Awareness through movement : health exercises for personal growth

by Moshé Feldenkrais

1990

Status

Available

Call number

RC 489 .F44 F44 1990

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Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais technique as explained in Awareness Through Movement. This new, illustrated edition now enables every reader to perform the exercises of the Feldenkrais method without individual instruction.These innovative
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exercises are a modern-day practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. They differ substantially from methods they may appear to resemble, like yoga exercises. There is no mystic component in this down-to-earth teaching, nor is the pupil obliged to master abstruse theories.The author demonstrates that nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. He offers people of every age a way of integrating physical and mental development in a new, invigorating wholeness. These illustrated, easy exercises expand the boundaries of human possibility. Exercises for the posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and bring into focus new dimensions in awareness, self-image, and human potential.
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LibraryThing member CenterPointMN
Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais technique as explained in Awareness Through Movement. This new, illustrated edition now enables every reader to perform the exercises of the Feldenkrais method without individual instruction.These innovative
Show More
exercises are a modern-day practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. They differ substantially from methods they may appear to resemble, like yoga exercises. There is no mystic component in this down-to-earth teaching, nor is the pupil obliged to master abstruse theories.The author demonstrates that nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. He offers people of every age a way of integrating physical and mental development in a new, invigorating wholeness. These illustrated, easy exercises expand the boundaries of human possibility. Exercises for the posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and bring into focus new dimensions in awareness, self-image, and human potential.
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LibraryThing member CenterPointMN
Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais technique as explained in Awareness Through Movement. This new, illustrated edition now enables every reader to perform the exercises of the Feldenkrais method without individual instruction.These innovative
Show More
exercises are a modern-day practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. They differ substantially from methods they may appear to resemble, like yoga exercises. There is no mystic component in this down-to-earth teaching, nor is the pupil obliged to master abstruse theories.The author demonstrates that nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. He offers people of every age a way of integrating physical and mental development in a new, invigorating wholeness. These illustrated, easy exercises expand the boundaries of human possibility. Exercises for the posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and bring into focus new dimensions in awareness, self-image, and human potential.
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Publication

San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.

Description

Describes a process for integrating physical and mental development, suggests exercises for posture, vision, and the imagination, and tells how to develop self-awareness and a positive self-image.

Original publication date

1968

Physical description

173 p.; 21 cm
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