North Atlantic Books | ISBN:1583945016 | File Type: PDF, 224 pages | File size: 79.Mb | Sep. 25th, 2012
Exercise: Enhancing Yoga Pilates Exercise and Dance Core Awareness Revised Edition Enhancing Yoga ilates Exercise and Dance offers a guide to Core Awareness a body oriented approach that explores the practice of bringing focus and attention to inner sensation as the means of ctivating an innate capacity for expressive movement Developed by somatic educator and author Liz Koch the book s Core Awareness movements stretches and mindfness explorations are designed to enhance sensory development and shift readers from the standard paradigm of the body as an isolated object to a holistic paradigm of the human being as part of a living process of dynamic expression This shift in perspective offers practitioners and teachers of movement yoga pilates bodywork exercise and dance an empowering model for self healing and the key to increasing strength gaining flexibility preventing injury and improving resiliency Describing the practice of moving from one s core Koch highlights the importance of engaging the psoas muscle located on either side of the spine to integrate the body mind emotion and spirit Koch also discusses the pelvis as the foundation of our physical core and the vital connection with our bones to gain a sense of support nourishment joint integrity skeletal balance and healthy muscle tone Rewritten with updated information this revised edition includes 247 new photos and 25 new Core Awareness explorations with 64 in total A suggested reading list at the end of the book provides resources for continuing the development of the ideas presented within the book It seems that yoga es are offered on every corner these days but unfortunately they often emphasize movement over awareness stretching over sensing and pushing oneself over self exploration Luckily Liz Koch s book can offer the yoga student inspiration as well as simple exercises which can create both the depth of feeling and the profound sensitivity necessary to use yoga practice as a physical mental and spiritual tool for transformation I recommend it highly Judith Hanson Lasater hD T yoga yeacher and author of 30 Essential Yoga oses For Beginning Students and Their Teachers Ebook 978 1 58394 525 4 will also be on sale on 9 25 2012
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