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'All our lives we juggle words so that they'll reveal the reasons for our behavior. And what if we were to seek, through our sensations, the reasons of our body?...it's possible for you to find the keys to your body again, to take possession of it, to live in it at least, and to find your proper
'A compelling, often personal, account of the ways in whcih movement affects well-being and can literally transform ives.'-Deborah Hutton, Vogue
In this revolutionary and highly readable book. Therese Bertherat and Carol Bernstein shatter myths about traditinal exercise and health. They introduce movement that is based on a profound self-awareness, freeing us from our limiting attitudes about ourselves and our bodies.
Strangers to our own bodies, many of us spend our adult lives suffering from tensions and chronic aches and pains-problems that have no apparent genesis ior solution. In repeating habitual patterns of movement, we ignore the range of possiblities available to us, so that the body suppresses and eventually forgets its natural grace and integration. Employing traditional exercises to alleviate the symptoms of a round stomach, a bad back, or muscles that ache after sports, we often force the body to act against itself and perpetuate our discomfort.
A physical therapist and teacher of movement in Europe, Bertherat takes the reader through a seriessof precise, gentle, organic movements. These 'anti-exercises' develop the body's range and freedom of movement, releasing constraints and reawakening dormant muscles. By using the appropriate energy for each gesture, they bring relief from a mutlitude of ills, at the same time awakening the senses and sharpening preceptions.
The Body Has Its Reasons offers a realistic alternative to conventional body work that can help you become more efficient, creative, and self-confident. It can increase your intellectual capacity as well as your athletic ability and free you of sexual problems, including frigidity and impotence. No matter what your age, the information in these pages can gelp you realize the beautiful and well-made individual that you were meant to be.
Contents
Introduction: Your body, that house you don't live in
1 The house on the dead-end street
2 The fortress
3 The music room
4 The haunted house
5 Francoise Mezieres: A revolution
6 Ancient foundations
7 Keys, locks, armored dorrs
8 The hospitable house
Postscript
Preliminaries
Bibliography
A note on the Mezieres Method
About the authors
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vitality, health, and autonomy.' from the authors introduction'A compelling, often personal, account of the ways in whcih movement affects well-being and can literally transform ives.'-Deborah Hutton, Vogue
In this revolutionary and highly readable book. Therese Bertherat and Carol Bernstein shatter myths about traditinal exercise and health. They introduce movement that is based on a profound self-awareness, freeing us from our limiting attitudes about ourselves and our bodies.
Strangers to our own bodies, many of us spend our adult lives suffering from tensions and chronic aches and pains-problems that have no apparent genesis ior solution. In repeating habitual patterns of movement, we ignore the range of possiblities available to us, so that the body suppresses and eventually forgets its natural grace and integration. Employing traditional exercises to alleviate the symptoms of a round stomach, a bad back, or muscles that ache after sports, we often force the body to act against itself and perpetuate our discomfort.
A physical therapist and teacher of movement in Europe, Bertherat takes the reader through a seriessof precise, gentle, organic movements. These 'anti-exercises' develop the body's range and freedom of movement, releasing constraints and reawakening dormant muscles. By using the appropriate energy for each gesture, they bring relief from a mutlitude of ills, at the same time awakening the senses and sharpening preceptions.
The Body Has Its Reasons offers a realistic alternative to conventional body work that can help you become more efficient, creative, and self-confident. It can increase your intellectual capacity as well as your athletic ability and free you of sexual problems, including frigidity and impotence. No matter what your age, the information in these pages can gelp you realize the beautiful and well-made individual that you were meant to be.
Contents
Introduction: Your body, that house you don't live in
1 The house on the dead-end street
2 The fortress
3 The music room
4 The haunted house
5 Francoise Mezieres: A revolution
6 Ancient foundations
7 Keys, locks, armored dorrs
8 The hospitable house
Postscript
Preliminaries
Bibliography
A note on the Mezieres Method
About the authors
Show Less
ISBN
892892982
Publication
Healing Arts Press One Park Street Rochester, Vermont 05767