Back Into Action – An Owner’s Manual for the Human Spine – Larry Goldfarb

 

This PDF download is the companion eBook to the BACK INTO ACTION MP3 audio lesson series.

FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER: Back Into Action eBook – Chapter 1 Read Now/Download Now

Based on one of the fundamental movements of the spine, each BACK INTO ACTION lesson uses unusual movements in unfamiliar positions to guide you to develop effiency, ease and extent of motion.

The BACK INTO ACTION MP3 series contains 12 complete lessons. Each lesson is between 18 – 25 minutes in length:

Lesson 1: A Comfortable Back I – FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER Listen Now

Lesson 2: A Comfortable Back II

Lesson 3: Turning With Ease I

Lesson 4: Turning With Ease II

Lesson 5: Shoulder & Hip Circles I

Lesson 6: Shoulder & Hip Circles II

Lesson 7: Cat and Camel – Theme

Lesson 8: Cat and Camel – Variation

Lesson 9: Arching Your Back I

Lesson 10: Arching Your Back I

Lesson 11: Pelvic Compass I

Lesson 12: Pelvic Compass II

These are introductory level lessons – previous Feldenkrais experience is not required. All you need is to be curious about how you move and how you can improve!

 

Based on the Feldenkrais Method^® of movement education, BACK INTO ACTION lessons are structured to develop kinesthetic aptitude, improve coordination, and alter ingrained movement habits. Each lesson facilitates the re-learning of the fundamental coordination patterns most often interfered with by back injury and pain.

Each of the lessons is founded on the coordination patterns that underlie standard rehab exercises. Each lesson is consists of small sequential steps, each of which can be done in and safely. This allows each student a chance to figure out how to do these movements—and therefore their exercises—correctly and comfortably, often for the first time. There are many opportunities to clearly and simply explore the movement logic behind each exercise—why it is beneficial, how it relates to basic functions of the spine, and so on—in ways that help each student realize his or her movement potential.

Our motto is: “No pain, more gain.”

BACK INTO ACTION offers students the means for making lasting changes, while helping them to enjoy the process of learning and changing.

Composed of a series of innovative Feldenkrais movement lessons, BACK INTO ACTION originated as a treatment component for chronic back pain patients in a comprehensive orthopedic rehabilitation. This program was designed particularly for people who did not respond to standard exercises and treatment modalities. Most of these patients either performed home exercise with increased pain and discomfort, or they simply didn’t follow through on their home program. Even among those patients who regularly did exercise, few did them in such a way to receive the potential benefit.

Equally important, many people with chronic movement limitations found it difficult to incorporate new ways of moving into everyday activities. No matter how much time they spent in “back school,” the gym, and supervised exercise classes, a large percentage of the patients could not integrate what they learned into their daily lives.

The BACK INTO ACTION program presents twelve lessons based on the Feldenkrais Method of movement education. In each lesson you will explore movement possibilies that help you discover easier, safer ways of moving.