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Awareness through movement : easy-to-do health exercises to improve your posture, vision, imagination, and personal awareness  Cover Image Book Book

Awareness through movement : easy-to-do health exercises to improve your posture, vision, imagination, and personal awareness / Moshe Feldenkrais.

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  • ISBN: 9780062503220 :
  • Physical Description: 173 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper One, c1977, 1990.
Subject: Exercise.
Motor ability.
Self-perception.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Emily Carr University of Art + Design RA781 .F44 1977 (Text) 30232186 Book Volume hold Available -

Part I: Understanding While Doing 3(54)
Preface
3(7)
The Self-Image
10(15)
Strata of Development
25(5)
Where to Begin and How
30(10)
Structure and Function
40(9)
The Direction of Progress
49(8)
Part II: Doing to Understand: Twelve Practical Lessons 57(115)
General Observations 57(6)
Some Practical Hints 63(3)
Lesson 1 What Is Good Posture?
66(19)
Lesson 2 What Action Is Good?
85(6)
Lesson 3 Some Fundamental Properties of Movement
91(9)
Lesson 4 Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing
100(9)
Lesson 5 Coordination of the Flexor Muscles and of the Extensors
109(6)
Lesson 6 Differentiation of Pelvic Movements by Means of an Imaginary Clock
115(8)
Lesson 7 The Carriage of the Head Affects the State of the Musculature
123(7)
Lesson 8 Perfecting the Self-Image
130(9)
Lesson 9 Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action
139(6)
Lesson 10 The Movement of the Eyes Organizes the Movement of the Body
145(10)
Lesson 11 Becoming Aware of Parts of Which We Are Not Conscious with the Help of Those of Which We Are Conscious
155(7)
Lesson 12 Thinking and Breathing
162(10)
Postscript 172
Illustrations follow page 108


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