Mind & Mend Your Hips
Better Hip Health
Cover Illustrator and Designer: Morgan Van Gele, 2021, morganvgele@gmail.com
Learn how to improve your hip health, prepare for and recover from hip surgery, and improve your overall movement through the Alexander Technique. This book guides you to a fundamental understanding of how your body moves providing practical Awareness Building and Movement Activities. This information is useful at any stage of hip health. Topics include developing an accurate body image, how your thinking and movement connect, spatial thinking, sensory awareness, and recuperative strategies. There are accompanying illustrations and videos to lead readers through the actions. There is instruction on the use of mobility aids. There are also several case studies including the author Ann Rodiger's own experience, providing different perspectives on how the Alexander Technique can assist with hip health and recovery from surgery.
Edited by Liz Gessner; Design, graphics, and layout by Morgan Van Gele
Also available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Ann Rodiger’s book “Mind and Mend Your Hips” embodies her skill as an Alexander Instructor from a personal and professional point of view. This book is organized, as her instruction is, using practical, theoretical, and explorative information and tools. I have taken lessons from Ms. Rodiger over many years, first as a young dancer, then as an older dancer with arthritic joints, and most recently, after joint replacement surgery. Ms. Rodiger uses Alexander Technique principles in tandem with her keen sense of how bodies move and how thought and direction can change an action’s initiation and outcome. Working with Ms. Rodiger has helped me develop more practical ways of dancing that have influenced my technical skills; create better ways of moving that decrease arthritic joint pain and wear; and to integrate a replaced joint enabling me to walk more comfortably and experience continued healing.
- Chris Ferris, LMT
I encourage anyone considering or recovering from surgery to explore a practice like The Alexander Technique to undo habitual compensation patterns, improve and re- learn whole body coordination and to relieve the stress of living with an injury and associated physical and emotional pain.
- Pam Johnson, Teacher of the Alexander Technique, Pilates, and Gyrotonic®
Meet the Author
Ann Rodiger is the Founder and Director of the Balance Arts Center, LLC and the Balance Arts Alexander Technique Teacher Training Programs in New York City.
She has been teaching the Alexander Technique and movement for over 35 years in academic and private settings in the US and abroad. She is also skilled in Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, meditation, and various dance techniques.
Ann offers specialized in-peron and hybrid workshops and programs based on the Alexander Technique. She writes an ongoing blog and has written How To Sit.
Ann has had both hips replaced and lives with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
She is a member of the American Society of the Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique International, and International Society of Movement Educators and Therapy Association.
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The Hip Health Forum is dedicated to developing and maintaining a friendly online community for those interested in hip health in general and supporting those who have to navigate surgery. We are interested in providing a place for members to develop self agency in their own hip care through the practice and application of the Alexander Technique.