This best selling book contains 12 easy-to-follow Awareness Through Movementexercises for improving posture, flexibility, breathing, coordination. Each exerciseconciselydemonstrate Moshe's ideas while helping you to improve your movement habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self-image, and human potential.
Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness.
By Moshe Feldenkrais
This best selling book contains 12 easy-to-follow Awareness Through Movementexercises for improving posture, flexibility, breathing, coordination. Each exerciseconciselydemonstrate Moshe's ideas while helping you to improve your movement habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self-image, and human potential.
Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness.
"In order to change our mode of action we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us." —Moshe Feldenkrais
"Feldenkrais's most popular and accessible book." —Smithsonian
"The exercises are so simple and so ingenious they lead on to others which one can invent in the same style. It is so clever to develop the body by making the mind and senses aware of each side of the body separately. It increases the subtlety of sensation and starts a competitive cycle as each side stimulates the other." —Yehudi Menuhin
Part I: Understanding While Doing
Preface The Self-Image Strata of Development Where to Begin and How Structure and Function The Direction of Progress
Part II: Doing to Understand: Twelve Practical Lessons
General Observation Some Practical Hints
Lesson 1 What is Good Posture? Lesson 2 What Action Is Good? Lesson 3 Some Fundamental Properties of Movement Lesson 4 Differentiation of Parts and Functions of Breathing Lesson 5 Coordination of the Flexor Muscles adn of the Extensors Lesson 6 Differentiation of Pelvic Movements by Means of an Imaginary Clock Lesson 7 The Carriage of the Head Affects the State of the Musculature Lesson 8 Perfecting the Self-Image Lesson 9 Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action Lesson 10 The Movement of the Eyes Organizes the Movement of the Body Lesson 11 Becoming Aware of Parts of Which We Are Not Conscious with the Help of Those of Which We Are Conscious Lesson 12 Thinking and Breathing
Moshe Feldenkrais, D. Sc. (1904 - 1984) began developing what has become known as the Feldenkrais Method after he sustained a crippling knee injury while working in England during World War II. His own recovery process and subsequent wide-ranging research resulted in the creation of a unique educational system that incorporated his background in physics, Judo, and a lifelong interest in human development. By the end of Dr. Feldenkrais’s life, the Feldenkrais Method had gained an International reputation and he had trained a significant number of teachers. The Method that bears his name continues to evolve and spread across the globe.
Subscribe
Sign up to get the latest on sales, new releases and more …
