The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World
Posted by admin | Posted in Injury | Posted on 11-08-2010
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- ISBN13: 9781594771248
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Product Description
A manual for understanding the anatomical and emotional components of posture in order to heal chronic pain
• Contains self-help exercises and ergonomics information to help correct unhealthy movement patterns
• Teaches how to adopt suitable posture in the modern sedentary world
Many people cause their own back and body pain through their everyday bad postural and movement habits. Many sense that their poor posture is probably the root of the problem, but they are unable to change long-standing habits.
In The New Rules of Posture, Mary Bond approaches postural changes from the inside out. She explains that healthy posture comes from a new sense we can learn to feel, not by training our muscles into an ideal shape. Drawing from 35 years of helping people improve their bodies, she shows how habitual movement patterns and emotional factors lead to unhealthy posture. She contends that posture is the physical action we take to orient ourselves in relation to situations, emotions, and people; in order to improve our posture, we need to examine both our physical postural traits and the self-expression that underlies the way we sit, stand, and move. The way we walk, she says, is our body’s signature.
Bond identifies the key anatomical features that impact alignment, particularly in light of our modern sedentary lives, and proposes six zones that help create postural changes: the pelvic floor, the breathing muscles, the abdomen, the hands, the feet, and the head. She offers self-help exercises that enable healthy function in each zone as well as information on basic ergonomics and case histories to inspire us to think about our own habitual movements. This book is a resource for Pilates, yoga, and dance instructors as well as healthcare professionals in educating people about postural self-care so they can relieve chronic pain and enjoy all life activities with greater ease.
The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World
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I like this idea of gentle exercises you can do to improve your body awareness.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a very important book for everyone to read. It is written for the average layman so we can all understand. With correct posture you can help so many aches and pains and improve organ function. Really important book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book addresses posture as the primary premise, but from this education follows an entire perceptual shift. The transformation is invigorating and its introduction is as seamless as can be, given the substantial challenge of trying to get people to defy years of ineffective physical orientation. If followed methodically and consistently, patiently and deeply this book will alter your body, mind and heart.
Rating: 5 / 5
a must have reference, an owners manual if you seek a body with poise and balance…great links to sources of info and supplies too, well written overall…
Rating: 5 / 5
I was always a bit skeptical of all these vaguely new age-y fitness books. Then I reluctantly started doing Yoga after a car accident a few years back. Long story short, yoga really helped me a lot, so after that I read some books like these. I’m still a bit skeptical of these books, but it turns out some of these people are onto something – like the author of this book. Buy it. It’s great. If you’ve been injured and you read it, there’s a decent chance it’ll help you recover better once you’re done healing if you’re anything like me.
A lot of the fitness field of late is nonsense about chakras and auras and whatnot that seems to be making it up as it goes along, but this book is the real deal. It has exercises and activities that work, it promotes bodily awareness and wonderful insight into ergonomics through real-life examples. No chakras (OK, a little about chakras, I think) or auras or Mayan 2012 anything here. The author is a dance instructor with a Master’s degree who really seems to have a way with explaining this stuff and how to be more aware of your body. She is also very aware of anatomy and the book often has good pictures to show what she’s talking about and which muscles are involved. Most importantly, her methods work.
I was running slower than usual and I wasn’t doing very well on my squat. No clue why. Then I read this book. I realized that after an ankle sprain a few months ago, I’d still been holding on to the rails on stairs, ramps, etc even though the ankle on that side had healed. I consciously altered that behavior. Before, I hadn’t even realized it.
Back to adding weight to my squat and jogging up and down the stairs (I didn’t even notice I’d stopped doing that!). The closest analogy I can come up with is when I teach kids reading skills and they have that “uh-huh” moment where they finally comprehend what they read as they do it. That’s how I felt after reading this and started to think about how I sit and stand and walk as I do it and how I could make it better. The wall exercise was really interesting in demonstrating the pelvic floor. This book teaches you body awareness skills. Simple, but really quite profound stuff.
Highly recommended to anyone who likes to stay fit. Helpful in setting up office ergonomics, too.
Rating: 5 / 5