The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines

• Audience: High school and college students seeking useful information about body-mind practices or a career in alternative or complementary health care.
• Covers more than 120 disciplines, including martial arts, meditation practices, massage, and bodywork. Arranged alphabetically within each category.
• Provides historical, theoretical, and practical information about methods and practices that develop the body-mind connection.
• Essays written by over 100 experts in their respective fields.
• Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photos and boxed insets highlighting important facts about each discipline.
• Annotated resource lists cite organizations with contact information, including Web sites and e-mail addresses.
• Each entry includes sources for further reading.
• Copyright 1999 Nancy Allison, C.M.A., editor Ms. Allison currently teaches movement analysis and Bartienieff fundamentals at New York University School of Education. She is also on the faculty at the Lincoln Center Institute and the Laban-Bartienieff Institute of Movement Studies.