Jason Elias, Author, and Healer
Jason Elias has had a lifelong passion for healing. His earliest memories include watching his Greek Jewish grandmother concoct herbal remedies and poultices in the kitchen of his boyhood home in Brooklyn. He would emulate his beloved elder by healing his family and neighbors with grass cuttings and sugar. As a young man, he studied psychology, acupuncture, and both Chinese and Western Herbal Medicine. His passion led him to study with many master teachers in New York City, California, the Philippines, Japan, China, India, and England. (A more in-depth view of Jason’s life and relationship to health and healing is available here.)
Jason has been in private practice for more than 40 years, working with clients of all ages. He is the author of 5 celebrated books. In his poetic yet practical voice as an author, Jason bridges the diverse healing traditions of many cultures and brings their wisdom to complement our modern understanding of wellness, disease, life, and aging.
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The Seven Graces of Ageless Aging (Softcover book)
The Seven Graces of Ageless Aging synthesizes and simplifies the components of conscious aging into a primer for individuals who are concerned about their own aging process and for those caring for the elderly who seek an enlightened understanding of how all of us may approach aging more consciously and, gracefully. In short, these Seven Graces can serve as stepping-stones toward attaining emotional or spiritual wholeness as we age.
Jason has interviewed and highlighted the stories of a dozen individuals in their late seventies, eighties, and nineties, and one over one hundred. Each of these remarkable individuals, in his or her way, has refused to accept the timeworn script that equates old age with decrepitude. Instead, they have chosen to rewrite the script and embrace old age with dignity and grace. Listening carefully to their stories and insights inspired me and quieted my own fears about aging. They have become the Pathfinders, the modern-day sages, who share their wisdom and experiences throughout this book.
| To become more conscious of the aging process, particularly of our own, we must first consider our long-held beliefs about what aging is and is not. We would do well to adopt a “beginner’s mind”.
– The Seven Graces of Ageless Aging
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Kissing Joy As It Flies: A Journey to Healing and Wholeness. Warner Books; 2015. (Softcover book)
“Kissing Joy as it Flies” recounts Jason Elias’s journey around the globe as he searches for the roots of true healing. From his studies in the 1960s with Fritz Perls, Ida Rolf and Ilana Rubenfeld, Jason continues to the East to learn and work with the healing masters of China, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Jason’s quest comes full circle as he explores his ancestral roots in the healing stories of the “Little Doctor” and establishes his health practice in New York’s Hudson Valley.
This volume will be of interest, not only to those readers intrigued by Jason’s other books, but also for those compelled by the universal fascination of the classic Hero’s Journey, told through the perspective of a healer.
| Stories and their mysterious power have fascinated me from an early age, beginning with listening to stories of the old country from my immigrant parents, hearing some told over and over again, others hidden from me, whispered out of earshot. This fascination led me to listen deeply to the stories I was told and to remember especially those that carried a teaching, a kind of healing essence.
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Feminine Healing: A Woman’s Guide to a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit. Warner Books; 1997. (Softcover book)
Jason Elias, together with coauthor Katherine Ketcham, shows you how to tap into your feminine healing. This is a comprehensive guide to healing that combines practical recommendations for specific health issues with parables, folklore, and ancient wisdom that revels in the potency of the feminine spirit. Organized by the stages of a woman’s life, it offers both Western and Chinese interpretations and complementary therapies for common health concerns. Included is information on supplements, exercise, diet, herbal remedies, Traditional Chinese Medicine remedies, acupuncture, and mental exercises to stimulate the connection between the mind, body, and spirit.
Don’t miss entries such as gentle Asian herbal treatments for PMS; acupuncture for menstrual cramps, hormonal imbalance, and acne; vitamin supplements for yeast infections; nonsurgical help for fibroid tumors; a wonderful tonic for osteoporosis; and a Chinese remedy for graceful aging. This book brings together the ancient and modern arts of attending to body, mind, and spirit as equal, essential elements to health and wholeness.
| When illness threatens, when we are wounded in body, mind, or spirit, when we are separated from the whole of which we were once part, we feel pain, grief, and fragmentation, that feeling of coming apart at the seams that William James, called “torn-to-pieces-hood.” At these times, we experience a craving for wholeness, a yearning for serenity, a healing for our torn-to-pieces-hood. How can we begin to heal our wounded nature and become whole once again? The feminine spirit of healing teaches that the first essential step to wholeness requires coming out of ourselves and reaching out towards others.
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Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity: Understanding the Five Elemental Types for Health and Well-Being. Three Rivers Press; 1999. (Softcover book)
This book provides a fascinating and accessible entry to the ancient healing philosophy that empowers the practices of acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and the spiritual and meditative arts of the East. Jason Elias and coauthor Katherine Ketcham provide step-by-step instructions for reducing stress and using the gentle, supportive remedies of Traditional Chinese Medicine to heal contemporary chronic illnesses, bolster immunity, and restore the balance of body and mind. The authors examine many of the major health conditions that challenge modern life and arrive at a diversity of practical protocols spanning Eastern and Western herbal, dietary, lifestyle, physical, and contemplative practices. This book is a unique and vital addition to your healing toolbox as well as an engaging read.
| To become more conscious of the aging process, particularly of our own, we must first consider our long-held beliefs about what aging is and is not. We would do well to adopt a “beginner’s mind”.
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The A to Z Guide to Healing Herbal Remedies: Over 100 Herbs for Common Ailments. Dell; 1995. (Paperback)
With this guide, discover the natural way to good health. Herbal remedies comprise a wonderful alternative medicine that can treat both symptoms and the underlying causes of disease. For hundreds of years, the infusions and decoctions of roots, leaves, barks, and flowers of common plants have helped the body to heal itself. This guide by Jason Elias and Shelagh Ryan Masline describes more than 100 tried-and-true herbal remedies for everything from sunburn to sexual dysfunction. It features detailed instructions for using herbal combinations and explains the benefits and possible side effects of each of the herbal medicines in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and handy format. Not to be missed if you want to learn about and use herbal remedies.
| The beauty of herbs lies in their ability to help your own body/mind heal itself, a process that it naturally does most efficiently. As Voltaire said, “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” The biggest gift I can give you is the knowledge to heal yourself.
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