Awareness Through Movement: Easy-To-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness

by Feldenkrais, Moshe

• ISBN13: 9780062503220
• ISBN10: 0062503227
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-20
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in Awareness Through Movement. Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body.

His down to earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self image, and human potential.

"Feldenkrais's most popular and accessible book."-Smithsonian

Table of Contents

Part I: Understanding While Doing	3	(54)
Preface	3	(7)
The Self-Image	10	(15)
Strata of Development	25	(5)
Where to Begin and How	30	(10)
Structure and Function	40	(9)
The Direction of Progress	49	(8)
Part II: Doing to Understand: Twelve Practical Lessons	57	(115)
General Observations	57	(6)
Some Practical Hints	63	(3)
Lesson 1 What Is Good Posture?	66	(19)
Lesson 2 What Action Is Good?	85	(6)
Lesson 3 Some Fundamental Properties of Movement	91	(9)
Lesson 4 Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing	100	(9)
Lesson 5 Coordination of the Flexor Muscles and of the Extensors	109	(6)
Lesson 6 Differentiation of Pelvic Movements by Means of an Imaginary Clock	115	(8)
Lesson 7 The Carriage of the Head Affects the State of the Musculature	123	(7)
Lesson 8 Perfecting the Self-Image	130	(9)
Lesson 9 Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action	139	(6)
Lesson 10 The Movement of the Eyes Organizes the Movement of the Body	145	(10)
Lesson 11 Becoming Aware of Parts of Which We Are Not Conscious with the Help of Those of Which We Are Conscious	155	(7)
Lesson 12 Thinking and Breathing	162	(10)
Postscript	172
Illustrations follow page 108