01Wisdom of the Body
Complete Basics (1–3 Sections): Aligning the Nervous System
Author · collaborator · field notes
Books &
Journal
Allen’s books form the written record of a life in practice: forms preserved, teachers remembered, histories compared and unfinished questions kept open.
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Why Allen writes
Writing gives practice another duration.
A book can hold a form, an argument, a teacher’s character or a question long enough for another person to meet it.
Allen’s writing moves between technical manuals, biography, cultural history and spiritual inquiry. The subjects change, but the responsibility remains the same: say where the material came from, what it can do and what is still uncertain.
Forthcoming · 3 November 2026
Astrology and Healing Trauma
Using Your Birth Chart in the Journey Toward Recovery
Written with Karen Beth Wilson, the book brings personal history, astrological cycles, spiritual identity and body-based inquiry into one reflective framework. It extends Allen’s authorship into the meeting of body, biography and symbol.
The book presents astrology as a framework for reflection and self-inquiry. It is not a medical or psychotherapeutic method.
Complete backlist
Every currently documented book, in one library.
10 published titles are shown here as full records. The forthcoming book appears above; the index below gathers the entire catalogue by subject and authorship.
01
02Walking the I-Ching
The Linear Ba Gua of Gao Yi Sheng
03Hsing-I
Chinese Internal Boxing
04Pa-Kua
Eight Trigram Boxing
05Chinese Internal Boxing
Techniques of Hsing-I and Pa-Kua
06Young Atlas
The Training Path of Tim Geoghegan
07Chakras
A Detailed Overview of Chakras for Students of Yoga
08The Luminous Footprint
and the Sacrificial Virtue Chronicle — The Shaman's Tao Te Ching
09Conditioning for Martial Art Practice
Nutrition, Exercise, Energy, Strength, Flexibility
10Bagua and Xingyi
An Intersection of the Straight and Curved
The complete shelf
Four bodies of writing.
Internal arts
Origins, form and practical interpretation.
The body
Writing that returns the reader to practice.
Lives, symbols and culture
Teachers, spiritual imagination and the patterns carried through a life.
Collaborative volumes
Books to which Allen contributed chapters alongside other authors.
Chapters & collaborations
Allen also writes inside other people’s books.
These essays show another side of the author: the researcher of combat history, conditioning, wrestling and the people who carried physical knowledge between cultures.
01
With Your Shield or On It
in The Cutting Edge — Studies in Ancient and Medieval Combat
Tempus · 2007
↗02Chapter on William E. Fairbairn
in Some Western Pioneers in Asian Martial Arts — An Anthology
Via Media Publishing · 2020
↗03Chapter on Dr. Charles 'Tim' Geoghegan
in Some Western Pioneers in Asian Martial Arts — An Anthology
Via Media Publishing · 2020
↗04Combat Wrestling — Geoghegan's Blend from East to West
in Grappling & Throwing From the Near and Far East
Via Media Publishing
↗05The Universal Martial Tactic — The Shoulder Throw and Its Variations
in Grappling & Throwing From the Near and Far East
Via Media Publishing
↗06Two chapters on conditioning — legs and trunk
in Conditioning for Martial Art Practice
Via Media Publishing
↗Journal · forthcoming
A place for material that continues to matter.
The journal will gather teaching notes, essays, correspondence, interviews and documents from Allen’s archive.
The first entries will grow from material already alive in the work: practice observations, portraits of teachers, interviews and longer essays shaped through their sources.
RSS for future entries ↗Practice notes
Observations from the floor, written close to the work.
Teacher portraits
Human accounts of the people who changed Allen’s path.
Working essays
Longer reflections developed through sources, memory and revision.
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