Bodylessons: Exploring the Wisdom of Your Body - Softcover

Dixon, Marion Wolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844090620 ISBN 13: 9781844090624

Publisher: Kaminn Media Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Drawing on such diverse disciplines as hatha yoga, dance, and improvisation, this guide looks at the relationship between posture and our emotions.

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Synopsis

Explore and unlock the wisdom of your physical body. Human life means movement. From the day we are born to the day we die, our bodies move, in one way or another, to keep us alive. Movement transmits sensory information about where body parts are and how they feel. When you are hurt, ill or stop moving for other reasons, the neural circuits that transmit sensory and motor information become less effective. Muscles work best when exercised and allowed to move freely. Inaction is an unnatural state for living animals. Even when we are asleep the chest rises and falls, the blood circulates, the heart is pumping and a myriad of other activities integral to human survival are taking place. The author looks at physical characteristics like posture, focus, weight, touch etc as topics for self investigation. Each chapter is devoted to one of these aspects as they show the wisdom the body shared with the whole self. Exercises - physical and mental ones - at the end of each chapter will stimulate your self-knowledge, and if you're not careful, might even get you moving if you have not done so for a while!

Drawing on such diverse disciplines as hatha yoga, dance and improvisation, tai chi, psycho-calisthenics, aikido and other relaxation techniques, "Bodylessons" encourages you to consider, to sense, and to feel what it is like to live in a physical body - and enjoy it!

Edition details

• Publisher: Kaminn Media Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844090620
• ISBN 13: 9781844090624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160