DanceMedicine is an effective approach to resolve and heal trauma symptoms. Using the form of free dance with carefully chosen music, we have an opportunity to directly sense our symptoms that may have gotten stuck in a repetitive pattern and need to find a release.
Dance, in this case, is not about graceful and fluid movements, as we imagine dancing,but rather about integrating free-form movement with the support of music to allow the patterns in our nervous system to be reorganized. Equally important, this form of therapy provides the opportunity to find and experience our innate strengths. So much may be hidden from ourselves and so much potential is available if only we know how to reveal it.
This book offers a way to explore and find our blockages and our treasures.
Zafu Kitchen:
Recipes and Stories from Blue Heron Zen Center
These recipes offer an easy way to cook delicious meals for all kinds of dietary needs. They are presented in a visually simple format to show the whole process at a glance. Gluten-free ingredients and almond flour are used, though you can substitute white or whole-wheat flour in any recipe. Almond flour is more expensive, but I find it makes me feel more satisfied, and I eat much less than I would conventional baked goods. It is also healthier.
Stairway to Paradise:
Growing Up Gershwin
Her father invented Kodachrome, and her mother—who sang and danced professionally—was the sister of George and Ira Gershwin. Growing up in Westport, Connecticut amidst great privilege and uncommon fame, Nadia Natali might have chosen a life of comfort and celebrity. But from an early age, she was driven to create one of great consequence instead, one in which she could seek her true purpose and life’s deepest meanings.
When she met photographer Enrico Natali, the two embarked on a shared quest not simply for adventure, but also a journey to discover how their lives could most profoundly unfold. Their yearnings for lives fully-lived took them to a wild and wonderful piece of property surrounded by the Los Padres National Forest in the coastal mountains of Southern California—a place where they lived in a teepee, started a family, and carved out rich satisfaction as they transformed their beautiful piece of earth into Blue Heron Ranch.
The forty years between then and now have been filled with unimaginable adventures, the kind of tragedy that can utterly destroy the lives of those who must endure them and go on, deep introspection and personal growth, as well as joy and gratitude as bounteous as the natural world surrounding them.
November 1, 2015 | Hardcover | Rare Bird Books | ISBN: 978-1-942600-57-2 | Price: 29.95 USD/ 37.50 CDN | 304 pp | Trim Size: 7 x 9 in | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Women | Biography
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The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook:
Recipes and Stories from a Zen Retreat Center
The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook, based on Cooking Off the Grid, also by Nadia Natali, blends 126 tasty, healthful recipes with lively tales of the Natali family’s adventures living close to the land—in the wilds of California’s Los Padres National Forest. Nadia Natali’s varied dishes, suitable for any group or family, are presented in a simple style that makes them both visually appealing and effortless, as a sequence of ingredients that correspond to numbered directions. Each chapter opens with a vivid account of the family’s trials and triumphs at Blue Heron Ranch, followed by a particular category of recipes, arranged in seven groupings. Whimsical illustrations adorn the recipes and embellish the sometimes poignant, often hilarious stories about raising a family in the wilderness, running a meditation center, and facing nature’s seemingly endless challenges—with the Blue Heron Ranch kitchen being the center around which these events unfold. Recipes include Blue Heron Ranch Potato Leek Soup, Saturday Market Quiche, Miso Pine Salmon, Ojai Bouillabaisse, Early Morning Rice Cream, Aunt Ev’s Cardamom Bundt Cake, and Honey Almond Chai. The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook offers culinary and spiritual sustenance to anyone who wants to experience, or revisit, the pleasures of comforting, communal meals at Zen and other retreat centers.
June 29, 2008 | Paperback, North Atlantic Books | ISBN: 9781556437175| Trim Size: 8 3/8 x 10 in | Page Count: 224 | Price: $21.95 | BUDDHISM | COOKBOOKS | PHILOSOPHY
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