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Cover -- BODYSTORIES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface to New Edition -- The Text: Origins (Introduction) -- Stories: "Writing" -- "Colors" -- DAY 1 -- BASIC CONCEPTS -- Story: "Claiming your Height" -- To do: Drawing your skeleton -- DAY 2 -- ATTITUDES ABOUT THE BODY -- Story: "Running" -- To do: Constructive Rest -- Bodystory -- DAY 3 -- PROPRIOCEPTION AND SENSORY AWARENESS -- Story: "Choice" -- To do: Body scanning -- Body painting -- DAY 4 -- THE CELL -- Story: "Exchange" -- To do: Cellular breathing -- Breathing spot -- Cellular awareness -- DAY 5

EVOLUTIONARY STORY: In the Water -- Story: "Layers" -- To do: Body Symmetries -- DAY 6 -- EVOLUTION TO STANDING: On Land -- Story: "Language" -- "Body as Home" -- To do: Evolution to standing -- DAY 7 -- BODYMEASURING: Terminology -- Story: "Depth" -- To do: Measuring the body -- Planes, axes, and planes of motion -- DAY 8 -- THREE BODY WEIGHTS AND POSTURAL ALIGNMENT -- Story: "Balance" -- To do: Cone head and tail -- Landmarks for alignment -- Balancing body weights -- DAY 9 -- THE NATURE OF BONE -- Story: "Assembling the Skeleton" -- To do: Articulating the bones -- Moving from bone -- DAY 10

SKULL, JAW AND HYOID BONE -- Story: "Masks" -- To do: Suture massage -- Holding the head -- TMJ joint -- DAY 11 -- AXIAL SKELETON: Skull to Spine -- Story: "On Alert" -- To do: Walking down the spine -- Rolling down the spine -- Rocking the spine -- Caring for your spine -- DAY 12 -- THORAX: The Vertebrae and Ribs -- Story: "Exposure" -- To do: Drawing the vertebrae -- Tracing the ribs -- Tracing ribs, with partner -- DAY 13 -- BREATHING -- Story: "Sigh" -- To do: Breathing with the five lobes of the lungs -- DAY 14 -- SHOULDER GIRDLE -- Story: "Process" -- To do: Shoulder Circles

Tracing the shoulder girdle -- Partner work -- Moving hand from scapula -- DAY 15 -- FOREARM, WRIST AND HAND -- Story: "Control" -- To do: Rotating the forearm -- Tracing the bones -- DAY 16 -- HAND -- Story: "Tapping" -- To do: Hand massage -- Shoulder girdle integration -- Dancers: Carriage of arms -- DAY 17 -- TOUCH -- Stories: "Staying Present" -- "Body Picture" -- "Hands On" -- To do: Sensitizing the hands -- Partner: Touch -- DAY 18 -- PELVIS -- Story: "Forgetting" -- To do: Pelvis -- Dancers: Hip rotation -- DAY 19 -- ILIOPSOAS -- Story: "Finding Center" -- To do: Sit-backs

Partner: Sit-backs -- Front surface alignment -- DAY 20 -- FEMUR: A Leg to Stand On -- Story: "Holding" -- To do: Hip circles -- Tracing the bone -- Thigh rolls -- Toothpaste tube -- DAY 21 -- KNEE -- Story: "Connections" -- To do: Feeling the two balls and two sockets of the knees -- Caring for your knees -- DAY 22 -- TIBIA AND FIBULA: The Lower Leg -- Story: "Below the Knees" -- To do: Tracing the tibia & fibula -- Rotating the tibia & fibula -- DAY 23 -- FEET -- Story: "Slow Down" -- To do: Foot massage -- Integrating pelvic girdle: feet-pelvis -- Integrating pelvic girdle: chair work

"BodyStories is a book which engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Its information is applicable to dancers, artists, athletes, bodyworkers, massage therapists, teachers, and individuals with injuries or with a special interest in learning about their body. Thirty-one days of learning sessions bring heightened awareness about each bone and body system as well as providing self-guided studies to activate the learning processes. The book draws on Ms Olsen's twenty years as a dancer and teacher of anatomy to show how our attitudes and approaches to our body affect us day to day. Amusing and insightful personal stories enliven the text and provide ways of working with the body for efficiency and for healing. Anecdotes about international travel as a dancer, and about working, with colleagues Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in experiential anatomy and Janet Adler in Authentic Movement demonstrate how movement patterns and memories are part of our physical heritage, and how the body serves as a language for our world community. The works of twelve visual artists plus children's drawings, medical illustrations and multicultural images are included to broaden our way of looking at and learning to listen to the stories of the body."--BOOK JACKET.