Mapping out a "family constellation," explains Dr. Joy Manne, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person's inability to trust, the family history of betrayal must be uncovered and released. These insights replace resentment with respect, pain with understanding.
Dr. Manne uses the knowledge gained from her own practice as well as her educational experiences with Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations therapy, to clearly describe this technique. Most family constellation sessions are carried out in a group setting, with the facilitator first seeking clarity regarding the issue or problem the client has come to work out. Representatives are then chosen from among the group and the constellation is set up and worked in until it comes to resolution. This may be followed by a closing ritual and advice about how to integrate what the constellation has revealed. Through the use of real-life examples of family constellations, Dr. Manne makes this increasingly popular practice understandable and relatable.

"Conscious Breathing" presents contemporary Breathwork methods in a comprehensive, structured way for modern readers. Emphasizing the practice as a way to access the most elevated states of consciousness and the deepest states of meditation, author Joy Manne shows how Breathwork can be applied to transpersonal, existential, past life, chakra, Kundalini, shamanic, and other experiences. Using detailed examples, case histories, and exercises, "Conscious Breathing" covers basic grounding and awareness, advanced breath and body-centered explorations, and explorations of biblical and religious teachings.

This book is based on research based on the original texts of the Pali Canon, the shamanic literature, and Jungian psychology. It shows that there is a common pattern in the development of a shaman and that the Buddha's development follows this pattern. It argues that consciousness is naturally shamanic.

Usually our personality is a confusion of contradictory impulses. We both want something and we don't want it. We love and we hate the same person. We despair of ever understanding ourselves.

The solution is to become literate about our personality. Hal and Sidra Stone developed the Voice Dialogue technique that enables us to interview the different parts of our personality as if they were individual people. Through it we learn to understand their conflicts and we submit their desires to the overall control of our Aware Ego. Awareness is always the solution to life's challenges.

This is the first Do-It-Yourself Voice Dialogue manual.

The Buddha didn't only teach ideas, he taught a method through which we may obtain Enlightenment and invited people to come and try his method. The Pali Canon, the literature of Theravada Buddhism which is practiced in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma, contains many exercises that go back to the Buddha himself. This book is an introduction the the teaching of the Buddha and in these early texts of the practise they recommend. In it, exercises that go back to the Buddha himself become accessible to everyone.

"Once upon a time..."

Magical words that herald the promise of a story - a fairytale, a myth, a legend, or a family story. We make sense of our existence from the stories we've listened to, watched on film, or chosen to read, but no story has greater impact on the soul than our family's 'story'. In this jewel of a book, you are in the hands of a masterful storyteller.

Joy Manne reminds us that we tell stories because we live in stories.

"-Philippa Lubbock"

We are breathing beings. From our birth to our death, our live is defined by our breathing. When our breath stops, so does our life. And yet, how many of us know anything about our breath? At its simplest we breath in, our breath pauses, we breath out, our breath pauses, we breath in again. But each part of our breath has its own profound symbolisn. "Inspire " and "expire" are words about our breath. Everything we do and everything we are starts with our breathing. This is an introduction to your breathing and your breathing patterns with exercises to help you to understand and be inspired by your breath.