2nd Edition
by Eric N. Franklin (Author)
Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition,
expands on the classic text and reference written by Eric Franklin, an
internationally renowned teacher, dancer, and choreographer who has been
sharing his imagery techniques for 25 years.
In this new
edition, Franklin shows you how to use imagery, touch, and movement
exercises to improve your coordination and alignment. These exercises
will also help you relieve tension, enhance the health of your spine and
back, and prevent back injury.
This expanded new edition includes
• more than 600 imagery exercises along with nearly 500 illustrations
to help you visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts;
• audio files for dynamic imagery exercises set to music and posted online to the book’s product page; and
• updated chapters throughout the book, including new material on
integrated dynamic alignment exercises and dynamic alignment and
imagery.
This book will help you discover your natural
flexibility and quickly increase your power to move. You’ll learn
elements of body design. You’ll explore how to use imagery to improve
your confidence, and you’ll discover imagery conditioning programs that
will lead you toward better alignment, safer movement, increased
fitness, and greater joy. Further, you’ll examine how to apply this
understanding to your discipline or training to improve your
performance.
Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition,
will help you experience the biomechanical and anatomical principles
that are crucial to dancers, other performing artists, yoga and Pilates
teachers and practitioners, and athletes. The techniques and exercises
presented in the book will guide you in improving your posture—and they
will positively affect your thoughts and attitude about yourself and
others and help you feel and move better both mentally and physically.
