Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness though the Feldenkrais method. In his best seller Awareness Through Movement, people of every age have learned to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkais provides a modern-day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. Its down-to-earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes; imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensons of awarenesss, self-awareness, self-image, and human potential.

Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) is world renowned for the system of body-awareness and exercises he developed during his lifetime. He is the author of The Body and Mature Behavior, The Elusive Obvious, The Potent Self, and The Case of Nora. He originated the Awareness-Through-Movement method for increased health and heightened sensory awareness.

Contents

Part I: Understanding while doing
Preface
The self-image
Strata of development
Where to begin and how
Structure and function
The direction of progress
Part II: Doing to understand: Twelve practical lessons
General observations
Some practical hints
Lesson 1 What is good posture?
Lesson 2 What action is good?
Lesson 3 Some fundamental properties of movement
Lesson 4 Differentiation of parts and functions in breathing
Lesson 5 Coordiation of the flexor muscles and of the extensors
Lesson 6 Differentiation of pelvic movements by means of an imaginary clock
Lesson 7 The carriage of the head affects the state of the musculature
Lesson 8 Perfecting the self-image
Lesson 9 Spatial relationships as a means to coordinated action
Lesson 10 The movement of the eyes organizes the movement of the body
Lesson 11 Becoming aware of parts of which we are not conscious with the help of those of which we are conscious
Lesson 12 Thinking and breathing
Postscript
Illustrations follow page 108

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> « Si, allongé(e) sur le dos, nous essayons de sentir systématiquement tout notre corps –
en portant notre attention sur chaque membre et chaque partie du corps – nous
constaterons que certaines parties sont très sensibles, tandis que d’autres restent
muettes ou insensibles ou inaccessibles à notre conscience. »
—Moshe Feldenkrais, Energie et bien-être par le mouvement, Dangle, 1993.

> ENERGIE ET BIEN-ETRE PAR LE MOUVEMENT, de Moshe Feldenkrais (Ed. Dangles - Format 15 x 21 cm - 216 pages - Illustré). — Né en 1904, Moshe Feldenkrais est mondialement connu pour le système de conscientisation du corps qu’il a mis au point et pour les exercices qu’il a développés à partir de son expérience.
Des milliers de personnes ont retrouvé une bonne santé et découvert une hygiène de vie profitable grâce à la méthode Feldenkrais.
“Energie et bien-être par le mouvement” offre une voie d’harmonisation du corps et de l’esprit dans une nouvelle globalité de conscience. Il s’agit d’une technique originale et moderne. Evitant tout débordement mystique ou toute théorie abstraite, elle a comme but de parvenir à une conscience équilibrée du corps et à une image juste de soi.
Nos actes, nos habitudes, nos pensées, nos sentiments, nos sensations, toute notre existence sont régis, dans leurs moindres mouvements, par l’image que nous nous faisons de nous-même. Conditionnée à divers degrés par l’hérédité et l’éducation sociale, cette image tend à être réduite, modelée selon les valeurs subjectives de chacun. Car c’est en se figeant dans ces schémas “conformistes” que naissent les tensions, les douleurs et, finalement, les réels problèmes de santé.
Essentiellement pratique, l’ouvrage de Moshe Feldenkrais propose des exercices de mouvements corporels. Plus qu’une gymnastique de détente, ces gestes simples et faciles à exécuter sont destinés à améliorer la conscience, l’attitude, la vision et l’imagination du corps. Ils ont été conçus pour favoriser de meilleurs réflexes et habitudes corporels, de nouvelles dimensions d’éveil à soi-même et de construction de l’image de soi.
Apprendre ainsi à corriger des programmes physiques et psychiques qui, a priori, peuvent paraître inamovibles, permet de développer toutes nos capacités en repoussant les limites fictives qui les emprisonnent.
La conscience, écrit l’auteur, est la plus haute étape du développement humain, et plus elle approche de l’intégralité, plus elle permet d’exercer un contrôle harmonieux sur toute l’activité corporelle.
Clairement expliquée, à l’aide de nombreuses illustrations, la méthode Feldenkrais s’adresse à tous, pour retrouver et épanouir son bien-être, pour libérer, dans la créativité, tout son potentiel énergétique. (D.P.)
—Revue Viniyoga, Juin 1994

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais technique as explained in Awareness Through Movement. This new, illustrated edition now enables every reader to perform the exercises of the Feldenkrais method without individual instruction.These innovative exercises are a modern-day practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. They differ substantially from methods they may appear to resemble, like yoga exercises. There is no mystic component in this down-to-earth teaching, nor is the pupil obliged to master abstruse theories.The author demonstrates that nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. He offers people of every age a way of integrating physical and mental development in a new, invigorating wholeness. These illustrated, easy exercises expand the boundaries of human possibility. Exercises for the posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and bring into focus new dimensions in awareness, self-image, and human potential.

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais technique as explained in Awareness Through Movement. This new, illustrated edition now enables every reader to perform the exercises of the Feldenkrais method without individual instruction.These innovative exercises are a modern-day practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. They differ substantially from methods they may appear to resemble, like yoga exercises. There is no mystic component in this down-to-earth teaching, nor is the pupil obliged to master abstruse theories.The author demonstrates that nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. He offers people of every age a way of integrating physical and mental development in a new, invigorating wholeness. These illustrated, easy exercises expand the boundaries of human possibility. Exercises for the posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and bring into focus new dimensions in awareness, self-image, and human potential.

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais technique as explained in Awareness Through Movement. This new, illustrated edition now enables every reader to perform the exercises of the Feldenkrais method without individual instruction.These innovative exercises are a modern-day practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body. They differ substantially from methods they may appear to resemble, like yoga exercises. There is no mystic component in this down-to-earth teaching, nor is the pupil obliged to master abstruse theories.The author demonstrates that nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. He offers people of every age a way of integrating physical and mental development in a new, invigorating wholeness. These illustrated, easy exercises expand the boundaries of human possibility. Exercises for the posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and bring into focus new dimensions in awareness, self-image, and human potential.