Living the Vital Element suggests an optimistic,integrative, ecological, and practical approach to the disturbing themes that concern all of us in our daily lives – issues such as boundaries, trauma, and loss.
In this work, Ittai Altshuler reveals ‘The Altshuler Method,’ developed after healing himself from shell shock, which he suffered from after his injury and experiences in the First Lebanon War. He uses this method to help men, women, and children, who are socially and emotionally distressed. In his unique way, he combines work in nature with creativity, movement, and discourse, weaving them together with the help of eleven principles.
Living the Vital Element shares with the reader the exciting and intimate stories of students of the method that illustrate and elucidate the title of the book. The stories will delight the reader as he learns how the human spirit is able to endure by winning softly.
Ittai Altshuler was born in Jerusalem in 1963. He is an artist and a poet and has exhibited his works in Israel and abroad. He has published three books of poetry and translated selected poems of the Guatemalan poet Humberto Ak’abal into Hebrew. Ittai Altshuler has a degree in History and Philosophy. He is a Systems Analyst and Software Developer. His most recent book, Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, is a visual and poetic interpretation of The Book of Ecclesiastes. He lives in the mid forest of the Western Galilee, is married and has two children.
