Dynamic alignment through imagery - 2. edicion

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition, expands on the classic text and reference written by Eric Franklin, an internationally renowned teacher, dancer, and choreographer who has been sharing his imagery techniques for 25 years. In this new edition, Franklin shows you how to use imagery, touch, and movement exercises to improve your coordination and alignment. These exercises will also help you relieve tension, enhance the health of your spine and back, and prevent back injury. This expanded new edition includes • more than 600 imagery exercises along with nearly 500 illustrations to help you visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts; • audio files for dynamic imagery exercises set to music and posted online to the book’s product page; and • updated chapters throughout the book, including new material on integrated dynamic alignment exercises and dynamic alignment and imagery. This book will help you discover your natural flexibility and quickly increase your power to move. You’ll learn elements of body design. You’ll explore how to use imagery to improve your confidence, and you’ll discover imagery conditioning programs that will lead you toward better alignment, safer movement, increased fitness, and greater joy. Further, you’ll examine how to apply this understanding to your discipline or training to improve your performance. Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition, will help you experience the biomechanical and anatomical principles that are crucial to dancers, other performing artists, yoga and Pilates teachers and practitioners, and athletes. The techniques and exercises presented in the book will guide you in improving your posture—and they will positively affect your thoughts and attitude about yourself and others and help you feel and move better both mentally and physically. "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition", shows how to use imagery, touch and movement exercises to improve co-ordination and alignment. These exercises also help relieve tension, enhance the health of the spine and back and prevent back injury. This expanded new edition contains more than 600 imagery exercises along with nearly 500 illustrations to help visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts. "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" enables readers to experience the biomechanical and anatomical principles that are crucial to dancers, other performing artists, yoga and Pilates teachers and practitioners and athletes. The techniques and exercises presented in the book act as a guide to improving posture and will have a positive affect on thoughts and attitude about oneself and others. You can discover flexibility and increase the power to move. Content: Posture and dynamic alignment -- Roots of imagery for alignment -- Postural models and dynamic alignment -- Foundations of mental imagery -- Change through imagery -- Benefits and types of imagery -- General guidelines before using imagery -- Biomechanical and anatomical principles and exercises -- Finding your center and befriending gravity -- Laws of motion and force systems -- Joint and muscle function -- Exercises for anatomical imagery -- Pelvis, hip, joint, and company -- Knee, lower leg, and foot -- Spine and body wall -- Shoulders, arms, and hands -- Head and neck -- Rib cage, breath, and organs -- Returning to holistic alignment -- Definitions of dynamic alignment -- Integrating dynamic alignment exercises. Shows you how to use imagery, touch and movement exercises to improve co-ordination and alignment. This edition contains more than 600 imagery exercises along with illustrations to help visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts. It includes exercises that also help relieve tension, and enhance the health of the spine and back. Franklin shows readers how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment, and to release excess tension. The illustrations help explain the images and exercises, and show how to use them in a variety of contexts