BOOK REVIEW - Moving from the inside out: 7 principles for ease and mastery in movement, a Feldenkrais approach, by Leslie McLennan and Julie Peck (2020)

BOOK REVIEW - Moving from the inside out: 7 principles for ease and mastery in movement, a Feldenkrais approach, by Leslie McLennan and Julie Peck (2020)

Author: Ines Federica Tecchiati

Published by Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice. DOI: 10.1080/17432979.2021.1989035

LINK TO PAPER:  https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2021.1989035

ABSTRACT

The title describes a journey. The journey starts asking a few funny, puzzling questions, like:

How might a tight tummy lead to voice loss?

How can a bathroom scale test your skeletal alignment?

As one can notice, the stress is not on Why, but on How. How we do move from our internal space to the external one, reachable with our extremities (kinesphere)?

How does the internal space shape the external one while we carry out our daily actions, those we perform while working or while moving for fun, sport, leisure or passion? The global vision of the person, starting from one’s physical and mobile dimensions.