Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery - Eric Franklin

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery

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Buch | Softcover
448 Seiten
2012 | 2nd edition
Human Kinetics (Verlag)
978-0-7360-6789-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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.

Eric Franklin is director and founder of the Franklin Institute in Uster, Switzerland. He has more than 35 years' experience as a dancer and choreographer, and he has shared imagery techniques in his teaching since 1986. Franklin has taught extensively throughout the United States and Europe at the Julliard School in New York, the Royal Ballet School in London, the Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, the Dance Academy of Rome, and the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich; he was also a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna. He has provided training to Olympic and world-champion athletes and professional dance troupes such as Cirque du Soleil and the Forum de Dance in Monte Carlo. Franklin earned a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich. He has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991. Franklin is coauthor of the bestselling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen für Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland.

Part I: Posture and Dynamic Alignment

Chapter 1: Roots of Imagery for Alignment

In Search of Ideal Posture

Somatic Disciplines

Summary

Chapter 2: Postural Models and Dynamic Alignment

What Your Posture Reveals

Postural Habits

Rich Sources for Dynamic Alignment

Summary

Chapter 3: Foundations of Mental Imagery

Brain as the Basis for Imagery

Brain and Consciousness

Nervous System

Neuroplasticity and Imagery

Developing Mind: The Role of Imagery

Summary

Chapter 4: Change Through Imagery

Four Steps for Change

Body Image as Basic Feedback

Developmental Patterns and Mental Imagery

Wrong Habits That Feel Right

Retaining Your Progress

Motivation and Change

Summary

Chapter 5: Benefits and Types of Imagery

Benefits: What Imagery Can Do for You

Types of Imagery

Styles of Imagery Delivery

Self-Talk: The Internal Monologue

Summary

Chapter 6: General Guidelines Before Using Imagery

Factors That Influence Successful Imagery

Guidelines for Using Imagery

Training Your Ability to Use Imagery

Concentration and Attention

Stages of Learning

Positions for Anatomical Imagery Work

Using Imagery When in Motion

Image Narrative, Image Bundles, and Relational Imagery

Summary

Part II: Biomechanical and Anatomical Principles and Exercises

Chapter 7: Finding Your Center and Befriending Gravity

Planes for Direction and Location

Central Axis

Body Geography

Joint Movements

Force

Matter and Mass

Summary

Chapter 8: Laws of Motion and Force Systems

Newton’s Laws of Motion

Force Systems

Lever Systems

Energy Conservation

Ability of Materials to Resist Force

Dynamic Stability

Summary

Chapter 9: Joint and Muscle Function

Joint Types

Bones

Connective Tissue and Fascia

Muscles

Summary

Part III: Exercises for Anatomical Imagery

Chapter 10: Pelvis, Hip Joint, and Company

Pelvic Arches

Balancing the Pelvis

Motion of the Pelvic Halves

Counterrotation and Three-Dimensional Alignment

Pelvic Powerhouse

Hip Joint and Femur

Iliopsoas and Piriformis

Summary

Chapter 11: Knee, Lower Leg, and Foot

Knee

Tibia, Fibula, and Ankle

Foot

Summary

Chapter 12: Spine and Body Wall

Functioning Spine

Pelvis

Vertebrae

Facet Joints

Discs, Spine, and Psychology of Pain

Spinal Ligaments

Musculature of the Abdomen and Back

Abdominal Wall and Fascia

Abdominal Muscles and the Concept of Core Stability

Summary

Chapter 13: Shoulders, Arms, and Hands

Suspension of the Shoulder Girdle

Glenohumeral Joint

Scapulohumeral Rhythm

Elbow

Wrist and Hand

Summary

Chapter 14: Head and Neck

Atlas and Axis

Skull

Suboccipitals

Mandible

Hyoid and Tongue

Eyes

Nose and Mouth

Summary

Chapter 15: Rib Cage, Breath, and Organs

Rib Cage

Breath

Support for Abdominal Organs

Skin as an Organ

Summary

Part IV: Returning to Holistic Alignment

Chapter 16: Definitions of Dynamic Alignment

Plumb Line

Median Alignment

Defining Ideal Alignment

Dynamic Versus Static Alignment

Dynamic and Static Stability

Pulling Up and Ideal Alignment

Summary

Chapter 17: Integrating Dynamic Alignment Exercises

Alignment in Supine Positions

Alignment in Sitting Positions

Standing and Walking Alignment

Releasing Excess Tension

Continuing Imagery Exercises

Verlagsort Champaign, IL
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 1225 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Medizin / Pharmazie
ISBN-10 0-7360-6789-2 / 0736067892
ISBN-13 978-0-7360-6789-8 / 9780736067898
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