Fitness Technology Program
PE 283  Professional Activities:  Mind Body Disciplines

Administrative

  Syllabus  (Spring 2011)
  Course Outline  (Spring 2011)
  (Reading) Assignment Outline  (Spring 2011)
  (Writing) Assignment Guide  (Spring 2011)

Teacher Training

  The Art of Teaching Mind*Body Movement  (PDF)
  Visualizing Movement Potential  (PDF)
  The Art and Science of Mind-Body Exercise in Health & Disease  (PDF)
  dynamics and movement qualities  (PDF)
  M.I.N.D.ful Living  -  A holistic approach to well-being  (PDF)
  Mind-Body Classes Taken to New Depths  (PDF)
  Universal Principles of Alignment & Muscular and Organic Energy  (PDF)
  Rudolph Laban's Eight Basic Efforts  (PDF)
  Mind/Body Programming and Instructor Training  (PDF)

Mind Body Disciplines

Classical Disciplines

Yoga

  Yoga the Iyengar Way  (PDF)
  Yoga as Self-Transformation  (PDF)

T'ai Chi

  T’ai Chi Ch’uan’s Benefits  (PDF)
  T’ai Chi Ch'uan Classics  (PDF)
  T’ai Chi Ch'uan Long Form  (PDF)
  Yang Family, Short Form, Beijing Style  (PDF)
  T’ai Chi Class Progression

Contemporary Disciplines  -  On Land  ...

  Pilates  (PDF)
  The Nia Technique TM  (IDEA Article)  (PDF)
  The Nia Technique TM  (from The Nia Technique website)  (PDF)
  About Nia TM  (PDF)
  The Alexander Technique  (PDF)
  The Feldenkrais Method®:  An Introduction  (PDF)
  Practitioner Kim Cottrell's The Feldenkrais Method® web site  (URL)
  Body-Mind Centering  (PDF)
  Laughter Yoga  (PDF)

...  &   in the Water

  AiChi  (PDF)
  Mind-Body Aquatic Exercise  -  A Modern Twist to Ancient Arts  (PDF)
  Reiki and Its Applications in the Water  (PDF)
  Water Yoga  (PDF)
  In Deep with Pilates  (PDF)
  Fluid Yogalates  (PDF)

Further Reading

 
Yoga

  The Yoga Journal  (URL)
  Yoga Online Mind & Body  (URL)
  Yoga Pearl Studio  (URL)
  Corepower Yoga Studio  (URL)
  Paul Grilley's Website  (URL)

T'ai Chi

  David-Dorian Ross' Website  (URL)
  The Wushu Center and Taichi Academy  (URL)
  CJ McPhee's Website  (URL)

Pilates

  The Pilates Method Alliance  (URL)
  Pilates-Pro  -  The Pulse of the Pilates Industry  (URL)

 Alicia Fajardo's   Transformations Studio  (URL)
 Kimm Mahoney-Watson's   Pilates Bodies Studio  (URL)
 Danita Chandler's   Portland Pilates Studio  (URL)

Nia

  The Nia Technique TM Website  (URL)
  Nia Oregon  (URL)  (formerly:  Nia Northwest)



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