The Feldendrais Method is a revolutionary approach to health and fitness. Using what Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais called ”Awareness Through Movement,” people of any age or condition can learn to move more comfortably and effectively. In pleasant yet powerful ways, his method reawakens the natural process by which we as babies learned to crawl, walk, and talk. In the U.S. and Canada more than one thousand guild-certified practitioners teach the Feldenkrais Method.Awareness Heals is the first book to present the full benefits of the Feldenkrais Method in clear language. It details six basic lessons which help you to become more aware of how you breathe, sit, walk, and otherwise move. By sensing these natural actions, you grow more skillful and supple in all your movements. Through the Feldenkrais Method, you can learn to relieve pain, enhance flexibility, and recover from physical or emotional stress.The gentle movements in Awareness Heals are designed for practice at home and work, and even in your car. They fit into any program of fitness, exercise, or therapy. Most important, Feldenkrais lessons demonstrate that such problems as stiffness and stress do not require outside intervention—the remedy lies within each of us.
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A year or so ago, a Feldenkreis instructor conducted a seminar for a handful of fitness journalists. The movements we tried were based on the way infants twist to roll themselves over and get around. Within a couple of hours, my flexibility and posture had improved dramatically. Feldenkreis, as Awareness Heals shows, isn't about sets and reps. It's about relaxing muscles, rather than building them, and getting your body to use minimal effort to move. Learning these movements from a book isn't ideal, especially since this book is a bit skimpy on illustrations, but it's a good introduction to the method, and will probably suffice if you can't get to a class and learn the valuable back-saving lessons from an instructor.
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Steven Shafarman studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais between 1976 and 1984, becoming a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and assistant trainer. In 1981, when Dr. Feldenkrais last taught in the U.S., he asked Shafarman to travel with him as assistant and appointments secretary. A former research associate of Dr. Jean Houston, Shafarman has studied a variety of ways to enhance health and human capabilities. He lives in Washington, DC, and teaches and lectures internationally.
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I got Shafarman's book in the hopes that the exercises in it would relieve pain I experience at night and it does. I exercises are very gentle and effective.
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If you are interested in the Feldenkrais method - this book is a
must read. It's much easier to understand and the exercises are well illustrated and not as complicated as other books I've read on this subject. The reason I purchased this book is because I believe the Feldenkrais exercises are the best exercises for back problems.
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foundations of FlexAware,
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I got this book as part of my study to become a certified FlexAware teacher, as this book represents much of the foundational work Shafarman did when developing FlexAware fitness.
Three years later, I still read and re-read the book, as Shafarman's take on Feldenkrais' Organic Learning philosophy, which makes these exercises so effective, is so well articulated, particularly in the last couple of chapters. Also, as a teacher with an MA in Kinesthetic Learning, I recommend these chapters to anyone interested in education in general and/or the teaching/learning process. As a side note, I find that this movement/exercise philosophy and practice is a natural fit with the theory of biotensegrity which I've been studying. Apparently Dr. Stephen Levin (the "father" of biotensegrity) agrees, as he told those of us in the FlexAware teacher education program when he came to present that "it looks to me like you're re-establishing your natural biotensegrity." It certainly feels that way. I've used these exercises (and the FlexAware exercises that these are the precursors of) in my work with students from 19-94, and it's always amazing to watch people wake up to a new awareness of their own bodies over the course of only a few minutes. It's also a delight to hear them tell me that their back pain or arthritis is no longer bothering them. I first met Shafarman when a took a FlexAware class three years ago.As our class neared its end we were invited to stand up and walk around. I still remember the surprising and odd feeling when I stood--Whoa! It was like I'd been realigned. Everything seemed easier, more open, more in balance. I was completely mystified. How could doing something so simple and easy for just a little over an hour produce such dramatic results? The real proof came when I arrived home later that night. My husband took one look at me and said, "you look different." Wow. It was that noticeable. I signed up for the teacher education program the next day.
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Lower back pain and stiff necks-we often talk about these common problems while remaining generally much less aware of the mid-back. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one sitting bone, unavowed dreams, organic learning, awareness heals, move your pelvis, arm toward the right, tilt your pelvis, bend your legs, breathing with the movement, lower your head, extend your legs, lifting your head, make this movement, excess effort, interlace your fingers, sitting bones, swinging your arms, pelvis move, shift your weight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Lower back pain and stiff necks-we often talk about these common problems while remaining generally much less aware of the mid-back. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one sitting bone, unavowed dreams, organic learning, awareness heals, move your pelvis, arm toward the right, tilt your pelvis, bend your legs, breathing with the movement, lower your head, extend your legs, lifting your head, make this movement, excess effort, interlace your fingers, sitting bones, swinging your arms, pelvis move, shift your weight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Feldenkrais Method, Awareness Through Movement, Uninhibited Breathing, Functional Integration, Two Lying, Santa Barbara, Sitting Sit, Swami Karmananda, Tel Aviv, United States New!
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- Santa Barbara by Barnaby Conrad on page 4
- Master Moves by Moshe Feldenkrais in Back Matter
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