How Life Moves Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness

by McHose, Caryn; Frank, Kevin; Godard, Hubert

• ISBN13: 9781556436185
• ISBN10: 1556436181
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-25
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

This comprehensive movement program uses the story of biological evolution as a tool to increase strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Readers learn to "unlearn" inherited bodily habits by embodying the many forms that life has expressed on Earthfrom the single cell to the human beingand shifting their perception. Through this evolutionary movement, the body's native intelligence is revived and new movements can be learned, enabling the body to overcome chronic musculoskeletal complaints such as lower back, shoulder, and neck pain, and to meet whatever challenges it is faced with.

Author Biography

Caryn McHose has taught creative movement for over thirty-five years. She developed the experiential anatomy course at Middlebury College, which became the basis of Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, a book she collaborated on with Andrea Olsen. McHose co-founded the RK training in perceptual skills for somatic practitioners in Burlington, Vermont, and uses biodynamic cranial-sacral and Somatic Experiencing techniques in her private practice.

Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolfing movement practitioner who also teaches Rolf Institute and IASI CE approved courses. He assisted Toni Packer in founding the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats in Springwater, New York.

Frank and McHose created and currently run Resources in Movement, a center for movement inquiry in Holderness, New Hampshire, where they live. For articles by and other information about McHose and Frank, visit the Resources in Movement website at www.resourcesinmovement.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	ix
Hubert Godard
Introduction	xv
An Inquiry into Movement Education -- Perception, Movement, Structure, Metaphor, and Imagination	1	(8)
Orientation -- Child of Heaven and Earth	9	(6)
Establishing Oneself -- the Cell	15	(10)
The Cell's Contents and Container -- Cell Movement and Boundary	25	(8)
The Cell Moves in Its Matrix -- Cell Colony	33	(8)
Vessel---the Primitive Gut Body	41	(10)
Mobility -- the Gut Body Gains an Axis	51	(8)
Lateral Line -- the Fish Body	59	(14)
Amphibian and Reptile -- Acquiring Girdles	73	(12)
Becoming Warm-Blooded -- the Mammal	85	(14)
The Human -- Walking Upright, Achieving Lordosis	99	(34)
Afterword	133	(2)
Appendixes	135	(3)
Bibliography and Resources	138	(3)
Notes	141	(2)
Index	143	(4)
About the Authors	147