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Putting Movement Into Your Life: A Beyond Fitness Primer [Kindle Edition]

maxine sheets-johnstone (Author)
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Putting Movement into Your Life: A Beyond Fitness Primer is an engagingly written text with two-page foldouts per chapter that offer slow food for thought on a diversity of topics related to the text. The book is definitely NOT an exercise book or a self-help book, but a book about movement that breaks new ground in lively and creative ways while remaining anchored in everyday life. Being both playful and serious, it bridges popular and scholarly texts, and in doing so, answers to the growing attempt by numerous organizations, businesses, and individuals to promote health by promoting movement.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 198 KB
  • Print Length: 141 pages
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.ŕ r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0046W6U52
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  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #416,493 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Pied Piper of Fun 5 April 2013
By Jamie P. Ross - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Sheets-Johnstone says, "Feeling your aliveness is not a matter of learning a new
set of movements but of re-discovering your own. You reclaim something that's been
there all along but which you've been too busy to notice." As `putting movement into
your life' shows, we can surprise ourselves. We can, as it were, edit our dynamics
such that what we do has a new felt verve and sense about it. We readily have the
option of doing so." We can, as her chapter subtopics indicate, have "adventures in
outer space," "kick up our heels," have "directional possibilities" and, my favorite,
realize that "waiting was never so comfortable." Throughout the book in special fold-out sections, Sheets-Johnstone references philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and educators, among others, who have focused their research and/or practice on understanding why and how bodies move. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is the voice of reconstituted wisdom and the pied piper of fun.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Joy of Conscious Movement 30 Jan 2013
By Kevin McEvenue - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have been playing with the sense of your book for the last sixteen weeks and now it is time to say how this experience has been for me. In fact, I have just read the last chapter once again and I realized what touches me now about this body mind experience is the excitement of feeling alive in my body, how that sense of alive has so much movement in it. As my consciousness makes room for the felt sense of this alive feeling in me, my body seems to awaken even more to its experience of itself. When I go along with this awakened experience from inside more comes. I become the observer of what is happening rather than the doer. That is the shift! It is as though my body takes on a life of its own and begins to move me in its own wisdom that is clearly not of my own making. I find this relationship between consciousness and bodily awakening very exciting in its possibilities. I begin to have a sense of myself in a completely new way. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone's style of writing from her own direct experience makes it so easy to invite this experience offering simple steps that build on one another.

Kevin McEvenue 2013
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nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. it is not for unsteady souls” (Cunningham 1968, unpaginated). &quote;
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In contrast, the wherever, whatever, and however of human movement are restricted in one way and another by unwritten rules of culture. &quote;
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Feeling your aliveness is not then a matter of learning a new set of movements but of re-discovering your own. &quote;
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