The Potent Self

Author : Moshe Feldenkrais
Publisher : Frog Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1583940685

Get Book

The Potent Self by Moshe Feldenkrais Pdf

Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., a visionary scientist who pioneered the field of mind-body education and therapy, has inspired countless people worldwide. His ability to translate his theories on human function into action resulted in the creation of his technique, now known as the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. In The Potent Self, Feldenkrais delves deeply into the relationship between faulty posture, pain, and the underlying emotional mechanisms that lead to compulsive and dependent human behavior. He shares remarkable insights into resistance, motivation, habit formation, and the place of sex in full human potential. The Potent Self offers Feldenkrais' vision of how to achieve physical and mental wellness through the development of authentic maturity. This edition includes and extensive Forward by Mark Reese, a longtime student of Feldenkrais, in which Reese discusses many of the important ideas in the book and places them in the context of Feldenkrais' life and the intellectual and historical milieu of his time.

Author : Moshé Feldenkrais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Feldenkrais method
ISBN : OCLC:1036787538

Get Book

The Potent Self by Moshé Feldenkrais Pdf

Author : Moshé Feldenkrais
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Anxiety
ISBN : 0415210755

Get Book

Body and Mature Behaviour by Moshé Feldenkrais Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Michael Reed Gach, PhD
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307794031

Get Book

Acupressure's Potent Points by Michael Reed Gach, PhD Pdf

With your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches, pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health, and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that, in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing processes. With this book, it is a skill you can learn now--and use in your own home. In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder and director of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simple techniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes, depression, and more--using the power and sensitivity of your own hands. This practical guide covers more than forty ailments and symptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function. Acupressure complements conventional medical care, and enables you to take a vital role in becoming well and staying well. With this book you can turn your hands into healing tools--and start feeling good now.

Author : Moshe Feldenkrais
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0062503200

Get Book

The Potent Self by Moshe Feldenkrais Pdf

Based in physics, Moshe Feldenkraiss Awareness through Movement helps practitioners extend range of movement and gain relaxation, poise, and balance. Including illustrations, this approachable book provides the underpinnings of his work, with emphasis on emotional and neuromuscular linkages.

Author : Moshe Feldenkrais
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623173357

Get Book

The Elusive Obvious by Moshe Feldenkrais Pdf

The classic text on the relationship between movement, learning, and health—from the scientist and martial artist whose revolutionary exercise therapy techniques promote health, vitality, and lasting pain relief. The two main strands of the Feldenkrais Method—Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration—are now known by many around the world for reducing pain and anxiety, cultivating vitality, and improving performance. The Elusive Obvious presents a thorough explanation of the Moshe Feldenkrais’ revolutionary exercise therapy system, revealing how the solutions to many of our problems are hidden in plain sight. Hailed as one Moshe Feldenkrais’ most accessible texts on the body and healthy functioning, this beautiful new edition is ready to be treasured by an emerging generation of somatic practitioners, movement teachers, performing artists, and anyone interested in self-improvement and healing.

Author : Lesley McLennan,Julie Peck
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781623175092

Get Book

Moving from the Inside Out by Lesley McLennan,Julie Peck Pdf

Seven powerful principles for better, more easeful movement--a Feldenkrais approach. More often than not, we move through life focused on results or where we're going, rarely paying attention to how we move until we experience pain or need to learn a new skill or perform at an elite level. But movement isn't just about getting things done or getting from here to there: at its essence, it's an integration of thinking, sensing, and feeling with action such that to change one part changes the whole. This book is written for those times when we don't need quick fixes, bandaids, or shortcuts to solve an immediate problem, but can instead dedicate time and attention to explore, laying the foundation to become experts in our own body and movement patterns for long-lasting positive growth. Moving from the Inside Out shows us how to resolve complex movement issues, balance stability and instability, increase power and precision, and explore our own movement using innate learning strategies. Written for practitioners, movement therapists, and somatic teachers and students, the curious athlete or casual learner will also find much to gain in learning the practical and accessible fundamentals of movement. Authors Lesley McLennan and Julie Peck introduce seven core principles that address: The dynamic balance between instability and stability How to move with ease and grace The secrets of flexibility and support embedded in every musculo-skeletal system How anxiety and curiosity shape our individual developmental sequence How qualities of movement are clues for your investigation The special role of intra-abdominal pressure in our physical and emotional worlds How moving and learning are entwined

Author : Moshe Feldenkrais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Exercise
ISBN : 0140192573

Get Book

Awareness Through Movement by Moshe Feldenkrais Pdf

Author : Moshe Feldenkrais
Publisher : Blue Snake Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781556439278

Get Book

Higher Judo by Moshe Feldenkrais Pdf

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais is best known for pioneering the somatic therapy that bears his name. Less well known is that he was also one of the earliest European practitioners of the martial art of judo and wrote a number of influential texts on the subject. Primary among these is Higher Judo, first published in 1952 and now reprinted with a new foreword that offers useful context and elaborates on Feldenkrais’ comprehensive—and still timely—approach to the martial art and to the body. Judo was a natural choice for Feldenkrais’s fascination with body/mind exploration and how to promote optimal functioning through awareness. In Higher Judo, he presents judo as the art of using all parts of the body to promote general health, and as part of the “basic culture of the body.” He reveals judo’s potential for creating a sense of rhythm of movement and improving mental and physical coordination. Higher Judo covers specific movements and positions—the astride position, the six o’clock approach, falling techniques—in both the text and the clear line drawings. Even more importantly, it shows how such groundwork can help practitioners develop their mental and physical awareness to their full potential.

Author : Amanda Seales
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781683354949

Get Book

Small Doses by Amanda Seales Pdf

This “one-of-a-kind read” offers insightful essays, poignant life advice, and pithy pearls of wisdom from the comedian and star of HBO’s Insecure (Entertainment Weekly). Anyone who has seen Amanda Seales’s acclaimed stand-up special I Be Knowin, her long-running TV series Insecure, or her groundbreaking gameshow Smart Funny & Black, knows that this woman is a force of nature. In both life and career, she has fearlessly and passionately charted her own course. Now she’s bringing her life’s lessons and laughs to the page with her signature blend of academic intellectualism, Black American colloquialisms, and pop culture fanaticism. This volume of essays, axioms, original illustrations, and photos provides Seales’s trademark “self-help from the hip” style of commentary, fueled by ideology formed from her own victories, struggles, research, mistakes, risks, and pay-offs. Unapologetic, fiercely funny, and searingly honest, Small Doses engages, empowers, and enlightens readers on how to find their truths while still finding the funny!

Author : Moshé Feldenkrais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Brain
ISBN : UVA:X000657410

Get Book

The Case of Nora by Moshé Feldenkrais Pdf

Author : Ken Woods
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780595192366

Get Book

The Blemishing of the Potent Child by Ken Woods Pdf

Innovative theory addresses previously impossible psychotherapeutic impasses. Advances in clinical theory provide useful new tools that protect both patient and therapist.

Author : Wolf Wondratschek
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374720278

Get Book

Self-Portrait with Russian Piano by Wolf Wondratschek Pdf

A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek “is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic—his texts are imbued with a wonderful, reckless nonchalance.”* Now, he tells a story of a man looking back on his life in an honest Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Vienna is an uncanny, magical, and sometimes brutally alienating city. The past lives on in the cafes where lost souls come to kill time and hash over the bygone glories of the twentieth century—or maybe just a recent love affair. Here, in one of these cafes, an anonymous narrator meets a strange character, “like someone out of a novel”: a decrepit old Russian named Suvorin. A Soviet pianist of international renown, Suvorin committed career suicide when he developed a violent distaste for the sound of applause. This eccentric gentleman—sometimes charming, sometimes sulky, sometimes disconcertingly frank—knows the end of his life is approaching, and allows himself to be convinced to tell his life story. Over a series of coffee dates, punctuated by confessions, anecdotes, and rages—and by the narrator’s schemes to keep his quarry talking—a strained friendship develops between the two men, and it soon becomes difficult to tell who is more dependent on whom. Rhapsodic and melancholic, with shades of Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Hans Keilson, and Thomas Bernhard, Wolf Wondratschek's Self-Portrait with Russian Piano is a literary sonata circling the eternal question of whether beauty, music, and passion are worth the sacrifices some people are compelled to make for them. “A romantic in a madhouse. To let Wondratschek’s voice be drowned in the babble of today’s literature would be a colossal mistake.” —*Patrick Süskind, international bestselling author of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Author : David Goggins
Publisher : David Goggins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781544512266

Get Book

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him "The Fittest (Real) Man in America." In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

Author : Simeon Niel-Asher
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1556437455

Get Book

The Concise Book of Trigger Points by Simeon Niel-Asher Pdf

Most muscular aches and pains are caused or affected by untreated “trigger points,” localized tender spots in muscles. Understanding and treating these points can lead to rapid and lasting pain relief. Trigger point therapy is a powerful tool in the management of both acute and chronic pain, including such common problems as headaches, TMJ syndrome, and back pain. Written in a straightforward style, The Concise Book of Trigger Points is designed for the student and practitioner of massage/bodywork, physical therapy, physiotherapy, osteopathy, sports therapy, and any other health-related field. It functions both as an entry-level textbook and an authoritative reference for even the most experienced therapist. The first four chapters describe the physiology of trigger points and the general methods of treatment. The following six chapters are organized by muscle groups; each two-page spread features detailed color illustrations of each major skeletal muscle, accompanied by an explanation of each muscle’s origin, insertion, action, and function. The physiological implications of the trigger points in each muscle are discussed, along with treatment techniques. This edition contains updated text and a self-help section addressing common pain complaints, including headache, neck pain, shoulder pain, lower back pain, and TMJ syndrome.