Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) is commonly seen as the spiritual approach to craniosacral therapy (CST); in fact, BCST as taught by Franklyn Sills, the pioneer in the field, is quite different from conventional CST. Biodynamic work is based on the development of perceptual skills where the practitioner learns to become sensitive to subtle respiratory motions called primary respiration and also to the power of spontaneous healing. Through the Breath of Life, which, Sills asserts, echoes the Holy Spirit in the Judeo-Christian tradition, "bodhicitta" in Buddhism, and the Tai Chi in Taoism, students of BCST learn to enter a state of presence oriented to the client's inherent ability to heal.
In "Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics," Sills offers students and practitioners an in-depth, step-by-step guide to the development of perceptual and clinical skills with specific clinical exercises and explorations to help students and practitioners learn the essentials of a biodynamic approach. Individual chapters cover such topics as holism and biodynamics; mid-tide, Long Tide, Dynamic Stillness and stillpoint process; the motility of tissues and the central nervous system; transference and the shadow; shamanistic resonances; and more.

This book studies methods to concretely address inverse problems. An inverse problem arises when the causes that produced a given effect must be determined or when one seeks to indirectly estimate the parameters of a physical system. The author uses practical examples to illustrate inverse problems in physical sciences. He presents the techniques and specific methods chosen to solve inverse problems in a general domain of application, choosing to focus on a small number of methods that can be used in most applications. This book is aimed at readers with a mathematical and scientific computing background. Despite this, it is a book with a practical perspective. The methods described are applicable, have been applied, and are often illustrated by numerical examples.

Service-Learning is a rapidly growing teaching innovation. Despite the proliferation of service-learning research, little has focused on the teacher, particularly the personal dimension involved in implementing such an innovation. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' concerns regarding service-learning using the seven developmental Stages of Concern from the Concerns Based Adoption Model as a framework. Eleven teachers are profiled using the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) and interview analysis. Service-learning advocates, K-12 educators, and school administrators should find the Stages of Concern a useful model for examining, predicting, and addressing the concerns of teachers engaged in service-learning.

Als der erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Jack Bender an einem Punkt in seinem Leben gelangte, an dem er keinen Ausweg mehr sah, entschied er, sich das Leben zu nehmen. Dabei erlebte er ein Abenteuer durch Zeit und Raum mit tiefen Ruckblicken in sein Leben. Abgrund - die Wunder des Lebens ist eine Geschichte uber das Leben und daruber hinaus.