This one-of-a-kind workbook guides you through 9 amazing movement sequences, so called FELDENKRAIS(r) lessons. Every lesson is built on top of the other. With one lesson per day this results in a sophisticated, life changing 9 day program - a journey of learning and exploration. The very easy to read structure of this book helps you to get a quick overview over the lessons, a better understanding of the connections between lessons, and makes it easier to identify the strategies used in the lessons. Plus you'll have something to show to your people when you're trying to explain what you're doing. You can use this workbook to deepen your own practice and understanding, or use it as teaching tool to get others to roll on the floor and to learn more about themselves. I originally created the Getting Better Day By Day" lessons as a beginners video course for my YouTube channel with over 12,000 subscribers. In this workbook I try to use the same light, colloquial, humorous, yet sincere and authentic spirit I show in my videos. It is a thoroughly designed workbook and rides on the back of my professional education and my 10+ years teaching experience of the FELDENKRAIS(r) method with clients in person. Lessons overview: Day 1: Lifting your head in supine position Day 2: Your eyes and your pelvis help lifting your head Day 3: Elbows towards knees a Day 4: Getting to know your shoulder girdle and its connections to the whole body Day 5: Floating and lengthening, starting with your dominant hand Day 6: Lifting your legs in prone position Day 7: Lifting your head in prone position Day 8: Rolling over easily, using everything you've got Day 9: Flexion & extension in 16 different positions The workbook contains 252 pictures plus descriptions and bold titles for easy navigation.

This one-of-a-kind workbook guides you through 9 amazing movement sequences, so called FELDENKRAIS(r) lessons. Every lesson is built on top of the other. With one lesson per day this results in a sophisticated, life changing 9 day program - a journey of learning and exploration. The very easy to read structure of this book helps you to get a quick overview over the lessons, a better understanding of the connections between lessons, and makes it easier to identify the strategies used in the lessons. Plus you'll have something to show to your people when you're trying to explain what you're doing. You can use this workbook to deepen your own practice and understanding, or use it as teaching tool to get others to roll on the floor and to learn more about themselves. I originally created the Getting Better Day By Day" lessons as a beginners video course for my YouTube channel with over 12,000 subscribers. In this workbook I try to use the same light, colloquial, humorous, yet sincere and authentic spirit I show in my videos. It is a thoroughly designed workbook and rides on the back of my professional education and my 10+ years teaching experience of the FELDENKRAIS(r) method with clients in person. Lessons overview: Day 1: Lifting your head in supine position Day 2: Your eyes and your pelvis help lifting your head Day 3: Elbows towards knees a Day 4: Getting to know your shoulder girdle and its connections to the whole body Day 5: Floating and lengthening, starting with your dominant hand Day 6: Lifting your legs in prone position Day 7: Lifting your head in prone position Day 8: Rolling over easily, using everything you've got Day 9: Flexion & extension in 16 different positions The workbook contains 252 pictures plus descriptions and bold titles for easy navigation.

A wonderful book for the Feldenkrais Method - it works well for people who have never heard of Feldenkrais, in that it shows the important aspects that people need to know. The book really helps people grasp how and why the Feldenkrais Method is different from other modalities, how intelligent, effective and unique it is. And the book works equally well for people who know and have experienced the Feldenkrais Method before. People really like the book. Everyone says the book is fun, interesting and easy to read and use. People love the pictures and the dialog bubbles. And the book makes it so easy for people to show to their friends and relatives, to explain what it is that they are doing, rather than having to describe, explain or illustrate what the Feldenkrais Method is. They can just hand them the book and say 'Here. This is what i am doing!' The book appeals to all types of people, all age groups and backgrounds. Even though the pictures show young, healthy looking people doing lessons, older students and people with physical limitations like it as much as the younger ones. The book is contemporary, user-friendly, has a high quality feel and look; and although it is small, it is packed with info. It can make a huge difference in promoting and supporting Feldenkrais in anyone's trade area (or anywhere for that matter), it's a resource.

Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing A physical and philosophical mediation on why we are drawn to fight each other for sport, what happens to our bodies and brains when we do, and what it all means Anyone with guts or madness in him can get hit by someone who knows how; it takes a different kind of madness, a more persistent kind, to stick around long enough to be one of the people who does the knowing. Josh Rosenblatt was thirty-three years old when he first realized he wanted to fight. A lifelong pacifist with a philosopher’s hatred of violence and a dandy’s aversion to exercise, he drank to excess, smoked passionately, ate indifferently, and mocked physical activity that didn’t involve nudity. But deep down inside there was always some part of him that was attracted to the idea of fighting. So, after studying Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and boxing, he decided, at age forty, that it was finally time to fight his first—and only—mixed martial arts match: all in the name of experience and transcending ancient fears. An insightful and moving rumination on the nature of fighting, Why We Fight takes us on his journey from the bleachers to the ring. Using his own training as an opportunity to understand how the sport illuminates basic human impulses, Rosenblatt weaves together cultural history, criticism, biology, and anthropology to understand what happens to the human body and mind when under attack, and to explore why he, a self-described “cowardly boy from the suburbs,” discovered so much meaning in putting his body, and others’, at risk. From the psychology of fear to the physiology of pain, from Ukrainian shtetls to Brooklyn boxing gyms, from Lord Byron to George Plimpton, Why We Fight is a fierce inquiry into the abiding appeal of our most conflicted and controversial fixation, interwoven with a firsthand account of what happens when a mild-mannered intellectual decides to step into the ring for his first real showdown.

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Discover the transformative insights of movement pioneer Moshe Feldenkrais Essential reading for somatic practitioners, movement teachers, performing artists, and anyone interested in self-improvement and healing As a scientist, martial artist, and founder of the Feldenkrais Method, Moshe Feldenkrais wrote several influential books on the relationship between movement, learning, and health. The Elusive Obvious is a thorough and accessible explanation of the method that is more relevant today than when it was first published, as current research strongly supports many of its insights. The Feldenkrais Method has two main strands: Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration. Both are renowned worldwide for their ability to reduce pain and anxiety, cultivate vitality, and improve performance. This new edition of The Elusive Obvious includes a beautiful presentation featuring a fold-out insert with illustrations that depict these two approaches. By uncovering solutions that are often hidden in plain sight, this book can help you learn to move with greater ease, grace, and efficiency through the Feldenkrais Method.

Ruthy Alon's description of Feldenkrais work in Mindful Spontaneity is a favored text of a generation of Feldenkrais enthusiasts. Alon weaves experiential and theoretical information in a poetic yet pragmatic language. These simple and unexpected suggestions will help everyone who suffers from restricted movement or pain to find a new sense of freedom.