The Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice
The Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice
Working with Clients to Manage Stress and Enhance Mind-Body Function
The Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice is a comprehensive guide that empowers holistic healers and complementary medicine practitioners with practical, science-based techniques to improve vagal performance and restore mind-body health. This excellent resource has been tailored for professionals to give them a solid understanding of vagus nerve regulation and provides accessible strategies to help their clients.
Thorough, rich, rewarding, affirming, and enlightening. I can’t wait to share this book with my clients, colleagues, friends, and family members. I am, as always, so grateful to Ann for her painstaking research.
'Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice,' provides an exceptional synthesis in our understanding of the mind body connection. As a researcher in the field, Ann offers deep scientific insights into the central role of complementary and integrative therapies in balancing the autonomic system. All this is expressed beautifully through a unique combination of perspectives from history, spirituality, poetry and providers - a wonderful addition to the field for patients, practitioners and researchers.
Dr. Baldwin has meticulously described the neuroanatomy anatomy of the Vagus nerve and Polyvagal Theory and how this knowledge can be utilized in integrative medicine practice. For the reader steeped in integrative medicine modalities, this book provides an excellent scientific reference. For the medical practitioner steeped in the science of neuroanatomy, this book is an excellent introduction to applications in the arena of integrative healthcare.
Dr. Ann Baldwin distills years of experience and scientific research in the realm of mind-body medicine into this book. The Vagus Nerve in Therapeutic Practice provides practitioners with non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical, inexpensive and effective ways to regain nervous system balance via vagus nerve stimulation, ultimately improving mental, emotional, physical and social well-being. A valuable resource given the fast paced, high stress, toxic and anxiety provoking world we live in today.
Ann Linda Baldwin PhD is Director of Mind-Body-Science and is a recently retired Professor of Physiology at the University of Arizona, where she is still affiliated. She studies the physiological effects of mental and emotional stress and quantitatively evaluates methods to reduce stress. Dr Baldwin developed and taught a practical course for undergraduates, "Physiology of Mind-Body Interactions". In her business, for the last 15 years, she has used Reiki, Biofeedback and Equine Assisted Learning to help those suffering from stress-related disorders. Dr Baldwin is a Master in Usui and Karuna Reiki and is a leader in the worlds of scientific Reiki research and the physiology of horse-human communication.
Dr Baldwin obtained her Bachelors degree in Physics from University of Bristol, UK and her PhD in Physiology from Imperial College, University of London, UK. She has been a member of several review panels for National Institutes of Health and has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and one book, "Reiki in Clinical Practice. A Science Based Guide".
