DellaGrotte Somatic Core Integration DVD's and Audio
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About Our Core Integration and Feldenkrais Products
Thousands of participants in our new breakthrough program have learned this program, enhancing their core, their posture, balance, their flexibility, and strength.
Natural Exercise is simply a combination of core-organized, well-executed pathway movement actions-focused, effective, enjoyable, challenging, even playful. Add cardio- stimulation and you feel better, stronger, pain-free, secure and confident-what your body-mind system needs and wants.
The lesson-exercises below guide you so you do the learning-the major difference from just following instructions to connecting and integrating the movements, putting you in conscious control.
You can learn on your own. We also offer hands on assisted Core Integration courses in different locations. View our classes and seminars listings.
Core Integration 1 and Core Integration 2, Two DVD Set $50.00
Core Integration 1 (DVD, 80 minutes)
Core Integration 1 guides you through the body's movement map and its built-in core pathways which are the basis for all the movements of natural life that everyone needs to learn and even master to live well, fit and strong. These interesting movements become natural exercises you can do almost anywhere. They support, strengthen and maintain posture, and flexibility, prevent unnecessary postural pains, reduce "arthritic" disorders-which are not normal- and help you move free and flexible for a lifetime.
Contents:
- Turns, Twists and Spirals
- Improving Shoulder Function
- Active Sitting
- Walking with Ease and Power
- Back & Spine Strengthening
- Psychophysical Integration through Breathing, Movement and Intention
Core Integration 2 - Gym in Your Pocket (DVD 60 minutes)
Core Integration 2 is a complete, safe, effective and superior exercise program to restore the body to its natural biological potential through the six core pathways for true upright posture, lengthening, smooth movement flow, and strengthening. The movement exercises are enhanced by learning how to use and get the most out of fitness bands. Use them anytime, anyplace in any space. With over 60 exercises-standing and lying-this course is the perfect complement to Core Integration DVD-1.
Contents:
Learning and improving the 15 basic yoga postures, including:
- Sun salute, spinal twists, forward bends and others.
- Special section on improving sitting meditation postures
- Designed, guided and illustrated by Josef DellaGrotte and Ornella Valentini [ recorded in Italy, in English].
Core Integration 3 - Yoga Using Core Integration (DVD) $35.00
A new approach to improve all yoga practices. Ready for a new view on Yoga postures? Many "traditional" Yoga methods no longer work for the modern sedentary body, the physically unprepared beginner, the weakened, the shortened, the myofascia misaligned. CoreIntegration is based on the science of movement myofascial pathways, on properly directing biomechanical forces. Where stretching too much can cause pains, it emphasizes alignment, movement flow, lengthening, strengthening, thus getting the best of everything including relaxation and greater body awareness and control. The effects: elimination of pains related to over-stretching (especially back pain),and other "common yoga injuries."
Based on CoreIntegration' new map of the six core movement pathways and principles of Dr. Moshe Felldenkrais. relaxation - a new approach to improve all yoga practices.
Core Integration Set 3 DVDs $75
Get all three Core Integration DVDs for only $95.
New Generation Exercise Audio Programs
New Generation Lesson Exercises are in a voice-guided easy to understand and follow format-5 lesson-exercises approximately 15 minutes each, sequenced to the next lesson, forming a program for improving functional daily life activities. This new design is intended to promote your learning and improvement in everyday life functioning.
Back and Spine Strengthening (Audio) 5 lesson-exercises, 70 minutes CD $12; Cassette $10
These lesson-exercises are designed to help you improve and maintain back and spinal integrity, alignment, and mobility, regardless of age.
Active Chair Sitting (Audio) 5 lesson-exercises, 75 minutes CD $12; Cassette $10
For anyone who works at a desk, computer, or just sits in a chair, this course informs you in how to transform poor habits into an easy upright healthier way to sit, move around and improve posture.
Walking with Ease and Power (Audio) CD $12; Cassette $10
Learn true upright and efficient walking, normal or fast-paced. Learn by internally feeling the movement actions and integrating the entire body in walking.
"The best and most effective program for walking I have ever experienced. Not only am I walking faster, but I'm having none of the old pains in the knees and lower back" - F.A.
Psychophysical; Somatic Integration using Breathing (Audio) CD $12; Cassette $10
4 lesson -exercises, 50 minutes.
Learn the process of true breathing as spinal lengthening. Link breathing with feeling states. Integrate emotional energies in the body. Learn the somatics of intentional choosing, and its benefits.
"Beautifully guided, calming and centering with profound results." -S. Lounder
Improving Shoulder-Arm Functions (Audio) CD $12; Cassette $10
5 lessons, 70 minutes
Reduce shoulder problems and learn the most efficient uses of the shoulders and arms in turning, reaching, typing, lifting, and playing sports.
Turns, Twists and Spirals (Audio) 5 Lesson-Exercise, 74 minutes CD $12; Cassette $10
This series shows you how to access the fundamental features of true human movement: resonant flow and spinal lengthening using rotation through the spiralic pathways of myofascial lengthening, taking you into easy and enjoyable turns from right to left, back to side, and front to back, enhancing fluidity and flexibility.
Purchase All Six "New Generation" (Audio) Six CDs $65; Six Cassettes $55
- Back and Spine Strengthening
- Active Chair Sitting
- Walking with Ease and Power
- Psychophysical; Somatic Integration using Breathing
- Improving Shoulder-Arm Functions: Connecting - Integrating Ribs and Spine
- Turns, Twists and Spirals
Improving Your Vision Fitness (Audio - 154 minutes) 3 CDs $39
Josef DellaGrotte, Ph.D. and Ernest Loewenstein, Ph.D., Optometrist created this program of 12 lesson-exercises designed to actually improve visual functions from reading to peripheral vision and peripheral awareness. The program connects eye movements to the core movement pathways, especially in relation to the spine, neck and head. It helps improve your posture in sitting, working at a desk, reading, with a special practice for seeing better while driving. There are exercises to reduce visual stress syndrome, tired eyes, eyestrain, neck strain, and headaches. This program had a pilot study group, and a proven track record of success. It works!
On 3 CDs, in a folder; 12 lessons, 154 minutes.
Yoga Using Awareness through Movement (Audio - 230 minutes) - 4 cassettes $45
Feldenkrais Principles Series of 4 audiocassettes (20 lessons, 230 minutes total)
- Spinal Twist
- Forward Bend/Head to Knee
- Cross-Leg Sitting
- Sun Salutation
Learn how to perform often difficult and stylized yoga postures using an effortless and gradual functional movement approach, emphasizing lengthening, flow, and a felt sense of connections. Learn or significantly improve your own body use performing the basic classical postures Each guided tape lesson begins with easy to gradually advanced postures.
"A new approach based on a bodywork process of enormous subtlety and effectiveness."
-Yoga Journal Review
The Eight Basic Movements Series (Audio - 160 minutes) - 4 cassettes $45
A basic course in the functional patterns of every day life activities, from turning to sitting, and walking. Also, for the head and neck, the jaw, shoulders, back, hips and legs.
Eight lesson-exercises on four cassettes, 20 minutes each.
"An excellent introduction to how the method works and relates to everyday life. Easy to understand."
-Bill Koch, America 3 Winner of the 1993 world sailing cup.
Instructions From Within (book/manual) $34.95
A new paradigm drawn from our human biophysical foundations and evolutionary development, based on the principles of Moshe Feldenkrais and somatic science. This workbook presents a map, pathways, and practical daily exercises to maintain fitness and wellness for life! Learn how to: access the body-mind system's internal movement patterning software;improve body posture, efficiency and performance of daily life activities; reduce or eliminate pain, strain, and the wearing out of body joints; diminish dependency on ongoing treatment; get the necessary daily requirements of movement exercise anywhere, anyplace, anytime.