Books by Jacob Caldwell, DPT
REJUVENATION: The Gentle, Intuitive Exercise System to Help You Feel Younger Again
The older we get, the more we are haunted by aches, pains, and chronic injuries. But most of us are decrepit before our time, living limited lives because of aches and pains that just don't seem to resolve. Rejuvenation presents an exercise system designed to resolve these limitations. Exercise, done well, can rejuvenate the body. Rejuvenation will help you to: understand why you have the aches and pains you have, learn a simple, effective series of exercises to release tension, improve suppleness, restore your strength, and prevent injuries, and make exercise and activity pleasurable once again. (Available at www.amazon.com).
The older we get, the more we are haunted by aches, pains, and chronic injuries. But most of us are decrepit before our time, living limited lives because of aches and pains that just don't seem to resolve. Rejuvenation presents an exercise system designed to resolve these limitations. Exercise, done well, can rejuvenate the body. Rejuvenation will help you to: understand why you have the aches and pains you have, learn a simple, effective series of exercises to release tension, improve suppleness, restore your strength, and prevent injuries, and make exercise and activity pleasurable once again. (Available at www.amazon.com).
HOW TO SIT WITH VITALITY: How Moving While Sitting Energizes Body and Mind
It's well-known that prolonged sitting is bad for our health, causing aches, pains, and a general lack of energy. Prolonged sitting can quite literally sap the life from our bodies. But sitting doesn't have to be such an ugly thing in our lives. In this book, author and physical therapist Jacob Caldwell teaches you how to make sitting something that can actually be beneficial to both body and mind, filling us with energy. How to Sit with Vitality will help you: understand the real dangers of prolonged sitting and why current efforts won't solve the problem, take concrete actions to counteract the effects of sitting, master the key sitting postures that make sitting more comfortable and less dangerous for the body, and enhance the clarity and energy of your mind while you sit. (Available at www.amazon.com).
It's well-known that prolonged sitting is bad for our health, causing aches, pains, and a general lack of energy. Prolonged sitting can quite literally sap the life from our bodies. But sitting doesn't have to be such an ugly thing in our lives. In this book, author and physical therapist Jacob Caldwell teaches you how to make sitting something that can actually be beneficial to both body and mind, filling us with energy. How to Sit with Vitality will help you: understand the real dangers of prolonged sitting and why current efforts won't solve the problem, take concrete actions to counteract the effects of sitting, master the key sitting postures that make sitting more comfortable and less dangerous for the body, and enhance the clarity and energy of your mind while you sit. (Available at www.amazon.com).
POEMS FOR THE NEW VITALITY: What the Great Poets Can Teach Us
A life of true “vitality” provides us with three essentials: health, energy, and passion. But achieving real vitality also means being open to the negatives of life, not just its joys. Like all great art, great poetry can help us achieve vitality by showing us how both darkness and light, joy and grief, victories and disappointments, can make our lives more rewarding. Poems for the New Vitality will help you to: see your life experiences in a new light, embrace the most challenging parts of your life in healthy, energetic, and passionate ways, and make true vitality your life every minute of every day. (Available at www.amazon.com).
A life of true “vitality” provides us with three essentials: health, energy, and passion. But achieving real vitality also means being open to the negatives of life, not just its joys. Like all great art, great poetry can help us achieve vitality by showing us how both darkness and light, joy and grief, victories and disappointments, can make our lives more rewarding. Poems for the New Vitality will help you to: see your life experiences in a new light, embrace the most challenging parts of your life in healthy, energetic, and passionate ways, and make true vitality your life every minute of every day. (Available at www.amazon.com).
WHAT WOULD HIPPOCRATES SAY?: Ancient Wisdom for Health, Fitness, and Fat Loss
This book follows the desire for health and balance, asking "What would Hippocrates say?" if we were to ask this most ancient of physicians, the Father of Medicine, what he would suggest we here in the modern world do to stay healthy. Using the tools of exercise, massage, bathing, eating, sleep, and herbs, this book explores the 2,500 year old tradition of Western health practices, demonstrating basic regimens that we can all follow to live healthier, more balanced lives. This book takes the reader step-by-step through the simple process of assessing one's imbalances and creating a balancing diet and exercise regimen. Read an excerpt here. (Available at www.amazon.com).
This book follows the desire for health and balance, asking "What would Hippocrates say?" if we were to ask this most ancient of physicians, the Father of Medicine, what he would suggest we here in the modern world do to stay healthy. Using the tools of exercise, massage, bathing, eating, sleep, and herbs, this book explores the 2,500 year old tradition of Western health practices, demonstrating basic regimens that we can all follow to live healthier, more balanced lives. This book takes the reader step-by-step through the simple process of assessing one's imbalances and creating a balancing diet and exercise regimen. Read an excerpt here. (Available at www.amazon.com).
TENDING THE BODY: The Subtleness of Suppleness
This book follows the desire for suppleness to its depths. It is a practical guide to working with the body instead of against it, teaching how to take care of the body on a daily basis with gentle movements and postures. This book gives us all a new way to imagine how we can tend to our bodies. The basic idea of this book is to pay attention to the body: to stop ignoring it, and to stop treating it like a malfunctioning machine when it is hurt and injured. The practice of Tending the Body revitalizes the body by bringing it back to our attention. It reads the body poetically, hearing its aches and pains as part of the larger story of our lives. Read an excerpt here. (Available at www.amazon.com).
This book follows the desire for suppleness to its depths. It is a practical guide to working with the body instead of against it, teaching how to take care of the body on a daily basis with gentle movements and postures. This book gives us all a new way to imagine how we can tend to our bodies. The basic idea of this book is to pay attention to the body: to stop ignoring it, and to stop treating it like a malfunctioning machine when it is hurt and injured. The practice of Tending the Body revitalizes the body by bringing it back to our attention. It reads the body poetically, hearing its aches and pains as part of the larger story of our lives. Read an excerpt here. (Available at www.amazon.com).
IMAGES OF VITALITY: Reimagining Eating and Exercising
This book is an attempt to revitalize our bodies by reimagining eating and exercising. The primary aim of this book is to help us all to focus on vitality instead of fitness. The pursuit of fitness or the lack thereof is what leads so many people in to my practice. Many people injure themselves by exercising too aggressively in their pursuit of fitness. Many others are so unconsciously disgusted by the blind, zombie-like approach to exercise that they refuse to exercise enough to keep their bodies healthy. Both of these extremes are the result of a lack of imagination about exercise itself. This book gives us all a new way to imagine exercise (among many other things) so that it becomes what we desire to do, instead of something we either compulsively perform or lazily reject. Read an excerpt here. (Available at www.amazon.com).
This book is an attempt to revitalize our bodies by reimagining eating and exercising. The primary aim of this book is to help us all to focus on vitality instead of fitness. The pursuit of fitness or the lack thereof is what leads so many people in to my practice. Many people injure themselves by exercising too aggressively in their pursuit of fitness. Many others are so unconsciously disgusted by the blind, zombie-like approach to exercise that they refuse to exercise enough to keep their bodies healthy. Both of these extremes are the result of a lack of imagination about exercise itself. This book gives us all a new way to imagine exercise (among many other things) so that it becomes what we desire to do, instead of something we either compulsively perform or lazily reject. Read an excerpt here. (Available at www.amazon.com).
