Leading somatic teacher Jaimie McHugh wrote this review on Amazon, and with his permission I am reposting it here: "Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, a renowned and prolific dance scholar, has distilled a lifetime of research and wisdom into this highly accessible book. Her writing style is clear, simple and festive as she invites her readers to rethink who they are as bodies. She injects a much-needed humanistic voice into the fitness marketplace, asking us to perceive our daily movement as a dance that can satisfy our needs for physical participation with life - just like the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hahn proposes that we can bring mindfulness of our breathing off of the meditation cushion and into our daily activities. Sheets-Johnstone offers simple points of awareness and concepts that will be of interest to anyone who wishes to have a more literate and fulfilling relationship with their own body - and with the everyday dances that the body is already expressing! I highly recommend this book for both the professional and the novice, especially for people who were turned off by the drudgery of exercise."
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:13:25 +0000