Zen BodyBeing, Peter Ralston
Zen BodyBeing, Peter Ralston
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Zen Body-Being
An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power

Author: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston

Narrator: Toby Sheets

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/20/2019

Synopsis

A Zen-inspired “physical education” program for martial arts practitioners and anyone interested in mind-body transformation

Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, Ralston draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach.

More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence.

Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery and meditative awareness, which have a profound and sometimes instant effect. Areas of exploration include:

• Beginner’s Body-Being
• Three aspects of body awareness
• Five principles for an effortlessly effective body
• Opening a door--five steps to transformation
• Fourteen points on structural alignment

Where similar guides teach readers what to do, this book teaches readers how to be.

About The Author

Peter Ralston has black belts in judo, jujitsu, and karate. The founder of the martial arts tradition Cheng Hsin and the school dedicated to it, he leads workshops on a wide range of disciplines. Laura Ralston is an editor, model maker, and collaborator with her husband. They live in San Antonio, TX.Toby Sheets is a professional voice actor, drummer, producer and award winning recording engineer. When he's not in the studio he's studying Eastern philosophy or enjoying the outside world in Denver, Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan on January 09, 2008

Zen Body-Being by Peter Ralston is a genius work that tells about body and mind function that can greatly improve physical ability. It is based on personal insights and breakthroughs on the nature of being a body. You are invited to check it out. Peter Ralston Zen Body-Being and Enlightened Approach......more

Goodreads review by Temo on November 19, 2019

I am surprised how simple and significant Peter's explanations are. In Zen Body-Being Ralston guides us on how to sens your body and use effortless power and gives us some tips about finding the True Self which is the subject of his next books. If you just discovered his books I would recommend getti......more

Goodreads review by Magnus on October 12, 2022

Now this is my type of spiritual book! I came to this book looking not for exceptional physical performance, but to expand my perspectives on how to improve well-being. As it turns out, Ralston delivers this in spades even though the book is, nominally, focused on physical performance. I consider the......more

Goodreads review by Wandering on May 16, 2017

This book has revolutionized my approach to martial arts (and mental/spiritual development) and is the most important book about body and mind that I have ever read. Its proposition is simple, though it requires years of study and experimentation to realize: We can become much more effective (and inc......more

Quotes

"Working with Peter changed the way I move my body. I exercise, dance, and live differently…it’s not only a powerful way to live in a body but a powerful way to live in a body but a powerful way to live. His knowledge and application of body mechanics is more relevant than anything I learned in seven years of medical education."—Kate McQueen, MD; Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UTHSC-Houston"Zen Body-Being is clearly stated. Peter’s ideas, concepts, and truths help you transform your skills, balance, grace, power, and the experience of being in your body."—Howard James, founder Hawaii T’ai Chi Ch’uan Association

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