Walking Well: A New Approach for Comfort, Vitality, and Inspiration in Every Step

Two polymath movement experts draw from their 100 years of collective training to help others learn how to walk effortlessly, breathe easily, think creatively, and feel deeply alive

Walking is good for you. It can regulate weight, improve sleep, elevate mood, transform stress, and boost creativity and productivity. Most people want to walk more. But what if the key isn't just to walk more, but to walk better? To connect with your physical body and unlock more energy, more vitality, and more fuel for imagination and creativity?

Walking Well is designed to help readers do just that by presenting a three-part journey to improved movement:

- Part 1: how to become aware of and release the tension that interferes with natural walking
- Part 2: practical methods that teach the reader how to receive energy the moment it's expended, discover the harmony of walking and breathing, and awaken an archetypal animal verve so that every step becomes more poised and powerful
- Part 3: meditations on walking in solitude, walking with others, walking for inspiration, and walking for transformation

Filled with simple, practical guidance from authors with, collectively, over a hundred years of teaching people how to move well, this book not only improves how we walk but reveals how much is possible for us once we know how to walk well.

Author: Michael J. Gelb, Bruce Fertman
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781608689125

About the Author
Michael Gelb is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, executive coaching, and innovative leadership. He is a fifth-degree black belt in aikido and a gifted teacher of tai chi and the Alexander Technique. He is also a professional juggler who performed with the Rolling Stones. Gelb is a senior fellow of the Center for Humanistic Management at the Fordham Gabelli School of Business and is a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Community. He is the author of seventeen books -- including the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci -- which have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than one million copies. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

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Bruce Fertman brings sixty years of study as a movement artist and educator to his work, having trained in gymnastics, modern dance, ballet, contact improvisation, the Alexander Technique, tai chi chuan, aikido, chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony), Argentine tango, and kyudo (Zen archery). For the past thirty years Fertman has taught in Europe, Asia, and the Americas helping people experience the interconnectedness between physical and spiritual life. He is the founding director of the Alexander Alliance, the Grace of Sense Online Community, and the Walking Way School. The author of The Way In -- The Way Out and Teaching by Hand, Learning by Heart, he lives in Coyote, New Mexico.

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