Move Into Life: The Nine Essentials for Lifelong Vitality

by Anat Baniel

Overview

Remember a time when you were bursting with energy, curiosity, and creativity? When your body felt strong and flexible, free of any aches and pains?

With the Anat Baniel Method, you can feel that way again and experience renewed, intensified vitality–greater health, flexibility, strength, sensuality, clarity of mind, and enthusiasm–now and throughout your life, no matter what your age or physical condition.

Your level of vitality is directly connected to your brain. When your brain thrives, growing and making new connections, you are invigorated, infused with a new sense of aliveness and possibility, capable of infinitely new ways of moving, thinking, and feeling. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience, the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, and her own method based on more than thirty years of experience working with thousands of people around the world, Anat Baniel has defined the Nine Essentials your brain needs to flourish. In this breakthrough book, she offers specific, practical advice for incorporating those Essentials into everything you do to achieve immediate and powerful benefits.

In Move Into Life, you’ll:
• Learn the Nine Essentials your brain requires to thrive, including movement with attention, subtlety, and variation
• Experience simple, safe physical and mental exercises that satisfy those needs and thus awaken your vitality
• Discover why and how these methods work
• Find easy ways of incorporating the Essentials into your daily life so every activity–from washing the dishes to working at your desk, from interacting with your loved ones to your golf game–brings you renewed vitality

Endorsed by leading physicians, scientists, and transformational teachers, the Anat Baniel Method will help you enjoy renewed energy and stamina. You’ll be lighter on your feet. Your memory will be better. Thinking and problem solving will become easier. If you are active in a sport, yoga, or work out at the gym, you will notice yourself performing better and with greater ease and fewer injuries. Most important, you will experience yourself moving more fully into your life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307395290
Publisher:	Harmony/Rodale
Publication date:	04/28/2009
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

ANAT BANIEL is the director of the Anat Baniel Method Center in San Rafael, California. A clinical psychologist and dancer, she worked closely with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for more than fifteen years and has helped thousands of people–from five days old to ninety years of age; from high-performance athletes, businesspeople, scientists, and musicians to people worn down by daily stress or aches and pains and those seeking greater joy in their lives–move beyond limitations and achieve greater energy, strength, and success.

Visit the author at www.AnatBanielMethod.com.

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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Baniel's compassionate and empowering approach will leave readers, particularly those with problems defying traditional treatment (chronic pain, mental and emotional trauma) eager to forge positive communication pathways between the body and the mind.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Anat’s work is life changing and so is this book. For those seeking greater health and vitality, Move into Life is a must. The ideas are original and cutting edge, yet supported by science. Read it, apply what you learn, and experience remarkable transformations and greater vitality of mind and body.”
–Jack Canfield, Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles™ 

“I feel lucky to have discovered Anat Baniel’s work. In her book Move Into Life — The Nine Essentials for Life Long Vitality  she offers us powerful, immediate, yet easy to apply ways to wake up our brains and gain the vitality we all wish for. This scientifically based knowledge and practice is novel and important and deserves the widest audience.”
–John Gray, New York Times bestselling author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“Move Into Life — The Nine Essentials for Life Long Vitality is a brilliant and original approach to bringing about rapid change and enhanced vitality. This program gives you access to the limitless energy and vibrancy that are at the heart of a happy and satisfying life.”
–Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and featured teacher in The Secret

“This book puts living back into life. It is the distilled wisdom of a great guide.”
–Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

“Anat Baniel has evolved to a point few can match, let alone surpass.”
–Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

“A new, highly original approach to creating vitality, longevity, and self-sufficiency. This book is a must-read for every person wanting to make the best of the next phase of their life.”
–Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., author of Brain Longevity

“Baniel has developed powerful, practical strategies for improving your abilities and building a better, stronger brain that are supported by the neuroscience of brain plasticity.”
–Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D

“Move Into Life provides a great wealth of wisdom and guidance for tapping into the energy for achieving our most rewarding goals and delighting in them when we do.” 
–Bob Proctor, You Were Born Rich: Now You Can Discover and Develop Those Riches

“Anat Baniel’s discoveries are of vital importance to all of us because they help us reach our greatest potential.”
–Christopher Ryan, M.D., American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

“The results I have witnessed border on the miraculous. What Anat does makes complete sense; how she does it is inspiring and often ingenious.”
–Cheryl Cooper, M.D., O.D., Member of the Board, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

“The work of Anat Baniel has often been described as the world’s best kept secret. Now, at last, this secret is revealed. This book will not just change your life, it will give you the tools to create and nurture a vitality that will continue to move you further and further into life for as long as you live. There is no limit to the possibilities that this book will open for you.”
–Neil Sharp, M.D.

Editorial Reviews

Baniel's compassionate and empowering approach will leave readers, particularly those with problems defying traditional treatment (chronic pain, mental and emotional trauma) eager to forge positive communication pathways between the body and the mind.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Anat’s work is life changing and so is this book. For those seeking greater health and vitality, Move into Life is a must. The ideas are original and cutting edge, yet supported by science. Read it, apply what you learn, and experience remarkable transformations and greater vitality of mind and body.”
–Jack Canfield, Co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Success Principles™ 

“I feel lucky to have discovered Anat Baniel’s work. In her book Move Into Life — The Nine Essentials for Life Long Vitality  she offers us powerful, immediate, yet easy to apply ways to wake up our brains and gain the vitality we all wish for. This scientifically based knowledge and practice is novel and important and deserves the widest audience.”
–John Gray, New York Times bestselling author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

“Move Into Life — The Nine Essentials for Life Long Vitality is a brilliant and original approach to bringing about rapid change and enhanced vitality. This program gives you access to the limitless energy and vibrancy that are at the heart of a happy and satisfying life.”
–Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and featured teacher in The Secret

“This book puts living back into life. It is the distilled wisdom of a great guide.”
–Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

“Anat Baniel has evolved to a point few can match, let alone surpass.”
–Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais

“A new, highly original approach to creating vitality, longevity, and self-sufficiency. This book is a must-read for every person wanting to make the best of the next phase of their life.”
–Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., author of Brain Longevity

“Baniel has developed powerful, practical strategies for improving your abilities and building a better, stronger brain that are supported by the neuroscience of brain plasticity.”
–Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D

“Move Into Life provides a great wealth of wisdom and guidance for tapping into the energy for achieving our most rewarding goals and delighting in them when we do.” 
–Bob Proctor, You Were Born Rich: Now You Can Discover and Develop Those Riches

“Anat Baniel’s discoveries are of vital importance to all of us because they help us reach our greatest potential.”
–Christopher Ryan, M.D., American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

“The results I have witnessed border on the miraculous. What Anat does makes complete sense; how she does it is inspiring and often ingenious.”
–Cheryl Cooper, M.D., O.D., Member of the Board, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

“The work of Anat Baniel has often been described as the world’s best kept secret. Now, at last, this secret is revealed. This book will not just change your life, it will give you the tools to create and nurture a vitality that will continue to move you further and further into life for as long as you live. There is no limit to the possibilities that this book will open for you.”
–Neil Sharp, M.D.

From the Publisher

Based on the work of her mentor, mind-body pioneer Moshe Feldenkrais, dancer and clinical psychologist Baniel developed a program she has used with clients, including professional musicians, athletes and learning-disabled children. Articulating and amplifying Feldenkrais's system, Baniel's method consists of nine ways to overcome dysfunctional mind-body connections that prevent people of all ages from feeling life-enhancing vitality and optimal health: moving with attention; turning on the "learning switch"; experiencing subtlety; breaking harmful habits through variation; living more slowly; setting flexible goals; firing enthusiasm; using the imagination; and cultivating awareness. Citing research into neurogenesis, Baniel contends that brain growth can be stimulated with such simple yet paradoxical shifts as making gains without pain, reducing force to increase power and solving problems by daydreaming. By taking quizzes, then doing gentle physical movements and brain exercises, readers can test Baniel's theories for themselves, as well as read personal success stories. Baniel's compassionate and empowering approach will leave readers, particularly those with problems defying traditional treatment (chronic pain, mental and emotional trauma) eager to forge positive communication pathways between the body and the mind. (Apr.)

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