Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness @ richardeward.com

Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness
by Moshe Feldenkrais
from HarperOne

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exer...
  I understnad the methods work well from people I know who took the classes. This will give you the basis but I found it hard to try learn from the book itself but then I am a hands on learnere.

• It's difficult but well worth the effort.
  The first time I read this book, it was such a daunting task I put down and saved it for a time when my intelligence was ready to 'understand' the instructions. If you're the equivilent of a college freshman in the science of movement this book will probably be something you want to save for a more advanced place in your progression. Or read it and get what you can...planning to come back to it over and over. If I hadn't seen and tried the method via videotapes and then in an actual seminar I probably... more info

• Do you want answers or to learn to ask yourself questions?
  I found an earlier printing of this book in a used bookstore some years ago, and that was my introduction to Feldenkrais method. I went about doing lessons from this book, other books, and cassettes, with some benefit. Then my life got busier and I quit. Only when I developed worse problems did I start up again, this time with a human teacher.

  The greater difficulties I face this time force a different approach upon me. Before I might have studied the stick figures carefully and tried to reproduce the... more info

• stolen ideas
  EVERY idea in this book originated in the books of F.M. Alexander. Feldenkrais was a student of his Alexander Technique, then set out to establish some exercises based on Alexander's principles and claimed the ideas as his own! He gives no credit to Alexander, even though all the philosophy of how we tend to live our lives is directly Alexander's discoveries. If you are interested in this book, I highly recommend that you check out some books on the Alexander Technique.

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