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Kinetic Awareness® Teacher Training Program    

Reading List


Required:

The Body Has Its Reasons
Bertherat, Therese & Carol Bernstein. New York; Avon Books, 1979
Listen to Your Pain - The Active Person's Guide to Understanding. Identifying and Treating Pain & Injury
Benjamin, Ben. NY: Viking Press & Penguin Books, 1984
Sensory Awareness
Brooks, Charles. New York: Viking Press, 1974
Body and Mature Behavior; A Study Of Anxiety. Sex. Gratification and Learning
Feldenkrais, Moshe. New York: International Universities Press, 1949
The Magic Years
Fraiber, Selma H. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959
Interview with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen on the Developmental Process Underlying Perceptual Motor Integration
Nelson, Lisa and Stark-Smith, Nancy: Contact Quarterly - Spring/Summer 1984
Body Awareness: The Kinetic Awareness Work of Elaine Summers
Powell, J. Robin. New York University doctoral dissertation, 1986
Kinetic Awareness: Discovering Your Bodymind
Saltonstall, Ellen. New York: Kinetic Awareness Center, 1988
Ways to Better Breathing
Speads, Carola h .. NY: Harper & Row, 1978
*   The Thinking Body
Todd, Mabel Ellsworth. New York: Paul B. Heber, 1937;
reprint, Dance Horizons, 1972
The Heart of Psychotherapy
Weinberg, George. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984


Recommended:

Taking Root to Fly: Seven Articles in Functional Anatomy
Dowd, Irene. New York: Contact Collaborations, 1981
Body-Mind
Dychtwald, Ken. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Jove Publications, 1977
Awareness Through Movement
Feldenkrais, Moshe. NY: Harper &: Row, 1972
Body Consciousness: You Are What You Feel
Fisher, Seymour. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973
The Protean Body
Johnson, Don. NY: Harper Colophon Books, 1977
Body Awareness in Action: A Study of the Alexander Technique
Jones, Frank Pierce. NY: Schocken Books, 1976
* The Body Reveals
Kutz, Ron and Hector Prestera. NY: Harper & Row, Quicksilver Books, 1976
The Resurrection of the Body: The Writings of F. Matthew Alexander
Maisel, Edward, editor. NY: Delta, 1974
Listening to the Body
Masters, Robert and Houston, Jean. NY: Delacorte Press, 1978
* Character Analysis
Reich, Wilhelm. NY: Simm and Schuster, 945, a Touchstone Book, 1974
Developing Children/Their Changing Movement
Roberton, Mary Anne and Halverson, Lolas E. Philadelphia: Febiger, 1984
The Image and Appearance of the Human Body
Schilder, Paul. NY: International Universities Press, 1978
Goodbye to Bad Backs
Scott, Judith. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988
Human Moyement Potential: Its Ideokinetic Facilitation
Sweigard, Lulu. NY: Harper & Row, 1994
The First Three Years of Life
White, Burton. NY: Avon Books, 1975


References:

Muscles: Testing and Function
Kendall and Kendall
Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities
Hoppenfeld, Standlop
Structure and Function in Man
Jacob and Francone
Human Anatomy
Sobotta
Stedman Medical Dictionary

*Color Atlas of Human Anatomy
Thieme Series (publishers)



NOTE:
Some of these publications may be out of print, but available in a new edition or under a different publisher.