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Mind-Body Fitness for Dummies
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$19.99
Fitness-Health-Care Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: For Dummies
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7
EAN: 9780764553042
ISBN: 0764553046
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 408
Publication Date: 2000-11-22
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies
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Mind-Body Fitness For Dummies® is the complete guide to the world of holistic fitnessófrom Yoga and Tai Chi to Pilates and Qigong. Get started the smart way with expert advice on the essentialsófrom finding your ìPower Centerî and mastering important techniques like breathing and posture to choosing a program that best fits you and your fitness goals. Filled with instructional photos and illustrations, this book also features expert advice on warming up and cooling down, as well as taking your workout program beyond the basics with coverage of bodywork techniques including NIA and the Alexander technique. Mind-Body Fitness For Dummies® will also help answer common questions about equipment and space needs, as well as other issues to consider before committing to a new fitness plan.
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Summary: Excellent overview of mind-body exercises
Comment: I borrowed this book to read. I am so pleased with it that I am ordering it. Therese Ikonian is a superior writer. She writes clearly and logically.
This book summarises a great number of different exercise/fitness methods in a clear coherent manner. It gives enough examples of the exercises so that the reader can select what he/she needs. For example her discussions of the Feldenkrais and Alexander methods are the best I have seen.
There are a slew of web sites listed so that it is easy to get more information on any and all of the desciplines discussed. (Of course you can first take a look in the public library or a warehouse bookstore.)
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Summary: MindBody Fitness for Dummies
Comment: This book wins the "fitness relevance" award for being virtually the first to apolitically and respectfully describe the major mindful exercise modalities that exist in the West today - in one concise volume. There are hundreds of yoga, tai chi, Pilates, martial arts and derivative publications today each extolling the papal and fitness-related virtues of their own species of mind-body exercise. Therese has put together a utilitarian compendium of the classical and contemporary forms, yes in somewhat abstract form, but always with skillful instruction and quite meaningful resources. This is a wonderfully organized reference for those desiring a wide-angle and descriptive view of the major players in mind-body exercise modalities.
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