For AuthorsFor PublishersBookstoreAuthor ResourcesFAQsGPS Login
General
Home

Shop at BookSurge

Health & Fitness

General

 
 
Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance
View larger imageEmail a friend

 
 
 
 
 

Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance

A 174 page perfect bound soft covered book explores somatic awareness as an active and essential element of movement education. Shifting the standard mechanical paradigm within the movement arts and fitness training to a wholistic perspective, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance focuses on cultivating awareness as the vital key for preventing injury while developing flexibility, increasing strength and cultivating resiliency. Includes self-help explorations for developing inner somatic awareness.

Availability: Usually ships in 1 business days
Our Price: $19.95 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25.

Note: Item may be sold and shipped by another company. Learn more.
Product Promotions:
  • Save $10 when you spend $50 and pay with Bill Me Later. The fast and convenient way to buy without using your credit card. Offer limited to items purchased from Amazon.com between July 14, 2008 and July 21, 2008. One per customer account. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout.  Here's how (restrictions apply)
Product Details:
Author: Liz Koch
Paperback: 174 pages
Publisher: Guinea Pig Publications
Publication Date: November 11, 2003
ISBN: 0965794482
Package Length: 9.0 inches
Package Width: 6.0 inches
Package Height: 0.3 inches
Package Weight: 0.6 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 2 reviews
 
 

Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review:3.5
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

3borrow it for sure! buy it if you'd like...  Mar 27, 2007
A bit all over the place and removed... not enough meat, in my opinion, but definitely great ideas and I like the last part with the exercises best. Worth borrowing for sure. And, I like having it on my bookshelf, but I don't know if I would buy it again.

25 of 25 found the following review helpful:

4Great information, poor presentation  Jun 29, 2004
Liz Koch knows what she is writing about, having worked with her own 'core awarenss' for many years. For myself, as someone professionally involved with yoga, Pilates, exercise and dance for years, the book was an instant fit. There is much valuable information in this book, and the general approach to movement that it advocates is something that desperately needs to become more widespread. On the down side, I wish Ms. Koch had paid attention to the amazon reviews of the previous book (The Psoas Book,), which suffers from the same production problems as this newer one does. I hope her next book gets professionally published (or even republish this one professionally). There are many typos, grammatical problems, and other errors that a good editor/proofreader could help with. Also, the incredibly simplistic line drawings that illustrate her sophisticated "movement explorations" don't begin to do justice to the material. Even I, an experienced movement professional, could not understand the proper body positioning on many of them. Please, please, some good photos!! In conclusion, this book is definitely worth reading for the information, but it is sad that the production of the book was so amateurish. But don't let that hold you back from getting the book--there aren't many books out there with this in-depth approach to core awareness. Most of what passes for 'core training' out there is nowhere near this level of somatic understanding.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Web business powered by Amazon WebStore