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Title: The Body of Life: Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement by Thomas Hanna ISBN: 0-89281-481-0 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent overview
Comment: This is a clear, easy-to-read introduction to the body-mind theory behind Hanna's "Somatics" system, and how the system works in practice. The anecdotes he tells are engaging, and I especially liked his insistence that the process is a collaboration: the practitioner isn't a "healer" so much as a teacher, and healing takes place because the sufferer re-learns how to use the forgotten parts of his/her body. I also found his explanation of the "soma" concept very enlightening: too many thinkers (even those of the "New Age" persuasion) promote the view that we are spirits trapped in bodies and that we should hence adopt a "mind over matter" philosophy. Hanna, by contrast, insists that the two are interdependent and that what happens to one affects the other -- in both directions. He points out that this idea is reflected in Zen Buddhism, yoga, and other Eastern philosophies. (Western thinkers have tended to misunderstand it, possibly because of the mind-vs-body dichotomy in Christian thought, but Hanna clarifies the matter nicely.) I also found his explanation of the Feldenkrais system and its relationship to other methods of bodywork (such as Alexander) very useful. Although some of the research he cites is a little outdated now, nothing he says is (to my knowledge) contradicted by recent studies. Despite its age, this is still a very useful book for anyone interested in the mind-body relationship.
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Title: Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness by Moshe Feldenkrais ISBN: 0062503227 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 15 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Awareness Heals: The Feldenkrais Method for Dynamic Health by Steven Shafarman, Stephen Shafarman ISBN: 0201694697 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Relaxercise : The Easy New Way to Health and Fitness by David Zemach-Bersi ISBN: 0062509926 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 10 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Body Awareness As Healing Therapy: The Case of Nora by Moshe Feldenkrais ISBN: 1883319080 Publisher: Frog Ltd Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion by Moshe Feldenkrais, Michaeleen Kimmey, Mark Reese ISBN: 1583940685 Publisher: Frog Ltd Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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