The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World

Mary Bond

ISBN 10: 1594771243 / ISBN 13: 9781594771248

Published by Inner Traditions Bear and Company, 2006

About this Item

2006. 32555th. Paperback. A manual for understanding the anatomical and emotional components of posture in order to heal chronic pain. Num Pages: 240 pages, 41 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: VFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 205 x 14. Weight in Grams: 500. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World
• Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594771243
• ISBN 13: 9781594771248
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A manual for understanding the anatomical and emotional components of posture in order to heal chronic pain

• Contains self-help exercises and ergonomics information to help correct unhealthy movement patterns

• Teaches how to adopt suitable posture in the modern sedentary world

Many people cause their own back and body pain through their everyday bad postural and movement habits. Many sense that their poor posture is probably the root of the problem, but they are unable to change long-standing habits.

In The New Rules of Posture, Mary Bond approaches postural changes from the inside out. She explains that healthy posture comes from a new sense we can learn to feel, not by training our muscles into an ideal shape. Drawing from 35 years of helping people improve their bodies, she shows how habitual movement patterns and emotional factors lead to unhealthy posture. She contends that posture is the physical action we take to orient ourselves in relation to situations, emotions, and people; in order to improve our posture, we need to examine both our physical postural traits and the self-expression that underlies the way we sit, stand, and move. The way we walk, she says, is our body’s signature.

Bond identifies the key anatomical features that impact alignment, particularly in light of our modern sedentary lives, and proposes six zones that help create postural changes: the pelvic floor, the breathing muscles, the abdomen, the hands, the feet, and the head. She offers self-help exercises that enable healthy function in each zone as well as information on basic ergonomics and case histories to inspire us to think about our own habitual movements. This book is a resource for Pilates, yoga, and dance instructors as well as healthcare professionals in educating people about postural self-care so they can relieve chronic pain and enjoy all life activities with greater ease.

About the Author

Mary Bond has a Master’s degree in dance from UCLA and trained with Dr. Ida P. Rolf as a Structural Integration practitioner. She is a movement instructor at the Rolf Institute and teaches movement workshops nationally. The author of Balancing Your Body, she has also published articles in numerous health and fitness magazines. She lives in California.