Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power |
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| Authors: | Ralston, Laura & Ralston, Peter |
| Publisher: | North Atlantic Books |
| BISAC/Subject: | HEA032000, OCC010000, PHI025000 |
| ISBN: | 9781583944325, Related ISBNs: 1583941592, 158394432X, 1623174597, 9781583941591, 9781583944325 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 200, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
A Zen-inspired “physical education” program for martial arts practitioners and anyone interested in mind-body transformation
Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, Ralston draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach.
More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence.
Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery and meditative awareness, which have a profound and sometimes instant effect. Areas of exploration include:
• Beginner’s Body-Being
• Three aspects of body awareness
• Five principles for an effortlessly effective body
• Opening a door--five steps to transformation
• Fourteen points on structural alignment
Where similar guides teach readers what to do, this book teaches readers how to be.
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