Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781583941591)

A Zen-inspired "physical education" program for martial arts practitioners and anyone interested in mind-body transformation

Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, Ralston draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach.

More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence.

Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery and meditative awareness, which have a profound and sometimes instant effect. Areas of exploration include:

- Beginner's Body-Being
- Three aspects of body awareness
- Five principles for an effortlessly effective body
- Opening a door--five steps to transformation
- Fourteen points on structural alignment

Where similar guides teach readers what to do, this book teaches readers how to be.

Author: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston
ISBN-10: 1583941592
ISBN-13: 9781583941591
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.60d