Additional Resources
For curious hearts and minds
Nervous System Educators
Fajardo Method: Alicia Fajardo is an incredibly knowledgeable and innovative movement educator. She teaches unique motor re-patterning in conjunction with nervous system awareness, and all of her material is available online.
Francesca Maximé: Francesca speaks brilliantly about trauma transformation through the lens of social justice, neuroscience, psychology and spirituality.
Galina Denzel: Galina helps people who struggle with their relationship to food via powerful nervous system-based and somatic techniques.
Books about Bodies, Health, and Trauma Recovery
Pocketguide to Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe by Stephen Porges PhD
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem MSW, SEP
The Tao of Trauma by Alaine D. Duncan
Adrenal Thyroid Revolution by Aviva Romm M.D.
Hormone Intelligence by Aviva Romm M.D.
Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again by Stephen Phillips M.D. and Dana Parish
The Perrin Technique: How to diagnose and treat CFS/ME and fibromyalgia via the lymphatic drainage of the brain by Raymond Perrin PhD
Preparing for a Gentle Birth: The Pelvis in Pregnancy by Blandine Calais-Germaine
Brain Energy by Chris Palmer MD
Emotional Anatomy: The Structure of Experience by Stanley Keleman
Interesting Articles & Research
Neuroscience Articles from Nature
- The glymphatic system as a nexus between obesity and neurological diseases
- A brain circuit that cements the memory of socially learnt food preferences
- The molecular landscape of vascular cells in the human brain
Craniosacral therapy research by Thomas Rasmussen: A third rhythm (video)
- CranioSacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation: A New Treatment Intervention for Concussion Recovery
- The effect of visceral manipulation on Diastasis Recti Abdominis (DRA): A case series
- Qualitative Evaluation of Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy in a Patient With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Brief Report
- Combined Manual Therapy Techniques for the Treatment of Women With Infertility: A Case Series
- Osteopathic management of chronic constipation in women patients
- Visceral Manipulation to treat functional constipation in stroke survivors
- Is human cerebrospinal fluid reabsorbed by lymph?
- Reassessing Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Hydrodynamics
- The Ricky Williams Concussion Project
- CranioSacral Therapy, Brain Injury, and American Football: Time for a Convergence
- CranioSacral Therapy and Visceral Manipulation: A New Treatment Intervention for Concussion Recovery
- CST effects on children living with physical disabilities
- Heart rate variability and the influence of craniosacral therapy on autonomous nervous system regulation
- New Craniosacral Therapy Research—This Duck Doesn’t Quack Anymore
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