Reintroducing Healthy Movement into Daily Life: Combating Stress, Disease and Ill Health

This book provides a research-based, user-friendly, practical guide on how to reintroduce movement into our daily lives.

Presenting a rationale for the value of movement to all humans, the book explains why and where movement-based approaches and activities may be used to combat daily stress and promote good mental and physical health. Chapters provide simple short and easy-to-use ideas and activities, drawing on the authors’ combined experience as teachers, coaches, facilitators and therapists. Ideas presented will be applicable to a range of professions and settings such as stay-at-home parents, workers in a factory, shop, or office, or professionals in high stress sedentary jobs.

Reintroducing Movement into Daily Life will be of value to any individual wishing to improve their own health. It also provides guidelines and ideas for professionals working in educational, healthcare and other settings to use with their students/ patients/ clients.

Bernie Warren, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, is an internationally respected interdisciplinary researcher and teacher, and a widely published writer on the arts, education and healthcare, who loves teaching and makes learning FUN! He has taught in universities worldwide for over 35 years and, since his retirement, has been concentrating on his research and writing.

Glenys McQueen-Fuentes is a movement and physical theatre specialist whose research and interests include movement and music as integral languages across the curriculum and exploring methods for enlivening virtual pedagogy. She has lived and worked for extended periods in France, New Zealand and Mexico.