Full Description
'What a multi-sensory pleasure in learning! I will be a better teacher and better clinician using what I am learning from this book.' Carol M Davis DPT, EdD, MS, FAPTA
The emerging science of biotensegrity provides a fresh context for re-thinking our understanding of human movement, but its complexities can be formidable. Bodywork and movement professionals looking for an accessible and relevant guide to the concept and application of biotensegrity need look no further than Everything Moves: How biotensegrity informs human movement.
In order to work with our own bodies and the bodies of our students, clients and teams most effectively, we need to understand the nature of our human structure. Everything Moves offers the enquiring bodyworker or movement professional, who wants to take their understanding of how to apply biotensegrity in their work to the next level, a practical and relatable guide to the biotensegral nature of our bodies, in which all of the parts are one, yet all are constantly changing.
Throughout Everything Moves, concepts and ideas are presented with activities and exercises to make them tangible, accessible and applicable. The material presented is suitable for coaches and movement teachers new to biotensegrity, as well as those with more advanced levels of understanding.
Whether your focus is performance, sports, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, yoga, Pilates, martial arts, or dance, any arena in which bodies move can be informed by Everything Moves!
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - A Charming State of Confusion
Chapter 2 - Models and Other Metaphors
Chapter 3 - Push
Chapter 4 - Pull
Chapter 5 - Harmonious Concatenation
Chapter 6 - Triangles
Chapter 7 - Shape, Space and Volume
Chapter 8 - Spirals
Chapter 9 - Patterns
Chapter 10 - Oscillations
Chapter 11 - Auxeticity
Chapter 12 - Soft Matters
Chapter 13 - Systems
Chapter 14 - The Constraints of Biology
Chapter 15 - Reconfiguring
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Links
Index
