EMPTY VESSEL: Journal of Taoist Philosophy and Practice WINTER 2021

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Book Review Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain Mount Qingcheng, one of China’s mystical mountains, has been the birth place of discovery, realization and preservation of the recipes that stimulate the deep potential of the human body for generations. This is the book of a Daoist master and spiritual guide Wang Yun as a young seeker and tells the tales of his inner journey which now guides the reader on a path of healing, rejuvenation and actualization of the body’s innate potential. Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain brings Wang Yun’s knowledge and wisdom to the West for the first time. It serves as a guide to health and spiritual practices including meditation and qigong exercises and

is based on centuries of Daoist knowledge and wisdom. · Through tales ranging from Daoist immortals to sleep-deprived salesmen, this book offers guidance to support physical and mental wellbeing in this modern, stressful world. Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain Author: Wang Yun Publisher: Singing Dragon Pages: 242 pages Price: $26.95 ISBN: 1787750760 Website: https://bookshop.org/ shop/DaoDog

The Tao of the Polyvagal Theory Classical Asian Five Element theory originated within a world very different to what humanity is experiencing at this present moment, as such a shift in perspective must be considered while we are evolving physiologically, as well as a global society, within the structure of modern life. The Tao of the Polyvagal Theory’ makes a case for the potential for a new level of understanding ancient theory through applied observations of our modern physiology, and the study of how the body internalizes trauma, and manifests disfunction, affecting the way energy moves through the physical tissue systems of the body.

manipulation orientation, to a lifting and supporting concept of intervention, assisting with the movement and healing of energy through the whole body system.

Two new tools of practice are introduced that shift traditional treatment philosophy from a control and

Published in August, The Tao of The Polyvagal Theory: A Five Element Perspective for a Future of Healing the

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