Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance


163 page perfect bound, soft covered on-demand book is an essential guide to movement education focusing on cultivating core awareness as key to preventing injury, developing flexibility, increasing strength and resiliency.

Chapters include:

Moving From Your Core: presents a new paradigm of movement, differentiating control verses awareness, the neutral body verses anchoring, hyper flexibility and hyper mobility, over extension and resistance.

Engaging The Iliopsoas Muscle: includes the location, function, diaphragmatic and muscular relationships, fear and adrenal health, core emotional wellness of the iliopsoas muscle.

Centering The Pelvis: covers the importance of the pelvic keystone for maintaining healthy pelvic/lumbar balance and core centering, Includes pelvic/jaw, cranial sacral relationships as they affect the functioning psoas.

Connecting to Bones: focuses on the vital connection to bones (proprioception) for gaining a sense of support, nourishment, movement, joint integrity, skeletal balance and healthy muscle tone. Includes an explanation of the internal righting reflexes.

Deepening Core Awareness: weaves the emotional, ecological, cultural inter-connections within the energetic core includes: conditioning, armoring, belly brain (enteric) dimensions.

Stepping Stones to Core Awareness Explorations: introduces a how to approach for the exploration chapters.

Explorations Include: Awakening Core Awareness, Engaging the Iliopsoas Muscle, Centering The Pelvis, Connecting to Bones, and Moving From the Core: each chapter offers specific explorations for encouraging the continually deeper and more profound experience. Of core awareness.

References & Further Reading Resource: provides resources for continuing the development of the ideas presented within the book.

Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance

Price: 19.95
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ISBN: 0-9657944-8-2