David Zemach-Bersin

Improving Posture 101: Feldenkrais® lessons for Restoring Postural Health - MP3 Download

by David Zemach-Bersin and Marek Wyszynski
Your posture matters. It is the way you carry yourself through life and encounter the world. Largely self-created, your postural habits reflect aspects of your early development, your physical history, your habits of self-use, and your relationship to your environment.

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by David Zemach-Bersin and Marek Wyszynski
Your posture matters. It is the way you carry yourself through life and encounter the world. Largely self-created, your postural habits reflect aspects of your early development, your physical history, your habits of self-use, and your relationship to your environment.

Healthy posture is: when your skeleton is organized to carry your weight in a comfortable, balanced way without straining your musculature. It’s a feeling of being fundamentally supported while upright, uplifted and able to move around with ease. Healthy posture is stable yet flexible and helps to promote a general sense of well-being.

Unhealthy posture is: being upright without sufficient skeletal support. This typically causes excessive muscular contraction which compresses the body and pulls it forward. With ineffective skeletal organization, it is harder to hold yourself upright against gravity, and your muscles have to do the work that your skeleton should be doing. People with poor posture are more likely to feel tense, achy, tired, and less energetic. The nineteen Feldenkrais exercises or 'lessons' in this program are effective tools for your self-care. Interacting with your nervous system on behalf of your body, they are designed to reduce back pain and facilitate the development of new postural habits which are protective, shock-absorbing, and improve your balance and ease of movement.
Improving Posture 101
  • 1. Gaining Length Through Folding Part 1
  • 2. A More Supple Spine
  • 3. Talk Why Posture is Important
  • 4.Gaining Length Through Folding Part II
  • 5.Organizing Your Back to Stand Tall
  • 6. Lengthening from Your Feet to Your Head
  • 7. Swinging Your Legs to Improve Your Spine
  • 8. Lengthening Through a Simple Twist
  • 9. Lengthening Through Bending
  • 10. Freeing Your Pelvis
  • 11. Talk- Awareness Habit and Improved Action
  • 12. Freeing Your Head and Neck for Better Posture
  • 13. Easy Standing
  • 14. Your Best Sitting Posture
  • 15. Arching for Better Posture
  • 16. Freeing Your Arms for Better Posture
  • 17. Better Posture Through Elongation
  • 18. Your Highest Point
  • 19. Talk Quick Strategies for Better Posture
  • 20. Sitting to Stand
  • 21. The Full Mobility of Your Spine
  • 22. Mobilizing Your Spine for Your Best Posture
  • David Zemach-Bersin is one of Dr. Feldenkrais’s first American students, and a graduate of Feldenkrais’s first U.S. training, in San Francisco in 1977. David studied with Dr Feldenkrais from 1973-1984 in the U.S., England and Israel. He is recognized for his Functional Integration skills and his devotion to sharing Dr. Feldenkrais's original teaching.

    In addition to studies with Dr. Feldenkrais, David studied extensively in Israel and the U.S. with Gaby Yaron, one of Feldenkrais’s very original students. He directs Feldenkrais Training Programs in New York City and Washington/Baltimore. A graduate of the University of California with extensive postgraduate work in physiological psychology.

    David is the co-author of Relaxercise (HarperCollins), and has created a number of popular Feldenkrais audio programs. He is a past president of the Feldenkrais Guild®, co-founder of Feldenkrais Resources, the Feldenkrais Institute of New York and the Feldenkrais Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to research and bringing the Feldenkrais Method to underserved populations. David teaches widely and is creating a virtual center at FeldenkraisAccess.com. David and his wife Kaethe, have three grown children and live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

     

     

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