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Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism.  Stanley Rosenberg, forward by Stephen Porges Phd, https://www.amazon.com/Accessing-Healing-Power-Vagus-Nerve/d…EBook  available  here Listening Length: 8 hours and 53 minutesRelease Date: July 24, 2018This practical guide to understanding the cranial nerves as the key to our psychological and physical well-being builds on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory—one of the most important recent developments in human neurobiology. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a craniosacral therapist and Rolfer, Stanley Rosenberg explores the crucial role that the vagus nerve plays in determining our psychological and emotional states and explains that a myriad of common psychological and physical symptoms—from anxiety and depression to migraines and back pain—indicates a lack of proper functioning in the vagus nerve. 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. Useful for psychotherapists, doctors, bodyworkers, and caregivers, as well as anyone who experiences the symptoms of chronic stress and depression, this book shows how we can optimize autonomic functioning in ourselves and others, and bring the body into the state of safety that activates its innate capacity to heal.ditorial Reviews Review“Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve is Stanley Rosenberg’s personal expression of his insight into and appreciation of the role that vagal pathways play in the healing process by calming the body and enabling the body to welcome touch. By intuitively understanding this integrated process, Stanley has developed a system of manipulations that promote states of safety, allowing the body to retune the nervous system, thus optimizing behavior, mental health, and physiological homeostasis.… His powerful insights, metaphors, and treatment models are beautifully conveyed and archived.”—From the foreword by Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and professor of psychiatry, University of North Carolina “Stanley Rosenberg has put his encyclopedic clinical knowledge to work through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory, illuminating the path away from the underlying cause of so much of today’s disease: anxiety. A tour de force.”—Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains “Stanley Rosenberg is one of the world’s most skilled and creative hands-on therapists. His diagnostic and treatment techniques have immediate application for everyone. Read and enjoy this book, and apply the techniques in your life or in your practice.”—James L. Oschman, PhD, author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis “An excellent and most valuable resource, written by one of the true masters in the field.”— Dr. Robert Schleip, director of the Fascia Research Group About the AuthorSTANLEY ROSENBERG is an American-born author and body therapist. ARolfer since 1983 and a practicing craniosacral therapist since 1987, hestudied biomechanical craniosacral therapy for many years under AlainGehin, trained in craniosacral therapy at the Upledger Institute and inbiodynamic craniosacral courses with Giorgia Milne, studied applicationsfor treating children with Benjamin Shield, and took courses inosteopathy with Jean-Pierre Barral.For many years he led a school in Denmark, teaching structuralintegration, myofascial release, release of scar tissue, biomechanicalcraniosacral therapy, visceral massage, and biotensegrity. He is theauthor of four books, published in Denmark: Nevermore Pain in theBack, Nevermore Stiff Neck, Pain Relief with Osteomassage, and HwaYu Tai Chi. In addition to his work as a body therapist, he has workedin theater— training actors in yoga, acrobatics, and voice—at variousinstitutions, including Yale University, Brandeis University, SwarthmoreCollege, and the National Theatre Schools of Denmark and Iceland.