This Month! Mary Spire's Optimal Moves CDs and Downloads
And The Feldenkrais Method® on HuffingtonPost


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®.

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.

 

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.

 

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:

  • 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.






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.




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.

The Feldenkrais Method® in the News
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 reading . . .

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 . . .
More Great Feldenkrais® Books, CDs and Downloads

Trilogy Vol. 1-3: Special Offer
By Larry Goldfarb

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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 to this email for details.


Método Feldenkrais® CDs, descarga, y artículos en español



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 w/cupón.








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 w/coupon.


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.


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 Price: $58.46 w/coupon.


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.


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 w/coupon.


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 Price: $40.50 w/coupon.


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