Useful Links

Professional / Craniosacral

• Craniosacral Therapy Association
• Formative Embodiment with Jim Feil - I will be training in this during 2021
• Michael Kern - Dynamic Stillness and Rhythms Within Rhythms (YouTube)
• Growing your face - Dr. Mike Mew (YouTube)

Resilience

• Restorative Practices Alliance: a set of over 200 practices for grounding and finding our personal resources - in a framework designed to help you easily home in to the ones that most suit your needs. These practices are primarily based on indigenous traditions and wisdom, but also on modern neurology and collective experiences of many thousands of people. The site is a mix of free resources and paywall material.
• Brother David Steindl-Rast gratitude resources
• Harvard Center on the Developing Child Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It : a set of resources for parents and practitioners
• Louis Weinstock
- author of How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It: A field guide to raising empowered children and growing a more beautiful world (2022) ISBN-13: ‎978-1785043796
• Beacon House resources
• The potency of the Dorsal state (Holly Bridges)
• ACT with compassion
• Vegetative Training - Inge Jarl Clausen
• Please come home - Jane Hooper
• Viktor Frankl: Mans search for meaning (exerpts in Brain Pickings) and as a free PDF download

Trauma, dissociation and the ANS

• David Baldwin's Trauma Pages
• Veronique Mead Chronic Illness Trauma Studies. Linking PTSD (and other trauma) to chrinic illnesses via the Cell Defence Response.
• Leopard-Impala-Baboon 100100 Channel video showing recovery from Dorsal Vagal submission ("playing dead" is NOT playing).
• The ChildTrauma Academy (YouTube).
• Your Brain’s 3 Emotion Regulation Systems (Mi-Psych, Australia).
• Vagus Study (Facebook) Group
• Re-calibration to safety is a wonderful thing. It's much easier to experience GRATITUDE if (as with this dog) the capacity to self-defend has been retained.
• CTAD Clinic - Dr Mike Lloyd, A set of occasional educational films around the topic of Dissociative Identity Disorder and dissociation. Now in private practice, Dr Lloyd was a senior psychiatrist in the NHS mental health services and has a vast amount of experience working compassionately with dissociative conditions.
• Another really useful more mainstream source of information is the website of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation)
• Dr Tracy Bale, Stress parents: Epigenetic Programming of the Developing Brain.

Health : Cellular Intelligence, Integrative biology, & Embryology

• Guenther Albrecht_Buehler Cell Intelligence
• Jaap van der Wal Embryology and phenomenology. And a sample of his style of presentation... on the Coronavirus and the Embryo
• Cellular Intelligence (John Lieff MD blog)
• On intelligence in cells (PDF) Brian J Ford
• Great article on Stanley Keleman (and also Alexander Technique) - Anthony Kingsley
• The body connection : The guide to better body and better health by Michel Lingard
• Better Breathing Means Better Health by Michel Lingard
• Formative Embodiment - With James Feil (The embodiment channel, YouTube)
• The incredible dance of cell division (YouTube)

Health : Microbiome, Herbs

• Viola Sampson microbiome analysis
• Microbiome Center, University of Chicago
• Hedgerow Medicine.

Sleep and the Circadian Rhythm

https://restorativepractices.com/ Sleep and the body clock can be disrupted by chronic hyperarousal and trauma. These resources are useful to re-regulate leep patterns...

• Jim Donovan - how to trick your brain to falling asleep (using rhythm).
• Satchidananda Panda at the Salk Institute has investigated the relatinship between eating times and the circadian clock... See Youtube forCircadian Theory of Health ; Why When We Eat May Be More Important Than What We Eat ; and Watching Your Diet: One Click at a Time
  

Movement and dance

Life is movement

• Hiie Saumaa Somatics - a channel about the wisdom of the moving, sensual body.

Slowing down & meditations

A set of online resources that help to center and settle into a slower and more embodied state of being...

• As I stand... (Michael Reynolds) - please read this to yourself out loud!
• Dr. Russ Harris (ACT) free podcast meditations "dropping anchor"
• Shaolin Temple Europe, Yi Jin Jing (muscle tendon classic Qigong)
• One hours canal journey, Slow TV narrowboat trip on the Caldon canal
• Beautiful scenery, Washington
• 3 hours of nature scenery
• 3 hours of nature scenery
• Sound Escapes birdsong recorded by Gordon Hempton
• Mind Amend MP3s
• 10 hours of whale sounds and video
• Deep Ocean: 10 Hours of Relaxing Oceanscapes | BBC Earth

AMSR (Autonomous sensory meridian response : a calming, pleasurable feeling often accompanied by a tingling sensation. This tingle is said to originate in a person's head and spread to the spine (and sometimes the limbs) in response to stimulation. The stimuli that trigger ASMR vary from person to person.) One way that AMSR arises is by watching expert craftsmen working in a natural rhythm.

• Ieuan Rees stone carver.

Re-imagining human ways of living

• The Evolved Nest. (Darcia Narvaez, PhD) - a clearly described process of parenting/child-rearing for returning our culture to one that is in harmony with the world (instead of colonising it).
• First There Must Be An End by Dougald Hine
• Climate, Psychology and Change: a set of essays around re-identifying who we are as climate issues continue to escalate and the planet we live on enters a period of chaos before finding its new balance.

Philsophy and society

• David Bohm Consciousness Seminars (Part1). (Youtube)
• Lectures by Henri Bortoft. (Youtube)
• Lecture by Dr. Renatus Derbidge: Overcoming the Dogma of Separation: An Introduction to Goethes Holistic Approach in Natural Science (Youtube)

Spiritual

• Bruno Groening Circle of Friends, including YouTube channel, free music and free access to the documentary film "The Phenomenon of Healing". Books & music CDs are available from Grete Hausler Verlag.