Relax Your Neck, Liberate Your Shoulders: The Ultimate Exercise Program for Tension Relief

by Eric Franklin

A foolproof guide to releasing shoulder and neck tension, this book shows how imagery and touch can be used to eliminate stiffness and pain. It provides simple and effective exercises that can be done at home, at work, or on the road. Sufferers of upper body pain will learn how to detect and eradicate early signs of tension by better understanding the connection between emotional states and tension. These individuals will learn how to survive stressful situations calmly and without tensing a single muscle. An explanation of the anatomy of the shoulders provides a better understanding of how improving the alignment of the head, neck, and shoulders will ease the strain on muscles and joints and promote an aura of confidence and health.

Genres: Health

127 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Eric Franklin is the founder and director of the Franklin Method. He created the Method over 25 years ago, first teaching in Switzerland, Germany and Austria and further in the USA, China, Japan and many other countries. He earned his BS from the University of Zurich and his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Eric teaches at universities and schools throughout the world including the Juilliard School in New York, Rutgers University, the University of Vienna, the Royal Ballet School and the Laban Center in London. He has taught Beyonce’s & Celine Dion’s world tour dance companies. In 1998 he introduced the first dance conditioning methodology to mainland China.

Eric presents his work at numerous conferences, such as the World Congress for Lower Back and Pelvic Pain, the Pilates Method Alliance and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. Eric Franklin is author 21 books, including of Dynamic Alignment through Imagery (2012), Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (2013), Relax your Neck – Liberate your Shoulders (2002), Pelvic Power (2003), Inner Focus, Outer Strength (2006) and Beautiful Body, Beautiful Mind (2009). Eric Franklin’s books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, French, Czech, Chinese and Korean.

Reviews

[محمدعلی کرمی · Rating 2 out of 5]

ابن کتاب مبتنی بر سیستم جدیدیه (البته نه چندان جدید، حدود صد سال قدمت داره) که معتقده حالات روحی و روانی بر حالات بدنی تأثیر می‌ذارن. مبنای کتاب کلا تصور و خیاله، یعنی اصلاح بدن با استفاده از تخیل. البته فقط هم محدود به این چیزا نیست، ترکیب تمرین ها و حرکات با تمرین‌های ذهنیه، یه جمله داشت که می‌گفت "افکار و تخیلات‌تون بر اثرگذاری تمرین‌ها تأثیر دارن". و در کل میگه که خیلی از دردهایی که تو گردن دارید ناشی از افکار و هیجانات میشن. تاکید فراوون رو مثبت‌گرایی و تفکرات مثبت داره 🥴.
هرچند تشریح آناتومی و این چیزا هم داره، تمرین‌های عملی هم زیاد داره، ولی حس می کنم برای کسایی که درد زیادی ندارن، زیاد فایده نداره.

[Melisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

more accessible, well-illustrated anatomy from mr franklin

[Angela]

This is a book is worth the read, but not to be read in one sitting. The book I read with the ISBN, however, wasn't 127 pages, but 108.

[Kipahni · Rating 2 out of 5]

I would have loved this book if it came with a pop up of hands that were mechanical and would work out the kinks in neck and shoulders
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Jerry! I need my massages! Can't you see I am burnt out?!

Instead they use a lot of guided imagery. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I just really wanted the pop up book idea.

[Cherhine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent livre qui permet de retrouver la paix avec ses douleurs si récurantes dans le cou et les épaules. La technique utilisant les images est un très bel instrument. Notre esprit nous donne souvent beaucoup de raison de nous tendre. Éric Franklin nous apprend à utiliser notre esprit et notre imaginaire pour nous défaire de ces tensions. À condition de bien vouloir aimer jouer avec son imagination...

[Natarajan · Rating 3 out of 5]

First time I read this, I read it too literally and couldn't really take it seriously. In retrospect, I think imaging and imagining are powerful tools for interacting with our physicality (even where the thing being imagined doesn't correspond directly to our body structures). So I owe it a second, more charitable, reading.

[Tchatchke · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite a few of the illustrations and visualisations were a little too esoteric for me.

[John Hawkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Should be 3.5 stars. I enjoyed it and use it for Yoga although Franklin wrote this for dancers. Most of the visualizations did not work for me. Some did very well.