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Trying the Feldenkrais Method for Chronic Pain
By Jane E. Brody
After two hourlong sessions focused first on body awareness and then on movement retraining at the feldenkrais Institute of New York, I understood what it meant to experience an incredible lightness of being. >> CONTINUE READING
The
Method
By Robert Slatkin
Moshe Feldenkrais took the lessons of judo and his experiences in the Haganah and applied them to a philosophy of movement and self-defense that is long on theory and precise about technique.
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Mind Your Body:
Move Freely
By Virginia VanZanten
The Feldenkrais Method improves movement through awareness.
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Guru Moshe
Feldenkrais
Vol. 16 No. 10
His Methods May Seem Bizarre, but Thousands Swear by Mind-Body Guru Moshe Feldenkrais.
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Stretching
Stretching:
The Truth
By Gretchen Reynolds
When Duane Knudson, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. "They're stretching, touching their toes..." He sighs. "It's Discouraging." >> CONTINUE READING
PILATES
Pilates Incorporates Mind and Body
Harvard Women’s Health Watch Article
Pilates body conditioning is one of the most popular forms of exercise today - nearly 500 studios nationwide teach the rigorous exercise discipline developed by Joseph Pilates.
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model
workout
by Samantha Miller
Michelle Hicks is no wimp. When the model isn’t sashaying down catwalks in Milan and Paris or vamping in ads for L’Oréal and Shiseido, she likes to go hiking, ice climbing and windsurfing.
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Building Strength with Graceful Movements
by Melba Newsome
A soft fitness regime can produce a hard body. And fans of Pilates — which focuses on movement, breathing and listening to the body — insist their method is one of the best such regimes.
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YOGA
How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
by William J. Broad
On a cold Saturday in early 2009, Glenn Black, a yoga teacher of nearly four decades, whose devoted clientele includes a number of celebrities and prominent gurus, was giving a master class at Sankalpah Yoga in Manhattan.
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REST
REST AND RECOVERY: WHY ATHLETES NEED IT
By Julie Deardorff, Tribune newspapers
Sage Rountree’s new book, “The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery,” is the kind of book I wish I had when I was seriously competing in triathlons.
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The Science of Mindfulness
Mindful Living - Brain, Body & Benefits
Daniel J. Siegel, MD looks for the “active ingredient” that makes mindfulness so beneficial to our health, psyche, and overall quality of life.
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WHY MEDITATIVE PRACTICE CREATES WELL-BEING IN OUR BODIES AND MINDS
Excerpts and Interview with Dr. Daniel Siegel
Daniel Siegel has accomplished a test that no brain scientist has before or since. A working definition that answers the question “What is mind?”
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WHY TRAINERS SAY, ‘SLOW DOWN’
by Kevin Helliker
When his running coach implored him to take rest days, Bill Carr didn’t listen. Slated to run a 100-mile ultramarathon this month, the 36-year-old cranked up his workouts over the summer, running more and harder miles than his coach recommended.
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