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Showing posts with label movement awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movement awareness. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Use a Treadmill Desk (Video)

Bring Movement to Your Workplace


Dr. James Levin from Mayo Clinic discusses ways to bring more movement to people’s workdays, including a treadmill desk; it allows people to walk while they work.  Other ways to bring movement to the day are mentioned.  Health benefits include weight management, and body and brain optimization. 

 


  

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Connect Massage and Movement


Maximize healing -- maintain youthfulness

A variety of massage therapy styles help heal injuries, resolve health conditions, integrate primitive reflexes, and promote overall wellness. Combining massage and physical therapy has worked well with MS patients. Thai Yoga Massage combines movement and massage to stretch muscles and boost the immune and circulatory systems, getting the synovial fluids and lymphatic system flowing. Infant massage and movement stimulates neurological develop speeding myelination of the brain/nervous system. Chinese medical body work Tuina Massage, uses pulling and plucking and Feldendrais offers natural effortless movements. Let’s combine massage and movement techniques, creating a powerful means to maximize our living and learning potential.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Feldenkrais Fitness Comfort

Can a fitness exercise program feel this good?

Sara Reistad-Long writing for ThatsFit.com relates her first experience with Feldenkrais, a series of ‘awareness through movement’ exercise routines developed by Moshe Feldenkrais who studied ways our bodies can function with greater ease and skill.

More articles appear on Feldendrais.com. I have experienced Feldenkrais and need to return to this revitalizing practice.