Building on the foundation laid by Moshe Feldenkrais, Thomas Hanna's groundbreaking work completely redefines the body's potential for withstanding decline. His gentle program for the mind and body proves once and for all that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time—chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and, at times, even high blood pressure—need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, replacing Sensory-Motor Amnesia with Sensory-Motor Awareness. The good news of Somatic Exercise is that most people simply do not have to become captives of age or injury. Once learned, this lifelong program can help almost anyone maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a five-minute routine once a day.

Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hanna, Thomas

Exercise & Fitness

Da Capo Press

In his approach to holistic health, Hanna describes systems of body reeducation, including the Functional Integration system which helps persons who are crippled or in acute muscular pain achieve a healthier use of their muscles through gentle physical manipulation

Body of Life

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KNOPF

When our bodies start to feel stiff, sore, or tired, we often say that we're "getting old." But is that really the problem? In this groundbreaking work, Thomas Hanna shows that much of the physical decline associated with aging is not inevitable but avoidable. Building on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais, Hanna's practical program for the mind and body proves once and for all that problems you've always thought of as the symptoms of age--stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and, at times, even high blood pressure--need never occur if you maintain conscious control of your nerves and muscles. He shows how the body can turn a habitual action into an involuntary, destructive pattern called sensory-motor amnesia, and demonstrates a simple but effective method for conquering these habits with sensory-motor awareness. With only a five-minute routine once a day, you can maintain the pleasures of a limber, healthy body indefinitely and escape the confines of age or injury. Practical and easy to use, Somatics is the essential guide to reversing the physical effects of aging--or staving them off before they even begin.

Da Capo

In this classic book on bodywork education, Thomas Hanna builds on the theoories of Functional Integration, a method that applies gentle physical manipulation to fine-tune the nervous system and eliminate involuntary responses to tension, anxiety, and emotional pain. Through case histories, the author describes methods for improving bodily coordination, balance, and range of movement. With enhanced awareness, we gain a greater understanding of our internal states and our ability to affect them. He also surveys the pioneering work of Moshe Feldenkrais, who devised the system of Functional Integration, and many other somatic educators. Hanna’s engaging account offers a profound understanding of the precise relationship between mind and body that can be applied in our day-to-day living.

The Body of Life: Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement

Alternative Medicine

Healing Arts Press

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Freeperson Pr

The Lyrical Existentialists

Psychology & Counseling

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Bodies in Revolt: A Primer in Somatic Thinking

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Letters from Fred: A novel

Freeperson Press

Shoutin' Into the Fog is a gritty Depression-era memoir of life in Midcoast Maine. Author Thomas Hanna, a longtime resident of Bath, grew up in the village of Five Islands on Georgetown Island, in a small, crowded bungalow pieced together on the edge of a swamp with secondhand wood and cardboard. He was the eldest son and the second of eight children born to his young mother and his father, a World War I veteran big on dreams, but low on luck. Drawing on insight gleaned from his eighty years, Hanna's Shoutin' Into the Fog is a book written with sensitivity, humor, and subtle emotion about a hardscrabble way of life, old-time Maine, and the meaning of both family and forgiveness. His personal tale casts an honest light not only on his own family, but helps illuminate a way of life common to the coast in the 1920s and 1930s that is slowly fading from memory.

Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Islandport

The Thought And Art Of Albert Camus

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Literary Licensing, LLC

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Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

Body of Life

Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health

The Body of Life: Creating New Pathways for Sensory Awareness and Fluid Movement

The End of Tyranny: An Essay on the Possibility of America

The Lyrical Existentialists

Bodies in Revolt: A Primer in Somatic Thinking

Letters from Fred: A novel

Shoutin' into the Fog: Growing up on Maine's Ragged Edge

The Thought And Art Of Albert Camus