How Life Moves: Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness [Paperback]

This comprehensive movement program uses the story of biological evolution as a tool to increase strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Readers learn to "unlearn" inherited bodily habits by embodying the many forms that life has expressed on Earth—from the single cell to the human being—and shifting their perception. Through this evolutionary movement, the body's native intelligence is revived and new movements can be learned, enabling the body to overcome chronic musculoskeletal complaints such as lower back, shoulder, and neck pain, and to meet whatever challenges it is faced with."The authors have provided us with a well thought-out and highly articulate voice of a moving scenario that enriches all of our lives."
Emilie Conrad, Founder of Continuum Movement

"Caryn and Kevin have written an easily accessible but potent book on the organic origins of movement patterns. Not just another therapeutic formula, this is work that seeks to lead us back to our deepest internal resources for self-awareness, self-regulation, and successful adaptation to our ever-shifting circumstances."
Deane Juhan, Author ofJob's Body: A Handbook for BodyworkandTouched by the Goddess:The Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork

"What does it really mean to move--to propel ourselves through space and time? What are sensation and awareness? This book invites you to a deep, expansive, and joyous ourney that will forever change your perspective on what it is to be alive."
James L. Oschman, Ph.D., Author ofEnergy Medicine: The Scientific Basis

"Kevin and Caryn lead us quietly into the depths of our being, exploring a unique somatic psychology that expands the value of movement far beyond the limited definition of "fitness" so prevalent today and toward the larger "fittingness" we desperately need to be fully human in the headlong folly of our twentylӟ