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The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World
by Mary Bond
from Healing Arts Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A Useful Tool for Every Body
  The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move by Mary Bond is a must read if you're interested in increasing your somatic awareness of your body in motion. Hoorah! finally someone writes about the body as a moving entity and not as a stable unit moving just one joint at a time. Posture for Bond is not about standing still and sticking your chest out, but about how you move is number one of the new rules. Bond writes, "your posture is the product of the ongoing perceptual activities through which you... more info

• Make It Easier, Please
  I bought this book because Andy Weil suggested it in his newsletter, and I know that at age 78, I need to do something about my posture; I'm beginning to stoop and droop.
  I usually trust Andy, but not this time. The book is way too long and too complicated. I can't wade my way through it, though I keep trying. Also, it doesn't seem geared to older people.
  I wish the author would condense her findings and advice into about 15 pages, with illustrations, and drop all the complicated stuff. Maybe I'm... more info

• Unique
  A truly unique book I keep coming back to.
  As a dance teacher, it helped me recognize patterns of misalignment in my students and helped me identify the causes.
  As a dancer, it helped me be more aware of my posture.
  

• The New Rules of Posture
  I found this book, The New Rules of Posture, extremely helpful and accessible. The text is crisp and moves along nicely. In addressing the quasi-intangible subject of posture, an author could easily tend toward the abstract and miss the opportunity to provide substantial answers; conversely, detailed analysis of the human body's myriad and complex patterns, movements and compensations could, in the wrong hands, bog. Luckily--rather, skillfully--Mary Bond successfully dances the edge--exquisitely combining... more info

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