Awareness through movement : easy-to-do health exercises to improve your posture, vision, imagination, and personal awareness

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in Awareness Through Movement. Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. His down-to-earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self-image, and human potential. 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. Understanding While Doing. The Self-image. Strata Of Development. Where To Begin And How. Structure And Function. The Direction Of Progress -- Doing To Understand : Twelve Practical Lessons. General Observations. Some Practical Hints. Lesson 1 : What Is Good Posture? Lesson 2 : What Action Is Good? Lesson 3 : Some Fundamental Properties Of Movement. Lesson 4 : Differentiation Of Parts And Functions In Breathing. Lesson 5 : Coordination Of The Flexor Muscles And Of The Extensors. Lesson 6 : Differentiation Of Pelvic Movements By Means Of An Imaginary Clock. Lesson 7 : The Carriage Of The Head Affects The State Of The Musculature. Lesson 8 : Perfecting The Self-image. Lesson 9 : Spatial Relationships As A Means To Coordinated Action. Lesson 10 : The Movement Of The Eyes Organizes The Movement Of The Body. Lesson 11 : Becoming Aware Of Parts Of Which We Are Not Conscious With The Help Of Those Of Which We Are Conscious. Lesson 12 : Thinking And Breathing. Moshe Feldenkrais. Each one of us speaks, moves, thinks, and feels in a different way, each according to the image of himself that he has built up over the years. Twelve lessons with concise explanations of the author's way of self improvement by using movement. http://archive.org/details/awarenessthrough00feld_0