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Feel your bones. Get grounded. Relax. Learn to do less. Your body responds to events and stresses in your life: Your back may tense up, shoulders slouch forward, hips veer off to the right or left. Slowly, without noticing, you shift out of balance. Now, in Stack Your Bones, movement teacher Ruthie Fraser helps you unwind and realign through 100 simple lessons in Structural Integration. By becoming more aware of your body—its habits, structure, and needs—you can relieve pain and move with ease once again. Learn to Find Your Feet, Root and Expand, Make It Simple, Vary Your Route, Tackle the Imbalances, and 95 other ways to befriend your body!

First developed by Frederick Alexander in 1890, the Alexander technique retrains the body to work in a more economical and less stressful way, and can be used for improved breathing and joint mobility, and staying calm under pressure. This practical book offers easy and effective solutions to posture problems at home and at work, with illustrated exercises to help you break bad habits and learn to let your body relax. Free Your Back! will change the way you stand, walk and sit. The advice provided will help you to ease those painful stiff necks and backaches and allow you freer movement and better balance throughout your body, for a healthier life free of back pain.

Muscles and Meridians is a unique book that breaks new conceptual ground in the realm of human movement. Exploring the connection between evolutionary biology and Chinese meridians, the volume offers a novel and effective system of diagnosis and treatment of common musculoskeletal disorders. - Describes a new model of human movement - the Contractile Field model - Offers a rare and serious attempt to look at whole person movement patterns – akin to'Anatomy Trains'but with a stronger link to vertebrate evolution and development - Suggests that much of our endemic back and leg pain is due to a loss of ease in postures that are'archetypal'to mankind - Offers a profound new understanding of the world's oldest medical map, the Chinese meridian map