Recordings

Bones for Life® Classes 

I taught a series of 24 Bones for Life classes over a period of about 7 months in 2020-21 that I recorded.
About 75 minutes each class.
They are $20 USD each.
Or all 24 recordings for $460 USD.
You can download them and save them to your computer.
To purchase, please send me an email and then I will send you a PayPal invoice.
You can also use WISE.
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Bones for Life develops flexibility and vitality, boosts bone and muscle strength, improves posture, balance, and walking through movement processes and self-touch strategies.

Bones for Life classes are appropriate for anyone wishing to enhance their own bone health and increase their capacity for dynamic movement.
It also serves well as a review for those who already know Ruthy Alon's Bones for Life program.
Learn this valuable program from the comfort of your own home.

In the first set of classes, you will learn many basic Bones for Life processes with the final 15 minutes being discussion and review to encourage a daily practice. As well as learning new processes, successive classes will include variations of the previously learned processes in order to deepen the experience. In this way, you will build a potent repertoire of the Bones for Life material.

In some classes, we also add a 4 minute walk / run in place towards the end of the class using the concepts & ideas we learned in the class as per a recent study: 
women who spend more than 2 minutes of their day at an intensity equivalent to running have on average 6% better bone health than those who do less than a minute. This was accomplished over a 6-12 month period of time. 

Later classes deepen your knowledge and experience of Bones for Life by focusing on specific processes.

One participant reported after attending 5 classes that she grew 1/4 inch:
"Big news!  I was 1/4 inch taller today when my Doctor checked my height!
I had lost a 1/2 inch ever since maybe 10 years ago and seemed to be staying there until doing Bones for Life, which reminds me HOW TO stand up by lengthening my spine!
Woohoo!
I so appreciate what you’ve been teaching!"   
- Elizabeth Strauss, Feldenkrais® Practitioner

Please contact Anna if you are interested. 

Bones for Life is under the umbrella of the Movement Intelligence program created by Ruthy Alon, Senior Feldenkrais® Trainer.

Your bones are as reliable as your posture is able to sustain your body weight in an efficient alignment.

Your bones are as strong as your activity is dynamic and able to cope with challenges that demand strength.

Your bones are as healthy as Nature meant when your movements are natural and all your parts of yourself are harmoniously coordinated.

In Bones for Life you learn practical movements, including weight-bearing activities, that will help you organize your actions and improve your posture that stimulates bone growth cells, called osteoblasts. 
Bones for Life also helps you maintain better coordination and balance. 
When you upgrade your movement skills, you are then able to up the challenge of activities thereby increasing the physical demands that lead to the need for more bone and your body produces more bone growth cells.
Studies in older men and women who performed weight-bearing exercises showed increases in bone mineral density, bone strength and bone size, as well as helping to reduce bone turnover rates.
It is important when doing daily activities that you are aware of maintaining dynamic efficient posture and that is the focus of Bones for Life.
 
Research:
  
Ruthy Alon, the creator of Movement Intelligence, conducted a Bones for Life pilot study in 2005 that showed improvement in the bone density of 31 women aged 28 - 69 years old, who did Bones for Life classes for four months, meeting three hours per week.

Alon reported that Bone Mineral Density (BMD) improved in the forearm (the distal radius). The diagnostic device used in the study was a Speed of Sound Sonometer. Before doing the Bones for Life Program, testing showed BMD scores ranged from minus 3.70 to plus 1.40. After four months in Alon's program, BMD scores ranged from minus 3.50 to plus 2.70, a statistically significant improvement.

 

What to expect:

  • An enjoyable learning environment that encourages questions and open exploration.
  • Straightforward and concise explanations, and real-life applications.
  • Personal growth and discovery that never ends.
  • Inspiring insight you can apply immediately into your personal practice.
  • Movement processes are done in sitting, lying, standing and walking.

You will need:

  1. Wrap: 8 yards or 7 meter length of cotton fabric, about 1 yard or meter wide (you can make your own wrap: rip 2 old sheets (single sheets work really well) to make 1 yard width strips and then sew the ends together to make the 8 yards. We use the wrap as a prop in novel ways to help us find better alignment and integration.
  2. Weights: Pair of 1 or 2 pound ankle weights 
  3. Mat
  4. Chair
  5. Wall

Payment

Please send an email to Anna and then I will send you a PayPal invoice.
You can also use WISE.

Inquiries

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