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Praise for Frank Wildman:

There are ways that will lead you to a more active, healthy and safer life and you will feel, look and act younger. One of the best ways to do this is to read Change Your Age and follow the advice of Dr. Frank Wildman. He is a master teacher of Feldenkrais and many forms of vital movement therapy. I can highly recommend this book to all who wish to improve their well-being.

Paul Davidson, MD, internist and rheumatologist and author of the best-selling Chronic Muscle Pain Syndrome

Dr. Wildmans Change Your Age Program comes from over 30 years of experience with people, bodies and ideas. He has combined insights from movement studies and neurophysiology to create a program that can enable and allow anyone of any age to improve their ability to move, think, act and feel.

Sanford Rosenberg, PhD, psychologist and president of Media Research Associates

Frank Wildman hands down and hands on to us the richness and complexity of the Method directly from its founder, Moshe Feldenkrais.

Michael McClure, Obie Award-winning playwright, poet and author of The Beard and Scratching the Beat Surface

Frank is one of those rare people who has both the gift to clearly understand the complex principles behind his work and the gift to communicate that work in a simple and intimate way.

Jader Tolja, MD, professor at the University of Milan

Franks teaching is totally inspirational. This is really about teaching and educating the person, instead of forcing someone through an exercise by repetition of a movement. As an instructor, it has given me another vantage point and a whole other vocabulary to communicate with my students. It has made my work exciting again!

Kathryn Ross-Nash, founding president of the Pilates Guild

Frank Wildmans enthusiasm for the work and dedication to its value in enhancing the human condition has led him to introduce the material to groups of health professionals nationally and internationally. He has a clear image of how a program can be most effective and combines this with a flair for light-hearted showmanship.

John B. Chester, MD, former director of pain services at Salem Hospital Regional Rehabilitation Center

Frank Wildmans Change Your Age Program is a pleasure. Thousands of people could regain and enjoy the mobility they had when they were much younger. Read this book and do it.

Anna Halprin, post-modern dance and theatre pioneer

Ive experienced how you really can change your age several times with great pleasure. These movement routines are well thought out and give you plenty of time to stop, reflect, and repeat. I was particularly struck by Frank Wildmans perspective on how we can change habits that diminish our potential and bedevil aspects of our aging.

Brooks Adams, art critic and contributing editor, Art in America

Frank Wildman is an exceptionally stimulating, generous, and knowledgeable teacher. He has a unique way of clarifying the relationship of the Feldenkrais Method to contemporary intellectual and scientific trends.

Yvan Joly, Feldenkrais trainer and psychologist

To Beryl Kennedy, my student, friend, and mentor, who was doing clown dives at the age of 85; and to all the people who studied with me across this planet for so many years, and who proved to me that they could change their age, and demonstrated that the promises made in this book can be fulfilled.

FOREWORD

AGING ISNT WHAT IT USED TO BEBUT ITS NOT YETWHAT IT COULD BE

by Ken Dychtwald, PhD

IN AN ancient Greek fable, Eos, the beautiful goddess of the dawn, falls deeply in love with the warrior Tithonus. Distraught over his mortality, she goes to Zeuss chamber to request a special favor: She wants to love Tithonus until the end of time and begs Zeus to grant her lover immortality. Are you certain that is what you want for him? Zeus challenges. Yes, Eos responds.

As Eos leaves Zeuss chamber she realizes in shock that she forgot to ask that Tithonus also remain eternally young and healthy. With each passing year, she looks on with horror as he grows older and sicker. As the decades pass, the once-proud warrior is reduced to a collection of pained and increasingly fragile bonesyet continues to live forever.

This is a fitting allegory for what many of us are struggling with todayunhealthy aging. During the 20th century, we did an excellent job of eliminating many of the life-threatening diseases of youth. Childbirth, once a major cause of premature death, has by and large become healthier and safer. The effect of these improvements is that more of us are living longerbut not necessarily healthier.

When were young, we tend to take our health for granted. Then, when we reach our forties or fifties, we begin to notice that there are some changes going on, and we start to take things much more seriously. As we look at our own moms and dads, we can see the outcomes of how things turn out when people do or dont take the best care of themselves.

Luckily, many of my generation, the baby boomer generation, have begun changing our cultures perceptions of aging by creating healthy, active lifestyles. However, there is still a missing link in our perception of aging that has not been addressed: the mysteries of moving youthfully.

For nearly 40 years, I have been a student of the field of wellness and have written extensively about health, aging, and longevity. As Ive traveled the world, Ive encountered numerous enthusiastic practitioners, but only a handful of great teachers who were truly innovative. I have witnessed countless approaches to vitality and rejuvenation, but only a few that actually seem to work.

I wrote my first book, Bodymind, in the early 1970s, and during that time I had the good fortune of observing and experiencing Frank Wildman and his brilliant work. To this day, I remain absolutely dazzled by his nearly unrivaled knowledge of the workings of the body and mind, his ingenious therapeutic talents, and his masterful teaching style.

Dr. Wildman believes that the mind and body are intimately connectedlike dancing partners. He teaches that our bodies are constantly being shaped and reshaped by the moves we makeor do not make. As we grow up, we learn to walk, eat, sleep, dance, make love, and think in certain ways. As we mature, unfortunately, we often move less, become creatures of our own habits, and stop learning to move in new ways. In response, our neuromuscular development diminishes, and we find ourselves with a growing legion of aches and pains, rigidities, limits, and other unpleasant manifestations of aging and dis-ease.

And so were fortunate that Frank Wildman has distilled the lessons of his lifetime into a powerful, easy-to-follow new system for all of us. Change Your Age is a book for now and for the future. In the recent past, people didnt expect to move so well by the time they reached their forties and fifties. And lots of people didnt expect to be moving much at all by the time they reached their sixties and seventies.

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