Book Anouncement -MAxine Sheets-Johnstone "Putting Movement into Your Life: A Beyond Fitness Primer"

[Jodie McNeilly]

The Phenomenology of Performance Group is pleased to announce the print publication of leading North-American phenomenologist of dance and movement Maxine Sheets-Johnstone's new book Putting Movement into your Life: A Beyond Fitness Primer. 

Sheets-Johnstone is the author of The Primacy of Movement (1999, 2nd Edition 2011); The Corporeal Turn: an interdisciplinary reader (2009) + many others titles

Her new book is available for pre-order on Amazon at RRP $12.95 USD.

A little about the book:

Putting Movement into Your Life:
A Beyond Fitness Primer is both
playful and serious, bridging both
popular and scholarly texts. It
is engagingly written with two
Ponderabilia inserts per chapter
that offer slow food for thought on
a diversity of topics related to the
immediate topic in the text. The
book is definitely not an exercise
book or a typical self-help book, but
a book about movement that breaks
new ground in lively and creative
ways while remaining anchored in
everyday life. In so doing, it answers
to the growing attempt by numerous individuals, organizations,
and businesses to promote health by promoting movement.

Endorsement#1

Sheets-Johnstone says, “Feeling your aliveness is
not a matter of learning a new set of movements but
of re-discovering your own. You reclaim something
that’s been there all along but which you’ve been
too busy to notice.” As ‘putting movement into your
life’ shows, we can surprise ourselves. We can, as
it were, edit our dynamics such that what we do
has a new felt verve and sense about it. We readily
have the option of doing so.” We can, as her chapter
subtopics indicate, have “adventures in outer space,”
“kick up our heels,” have “directional possibilities”
and, my favorite, realize that “waiting was never so
comfortable.” Throughout the book in special fold out
sections, Sheets-Johnstone references philosophers,
sociologists, psychologists, and educators, among
others, who have focused their research and/or practice
on understanding why and how bodies move.
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is the voice of reconstituted
wisdom and the pied piper of fun.
Jamie Ross,
Professor of Philosophy,
Portland State University