Michael King Pilates
Conversation with Eric Franklin: The Liberated Spine
Thank you for being part of the conversation today. In this liberated spine guide, we have a free mini course for you: Improved Posture as well a link to our discount course: The Liberated Spine and the Happy Back Bundle.
Enjoy our complimentary 4-part mini-class: Improved Posture
Suggested literature
Eric is author of over 21 books!
Understanding the Pelvis: A Functional Approach to Yoga will help instructors and practitioners—including athletes, dancers, and other artists—safely and effectively use the pelvis in yoga. The ability to correctly use anatomical cues and guide yogis through their movements will provide instructors with a new level of confidence and expertise in their workshops and classes, and it will give practitioners the knowledge they need to avoid injury and fully enjoy the benefits of yoga.
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery: This book from Eric Franklin shows you how to use imagery, touch, and movement exercises to improve your coordination and alignment. These exercises will also help you relieve tension, enhance the health of your spine and back, and prevent back injury. This book will help you discover your natural flexibility and quickly increase your power to move. You’ll learn elements of body design. You’ll explore how to use imagery to improve your confidence, and you’ll discover imagery conditioning programs that will lead you toward better alignment, safer movement, increased fitness, and greater joy.
Franklin Method® is a scientifically-proven mind-body method that blends embodied function, movement and Dynamic Neuro-Cognitive Imagery™ to create lasting positive change in your body & mind. The method has been practiced worldwide for 30 years and is constantly further developed by the Franklin Method Institute.
Franklin Method is an evidence based modality that combines movement, imagery and anatomical education to create lasting positive change in your body and mind.
The Franklin Method® is recognized by the health providers in Switzerland and is a regularly seen at Dance, Pilates, Yoga and Physiotherapy conferences. One of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century is the plasticity of the brain; that the lives we live shape the brain we develop. It is at the forefront of practical neuro-plasticity; showing you how to use your brain to improve your body’s function. It teaches you how to harness the transforming power of the mind. It can be applied to improve all of your abilities. It all starts with the knowledge that we have the power to change.
The Franklin Method® teaches dynamic alignment and how to move your body with maximum efficiency to keep your body youthful and energized. Your whole body is part of a symphony of coordinated movement. In a sense, your posture is reinvented at every instant. In every moment, the ideal combination of limbs, joints, gravity, moving parts, connective tissue, and muscle must be found and directed by your brain and nervous system.
See some of the research studies that have been done to show the efficacy of the Franklin Method:
