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Stack Your Bones: 100 Simple Lessons for Realigning Your Body and Moving With Ease
Feel your bones. Get grounded. Relax. Learn to do less. Your body responds to events and stresses in your 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!
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249 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 2, 2017
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July 27, 2020
Thin gruel.
June 27, 2017
**This book was reviewed for The Experiment via Netgalley
Fraser's Stack Your Bones evolved out of the author's work with Structural Integration, a type of bodywork that focuses on manipulating body tissues to realign and strengthen the body’s framework, leading to improved flexibility and resilience. Fraser says, among other benefits, these 100 snack-size 'meditations/exercises’ will help:
*cultivate and maintain comfortable, healthy body alignment and posture.
*improve muscle coordination and overall movement patterns
*improve body awareness and proprioception
*heal and transform muscle and posture patterns in the body that cause discomfort
There are four distinct parts, looking at different aspects. Structure teaches you about your body, natural posture, and how things work together. Basic Movement covers how to move your body easily and with more fluidity and grace, as well as how to begin really unknotting some of the movement (and posture) patterns you hold. Approach takes a look at how things such as digestion and diet affect the body and it's framework, cultivating an attunement to the subtleties of your body and learning to do body scans, as well as to be gentle and efficient in tending to your body. I found the 'Floss your fascia’ exercise neat, and quite useful. The last section, Contemplations, looks at how emotions and human tendency can affect our bodies, and how to gently work out emotional blocks, and we carry our experiences. Thinking of the body in dendrochronology terms appealed to the anthropologist in me for sure!
The exercises can be taken in any order. I found them to be fun, and many gave me new ways of thinking about my body, and of hopefully beginning to correct serious hip issues. My hips cant to the side, with the right sitting higher than the left. Not good at all! I loved that she used the words sitz bones. It made me laugh every single time I read it.
📚📚📚📚📚 Highly recommended
Fraser's Stack Your Bones evolved out of the author's work with Structural Integration, a type of bodywork that focuses on manipulating body tissues to realign and strengthen the body’s framework, leading to improved flexibility and resilience. Fraser says, among other benefits, these 100 snack-size 'meditations/exercises’ will help:
*cultivate and maintain comfortable, healthy body alignment and posture.
*improve muscle coordination and overall movement patterns
*improve body awareness and proprioception
*heal and transform muscle and posture patterns in the body that cause discomfort
There are four distinct parts, looking at different aspects. Structure teaches you about your body, natural posture, and how things work together. Basic Movement covers how to move your body easily and with more fluidity and grace, as well as how to begin really unknotting some of the movement (and posture) patterns you hold. Approach takes a look at how things such as digestion and diet affect the body and it's framework, cultivating an attunement to the subtleties of your body and learning to do body scans, as well as to be gentle and efficient in tending to your body. I found the 'Floss your fascia’ exercise neat, and quite useful. The last section, Contemplations, looks at how emotions and human tendency can affect our bodies, and how to gently work out emotional blocks, and we carry our experiences. Thinking of the body in dendrochronology terms appealed to the anthropologist in me for sure!
The exercises can be taken in any order. I found them to be fun, and many gave me new ways of thinking about my body, and of hopefully beginning to correct serious hip issues. My hips cant to the side, with the right sitting higher than the left. Not good at all! I loved that she used the words sitz bones. It made me laugh every single time I read it.
📚📚📚📚📚 Highly recommended
November 5, 2017
Beautiful koan-like book on mindful movement, embodiment.
May 14, 2017
An excellent introduction to natural movement and alignment. So many of us are never taught how our bodies are supposed to work, we don't know what it feels like to be properly aligned. Through 100 lessons Ruthie Fraser shows you how to get in touch with your body and start getting realigned. The instructions are clear, and there's frequently pictures. I enjoyed working through the book, and it's ideal for having on the coffee table to pick a lesson or two, whenever the mood strikes you.
*I received an ARC from Netgalley, the review is my own opinion*
*I received an ARC from Netgalley, the review is my own opinion*
May 3, 2017
I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Seemingly simple, these exercises do more than you think as you read through them. Being aware of your body, what it is telling you through pain, and the ability to freely move are only a few of the points made here. Great for beginning awareness and starting on the journey towards alignment of body and soul.
Seemingly simple, these exercises do more than you think as you read through them. Being aware of your body, what it is telling you through pain, and the ability to freely move are only a few of the points made here. Great for beginning awareness and starting on the journey towards alignment of body and soul.
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