Download or read book Breathing Movement Exploration written by Barbara Sellers-Young and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a groundbreaking approach to how to use your body. Barbara Sellers-Young combines body mechanics and eastern and western philosophy to create a new visceral awareness of the performance process. Its simple, step-by-step structure enables the reader to learn the concepts of Laban and Stanislavski while exploring eastern ideas of breath and energy. Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a useful blueprint for how to use your body on stage. It speaks to professionals as well as anyone fascinated by the inner-process of an actor's training or to gain cognitive and physical insight into one's own self.
Download or read book Breathe In Breathe Out written by Virginia Loh-Hagan and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books in the Just Breathe series provide readers with tools on how to practice mindfulness throughout their day. In Breathe In, Breathe Out: Practicing Movement, students will learn breathing exercises and mindful movements. Readers are provided with helpful exercises, tips, and activities to better manage their thoughts and feelings. The book is written with a high-interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and with a lower level of complexity and considerate text to help struggling readers. Includes table of contents, glossary, and index.
Download or read book Lessons in Artistic Deep Breathing for Strengthening the Voice written by Edmund Shaftesbury and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breath and Intention written by Rebecca Herrin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world begins to move out of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a heightened awareness of breathing as a complex motor task – both automatic and deliberate in nature. My research for this thesis project studies how unique personal breathing habits affect the body and, in turn, how the body affects breath, specifically in the ballet aesthetic. While in modern dance the breath is often embedded in the training, for American ballet it is not as thoroughly engrained. As a dance educator, I find ballet dancers often rely on the automatic nature of the action rather than accessing and exploring the breath phrase of their movement to bring greater authenticity and total body awareness to their dancing. In this MFA project, I investigate the dancer as a physical storyteller and breath as the catalyst for this whole-body engagement. This thesis project explores how breath patterns can inform the body in motion and be used as a choreographic and storytelling tool. Collaborative efforts from the dancers and composer regarding their relationship to breath formed the foundation from which this choreographic process developed. The creative presentation portion of my thesis project titled Breath Taking is organized into five sections, reflective of the varied ways dancers relate to breath. Danced en pointe and en terre, this work reveals how breath can further enhance ballet dancers' fluidity of movements, relationship to music, and connectivity to other dancers while performing. My academic research regarding breathwork and my study of breath integration in select somatic practices and modern dance techniques offers implications that attention to breath needs to be an integral element of American ballet pedagogy.
Download or read book Breath in Action written by Jane Boston and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Combining theory with practice, many of the chapters also offer clearly laid out breathing exercises and techniques.
Download or read book The Breathable Body written by Robert Litman and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned breathing expert offers a guide to conscious breathing with skills for reducing stress, alleviating tension, returning breath to its natural state of harmony, and opening your heart. Breath moves in wavelike motions. When breath flows freely within the body, we live in a natural state of harmony, making choices that enhance well-being and generate energy.Each individual breath travels through us in a unique way depending on its flow, texture, speed, and patterning. Like a leaf falling from a tree that spirals to the ground, waves of breath travel through the airways of the body in a spiraling motion. This is the way air moves, the way breath moves, and the way oceans, rivers, and lakes move, too. When we tighten our passageways and compromise our breathing, our health suffers. Most of us are born with the ability to breathe freely and naturally, but as the years go by, our breathing becomes labored—compromised by fear, disappointment, trauma, and pollutants. So we contract our breathing body and create ways that feel protective of our vulnerable selves but actually constrict the oxygen intake and thus the nourishment our body receives. In The Breathable Body: Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time, Robert Litman shares the insights and practices he has discovered during more than 30 years of professional experience in conscious breathing and movement. Born with breathing difficulties and suffering from asthma as a child, Robert found ways to overcome his own childhood PTSD and now shares trauma-sensitive teachings to help people breathe and live better. You can change your life—including alleviating symptoms of asthma, snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, digestive difficulties, and fatigue—by changing how you breathe. The techniques in this book will teach you how to support and protect your body and its respiratory system. Through conscious breathing, movement, sound, and a clear understanding of anatomy and respiration, we learn habits that support healthy and natural breathing.
Download or read book River of Breath written by Margot Biestman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "River of Breath"-a healing path to vitality, ease, and well-being" In this time of profound change and renewed hope, high demands are being placed on each of us. We are called upon to respond with devotion and courage. River of Breath offers a path from old to new ways of being, a path toward personal and cultural transformation. Read it-and be touched by a truth within yourself that can feed your body and soul. Many of us long for this experience. "River of Breath" by Margot Biestman "Authentic to the core...you don't read this book-you experience it. I breathe more consciously through each exquisite life tale, poem, and artwork. It flows and guides my flowing. Totally unique." Nancy Herrick, Physician's Assistant, Homeopath "Margot Biestman is saying something very personal and distinct, yet universal at the same time. She creates a portal through which others can walk into an experiential realm. She manages to do this succinctly, in a few lines, in such a way that I am reminded of the very best poetry-where the poet is saying the deepest truth of what he or she knows." Ann Nix, M.A. CHT, Artist, Teacher "When you do things from your soul you feel a river in you, a joy." Rumi Synopsis "River of Breath" brings to light how we can meet today's challenges with greater flexibility and confidence, and with less stress and fear, through a unique practice called Breathexperience. We can find benefit and truth in the simplicity of sensing how breath-flowing through our body without our control-can support vitality, ease, and well-being, whatever the circumstances. Margot Biestman transports the reader beyond thinking and imagining to sensing the simple, ancient, yet immediate reality of breath movement in the body. Through sensing her own breath as she writes, she allows her words and drawings to emerge from her essence and flow onto the page. For the reader, just taking in these expressions of her truth is itself an invitation to join her in an intimate breathexperience. Margot describes how, even in our culture with its fast pace and attitude to achieve at any cost, we do not have to be victims of pushing and pulling our bodies around, creating strain, anxiety, pain, and illness. Through the experience of breath, we recognize our choices to support the truth of who we are. Conditioned patterns fall away and though some occasionally return, they lose their impact. We have the capacity to make a difference in our lives and the lives of those around us. Margot leads us on her personal journey in the experience of breath for three-and-a-half months. She includes emotions and thoughts as parts of the oneness that breath creates-body, mind, soul, and spirit. Even when she loses breath awareness, she learns from these experiences in practicing the art of being human. A separate section contains detailed guidelines for specific breathexperience sequences, inviting the reader to practice allowing and sensing the natural breath moving in the body. Principles of breathexperience, benefits, application in daily life, a breath class, individual hands-on treatment, and a brief history complete the book.
Download or read book Breathing movement and Feeling written by Alexander Lowen and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Breathwork Experience written by Kylea Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breathwork written by Valerie Moselle and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhale, exhale, heal—the 3-week breathing plan Every breath you take has the power to heal—but learning how takes practice. In Breathwork, established yoga and breathwork teacher Valerie Moselle leads you through a practical program to create a personal routine of restorative breathing techniques. Begin each day with breathing exercises to boost energy and physical health. End each day meditating on clarity and calm. With effective practices that address everything from allergies to anxiety and more, this breathing plan is your guide to discovering the rejuvenating and varied benefits of breathwork. Breathwork: A 3-Week Breathing Program includes: Breathing basics—Begin by learning the timeless fundamental practices of breathwork. A 3-week program—Invite intentional breathing into your life with simple, step-by-step exercises every morning and evening. Practical mind-body applications—Feel the positive impact of targeted breathing to treat anxiety, asthma, insomnia and more. Transform automatic breaths into intentional breathing for deep healing with Breathwork.
Download or read book On a Lark eBook written by Larkin Barnett and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help children build healthy fitness habits for a lifetime with lesson plans that explore the principles of movement. This simple approach to fitness is based on the Pilates method and includes a variety of ways children can express themselves with creative dance. Children love being in motion, and this book gives them plenty of opportunities to express themselves.
Download or read book The Breathing Circle written by Nell Smyth and published by Clairview Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These simple, enjoyable techniques promote physical well-being and social confidence and are invaluable for supporting early language and literacy skills. The Breathing Circle can be used at home or in the classroom with young children aged from 18 months up to around seven years.
Download or read book Qigong Breathing written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepen your understanding by reviewing all the movements you've learned so far, focusing on your internal sensations as you gently and continuously flow from movement to movement. Explore qigong meditative breathing, and uncover how the breath creates the continuous link from intentions to chi to body.
Download or read book Wake Up Breathing written by Zijia Kong and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The piece Wake up breathing holds personal significance as an investigation of thought-provoking issues of breathing through film installation, video and live performance. This research specifically addressed how breath training exercises enhance dance performance and improve a dancer's control of their body, as well as how these exercises can function as material for choreographic inquiry. During the creation of the concert, the choreographer employed breath building exercises and applied different breath techniques with a cast of nine dancers. The choreographer and dancers worked collaboratively to develop creative material, enhance performance and help members of the audience understand why breathing in dance is so meaningful.
Download or read book Learning to Breathe from the Breath Itself written by Paul De Wit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author, who has been involved in rebirthing-breathwork for more than 30 years, takes us onto a journey of exploration. What we explore are both the outer and the inner aspects of breathing. Since the birth of breathwork in the 1970s much has been learned about breathing and, for example, how it can be affected by our birth and subsequent life-experiences. "Learning to Breathe from the Breath Itself" explains how rebirthing-breathwork developed, what it is, how it works and what kind of experiences a novice breathworker can expect. The appendix contains a series of breathing exercises that are a fun way of exploring one's breathing and that can help the beginning breathworker on her way. As such this book serves as a thorough introduction to rebirthing-breathwork. Beyond an introduction it also seeks to explore the deeper and more subtle phenomena associated with the breath. It introduces the concept of the imprint left on breathing by traumatic experiences and explains how connected breathing can resolve certain forms of trauma quite easily. It explains the "breathing release" and explores how thinking and consciousness are related to breathing and the breathing rhythm. As such it can be of great value to those who take conscious connected breathing serious and to those who have made it their profession. The author uses some of his own experiences as examples of the more general phenomena he describes, which gives the book an extra edge. Learning to Breathe from the Breathe Itself serves as both a map and a travel guide; as the title implies however, it is not the journey itself. Yes, we all breathe; but hardly anyone of us breathes unrestricted and freely. This book shows you how you can wake up in your breathing and start to learn how to breathe freely and unrestricted from the Breath itself.
Download or read book Functional Awareness written by Nancy Romita and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides practical information on anatomy for dancers using images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. Based on over 30,000 hours of training, Functional Awareness(R) improves dance technique with tools to enable the dancer to recruit effort efficiently and move with ease in class, on stage, and daily life.
Download or read book Yoga Therapy written by Kristen Butera and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga is more popular now than ever. The benefits are recognized worldwide, and athletes and therapists rely on the practice. Yet its appeal is as varied as those who practice it. Regardless of your activity level and fitness background, yoga is truly for you. Yoga Therapy: A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle will help you see your daily activities in a new light by giving you a new understanding of movement. Whether playing sports or exercising for fitness, you’ll recognize your movement and identify the poses to make them more efficient. With detailed instructions and photos, you’ll be guided through the exercises, breathing, and visualization techniques to improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Comprehensive and accessible, Yoga Therapy demonstrates the most effective poses for mobility, strength, recovery, and balance as well as techniques to aid relaxation and help with stress management. No matter your age, experience, or desired goal, Yoga Therapy will empower you to create personalized approaches that are as unique as you are and learn how to adapt your practice to your changing needs and goals throughout life.
