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ISBN: 9781615191987
Published: May 2, 2017
Price: $18.95 US / $28.95 CAN
Paper over Boards: 224 pages
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Stack Your Bones
100 Simple Lessons for Realigning Your Body and Moving With Ease
by Ruthie Fraser
 

Improve posture, alleviate pain, and create balanced strength and flexibility with 100 simply presented exercises—body biomechanics made easy!

Feel your bones. Get grounded. Relax. Learn to do less.

Your body responds to events and stresses in your life: Your back may tense up, shoulders slouch forward, hips veer off to the right or left. Slowly, without noticing, you shift out of balance.

Now, in Stack Your Bones, movement teacher Ruthie Fraser helps you unwind and realign through 100 simple lessons in Structural Integration. By becoming more aware of your body—its habits, structure, and needs—you can relieve pain and move with ease once again.

Learn to Find Your Feet, Root and Expand, Make It Simple, Vary Your Route, Tackle the Imbalances, and 95 other ways to befriend your body!

“Provides lessons and exercises to help you tackle the imbalances—which will help you relieve any pain or tension, so you can ultimately reach your fitness goals.”—Shape

“I love this book for its chromatic ‘lessons’ to make you more aware of your body and your mind.”—MindBodyGreen

“Deepen your focus and alignment awareness in yoga poses with these concise, accessible, and practical exercises, which can also provide themes and inspiration for yoga teachers.”—YogaBasics.com

“Ruthie is masterfully articulate, fluent in the language of the body. I am more limber and pain-free because of her.”—Adrian Grenier, actor, producer, director, musician

“The lessons in this book invite you to observe and play with physical habits and mental assumptions about your body that you may have developed over a lifetime. This book is a treasure trove of useful and enjoyable ways to improve your body awareness—to move from seeing your body as a source of worry and frustration, to relying on your body as a reservoir of strength and pleasure.”—Ellen Saltonstall, yoga teacher and author of Anatomy and Yoga

Ruthie Fraser is a Structural Integration practitioner, yoga teacher, and movement guide. A graduate of the Guild for Structural Integration, Ruthie has been in private practice in New York City since 2007 and currently runs the Stack Your Bones Studio in Brooklyn. Ruthie has worked with hundreds of clients, blending Structural Integration with her developing movement methodology. She has trained extensively in yoga with many master teachers and has taught thousands of classes in the United States and abroad. She holds a degree in art and architecture history from Brown University. Ruthie is also a lifelong dancer, a long-time Iyengar Yoga student, and a budding Voice Dialogue facilitator. She lives in New York, splitting her time between Brooklyn and Hudson.