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InnerWork: Unlocking your body, regaining youth through somatic awareness

Title
InnerWork: Unlocking your body, regaining youth through somatic awareness [videorecording] / Thinking Allowed Productions ; produced by Arthur Bloch.
Publication
Berkeley, CA : Thinking Allowed, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Hanna, Thomas, 1928-1990.
  • Bloch, Arthur.
  • Mishlove, Jeffrey, 1946-
Description
1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
According to Thomas Hanna, founder of the discipline of somatics and director of the Institute for Somatic Training, many of the effects of aging (e.g. aching muscles, stooped posture, weakness) are unnecessary and reversible. These problems are not due to structural deficiencies in the body but to sensory-motor amnesia which can be corrected. By establishing conscious awareness, one can awaken previously unconscious muscle contractions. Through conscious awareness, muscle groups which have been "permanently" contracted for years can be relaxed. In part two, Hanna explains how one can establish body awareness and release contracted muscles through a few simple exercises. Using a live model, he demonstrates how fundamental, habitual muscle contractions occur in the center of the body and effect the entire body. He also discusses the relationship between somatic exercises and others forms of body work, including biofeedback, Feldenkreis exercises and Reichian therapy.
Alternative Title
Unlocking your body
Subject
  • Sensorimotor integration
  • Aging > Physiological aspects
  • Physical fitness
  • Health
  • Awareness
  • Exercise
  • Mind and body
Note
  • Based on the Thinking allowed television series.
Credits (note)
  • Producer, director, Arthur Bloch.
Title
InnerWork: Unlocking your body, regaining youth through somatic awareness [videorecording] / Thinking Allowed Productions ; produced by Arthur Bloch.
Imprint
Berkeley, CA : Thinking Allowed, 1988.
Credits
Producer, director, Arthur Bloch.
Performer
Host: Jeffrey Mishlove; guest speaker, Thomas Hanna.
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Added Author
Hanna, Thomas, 1928-1990.
Bloch, Arthur.
Mishlove, Jeffrey, 1946-
Added Title
Unlocking your body
Branch Call Number
VTH 1598 I
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