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"By far the most stimulating and visually articulate book on the subject. A must read for everyone." -- Marika Molnar; P.T. Director, Physical Therapy Services; member, New York City Ballet; director, West Side Dance Physical Therapy. "Direct, clear, and congenial. Pelvic power can be yours with this simply sound approach of sensing, visualizing, and moving!" -- Glenna Batson, M.A., P.T. Director, Wellness Partners in the Arts. "Eric Franklin has once again written a phenomenal book--useful for practitioners, and exercise specialists." -- Jenn Dunn, M.S. Board of Directors.
Glenna Batson, M.A., P.T. Director, Wellness Partners in the Arts
"[D]irect, clear, and congenial. Pelvic power can be yours with this simply sound approach of sensing, visualizing, and moving!"
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The pelvic floor needs dynamic training, the goals of which are to build up body-awareness, flexibility, and strength. Read the first page
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read this book through once and can honestly say I will be referring to it over and again. It will not be sold on at a car boot sale in a few months along with many other impressively titled texts, instead I know I will refer to it again and again.
In a western, industrial culture that shrouds the pelvic area of the body with mystery and/or shame, there is a lot of excessive medicalisation or, on the flipside, an abundance of exotic and untranslated terminology, euphemism and side-talking going on in physiotherapy, antenatal, yoga, Pilates, and other forms of body work classes and sessions in relation to just what parts of the body we are talking about. Terms like "the bandhas" are not always mentally present to the Westerner (we have to translate before we can visualise before we can engage); and terms like "the core muscles" don't say much to many people not already involved in fitness. Or the most useless phrase yet used "the smile muscles" -- still don't know what that particular speaker was talking about.
But Franklin by-passes the nonsense. He credits and gives respect to the Eastern philosophies and their terms, he introduces and explains the Western medical terms -- but then he gets on to discuss, with humour and clarity, just what parts of the body we are dealing with. How to feel those muscles and to work them.
The basis of his method is a unique set of visualisation exercises -- solidly grounded in human physiology and how the body really works -- that you can adapt for your own use. The muscles follow the mind. Visualisation is the key to proper alignment, muscle recruitment and movement.
Insightful, amusing, clear and, most importantly, very very helpful.
In a western, industrial culture that shrouds the pelvic area of the body with mystery and/or shame, there is a lot of excessive medicalisation or, on the flipside, an abundance of exotic and untranslated terminology, euphemism and side-talking going on in physiotherapy, antenatal, yoga, Pilates, and other forms of body work classes and sessions in relation to just what parts of the body we are talking about. Terms like "the bandhas" are not always mentally present to the Westerner (we have to translate before we can visualise before we can engage); and terms like "the core muscles" don't say much to many people not already involved in fitness. Or the most useless phrase yet used "the smile muscles" -- still don't know what that particular speaker was talking about.
But Franklin by-passes the nonsense. He credits and gives respect to the Eastern philosophies and their terms, he introduces and explains the Western medical terms -- but then he gets on to discuss, with humour and clarity, just what parts of the body we are dealing with. How to feel those muscles and to work them.
The basis of his method is a unique set of visualisation exercises -- solidly grounded in human physiology and how the body really works -- that you can adapt for your own use. The muscles follow the mind. Visualisation is the key to proper alignment, muscle recruitment and movement.
Insightful, amusing, clear and, most importantly, very very helpful.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Pelvic Power: Mind/Body Exercises for Strength, Flexibility, Posture and Balance for Men and Women
18 May 2010
Format:Paperback
This book answered all my questions. Extremely well laid out, it has clear, informative text and diagrams in an highly readable format - with no inaccessible medical jargon... I wish I had come across it far sooner!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
a good reflexion on how to introduce pelvic floor exercises to people at large. A good complement for therapists.
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