How Life Moves

Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness

by Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank, Foreword by Hubert Godard 

This comprehensive movement program uses the story of biological evolution as a tool to increase strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Readers learn to "unlearn" inherited bodily habits by embodying the many forms that life has expressed on Earth--from the single cell to the human being--and shifting their perception. Through this evolutionary movement, the body's native intelligence is revived and new movements can be learned, enabling the body to overcome chronic musculoskeletal complaints such as lower back, shoulder, and neck pain, and to meet whatever challenges it is faced with.

 
 

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Discover the physiology and psychology behind posture, movement, and your relationship to the natural world.

How Life Moves explains
  • Why we move the way we do
  • What the animal kingdom and the story of biological evolution can teach us about our bodies
  • How to evoke movement that facilitates core strength
  • Why we develop pain and stiffness as we age and whether this is inevitable
  • How yoga, Pilates, tai chi, structural integration, Feldenkrais Method®, and the Alexander Technique work and why these traditions are helpful for some people, less so for others
  • What body therapists need to know about the origin and rehabilitation of confused coordination
  • The role imagination plays in learning and how healing is a creative event
  • The importance of curiosity and inquiry in somatic practice
 
  REVIEWS

"The authors have provided us with a well thought-out and highly articulate voice of a moving scenario that enriches all of our lives." Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum Movement

"a visual delight with art and drawings depicting biology and evolution, interspersed with a woman in sensuous movement"  Susan Harper, International teacher of Continuum Movement

"Caryn and Kevin have written an easily accessible but potent book on the organic origins of movement patterns. Not just another therapeutic formula, this is work that seeks to lead us back to our deepest internal resources for self-awareness, self-regulation, and successful adaptation to our ever-shifting circumstances." Deane Juhan, Author of Job's Body.

"What does it really mean to move--to propel ourselves through space and time? What are sensation and awareness? This book invites you to a deep, expansive, and joyous ourney that will forever change your perspective on what it is to be alive." James L. Oschman, Ph.D., Author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis

This book is so extraordinary that it eludes mere description. Its multi-disciplinary approach (referred to by the author of the Foreword as “erudite”) weaves together what they have gleaned from their many teachers (acknowledged and described in a special appendix were names many of us will recognize such as Rolf, Alexander, Feldenkrais, Conrad, Levine, Harper, Bainbridge Cohen) in their very personal creative synthesis. Gliding effortlessly from the cellular level through the unique individual to the movement in and of groups, their explanations and illustrations provide enormous amounts of material for the teacher or therapist. Illustrations of Indonesian textiles, photos of people and animals, skeletal sections, ancient vessels, ancient and modern drawings and wonderful figures in leotards are juxtaposed to illuminate the concepts they present. And interspersed, are brief sections addressed to teachers and body therapists on ways to make clinical use of the material.

From the Fall 2006 Newsletter of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.

 

 

 

About the AUITHORS

Caryn McHose has taught creative movement for over thirty-five years. She developed the experiential anatomy course at Middlebury College. McHose co-founded the RK training in perceptual skills for somatic practitioners in Burlington, Vermont, and uses biodynamic cranial-sacral and Somatic Experiencing techniques in her private practice.

Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolfing movement practitioner who also teaches Rolf Institute and IASI CE approved courses. Frank and McHose created and currently run Resources in Movement, a center for movement inquiry in Holderness, New Hampshire, www.resourcesinmovement.com
   

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