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!
“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