Holderness, New Hampshire USA
How
Life Moves
Explorations
in Meaning and Body Awareness
by Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank
In
How Life Moves, Caryn McHose and
Kevin Frank present a comprehensive movement program,
using the story of biological evolution—from the single cell to the human being—as
a creative tool to increase strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Through
a series of perceptual exercises, you will learn to “unlearn” self-defeating
body habits. These evolutionary explorations revive the body’s native intelligence,
fostering new movements and pathways to overcome musculoskeletal complaints
including lower back, shoulder, and neck pain.
Published by North Atlantic Books
Read a review . . .
by Jacqueline Carlton
Phd, a psychiatrist and former
editor of the Journal for the US Association of Body Psychotherapists in the
Fall 2006 edition of the USABP newsletter.
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Japanese translation
Read a translation of the first two chapters
of How Life Moves in Japanese.
Click Here for Chapter 1.
Click Here for Chapter 2.
Discover the physiology and psychology behind posture, movement, and your relationship to the natural world.
"a
visual delight with art and drawings depicting biology and evolution,
interspersed with a woman
in sensuous movement"
Susan Harper,
International teacher of
Continuum Movement
"This renewed acquaintance with the body's deepest history
moves the reader beyond the artificial separation of body and mind."
Mary Catherine Bateson, PhD,
Cultural Anthropologist, author of Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal
Discovery
"…well thought out and highly articulate voice for a moving scenario that enriches all of our lives."
Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum
Movement
"How Life Moves is an invitation to viscerally immerse ourselves in the creativity of the universe. …an experiential, evolutionary journey of life on our planet…"
Brian Swimme, PhD, author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story
How Life Moves explains
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Why we move the way we do
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What the animal kingdom and the story of biological evolution can teach us about our bodies
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How to evoke movement that facilitates core strength
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Why we develop pain and stiffness as we age and whether this is inevitable
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How yoga, Pilates, tai chi, structural integration, Feldenkrais Method®, and the Alexander Technique work and why these traditions are helpful for some people, less so for others
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What body therapists need to know about the origin and rehabilitation of confused coordination
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The role imagination plays in learning and how healing is a creative event
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The importance of curiosity and inquiry in somatic practice
How Life Moves is available for order from:
1 - Directly from
Resources In Movement.
Please Email us at orders@resourcesinmovement.com
or call 603-968-9585 Monday through Friday between 9am and 6pm Eastern Time.
Price is $22.95 plus shipping.
2 - Your local bookseller.
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3 - Online - Go to Amazon.com (Click to the right)
About the Authors
Caryn McHose has taught creative movement for over thirty-five years. She developed the experiential anatomy course at Middlebury College, which became the basis of Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy, a book she collaborated on with Andrea Olsen. McHose co-founded the RK training in perceptual skills for somatic practitioners in Burlington, Vermont, and uses biodynamic cranial-sacral and Somatic Experiencing® techniques in her private practice.
Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer and Rolfing® movement practitioner who also teaches Rolf Institute® and IASI CE approved courses. He assisted Toni Packer in founding the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats in Springwater, New York.
Frank and McHose created and currently run Resources in Movement, a center for movement inquiry in Holderness, New Hampshire, where they live.