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 Earth—from the single cell to the human being—and 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.
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"The authors have provided us with a well thought-out and highly articulate voice of a moving scenario that enriches all of our lives."
Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum Movement
"Caryn and Kevin have written an easily accessible but potent book on the organic origins of movement patterns. Not just another therapeutic formula, this is work that seeks to lead us back to our deepest internal resources for self-awareness, self-regulation, and successful adaptation to our ever-shifting circumstances."
Deane Juhan, Author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess:The Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork
"What does it really mean to move--to propel ourselves through space and time? What are sensation and awareness? This book invites you to a deep, expansive, and joyous ourney that will forever change your perspective on what it is to be alive."
James L. Oschman, Ph.D., Author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
"Kevin and Caryn lead us quietly into the depths of our being, exploring a unique somatic psychology that expands the value of movement far beyond the limited definition of "fitness" so prevalent today and toward the larger "fittingness" we desperately need to be fully human in the headlong folly of our twenty-first-century world."
Tom Myers, Certified Advanced Rolfer, founder of Kinesis Structural Integration School, and author of Anatomy Trains
"This renewed acquaintance with the body's deepest history moves the reader beyond the artificial separation of body and mind. Read it slowly, ponder, experiment with movements and positions, and ponder again as thought and movement intertwine and prove to be indivisible."
Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D., Cultural anthropologist and author of Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery and Composing a Life
"A fascinating and practical book that speaks to us with exceptional clarity about the complex and intertwining themes of evolution, perception, movement, and meaning. The esthetic sensibility of the writing transmits the depth of the authors' direct experience and contagiously inspires us to explore."
Susan Harper, International teacher of Continuum Movement and creator of Em'oceans and Sensations Trainings
Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum Movement
"Caryn and Kevin have written an easily accessible but potent book on the organic origins of movement patterns. Not just another therapeutic formula, this is work that seeks to lead us back to our deepest internal resources for self-awareness, self-regulation, and successful adaptation to our ever-shifting circumstances."
Deane Juhan, Author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork and Touched by the Goddess:The Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork
"What does it really mean to move--to propel ourselves through space and time? What are sensation and awareness? This book invites you to a deep, expansive, and joyous ourney that will forever change your perspective on what it is to be alive."
James L. Oschman, Ph.D., Author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
"Kevin and Caryn lead us quietly into the depths of our being, exploring a unique somatic psychology that expands the value of movement far beyond the limited definition of "fitness" so prevalent today and toward the larger "fittingness" we desperately need to be fully human in the headlong folly of our twenty-first-century world."
Tom Myers, Certified Advanced Rolfer, founder of Kinesis Structural Integration School, and author of Anatomy Trains
"This renewed acquaintance with the body's deepest history moves the reader beyond the artificial separation of body and mind. Read it slowly, ponder, experiment with movements and positions, and ponder again as thought and movement intertwine and prove to be indivisible."
Mary Catherine Bateson, Ph.D., Cultural anthropologist and author of Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery and Composing a Life
"A fascinating and practical book that speaks to us with exceptional clarity about the complex and intertwining themes of evolution, perception, movement, and meaning. The esthetic sensibility of the writing transmits the depth of the authors' direct experience and contagiously inspires us to explore."
Susan Harper, International teacher of Continuum Movement and creator of Em'oceans and Sensations Trainings
About the Author
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.
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.
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This book gifts those who read it with an understanding of organic evolutionary somatic movement. I would highly recommend it for movement therapists, yoga instructors, dancers, or anyone interested in movement arts. It is a joy to read, and instantly usable for teachers, with great photos, well-written text, and creative exercises.
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This is such a beautiful, rich combination of writings and illustrations. A book filled with wonder at the way the our organism lives. Here the body discovers ways to enrich it's expression of life. Any dancer, artist, healthcare practioner or body will delight in reading this work
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i purchased this book hoping to get a psychological study. the "Look Inside" option showed the introduction which provided a very interesting beginning to what seemed to be a psychological study. instead, it turned out to only contain a small percentage of such a study and a large percentage of exercises. this was not made apparent in either the item description or the "Look Inside" option provided on the product page. i shared a photo of some of the exercise images and hope they are available for customers interested in purchasing this item.
i rated the item 4 stars because it was a lovely volume presenting its contents in a clear and organized manner. for anyone seeking the physical application and possible readjustment of their own body movement, i believe this would be a good purchase.
i rated the item 4 stars because it was a lovely volume presenting its contents in a clear and organized manner. for anyone seeking the physical application and possible readjustment of their own body movement, i believe this would be a good purchase.
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Our world exists because we sense it, interpret it, and build a perception. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flight of the Eagle, John Hession, Achieving Lordosis, Serge Gracovetsky, Susan Kress Hamilton, The Human-Walking Upright, Ida Rolf, Galen Beach, The Cell Moves, Third Edition, University of Chicago Press New!
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Our world exists because we sense it, interpret it, and build a perception. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flight of the Eagle, John Hession, Achieving Lordosis, Serge Gracovetsky, Susan Kress Hamilton, The Human-Walking Upright, Ida Rolf, Galen Beach, The Cell Moves, Third Edition, University of Chicago Press New!
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- The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky on 5 pages
- Prehistoric Zoobooks by John Bonnett Wexo in Front Matter, page 76, and Back Matter
- The Human Body (Understanding Computers) by the editors of Time-Life Books in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Human Body (Inside-Outside Puzzles) by Straight Edge Press in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Animals Without Backbones: An Introduction to the Invertebrates (Third Edition) by Ralph Buchsbaum on page 32, and Back Matter
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