intense specialization (and even more intense backaches), it's nice to see someone getting back to the basics of living. Happy reading £9.99 plus post.
 

Bodywise

by Joseph Heller, William A. Henkin 

 "Enlightenment is not something that only happen when you meditate, chant your mantra, listen to your favourite piece of music: It is something that happens every day, in the way you move, relate to others, work, cook supper, brush your teeth. The challenge or purpose of life is to experience it as fully as possible at every moment. Your body is both vehicle & metaphor for your process: When the hologram is integrated with the being, the result is enlightenment." [The authors use the hologram, in an abstract sense, to represent the exact physical expression of a person's mind & spirit; in a concrete sense, any part of the body may be seen to reflect & contain everything there is to know about the whole body, just like a hologram.]" Heller & Henkin

 Master The Art of Swimming

  by Steven Shaw 

"The core of Shaw's method lies in the chapters on each stroke which include historical origins and well defined sections on key features, benefits and common errors. Each stroke is analyzed so the reader can practice body orientation, leg action, arm action and breathing actions separately, before integrating them into a complete stroke cycle. Many of the informative photos are taken underwater".

The Power of Now

by Eckhart Tolle

Recommended Reading

Eckhart Tolle speaks of a profound transformation of human consciousness, available not in some distant future, but right here and now. We are shown how to free ourselves from enslavement to the mind, and enter into this enlightened state, which is characterised by a profound inner peace and intense conscious presence. Even more importantly, Tolle gives us the most eloquent and practical guidelines on how to sustain this new state of consciousness in everyday life. The teachings given in this book have been spreading round the world like wildfire and, when you read it, you will see why!

note from Roger - If you ever read only one book this century  then this has to be a major contender. I have re-sold over 200 of these books to clients with a money back guarantee. I say to them, if this book doesn't make a impact on your life I will refund your money £6.99 plus post

Anatomy of Movement

by Blandine Calais-Germain

Anatomy of Movement Exercises

by Blandine Calais-Germain

Muscles: Testing and Function

by Florence Peterson Kendall, Elizabeth Kendall McCreary, Patricia Geise Provance

Personality and Personal Growth

by Robert Frager, James Fadiman

Body-centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method

by Ron Kurtz

The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality

by R.Louis Schultz, Rosemary Feitis

Rolfing

by Ida P. Rolf

Method Putkisto: Redesign Your Body Through Deep Stretching

by Marja Putkisto