Mary BondBody Mandala
Posture, Perception, and Presence
Mary Bond has a Master’s degree in dance from UCLA and trained with Dr. Ida P. Rolf as a Structural Integration practitioner. She is a movement instructor at the Rolf Institute and teaches movement workshops nationally. The author of Balancing Your Body and The New Rules of Posture, she has also published articles in numerous health and fitness magazines. She lives in California.
Foreword by Thomas Myers
Preface
Introduction: What Is a Body Mandala?
PART 1
Orienting
1 Fascia: Organ of Embodiment
2 Grounding Your Experience
3 Sensing Space
4 Moving in Space
PART 2
Deepening
5 Exercises for Interoception
6 Healthy Breathing
7 Embodying Structure
8 Sentient Foundations
9 Your Spine Is Not a Column
10 Tensegrity Tower
11 The Lid on Your Spine
PART 3
Practicing
12 Embodying Tensegrity in Motion
13 Embodying Tensegrity in Stillness
14 Everyday Embodiment
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author