In
"The Art of Slowing Down - A Sense-able Approach to Running
Faster", author, martial artist and Feldenkrais Practitioner,
Edward Yu cultivates the realization that power, speed
and agility are more related to your ability to sense you
own body than to your will power or talent. Running faster
can, in this light, be seen as an issue of learning to
become more sensible - that is, more "sense-able" through
playful and systemic exploration of movement.
Drawing
upon his practice of the Feldenkrais Method®,
Bagua and Tai Chi, Yu offers 20 unique lessons to develop
a clearer sense of yourself. As you continue to do the
lessons regularly, you will begin to feel differences in
your body that you may not have felt before, and you will
rediscover a certain vibrancy that you long ago forgot
existed inside of you. Each new feeling in will have the
potential to make a profound impact not only in the way
you run, but in your posture, gait and the way you perform
other sports and activities and indeed everything involving
movement. Each new feeling, in short, will transform the
way you live your life.
Author's
comment: "... to tell the truth, getting you to run
faster is not the real reason I wrote this book. There’s
something much deeper waiting for you between the pages.
It exists in the pauses between sentences and in the wondering
that will emerge between chapters. It’s the gift
that you may long ago have forgotten about."
Related
Article: "Radically
Transformative Running"
