商品簡介
Release stress and tension in the body using only simple rubber balls with this accessible, step-by-step guide to a bodywork system that can benefit people of any age or physical condition, developed by a top yoga and bodywork teacher.
The Bodymind Ballwork Method is an accessible guide to the method developed by yoga and bodywork teacher Ellen Saltonstall--a self-directed, gentle practice to help people release tension and move with ease. The Bodymind Ballwork Method features the use of rubber balls in a range of sizes to support, massage, and stretch the body in specific places, providing clear instructions for practicing Bodymind Ballwork to release tension from head to toes. With 70 black and white photos and 25 drawings to illustrate techniques and concepts, the author offers exercises for spine, head, neck, face, abdomen, ribs, shoulders, arms, hands, pelvis, things, knees, lower legs, and feet. A body-mind practice, Bodymind Ballwork works to relieve soft tissue pain, emotional trauma, nervous stress, and is also designed to empower individuals to maintain their own health and mobility in connection with any ongoing physical activity they do.
作者簡介
Ellen Saltonstall is a certified bodywork teacher and yoga therapist with over forty years of experience. Her commitment to bodywork comes out of her early professional experience in modern dance performance and massage therapy. At the Saltonstall Studio in Manhattan, she teaches students who are physical therapists, massage therapists, acupuncturists, yoga teachers, psychotherapists, dance teachers, visual artists, writers, and attorneys. Bodymind Ballwork plays a regular part in her classes, workshops and private sessions. She has offered teacher training in Bodymind Ballwork for ten years, and teaches this method internationally.
