Mind & Mend Your Hips: Better Hip Health

by Ann Rodiger

Overview

Learn how to improve your hip health, prepare for and recover from hip surgery, and improve your overall movement through the Alexander Technique. This book guides you to a fundamental understanding of how your body moves providing practical Awareness Building and Movement Activities. This information is useful at any stage of hip health. Topics include developing an accurate body image, how your thinking and movement connect, spatial thinking, sensory awareness, and recuperative strategies. There are accompanying illustrations and videos to lead readers through the actions. There is instruction on the use of mobility aids. There are also several case studies including the author Ann Rodiger's own experience, providing different perspectives on how the Alexander Technique can assist with hip health and recovery from surgery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781667843322
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	06/05/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Ann Rodiger is the Founder and Director of the Balance Arts Center, LLC and the Balance Arts Alexander Technique Teacher Training Programs in New York City.

She has been teaching the Alexander Technique and movement for over 35 years in academic and private settings in the US and abroad. She is also skilled in Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, meditation, and various dance techniques.

Ann offers specialized in-peron and hybrid workshops and programs based on the Alexander Technique. She writes an ongoing blog and has written How To Sit.

Ann has had both hips replaced and lives with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.

She is a member of the American Society of the Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique International, and International Society of Movement Educators and Therapy Association.

Table of Contents

Notes to the Reader 1

Chapter 1 Discovering the Whole - Unified Field of Awareness 5

Chapter 2 Developing an Accurate Body Image 33

Chapter 3 The Hips 49

Chapter 4 Cultivating New Movement Patterns - How We Can Change 55

Chapter 5 Start Where You are Now 65

Chapter 6 Walking as Your Laboratory 71

Chapter 7 Deepen, Refine & Expand Your Awareness 93

Chapter 8 Thinking and Moving in Action 109

Chapter 9 Navigating Hip Surgery 131

Case Studies 139

Ann's Story 139

Meg Jolley's Story 160

Pam Johnson's Story 166

Appendix I Using Mobility Aids 175

Appendix II Recuperation Strategies 195

Appendix III Practical Pre- and Post-Surgical Tips 203

The Alexander Technique at the Balance Arts Center 207

Contributing Influences 209

References 213

Video Catalog 213

References: 219

Key Concepts 225