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This
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And The Feldenkrais Method® on
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Dear
Friends,
We
are happy to announce the addition of Mary Spire's
Optimal Moves® CDs and Downloads
to AchievingExcellence.com
Plus
the Feldenkrais Method®
in the News - HuffingtonPost writer discusses
his experience of the Feldenkrais Method®.
And
we have listed some other great products for your
selection:
Trilogy Vol. 1-3: Special Offer!
Método Feldenkrais®
CDs, descarga, y artículos en español
Falling...
Creating Effortless Posture
Riding with the Whole Self
Pelvic Health and Awareness
The San Francisco Evening Class
A Guide to Body Sense Vol. 1
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Your
posture, coordination, breathing and balance will
improve as you learn to move in new and gentle
ways, with the pleasure, power, joy and spontaneity
of a child. Your movement in everyday activities
will expand as you gain flexibility, stability,
and mobility.
Mary's audio programs are suitable for levels
of all interest - from those new to the Feldenkrais
Method® to those experienced with body
awareness practices as well as Practitioners and
Trainees of the Feldenkrais Method®. |
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Increasing
Your Mobility and Flexibility
by Mary Spire
This basic set of 30-45 minute Feldenkrais®
lessons is ideal for beginners, older adults and
those with neurological conditions. With these
gentle, easy and potent movement lessons, you
will experience sitting comfortably, rolling from
your back to your side effortlessly and freer
breathing.
Feldenkrais®
Lessons Included:
- Rolling
effortlessly - Lying on your side,
elongating your arm and rolling onto your back
- Pelvic
Clock - Lying on your back: increasing
the power of your pelvis
- Freeing
your shoulders, neck and pelvis - Lying
on your back: move your pelvis and shoulders
in opposite directions
- Sitting
comfortably - Flexing and extending
your spine while sitting
- Turning
easily - Turning and rotating your
head, shoulders and spine while sitting
- Freeing
your jaw - Exploring the connection
between movements of the pelvis and freedom
of the jaw
6 Beginning Feldenkrais®
Lessons, CDs in a Binder or Download, List Price:
$40.00. Your Price:
$36.00 w/coupon.
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Five
Intermediate Awareness Through Movement®
Lessons
by Mary Spire
With these innovative and potent movement lessons,
you will experience greater mobility, freedom
and flexibility in your back, spine, pelvis, neck
and shoulders, expanded, easier and fuller breathing,
and more freedom and choices in movement as you
learn to feel and move in new and optimal ways.
Feldenkrais®
Lessons Included:
- Free
your chest and enhance your breathing
- Lying on your back: Increase the mobility
between your chest, pelvis, hip joints and spine
as you explore and expand your breathing
- Increase
the mobility of your spine - Lying
on your stomach: Learn to lie comfortably as
your spine, pelvis, neck and head become more
mobile and flexible
- Expand
your breathing - Lying on your back:
mobilize, twist and bend your spine, pelvis
and shoulder girdle while expanding your breathing
in varying positions
- Free
your shoulders chest and pelvis - Lying
on your side: organize your back and pelvis
to free your arms, shoulders, chest and neck
- Improve
the use of your arms, neck and back while sitting
- Sitting in a chair engage the power
of your back and pelvis to optimally use your
hands, arms, shoulders and neck with ease, enhanced
awareness and a minimum of effort
5 Intermediate Feldenkrais®
Lessons, CDs in a Binder or Download, List Price:
$45.00. Your Price:
$40.50 w/coupon.
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Effortless
Use of the Arms and Hands Vol. 1: Five Awareness
Through Movement® Lessons for Musicians
and Computer Keyboard Users
by Mary Spire
These innovative and potent movement lessons focus
on how to use the powerful, strong muscles of
the lower back and pelvis to free the neck and
shoulders, thus reducing the strain in the arms,
fingers and wrists. These lessons are especially
beneficial for musicians, for people who work
at computer keyboards and for anyone who wishes
to improve the use of their arms and hands. By
improving posture, breathing, coordination and
thinking as you learn to move in new ways, you
can prevent injury and improve your performance
skills.
Feldenkrais®
Lessons Included:
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Lengthening the Spine - On the back,
rocking movements connect the head and pelvis
while softening the rib cage
- Increasing
Mobility of the Chest - On hands and
knees, flexing and extending the spine
- Rolling
Fists - In three positions, increasing
the mobility of shoulders, arms and wrists
- Flying
Lesson - On the belly, extending arms
with bent wrists
- Dominant
Hand - On the back, delicate and subtle
movements of fingers, wrists and arm dramatically
reduce chronic tension throughout the body
5 Feldenkrais®
Lessons,
CDs in a Binder or Download, List Price: 48.00.
Your Price: $43.20
w/coupon.
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Effortless
Use of the Arms and Hands Vol. 2: Five Awareness
Through Movement® Lessons for Musicians
and Computer Keyboard Users
by Mary Spire
These advanced lessons are recommended for those
with prior Feldenkrais Method experience
and focus on how to use the powerful, strong muscles
of the lower back and pelvis to free the neck
and shoulders, thus reducing the strain in the
arms, fingers and wrists. These lessons are especially
beneficial for musicians, for people who work
at computer keyboards and for anyone who wishes
to improve the use of their arms and hands. By
improving posture, breathing, coordination and
thinking as you learn to move in new ways, you
can prevent injury and improve your performance
skills.
Feldenkrais®
Lessons Included:
- Lengthening
Arms and Legs - On the back and side,
coordinate your breathing with lengthening your
arms, legs and spine
- Increasing
Mobility of the Spine and Chest - On
the back and stomach, tilt legs and twist spine
- Hands
Behind - On the back, differentiate
the movements of your shoulders, chest and spine
while rolling your pelvis
- Opposing
Movements of Shoulder Girdle, Head and Pelvis
- On the side, differentiate the movements between
the arm and head, chest and pelvis
- Extending
Arms and Knees - On the side, twist,
soften and mobilize your rib cage to free your
arms, shoulders, neck and pelvis
5 Feldenkrais®
Lessons,
CDs in a Binder or Download, List Price: $48.
Your Price: $43.20
w/coupon.
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Freedom
and Carriage of Your Head - Advanced
by Mary Spire
The focus of this audio program
is freeing your head, neck, jaw and breathing.
These three inter-related lessons explore the
relationships of intention, imagination and action
- and the resulting evolving freedom and choices
in your movement and thinking.
This
program is advanced is recommended only for people
with prior experience with Felenkrais® Awarensess
Through Movement® lessons.
Feldenkrais®
Lessons Included:
- Flex
and extend your spine, free your tongue and
jaw - On the back, belly and sitting:
free your neck, tongue and jaw while bending
and extending your spine
- Lengthen
your arms to free your chest, shoulders and
pelvis - On the back and belly: re-organize
your chest and spine as you lengthen your arms
- Roll
your head and pelvis - In three positions:
roll your head in-between your hands and roll
your pelvis
3 Feldenkrais®
Lessons,
Download, List Price: $30. Your
Price: $27.00 w/coupon.
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The
Feldenkrais Method® in the News |
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Falling
For Feldenkrais®: A Patient's Progress
by Michael Sigman, Posted: June 16, 2010 10:30 AM
For an obsessive swimmer who craves the endorphins,
the past two years of failed therapies for a bum
shoulder have been a bummer. I've been acupunctured,
acupressured, cracked, Rolfed, electro-stimulated,
nutritionized, lasered, therapized, osteopathed,
hypnotized, rheumatologized, cortisoned, massaged,
medicated, iced, heated, surgerized and more. Much
more.
All these treatments have yielded benefits, except
for the "much pain, no gain" neck-wrenchings of
a certain Dr. Hertz. Our brief relationship ended
when, after waiting an hour, I was asked to reschedule
an appointment because Donald Sutherland had arrived.
I love Donald - he was a super doctor in M*A*S*H!
- but not that much. I would happily have stepped
aside for his son Kiefer, a.k.a. 24's Jack Bauer,
though, so he could save civilization as we know
it before the next commercial break. Continue
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Feldenkrais®:
Everything You 'Know' About Healing May Be Dead
Wrong
by Michael Sigman, Posted: June 24, 2010 09:24 AM
When I told her that cross-training on the exercise
bike only added hip joint stiffness to my chronic
shoulder pain, my Pilates instructor was incredulous.
"Don't you get it?" she asked. "Your body is telling
you to stretch out those aching muscles and tendons."
This made sense to me. But when Feldenkrais®
practitioner/physical therapist Stacy Barrows encouraged
me to attend her class - which, I imagined, would
be all about the stretch - I was wary. Our individual
sessions were going well, but classes tend to induce
peer pressure, and I worried about vigorous pulling
on a still-tender area.
The class blew my mind. Virtually all we did was
open and close our left hands as slowly as humanly
possible. Okay, there was one other thing: imagining
we were doing the same with our right hands.
It helped. Continue
Reading . . .
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Trilogy
Vol. 1-3: Special Offer
By Larry Goldfarb
Order
all three sets and save!
During
The Trilogy’s three segments, not only will you
do Awareness Through Movement® and practice
Functional Integration® (FI), but you’ll
investigate and apply pertinent concepts, deepen
your capacity to observe yourself and others,
and develop new abilities in guiding others’ learning.
You will develop a new appreciation of your competence,
realize how your teaching approach works and how
it limits you, expand your choices, enhance your
sensory acuity, deepen your understanding of the
Method, and become a better practitioner.
Vol.
1: Bridging the Gap presents ways
of spanning this rift between moving and speaking,
doing and explaining, so that your students grasp
their lessons in practical, concrete ways.
Vol.
2: Inside Touch reveals the repertoire
of FI - from skeletal contact, directional touch,
kinesthetic conversation, the listening hand,
and tactile tracking to the most advanced techniques.
Vol.
3: A Course of Change introduces
new, comprehensive ways of understanding how lessons
work. These systemic maps specify how we create
the conditions for learning, chart the complete
span of compositional structure that underlie
lessons and spell out Feldenkrais teaching
tactics.
List
Price: $975.00, Buy Together: $875.
Apply the coupon and save another 10%:
Your
Price: $787.50 w/coupon.
If
you have purchased Vol. 1 or 2 and you wish to
upgrade to the full set, email Al by replying
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Viviendo
el Cuerpo - CD o Descargar
por Lea Kaufman
Viviendo el cuerpo te propone emprender un viaje
a ti
mismo a través del movimiento. Practicando
el Método
Feldenkrais® de Educación Somática
aprendes a
percibirte en movimiento. De esta forma comprendes
el modo en que haces lo que haces, recuperas la
experiencia en el cuerpo vivido y su capacidad
de reeducarse, aprendes a diferenciar los patrones
de
movimientos sanos de los que no lo son, pudiendo
generar nuevas opciones de movimiento y de acción,
viviendo así una vida más placentera.
Beneficios de la práctica de estas
lecciones:
Reduce
del nivel de estrés, la tensión
y la
fatiga
• Expande la autoconciencia y la autoimagen
• Aumenta y mejora flexibilidad,
coordinación, y destrezas
• Acelera la curación de lesiones
y ayuda
prevenirlas
• Reduce y/o libera dolores crónicos
• Incrementa la confianza en el propio
organismo y la autoestima
• Aumenta el bienestar físico y
emocional.
Artículos
sobre el Método Feldenkrais®:
•
Bienestar
en Movimiento Por Ernesto Cortés
• Re-incorporándome
a mí mismo, Cartografía de una
intervención basada en el Método
Feldenkrais® Por Lea Kaufman
6
lecciones de Feldenkrais®, 3 CDs
con folletos, lista de precios: $55.00 dólares,
su precio: $49.50
w/cupón. Descarga, Lista
de precios: 30,00 dólares, su precio: $27.00
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Falling...
by: Alan Questel
This
audio program will explore the theme of falling.
What is the relationship between falling and safety,
risk, creativity, enhanced abilities and a life
that is a little bit easier? Through Feldenkrais®
Awareness Through Movement® we will look
at the benefits we may derive from a deeper understanding
and experience of falling. If the idea of falling
concerns you, be assured that no demands will
be placed on you that are beyond your abilities.
This audio program is geared towards participants
of all levels of experience with Feldenkrais®
Awareness Through Movement® and of all
ages who are seeking a more familiar relationship
with the floor that carries us.
Listen
to the Introduction

7 Feldenkrais® lessons with discussions.
4 CDs or Download. $60.00, Your
Price: $54.00
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Creating
Effortless Posture: Let Gravity Do the Work
by Erin Ferguson, M.A., GCFP
What if you were willing to let go absolutely?
What would hold you up?
First you have to feel what support really is.
Then you can do the big stuff in life.
In these two CDs, Erin Ferguson will present “The
Magic Roller Lessons.” These are gentle,
powerful Awareness Through Movement®
lessons that awaken your ability to sense an unhindered
transmission of force through your bones to the
ground. To do these lessons, you will need two
thick blankets, space to lie on the floor, and
a bath towel.
The movements are easy, accessible and suitable
for all levels - from those in chronic pain to
high performance athletes. The challenge will
be in trusting yourself to make new adjustments
to gravity as you sense greater possibilities
for support.
Contents:
•
A Flexible Spine
• Releasing the Neck
• Easy Shoulders
• Fluid Low Back
• Note
on Posture - Listen Now

4
Feldenkrais® Lessons, 2 CDs in a
binder or Download, $26.00.
Your
Price: $23.40 w/coupon. |
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Riding
with the Whole Self
by Paris Kern
Equestrians
of all skill levels will find this program innovative,
fun, educational and effective for improving their
skill, recovering from injury or simply riding
more comfortably.
These lessons will help you develop the ability
to self-regulate and adjust your riding posture
from moment to moment. Horses respond to the information
transmitted from your pelvis, feet, legs, back,
arms, and hands. These signals must be precise.
But often riders unintentionally give mixed messages
that confuse the horse. With Riding with the Whole
Self lessons, you will gain the tools to recognize
when and how this happens and how to be more focused
and precise. This precision will lead to less
fatigue and more comfort for both you and your
horse.
The
first 6 lessons are to be done at home either
lying or sitting on the floor or a chair. The
last two lessons are done mounted.
8
Feldenkrais® Lessons, 7 CDs with Booklet,
List Price: $64.95, Your
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Pelvic
Health and Awareness for Women and Men
by
Deborah Bowes
Combining
the latest in medical research about pelvic floor
function with the Feldenkrais Method®
of Somatic Education, Pelvic Health and
Awareness for Women and Men is a step
by step program that goes beyond any existing
pelvic floor training program. The exercises are
effective for improving bladder control, reducing
back or pelvic pain, and recovering from childbirth,
abdominal or prostate surgery or trauma. They
are also useful for sexual functioning, digestive
troubles and hip problems. Equestrians, dancers
and movement teachers will find immediate application
in their own field.
6
Feldenkrais® Lessons on 3 CDs in
a binder. List Price: $59.95,
Your Price: $53.96 w/coupon. |
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The
San Francisco Evening Class - Volumes 1, 2 &
3
by Moshe Feldenkrais
This
superb audio program offers you a selection of
the exercises taught in the evening classes Moshe
Feldenkrais offered the general public on his
first visit to San Francisco. Excellent for both
beginners and those already familiar with Awareness
Through Movement®.
The
San Francisco Evening Class - Volume 1
10 Lessons on 10 CDs in a binder. List price:
$93.50, Your Price:
$84.15 w/coupon.
The
San Francisco Evening Class - Volume 2
10
Lessons on 10 CDs in a binder. List price: $93.50,
Your Price: $84.15 w/coupon.
The
San Francisco Evening Class - Volume 3
11
Lessons on 11 CDs in a binder. List price: $99.00,
Your Price: $89.10
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A
Guide to Body Sense: Vol. 1 Movement Patterns
by Robert J. Burgess, PhD, GFCP
A
Guide to Body Sense is an essential resource
for Feldenkrais® Practitioners, health
professionals, as well as the public, who are
interested in exploring their body-self relationship.
Fifty beautifully illustrated Feldenkrais®
Awareness Through Movement® lessons are
presented in the book with eighty pages of text.
Each of the eight chapters explores anatomical
segments and their relationships - the pelvis,
trunk, arm-trunk coordination, leg-trunk coordination,
feet and hands, movements in sitting, eyes, head
& neck, and various advanced movements. The lessons
in each chapter are presented as short sequences
of movements which clearly enhance the sense of
the skeletal movement and alignment. The book
is designed to free the body of inefficient habitual
patterns, easing chronic conditions and keeping
you young.
Price: $45.00, 50 Feldenkrais® Lessons,
130 Pages, Wire Bound. Your
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