Kern - Wisdom in the Body: The Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health (Revised)

This is an amazing piece of work, deeply intelligent and profoundly inspirational. Michael has delivered the goods. When you finish this book you will either want to become a craniosacral practitioner or rush out and find one. If you are in a body, read this book.

Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice and Maps to Ecstasy; founder of the Moving Center, New York

There are subtle healing processes in the body that conventional medicine has largely forgotten and needs desperately to recover. Wisdom in the Body addresses many of these by focusing on craniosacral therapy. This book is a plea for a holistic approach to healing, in which we honor all that makes us humanbody, mind, spirit. Michael Kerns scholarship is admirable.

Larry Dossey M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine,
Healing Words, and Space, Time and Medicine

If in these rushed days of information exchange, you want a carefully unfolded exposition of all aspects of the craniosacral phenomenon, Wisdom in the Body is the book for you. Experience it as you live and breathe.

Joseph Goodman Dr. Ac, D.O., N.D., former chair of the International Cranial Association (Cranial Osteopathic Association), British Acupuncture Council, and dean of the College of Osteopaths, London

Wisdom in the Body is a wonderfully comprehensive book about unlocking the patterns of stress and suffering in our lives. Michael Kerns depth of practical experience is clearly evident as he explains with clarity and understanding the subtle workings of our energy bodies. His work illuminates many aspects of the great meditation traditions. I highly recommend this book for an in-depth look at the mind-body process.

Joseph Goldstein, author of Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom and One Dharma

I wish many medical students will be given the opportunity to read Michael Kerns book. They will learn that they must develop their finger sensitivity. They will realize that their hands have a healing power.

Dr. Michel Odent, obstetrician, pioneer of natural childbirth, founder of the Primal Health Research Centre, author of Primal Health, Entering the World, The Farmer and the Obstetrician, and The Scientification of Love

Craniosacral therapy has always had an ambiguous relationship with osteopathy and cranial osteopathy in particular. Michael Kern certainly acknowledges craniosacrals roots in osteopathy, but he also makes the case for craniosacral therapy as a discrete discipline. Whichever way one inclines, this is an elegant, eloquent and very human exposition of the work. For the student anticipating training, it glowingly represents the philosophy and principles behind practice and quotes quite delightfully from some of the wise men and women in the field, right back to A.T. Still. The thoughtfulness and integrity of the material reflect a sincere and dedicated teacher and practitioner who seems to revel in the celebration of this approach to health care in whichever guise we see it and whatever name we give it.

Robert Lever B.A., D.O., Mem. GOsC, Senior Lecturer,
European School of Osteopathy, Maidstone, England

Michael Kerns book Wisdom in the Body is both beautifully articulate and inspiring. Written for the lay person and health practitioner alike, this volume is a useful guide to the Breath of Life model of craniosacral work. Within this model the sacred relationship between spirit and matter is not only pondered and explored but utilized with skill and reverence to facilitate the expression of our inherent health. Michaels book will also serve as a resource for cranial practitioners of all lineages by providing another viewpoint from which to enrich our work.

Avadhan Larson L.Ac., CSTD, Certified CranioSacral Therapy Instructor,
Upledger Institute

This book has been written with the backing of long-term experience, and I trust that it will benefit many people.

Venerable Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche, head of Chagpori Tibetan Medical Institute, Darjeeling, India

Wisdom in the Body is an effort towards a comprehensive, biodynamic understanding of life. It is daring in its attempt to draw together abstract and cosmological concepts on the one hand, with specific and practical anatomical and physiological guidelines on the other. Michael Kerns case accounts are both instructional and warm. Of particular significance is his attempt to bring in the concept and treatment of trauma, and important applications of the Craniosacral approach to health in pregnancy and childbirth. This book is for practitioners at most levels as well as lay persons wanting to learn about the field.

Peter A. Levine Ph.D, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

This is a well-written, practical overview of craniosacral therapy, one of the safest and most effective techniques for improving health that I have found in my investigations of treatments I did not learn in medical school. I now refer many patients to it and wish that more practitioners like Michael Kern were available.

Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Natural Health, Natural Healing,
Spontaneous Healing, and The Marriage of the Sun and Moon