Mindful Spontaneity

Mindful Spontaneity

Author: Ruthy Alon

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781556431852

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Ruthy Alon's description of Feldenkrais work in Mindful Spontaneity is a favored text of a generation of Feldenkrais enthusiasts. Alon weaves experiential and theoretical information in a poetic yet pragmatic language. These simple and unexpected suggestions will help everyone who suffers from restricted movement or pain to find a new sense of freedom.


Embodied Wisdom

Embodied Wisdom

Author: Moshe Feldenkrais

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1583944192

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A thorough study of the Feldenkrais Method, a leading form of exercise therapy designed to improve your mental and physical well-being through mindful movement An educational system of neuromuscular re-education known for its gentle approach, the Feldenkrais Method has been shown to dramatically improve individual functioning by increasing self-awareness and facilitating new patterns of thinking, moving, and feeling. Intended for those who need to improve their movement repertoire for professional reasons—dancers, musicians, martial artists, gymnasts, and athletes—a well as those wishing to reduce pain or limitations in movement, Feldenkrais is based on the idea that learning to move better can improve anyone’s overall health on many levels. Using Moshe Feldenkrais’s own words, Embodied Wisdom clearly explains the basic principles underpinning his techniques, Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Functional Integration (FI). These thoughtful articles and lively, sometimes humorous interviews explore a diverse range of subjects: the importance of bodily expression, the primacy of hearing, the mind-body connection, martial arts, sleep and consciousness, movement and its effect on the mind. Embodied Wisdom gives readers the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the scientific and spiritual principles behind the Method and offers sound strategies for incorporating it into their lives.


Body and Mature Behaviour

Body and Mature Behaviour

Author: Moshé Feldenkrais

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780415210751

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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Feldenkrais Method

The Feldenkrais Method

Author: Staffan Elgelid

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781912085699

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Key features of this book:Comparisons about similarities as well as differences between the different methods. It also shows very clearly how the Feldenkrais Method can be applied in a variety of specific settings.By using sound research as the foundation of this book, it will be applicable not only to somatic practitioners but also to health care workers who are looking for more evidence-informed practices for their patients.In the experiential parts MP3 files of the lessons are included.Edited and written by 24 leaders in the field.


The Feldenkrais Method

The Feldenkrais Method

Author: Yochanan Rywerant

Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781591200222

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The Feldenkrais Method is a presentation of the system of Functional Integration devised by the Israeli scientist Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. This system is a way of handling the body by communicating specific sensations to the central nervous system in order to improve the functions of the motor-system. Functional Integration is unique in that it evokes changes in the human brain at a level heretofore thought unachievable by any known educational technique.


Feldenkrais Illustrated

Feldenkrais Illustrated

Author: Tiffany Sankary

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12-24

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780989359801

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Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning weaves together the writings of Moshe Feldenkrais with Tiffany Sankary's drawings. Feldenkrais (1904-1984) was a physicist, martial artist, engineer, and somatic pioneer who developed The Feldenkrais Method(r), an innovative approach to learning, movement, and awareness to help improve all aspects of human functioning. Sankary illustrates excerpts from Feldenkrais' books and articles, organizing and bringing to life his core ideas to make them accessible to seasoned practitioners, students and those new to the Method.


Body Consciousness

Body Consciousness

Author: Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-07

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1139467778

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Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one's knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticised as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption. In Body Consciousness, Richard Shusterman refutes such charges by engaging the most influential twentieth-century somatic philosophers and incorporating insights from both Western and Asian disciplines of body-mind awareness. Rather than rehashing intractable ontological debates on the mind-body relation, Shusterman reorients study of this crucial nexus towards a more fruitful, pragmatic direction that reinforces important but neglected connections between philosophy of mind, ethics, politics, and the pervasive aesthetic dimensions of everyday life.


Body Awareness as Healing Therapy

Body Awareness as Healing Therapy

Author: Moshe Feldenkrais

Publisher: Frog Books

Published: 1993-12-20

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781883319083

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Body Awareness as Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora is Moshe Feldenkrais' classic study of his work with Nora, a woman who has suffered a severe stroke and lost her neuromuscular coordination, including the ability to read and write. Feldenkrais uses rational and intuitive approaches to help his student relearn basic motor skills. One can observe here the groundwork of Feldenkrais' extraordinary insights which became known as the Feldenkrais Method. We follow his detailed descriptions of the trial and error process which led him to see the ingredients that were needed to help Nora reshape her attention, perception, imagination and cognition.