Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8593 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 127 pages

Marika Molnar; P.T. Director, Physical Therapy Services; member, New York City Ballet; director, West Side Dance Physical Therapy
"By far the most stimulating and visually articulate book on the subject. A must read for everyone."

Review
"Accurate and highly understandable sketches...useful for men and women, teachers and students alike." —Journal of Dance Medicine and Science

Jenn Dunn, M.S. Board of Directors
"Eric Franklin has once again written a phenomenal book—useful for practitioners, and exercise specialists."

Customer Reviews

The Foundation of the Core
Often overlooked, the pelvic floor is the key to core strength and feelings of power and self-control (or powerlessness). In every one of his books, Erik Franklin gives the most beautiful metaphors and excellent instructions to reclaim your body. These exercises are particularly fun.

Anita Boser, author of Relieve Stiffness and Feel Young Again with Undulation

The pelvis with a difference
This book takes pelvic floor understanding and excercise to a new level. the power of visualisation to heal does help the process

Unique topic; precision exersizes and illustrations.
This book is a gem, though I agree with several reviewers that the cover illustration is a poor choice. Luckily, it was one of the few poor choices that the author allowed into this book. The sequence of exercises, the illustrations and the well constructed mental imagery make a topic that is very difficult to "wrap you head around", feel accessible. This is a difficult task because few persons that have any grasp of the material covered in this book would even attempt to teach it without a hands-on face-to-face access to a student. Teaching this material is made even more difficult since our culture imparts many social difficulties in even speaking about this portion of the anatomy.
I teach taiji and various moving meditations and have some knowledge of numerous martial arts and meditative body works that all consider subtle control of the pelvic floor muscles to be a critical step in internal energy work. Teaching or coaching a person to mentally discover, and then actively work with these muscles can be very difficult, for all the reasons Eric Franklin outlines in this book. If the only thing that I got from this book was improving my repertoire of images for working with students it would have been a great find. However, the most important aspect of this book was that I found his exercises helped me to improve my own connection with, and sensation into, these important integrators of my internal somantic space. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to the author for this book, the gratitude that a student feels towards a teacher when new learning blossoms. Thank you