Rolfing in Motion

A Guide to Balancing Your Body

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Edition: New Edition of Balancing Your Body audiocassette
Pages: 0
Book Size: 5.5 x 5
ISBN-13: 9781594770746
On Sale Date: July 29, 2005
Format: Compact Disk

This CD presents 38 structural awareness exercises featured in the book, Balancing Your Body. Following an exploration of your habitual standing and walking patterns, a variety of exercises are offered that will help you in standing, sitting, and walking with fluidity and ease, creating new freedom in your physical expression and improving your well-being and overall vitality.

90-minute CD
Companion to the book Balancing Your Body

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Description

Much of what we experience as physical tension or stress is the result of an imbalanced body. In this CD, Mary Bond presents a selection of 26 structural awareness exercises from her book, Balancing Your Body, that teach the listener to recognize and respond in appropriate ways to the body's inner messages. Beginning with an exploration of your habitual standing and walking patterns, these exercises guide the listener through a variety of experiences that contribute to standing, sitting, and walking with fluidity, balance, and ease. This unique self-help program will help to create new freedom in your physical expression and improve your well-being and vitality.

Table of Contents

Introduction (1:00)

Explorations

1: Awareness of Your Habitual Standing and Walking Patterns (4:57)
2: Your Respiratory Pause (2:16)
4: Structural Breathing Awareness (5:11)
5: The Back Half of Your Body (4:39)
6: The Core of Your Body (3:22)
7: Rolling Up to Standing (3:52)
12: Forward Thigh Drops (2:01)
13: Sacral Rolls (5:07)
14: Your Pelvic Floor (3:05)
15: Seated Rocking (2:07)
17: Your Toe Hinge (2:05)
18: Toe and Ankle Integration (2:20)
19: Drawbridge (3:17)
20: Leg Slides (3:19)
21: Sacral Roll, Unfold to Standing, Knee Bends (3:47)
22: Activating Your Suspender Muscles (2:00)
24: Shoulder Support (4:06)
26: Arm Raise and Drop (1:56)
27: Integration of Shoulders and Pelvis (5:13)
28: Tension in Your Face and Jaw (3:02)
29: Cranial Support for Your Face (4:10)
31: Moving from the Back of Your Head (3:13)
33: Blending Qualities of Your Pattern (3:38)
34: Appreciating Your Pattern (2:00)
37: Integrating Bilateral Balance (4:00)
38: Your Spinal Gyroscope (4:53)

TOTAL TIME 92:22

Author Bio

Author Mary Bond trained with Ida P. Rolf and is a certified Rolfer and Rolfing Movement teacher.

Reviews

Book Praise

"This CD is designed to help the listener increase well-being and vitality!"

Lee Prosser, Ghostvillage.com, Oct 2005

Back Cover

BODYWORK

Much of what we experience as physical tension or stress is the result of an imbalanced body. In this CD, Mary Bond presents a selection of 26 structural awareness exercises from her book, Balancing Your Body, that teach the listener to recognize and respond in appropriate ways to the body's inner messages. Beginning with an exploration of your habitual standing and walking patterns, these exercises guide the listener through a variety of experiences that contribute to standing, sitting, and walking with fluidity, balance, and ease. This unique self-help program will help to create new freedom in your physical expression and improve your well-being and vitality.

MARY BOND has a master's degree in dance from UCLA. She trained with Dr. Ida P. Rolf and is a certified Rolfer and Rolfing Movement teacher.