David Zemach-Bersin - Relaxercise: The Easy New Way to Health and Fitness

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   EXERCISES 1 to 10
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   1. EASY FLEXIBILITY :
   Learn how to improve your flexibility and freedom of movement by as much as 100%!
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   2. LOW BACK COMFORT :
   Give yourself immediate relief and find a way to end chronic low back tension.
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   3. A HEALTHY SPINE :
   Restore the health and flexibility of your spine and counteract the effects of sedentary living.
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   4. RELAXED SHOULDERS :
   Learn how to eliminate tension and discomfort from the most vulnerable part of your body while improving your range of motion.
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   5. YOUR POWER CENTER :
   Mobilize the most powerful muscles of your body to improve your ease of movement and posture.
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   6. ALIGNING YOUR BODY :
   Discover an easy way to bring your body into balance with gravity and improve the flexibility of your neck, upper torso, and lower back.
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   7. FULL BREATHING :
   As your breathing capacity improves you will find corresponding benefits to your posture and vitality.
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   8. FLEXIBLE FEET :
   Learn how to restore the natural flexibility and suppleness of your feet.
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    9. FACE & JAW TREATMENT :
    Look younger and more relaxed as you use this quick and effective way to dissolve face and jaw tension.
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    10. RELAXED EYESIGHT :
    Sight is our most important sense. Learn how to reduce eyestrain and use your eyes in a new, more relaxed way.
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    POSTURAL HEALTH

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Relaxercise is clear and effective, impressively interconnecting brain and muscle.

Norman Cousins

If you dont have time for exercise, learn the basics from Relaxercise. Make it a part of your daily regimen and youll find an easy way to get through these stressful days.

Whoopi Goldberg

For so many of us who experience physical aches and pains associated with stress Relaxercise presents an important new approach for a healthy body.

Stephan T. Rechtschaffen, M.D., Omega Institute

With ease and simplicity, Relaxercise reaches deep into our BodyMind. Even with a small investment of time, remarkable results are achieved. Relaxercise will change your walk towards inner freedom into a lively jog.

Laura Huxley

A few minutes of Relaxercise can give you the flexibility and postural benefits of hours of aerobic exercise.

Anne Rosenthal, Ph.D.

After years of back problems, Relaxercise has given me the ability to remain free of pain. They are by far the most effective and pleasurable exercise I have ever done.

Joseph Botkin, M.A.

After just a few moments of Feldenkrais exercises, people often find themselves, as if by magic, easily doing things with their bodies that they never thought possible.

New Age Magazine

NOTE

Though thousands of people have benefited from doing Relaxercise exercises, we cannot anticipate the special needs, limitations, and responses of every individual. The informtion contained in this book is not intended for the purpose of diagnosing or as a substitute for medical treatment. Consult your doctor before beginning this or any other exercise program. We cannot and do not offer any warranty of the effectiveness of the exercises. Responsibility for the results of the exercises is necessarily the readers.

If you have any questions, you may communicate with the authors by writing to Sensory Motor Learning Systems, P.O. Box 5674, Berkeley, California, 94705.

Photo of Dr. Feldenkrais Bonnie Freer
All other photos Richard Blair
Illustrations Kaethe Zemach-Bersin

RELAXERCISE. Copyright 1990 by David Zemach-Bersin and Mark Reese. Foreword copyright 1990 by Harold H. Bloomfield. Illustrations copyright 1990 by Kaethe Zemach-Bersin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zemach-Bersin. David.

Relaxercise: the new way to feel good.

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