Neuro Rehab Resources:

By Stephanie Comella & Theo St. Francis

From the Ground Up was co-written by someone with an SCI and his trainer, for individuals with spinal cord injury and movement professionals, offering a unique collaboration of perspectives on the SCI recovery process.

Use this guide to create and implement effective SCI rehab programs for yourself or your clients, no matter what level or severity of injury.

A comprehensive reference designed for Pilates teachers, movement educators, manual therapists, continuing education providers and teachers-in-training.

Stephanie Comella is a contributing author on the chapter exploring Pilates for Spinal Cord Injuries: Effects on Gait (Volume 2, Chapter 8)

By Jill Miller

Breath becomes compromised by stress, disease, and the environmental trappings of progress; you can still breathe under this pressure, but it leads to poor breathing habits that slowly whittle away at your health. Jill Miller takes you on a journey through your breathing body and presents more than 100 step-by-step techniques and practices to help you master the body-breath connection and reset your physiology.

By Stanley Rosenberg

**A staple for understanding neurological trauma and healing. Great reference for High Tone Protocol.

Through a series of easy self-help exercises, the book illustrates the simple ways we can regulate the vagus nerve in order to initiate deep relaxation, improve sleep, and recover from injury and trauma. Additionally, by exploring the link between a well-regulated vagus nerve and social functioning, Rosenberg’s findings and methods offer new hope that by improving social behavior it is possible to alleviate some of the symptoms at the core of many cases of autism spectrum disorders.

By Peggy Hackney

Explore how we go about creating the connections within us that allow us to become fully embodied human beings in the world. It provides some very personal memories of Irmgard Bartenieff and the development of her approach to Fundamentals.

By Brent Anderson

From the founder of Polestar Pilates, Principles of Movement is a practical resource guide on movement science for movement practitioners, therapists, and anyone looking for a practical and easy approach to assess, facilitate, and enhance movement.

By Rael Isacowitz

Pilates starts with the foundation for all the exercises by presenting an in-depth treatment of mat work, including photos, imagery, and detailed instruction on breathing to help you perform the movements correctly. After the mat work, Pilates goes on to apply the same depth of instruction and photos to the full range of Pilates apparatus:

By Thomas Myers and James Earls

Designed for any bodywork practitioner using manual therapy, including physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, myofascial and trigger point therapists, and massage therapists, this book offers a detailed introduction to structural anatomy and fascial release therapy, including postural analysis, complete technique descriptions, and the art of proper assessment of a patient through “bodyreading.”

By James Earls

Explore the mystery of walking’s evolution by describing the complex mechanisms enabling us to be efficient in bipedal gait. Viewing the whole body as an interconnected unit, he explains how we can regain a flowing efficiency within our gait—an efficiency which is part of our natural design.

By Gary Ward

A Game-Changing Philosophy in Human Movement to Eliminate Pain and Maximise Human Potential