Move into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality (Feldenkrais)

328 Pages·2009·41.968 MB·English

by  Anat Baniel

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Remember a time when you were bursting with
energy, curiosity, and creativity? When your body
felt strong and flexible, free of any aches and pains?
With the Anat Baniel Method, you can feel that
way again and experience renewed, intensified vital-
ity—greater health, flexibility, strength, sensuality,
clarity of mind, and enthusiasm—now and through-
out your life, no matter what your age or physical
condition.
Your level ofvitality is directly connected to your
brain. When your brain thrives, growing and making
new connections, you are invigorated, infused with
a new sense of aliveness and possibility, capable of
infinitely new ways of moving, thinking, and feeling.
Combining cutting-edge neuroscience, the work of
Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and her own method, based
on more than thirty years of experience working
with thousands of people around the world, Anat
Baniel has defined the Nine Essentials your brain
needs to flourish. In this breakthrough book, she
offers specific, practical advice for incorporating
those Essentials into everything you do to achieve
immediate and powerful benefits.
In Move into Life, you'll:
• Learn the Nine Essentials your brain requires to
thrive, including movement with attention, subtlety,
and variation
• Experience simple, safe physical and mental exer-
cises that satisfy those needs and thus awaken your
vitality
• Discoverwhy and howthese methodswork
• Find easy ways of incorporating the Essentials into
your daily life so every activity-from washing the
dishestoworkingatyourdesk, from interactingwith
your loved ones to your golf game-brings you
renewed vitality
Endorsed by leading physicians, scientists, and
transformational teachers,theAnat Baniel Method will
help you enjoy renewed energy and stamina. You'll
be lighter on your feet. Your memory will be better.
Thinking and problem solving will become easier. If
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The Nine Essentials for
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Illustrations by Dav'd Gerstein
Harmony Books New York
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The stories in this book are true. The names, circumstances, and identifying
characteristics ofthe participants have been changed to protect their anonymity.
Copyright © 2009 by Anat Baniel
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint ofthe
Crown Publishing Group, a division ofRandom House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
Harmony Books is a registered trademark and the Harmony Books colophon
is a trademark ofRandom House, Inc.
Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baniel, Anat.
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Move into life/Anat Baniel. 1sted.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Brain Popular works. 2. Brain Diseases Prevention Popular works.
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3. Vitality Popular works. 4. Cognition Popular works. 5. Intellect Popular
works. 6. Self-care, Health. I. Title.
BF431.B324 2009
158.1—dc22 2008036835
ISBN 978-0-307-39529-0
Printed in the United States ofAmerica
Design by Lauren Dong
987654321
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First Edition
To my parents, Malka and Avram Baniel,
who knew that I could.
To my beloved teacher, mentor, and friend Moshe Feldenkrais,
who showed me the way.