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Your Body's Brilliant Design: A Revolutionary Approach to Relieving Chronic Pain
Want to know the key to eliminating chronic pain from your life? It’s not more rigorous exercise, medical interventions, or expensive therapies. It turns out you have had the key all along—your body and its natural brilliant design!
For years we have been overlooking a crucial element of the body—fascia—that holds the key to allowing you to live pain-free. Many of us think of the human body as a static, mechanical system of muscles attached to a skeleton. What is missing from this picture is the tissue that unites all the the fascia, a seamless web of dynamic connective tissue that surrounds all muscles, bones, organs, and even cells. When one part of the fluid fascial web moves, the rest of the body responds. When we learn how to connect to this system through subtle movements, we open up a world of understanding of how our bodies are designed to work with us, not against us, to support an easy and pain-free life.
This book will teach you how to feel and embody this new anatomy by connecting to your dynamic center of gravity called the Core Hug, and to a vertical line of muscles and fascia that runs deep through the body called the Vertical Core. When you connect to the Core Hug and the deep Vertical Core using movement, your body is able to suspend itself and sustain that suspension over time.
Your body is already brilliantly designed to support you. The architecture is within you. The key is to access that brilliant design and work with it. Through stunning imagery and simple movement techniques, this book teaches you how to use the natural architecture of your body (bones, fascia, and movement) to align, balance, and support you so that you can move with ease and live without pain.
For years we have been overlooking a crucial element of the body—fascia—that holds the key to allowing you to live pain-free. Many of us think of the human body as a static, mechanical system of muscles attached to a skeleton. What is missing from this picture is the tissue that unites all the the fascia, a seamless web of dynamic connective tissue that surrounds all muscles, bones, organs, and even cells. When one part of the fluid fascial web moves, the rest of the body responds. When we learn how to connect to this system through subtle movements, we open up a world of understanding of how our bodies are designed to work with us, not against us, to support an easy and pain-free life.
This book will teach you how to feel and embody this new anatomy by connecting to your dynamic center of gravity called the Core Hug, and to a vertical line of muscles and fascia that runs deep through the body called the Vertical Core. When you connect to the Core Hug and the deep Vertical Core using movement, your body is able to suspend itself and sustain that suspension over time.
Your body is already brilliantly designed to support you. The architecture is within you. The key is to access that brilliant design and work with it. Through stunning imagery and simple movement techniques, this book teaches you how to use the natural architecture of your body (bones, fascia, and movement) to align, balance, and support you so that you can move with ease and live without pain.
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200 pages, Paperback
Published June 20, 2017
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September 30, 2018
Good job, Ms Gabler!
This is a well-done book, from the photos of exercises that feature real-looking people to Ms. Gabler's own thoughtfully developed approach to the fascinating world of fascia. I enjoyed it, and use it as a reference in my own private practice with yoga therapy and nutrition therapy.
This is a well-done book, from the photos of exercises that feature real-looking people to Ms. Gabler's own thoughtfully developed approach to the fascinating world of fascia. I enjoyed it, and use it as a reference in my own private practice with yoga therapy and nutrition therapy.
September 26, 2021
Self healing with instructions
A fascinating perspective on chronic pain and how to heal ourselves from the inside. I will be trying out the exercises to get the body into alignment and strengthen the inner core that supports the entire body.
A fascinating perspective on chronic pain and how to heal ourselves from the inside. I will be trying out the exercises to get the body into alignment and strengthen the inner core that supports the entire body.
October 2, 2022
Inefficient movement patterns put undue stress on our bodies when we move. This is one approach to rebuilding efficient movement patterns for free and easy movement. I keep coming back to the exercises.
January 19, 2022
Interesting information, though sometimes way too detailed. Looking forward to the release promised by the exercises.
November 25, 2022
Interesting book!
As a yoga and Pilates teacher this book is extremely valuable in that it teaches about our fascia and how it works. It was a wonderful leap experience.
As a yoga and Pilates teacher this book is extremely valuable in that it teaches about our fascia and how it works. It was a wonderful leap experience.
January 4, 2019
The book provides an in depth description of fascia and the architecture of the body. Ms. Gabler presents her paradigm concerning the relationship between fascia and chronic pain, and concludes with a method to realign the body using soft foam rollers. The theoretical section is not light reading, but the practical section is simple. There is a long list of physical issues for which the author does NOT recommend her exercises.
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