Your Body Mandala: Posture as a Path to Presence 9781545610596, 9781545625576
In Your Body Mandala, Mary Bond, author of The New Rules of Posture, helps you unlock your somatic wisdom and find your
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English Pages 310 Year 2021
Table of contents :
Copyright
Exercises & Practices
Foreword By Thomas Myers
Preface
Embodiment as a Practice
Part I: Orienting
1. Fascia: Organ of Embodiment
2. Negotiating with Gravity
3. Sensing Space
4. Moving in Space
Part II: Deepening
5. Exercises for Interoception
6. Healthy Breathing
7. Exercises for Interoception
8. Sentient Foundations
9. Your Spine is Not a Column
10. Tensegrity Tower
11. The Lid on your Spine
Part III: Practicing
12. Embodying Tensegrity in Motion
13. Embodying Tensegrity in Stillness
14. Everyday Embodiment
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
Copyright
Exercises & Practices
Foreword By Thomas Myers
Preface
Embodiment as a Practice
Part I: Orienting
1. Fascia: Organ of Embodiment
2. Negotiating with Gravity
3. Sensing Space
4. Moving in Space
Part II: Deepening
5. Exercises for Interoception
6. Healthy Breathing
7. Exercises for Interoception
8. Sentient Foundations
9. Your Spine is Not a Column
10. Tensegrity Tower
11. The Lid on your Spine
Part III: Practicing
12. Embodying Tensegrity in Motion
13. Embodying Tensegrity in Stillness
14. Everyday Embodiment
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Author
- Commentary
- practical contemplative practice, resource for movement teachers and manual therapists, as well as all who seek a holistic understanding of posture.
