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Pelvic Power: Mind/Body Exercises for Strength, Flexibility, Posture, and Balance for Men and Women
: :Combining scientific principles with movement and imagery exercises that are both effective and fun, this book demonstrates how to create a stronger body by toning the pelvic floor. Focusing on the biomechanics of the pelvic floor, which acts as a support for the inner organs and contains a passage for the urethra, the sex organs, and the rectum, this guide shows how the pelvic floor plays an important role in almost all movements, balance, and body posture. The exercises train the muscles and joints and improve the tone of the ...
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Relax Your Neck, Liberate Your Shoulders: The Ultimate Exercise Program for Tension Relief
: :This work, based on an established technique already used by athletes and teachers of dance called ideokinesis, is about how to transfer pain permanently into well-being. We're stressed out and have no time. And, once again, our necks are sore and our shoulders are tense. What can we do to become more permanently flexible, and to face daily challenges more calmly and without tension. The exercises in this book developed by Eric Franklin make it possible to become loose and relaxed in a playful way, and to discover increased lightness ...
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Conditioning for Dance
: :This volume features 102 imagery exercises paired with dance-specific exercises to help maximize body-mind conditioning and develop more fluid mobility, balance, and tension release. The book culminates with a 20-minute, full-body barre workout routine designed to help dancers warm up, condition, and refine their dance technique. You'll learn how to execute lifelong dance skills that give power without the risk of injuries. By working the muscles through movements and ranges of motion that approximate the demands of your chosen dance form, you directly enrich your performance capabilities. And as you ...
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
: :A reference text that explains how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release excess tension. Part I discusses the origins and uses of imagery and includes exercises that demonstrate imagery in practice. Part II explains the biomechanical and anatomical principles behind complex imagery and uses exercises to illustrate these principles. Part III provides anatomical imagery exercises to help fine tune alignments and increase body awareness. A further 25 imagery exercises are provided in Part IV to help sculpt and improve alignment.
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Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance
: :Whether used alone or as a companion to Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, which establishes a foundation for the techniques described here, this unique guide shows you how to combine technical expertise with imagery skills to enrich your expressive repertoire. This versatile text and reference provides 583 imagery exercises designed to improve dance technique, artistic expression, and performance. More than 160 illustrations highlight images and exercises you can put to use immediately in your movements and choreography. Part I explores using imagery with improvisation. You’ll find 195 exercises centered on the ...
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Inner Focus, Outer Strength: Using Imagery and Exericse for Health, Strength and Beauty
: :The mental technique of imagery—demonstrated, for example, when a dancer pictures a sunflower reaching toward the sun as he/she stretches upward—is thoroughly explained in this guide to daily stress-relieving routines. Movement, coordination, flexibility, and posture are discussed as external characteristics that can be improved significantly with a strong inner focus, and the same conclusion is reached in chapters on the benefits of good mental health for circulation, breathing, and even individual body cells. Practical advice proceeds from this background information, including how to choose and use an assortment of personal mental images, how to use tricks such as 'mental recycling,' and how ...
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Beautiful Body, Beautiful Mind: The Power of Positive Imagery: Over 80 Exercises and a 10-Day Beauty Program
: :Emphasizing lifestyle and mental attitude rather than surgery, creams, or pills, this fantastic manual is the key to staying young through mental stimulation, self-talk, setting of goals, motivation, and relaxation. The revolutionary Franklin Method of health proposes that living healthily is mostly a question of habits and that these habits are mirrored in the quality of our thoughts and in our daily life. Focusing on methods of concentration, measured breathing, and the power of imagination, this program provides a selection of different mental techniques from the Franklin Method designed to produce ...
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Trauma Practice: Tools For Stabilization And Recovery
: :Written to help guide clinicians through the maze of trauma treatment, this practical manual is effectively a structured tool-kit of techniques and protocols to assist therapists in their challenging work with trauma survivors. With an emphasis upon cognitive-behavioral interventions, it provides resources and guidance for any psychotherapist working with any client. The manual is divided into three main sections, corresponding to Herman's (1992) Triphasic Model - Safety & Stabilization, Remembrance & Mourning, and Reconnection. For each of the three phases, it presents an array of techniques, protocols, and interventions, described ...
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Breakdance
: :Written to help guide clinicians through the maze of trauma treatment, this practical manual is effectively a structured tool-kit of techniques and protocols to assist therapists in their challenging work with trauma survivors. With an emphasis upon cognitive-behavioral interventions, it provides resources and guidance for any psychotherapist working with any client. The manual is divided into three main sections, corresponding to Herman's (1992) Triphasic Model - Safety & Stabilization, Remembrance & Mourning, and Reconnection. For each of the three phases, it presents an array of techniques, protocols, and interventions, described ...
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Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century: The Science Of Ecosytem Management
from: Island Press
: :Over the past decade, a sea change has occurred in the field of forestry. A vastly increased understanding of how ecological systems function has transformed the science from one focused on simplifying systems, producing wood, and managing at the stand-level to one concerned with understanding and managing complexity, providing a wide range of ecological goods and services, and managing across broad landscapes.'Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century' is an authoritative and multidisciplinary examination of the current state of forestry and its relation to the emergent field of ecosystem management. ...
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