Research Catalog

Title

Awakening somatic intelligence : understanding, learning and practicing the Alexander technique, Feldenkrais method and Hatha yoga / Graeme Lynn ; foreword by Michael D. Frederick.

Author

Lynn, Graeme

Publication

London ; Philadelphia : Singing Dragon, 2017.

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Details

Description

207 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE. Focussing on distinct body practice from a range of different methods, Graeme Lynn demonstrates how to use the physical body to encourage general health and wellbeing. Starting with the most basic concepts of movement to more advanced yoga practice, this book will serve as a comprehensive guide to developing the physical body to transform the quality of movement, and bring greater pleasure and effectiveness into every action. Specific lessons include The Alexander Technique, The Feldenkrais Method, and Hatha Yoga. Describing the core benefits of these methods, why they complement each other and how to use them, this is essential reading for students and practitioners of somatic methods as well as anyone interested in learning new ways to optimise health and wellbeing.

Subjects

• Movement disorders > Alternative treatment
• Mind and body therapies
• Hatha yoga > Therapeutic use
• Alexander technique
• Feldenkrais method

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 203-206).

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: The Infinite Network of Possibility -- Freedom from Reaction -- The Nature of Water -- Summary Views -- The Evolution of a Technique -- Essentials of the Work -- Freedom -- The foundation of learning -- The integrity of the physical mechanism -- Relaxation -- The human process as an integrated psychophysical event -- The universality of self-contracting habits of movement, coordination and acture and the resultant unreliability of self-sensing and vicious spiral of increasingly unreliable and ineffective function -- The fourteen senses -- The fact of a senior organizing function -- The importance of good habits -- Structure, Function, Self-Organization and Use -- Yoga: Structure and function -- Basic Coordination -- Motor concepts and percepts -- The causes of pain -- The actural dynamic -- The hip joints, the movement of the pelvis and grounding -- More on giving directions -- Organizing Principles -- Use -- Attention (interested observation)
• Note continued: Intelligence -- The primary control -- Sensorimotor unreliability -- Self-correction -- Self-contraction -- Holism -- Intention -- The four imaginary centres -- The frontal line -- Tensegrity -- Habit, learning and freedom -- Lessons -- A First Possible Lesson -- A Second (Impossible) Lesson -- Teaching Remarks -- Ends and means -- Manipulations -- Evolutions -- Positions of mechanical advantage -- Elemental movements -- Applications -- Illustrations: Writing and lifting -- Breathing -- The whispered ʻahʼ -- The Tarzan breath -- Hands on the back of a chair -- Alternative approaches to the organization of function -- Awareness Through Movement® -- An analysis of movement -- Pain as misinformation -- Intelligence -- Awareness -- Release and differentiation -- Directed movement -- Emergent learning -- Integration -- Intelligence in Action: ATM® Series -- ATM strategies -- Scans -- Abbreviations -- Hatha Yoga: A Somatic Approach -- Stretching
• Note continued: Alignment and symmetry -- Pain as information -- General instructions -- Questions And Answers -- Isn't good posture really just a matter of holding oneself properly? -- What makes a movement good? -- Is the Alexander Technique a remedy for arthritis? -- Will the Technique make me look better? -- Can elderly people benefit from these methods? -- Can chiropractic and massage help a bad back? -- What about physical exercise? -- My physiotherapist tells me to strengthen my abdominal muscles to stabilize my back: is that correct? -- Will I always have to work on myself? -- Can the technique be useful in the field of healthcare? -- Final Words -- Individual Practice -- The bodily patterns of effort, anxiety, protection and collapse -- Freedom in action.

Call Number

*MGRT 18-2686

ISBN

• 9781848193345
• 1848193343

LCCN

2016499339

OCLC

964639350

Author

Lynn, Graeme, author.

Title

Awakening somatic intelligence : understanding, learning and practicing the Alexander technique, Feldenkrais method and Hatha yoga / Graeme Lynn ; foreword by Michael D. Frederick.

Publisher

London ; Philadelphia : Singing Dragon, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 203-206).

Research Call Number

*MGRT 18-2686